Re: Attractancy
After 'no', she admittedly didn't hear much until 'wedding', at which the queen reared back, thighs still on either side of Nate's where he'd lodged himself. His mouth left her neck, but she saw remnants of a smirk he'd been wearing.
"Uppity Upperton of the Upside Uppertons," she gibberished at him in their private, exclusive room (booked far in advance). Her eyes narrowed, brows furrowed, "I'm not getting married in Helheim." No one could see it there, could they? Not many, anyway. She took his face in her hands, moving up from where they'd still been on his chest. "We've been together for a month and a half." Her hands squeezed a little to emphasize her point, "I know it feels like longer," because they'd been in love for a year, "but what happened with me and," her throat closed up, trying not to let her say that words. She hadn't said them before. Oh, wow. She hadn't voiced them at all. Steeling breath: "Thor and I rushed things."
Still holding his jaw in her hands, she searched Nate's eyes for a long time, then rose up and kissed him once. "We're soulmates. You're mine forever. No matter how long I live, I'm going to regret the thirty-something years we weren't together, for all of my life. And afterlife." Her fingers relaxed a little and Zap finally moved them back to idly caress Nate's ears in her go-to self-comfort move. "We aren't going to rush anything, though. Ever. When we both want something - at the same time - and it feels right, that's when it should happen." And so far as marriage or anything else of that sort went, there was probably a lot of red tape and certainly, a lot of PR issues to deal with surrounding all that.
"Do you know how many times I thought about surprise wrecking you while you were minding your business, reading, being boring? I can think of two just in August alone. My brain and heart have been fighting each other since I Tom Sawyer'd you into mentoring me." Before that, really. She'd given the grouchy newcomer a flirty smile or two during his early winter weekends when she came to the mansion to be with Mateo. The boys had been playmates even then. But Nate hadn't ever paid much attention - to the boys or to her smiles. Distracted was an understatement. "We can be selfish. Eventually." Another kiss. "I have an idea."