Pet
H.S. Kallinger
Book
two of The Lost Humanity series
Chapter One
I
yawned and stretched out, bumping into the soft, naked
redhead next to me. I sighed, rolled over and cuddled into her. My
wife. Thinking the word just thrilled me. I buried my face in her
hair, and she rolled toward me with a smile.
“Hi,
you,” she said, stretching. I ran a finger down the center of her
body while admiring the view.
“How
did you sleep?” I asked.
“Fine,”
came a voice from the other side of my wife. A beautiful blonde head
popped up from the other side of Sarah to smirk at me.
“Good
morning, Jamie,” I said.
“Afternoon,
Zack,” she said, rolling back over to have Sarah spoon her.
“Morning,
Sarah,” I said, pushing a shock of red hair behind her ear.
“Good
morning, sweetie,” Sarah said, kissing me before she snuggled down
against Jamie.
“I
don't think any of us has seen this side of a morning in years,”
Jamie commented in her usual, contrary manner.
“Technicalities,
honey,” Sarah said.
“Lukas
doesn't say 'good morning,'” Jamie pointed out.
“Lukas
has had, like, a thousand years to get used to being nocturnal,”
Sarah said.
“You've
had over three,” Jamie said.
“Good
afternoon, Jamie,” I said, rolling my eyes and reaching past my
wife to poke her in the ribs.
“Thank
you,” she said, smirking at me again over her shoulder. She
squealed when Sarah bit her, and I tickled Sarah, who shrieked with
laughter. She collapsed onto her back, giggling, and I crawled on top
of her to kiss her.
“Hey,
guys, give it a rest,” Jamie said. “You're going to hurt
yourselves.”
“I
was just kissing my wife,” I told her, and Jamie rolled her eyes
and shook her head.
“Newlyweds,”
she muttered and sat up.
“I've
got to pee,” I said, moving to sit next to her. “So it's not like
we can do anything anyway.” Jamie looked down at my lap and then
back up at my face, her eyebrow raised. “Despite appearances.”
“If
you say so,” Jamie said. “And I don't care if it's your
honeymoon, I get her tonight.”
“All
to yourself?” I asked, trying to look cute and sad at the same
time.
“Yup.
You've had her for three days. I'm sure Lukas misses you,” Jamie
pointed out. I perked up at the thought.
“You're
right. He's back from Portland tonight, huh?” Lukas was our missing
fourth. He seldom stayed in the bed all day with us, since it creeped
out all three of us humans to wake up to him in his 'sleeping'
state—which
very much resembled death—but he still liked to fall asleep with
us. “By the way, I am glad to have you back, Jamie. How was
Hawaii?”
“Not
as much fun without you guys,” she admitted, kissing my cheek. “But
still a lot of fun. I've got to get to class.”
She
leaned down to kiss Sarah. Sarah took Jamie's hand and kissed the
ring on it. She couldn't legally marry Jamie, but that didn't stop
her from putting a diamond ring on her finger and calling Jamie her
wife. Jamie only had one ring, unlike Sarah and I.