Portal to the fae

Chapter 45 At Gingi's

"I hope it is no trouble, but can we stay with you tonight?" I ask, "We are going to the holy glade tomorrow."

"You know your wish is my command," Gingi stated. A wicked look in his eye appeared as he looked at my husbands, as if he was intentionally stirring them, he continued, "Our child is still doing well."

Leander, took his bait and reacted with a growl, moving so swiftly I did not see him move, all I saw was a blur then Leander holding Gingi by the scruff of the neck, up against the wall.

"Woah, settle down!" Gingi said with a teasing but wry grin, "I did not do anything untoward. If you had been with her, there would have been no need for my flame, now would there?"

Leander put him down just a little as he did agree a little, but as a thought occurred he lifted him back up, tightening his grip, "Just don't think you are doing anything this time!" he warned, "If a flame is needed, she can use mine."

I was a bit surprised at that, I had never seen Leander use the ogre flame, so I assumed that he did not have one. Gingi, however was not surprised at all, he instead smiled, looking rather awkward hanging by the scruff of his neck, fully dressed in a kimono, "Of course! I dare not dream of overstepping my bounds with you 3 here. It is clear to me that she is totally different, now, to when my flames were needed."

"Good! And don't you forget it!" Leander said, giving Gingi a small shake before placing him down. Glaring at him when he did put him down, as if to warn him again, not to pull anything funny or he would regret it. I guess he was doing this as kitsune are known for their trickery.

Gingi, however, was not put off at all by his show of machoism. Instead, he took a step back and to the side, brushing past Leander as if he was not there, and greeting Kai and I warmly, before turning to Coran and flirted, "And who is this fine looking drow?"

"My husband," I state, thinking the question a bit superfluous, but wanting to discourage any more misunderstandings from occurring. Gingi seemed to be bi-sexual, so I wanted him to know for sure that Coran was taken.

"Obviously!" smirked Gingi, "I would not dream of taking him from you! Anyway our contract still remains valid till you die. I cant help but be attracted to anything of yours."

My men frowned at this, they did not want another in anyway, and this Gingi seemed to be hinting at it.

"Anyway, I am only asking so I can call you by name," Gingi continued with a smile, "Unless you want me to keep calling you 'hey Mr. Sexy, incredibly handsome, Drow'?"

"Hell no!" Coran snapped in horror, "My name is Coran."

"Coran hey?" mused Gingi, "I could have sworn you would have been a something-van."

"No! No, I am not! Just Coran," Coran said emphatically, as if denying who he had been. He wasn't though, he just was no longer that person, so refused to bear the name of the scoundrel who raped me.

"Anyway," Gingi ignored all my men then, looking at me, "How do you feel knowing that you are a grandmother now?" 

"G-grandmother?" I stuttered. I had not really thought of it, even though I had met my 6 grandchildren from the foxfire replica of me. I suddenly remembered the message Suzette had left him, "Oh, right! Suzette said to say she is still alive and well with her 6  children."

"I know," Gingi smiled, "I have been keeping tabs on our daughter and grandchildren, as I had nothing else to do." seeing the glares of my husbands he waved off and left the room, looking over his shoulder he said, "You are welcome to come and go as you please in this palace. I will leave  you to do whatever it is you want to do. My home is your home." and with that he was gone, like a puff of smoke on the breeze of a windy day.

Leander who was the closest to me, came and wrapped his arms, rather possessively around me, "Thank goodness he has gone!" he murmured, hugging me tight.

I giggle, "Jealous are we?" I ask him.

"Yes, I don't trust kitsune's, nine tails the least as they are the trickiest of the bunch!" Leander huffed, "So why do you trust him?"

"Because he has a contract with me," I state, not relishing how it was formed.

"WHAT?!?" 

"Settle down Leander," Kai said nonchalantly, "Nothing much happened. It is just super easy for a human to enter into contracts with kitsune - all the human has to do is make sure that they are the right power level as the contract can only be with one kitsune."

"Fine! If you say nothing much happened, I believe you," Leander huffed at Kai. Kai laughed and hugged Leander.

"Lets get something to eat, Gingi said we could," and with that we went and got ourselves dinner. I slept between Leander and Coran that night on a big fluffy king sized bed, Kai chose to sleep on the couch that was positioned at the foot of the bed. It was the first night I had been with Coran in awhile. My mind finally seeing him as my husband Coran, and not my rapist Corvan. My mind had been flip flopping between seeing him as such for awhile now, but until now had not fully grasped that he was. I was honestly relieved, that I could see him this way again, as Coran was distressed by my rejection of him. He understood my reaction though, and to be fair he had tried to tell us all several times that he had raped me as Corvan. 

We just did not want to listen. 

I did not want to listen.

It was 100 percent selfish of me for not listening, and if I had, perhaps we could have saved ourselves the heartache that had occurred with his return to royal drowyness. Perhaps we would not have been offended by Aine's blessing. I do not know, all I know our choices were driving our choices now. The Goddess should have read the room, but she did not. She did what she felt like, to me returning Coran was just a passing whim, like how the Naga and Spiderling queens grew too fast with that rather gross ceremony.

I get that the ceremony was important, and the queens were needed, but I still believe that growing up and into your roles naturally would have been better. Surely the old queens who had been retired by the new could have mentored them? I shrug to myself, Who know? It does not concern me really anyway.

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