Grogoch [Bedtime Stories 2] by Joyee Flynn Read Free Book Online

normal routine and business for a day or two.”
“I don’t understand,” I admitted after a few minutes mulling it over.
“You will, dear. Trust me on this one.”
I agreed and finished up my breakfast, thanking her for her kindness. Before I left I made sure to help her crops and livestock as I thought through her suggestion. I still didn’t understand. How would acting like Finbar didn’t exist help me realize how I felt about him? Things were different now and I knew I was missing something.
I popped over to Barry’s, needing to tend to his crops and help him out. I’d been delaying all my normal stops because I’d been having so much fun with Finbar, but it really was time. Barry was such a hard worker that he was already up and tending to his horse though it was barely dawn.
“Cuidi!” he exclaimed and rushed over to me. I smiled and then laughed as he lifted me into his arms and spun me around. “How are you?”
“Okay,” I answered, not wanting to burden anyone else with my problems. He kissed me and I let go of what was on my mind for a while. But then the strangest thing happened. He pulled off my shirt in between the kisses before starting on my pants… And I didn’t get hard. I didn’t want to do this.
It took Barry a few moments longer to figure out that I wasn’t into what was going on. He stopped and took a step back so he could see my limp dick in his hand. I stared at it in awe, wondering what was going on. This had never happened to me before.
“Want to tell me what’s up?” he asked gently as he tucked me back into my pants.
“When did you know you loved your wife?” I replied instead.
He raised an eyebrow and then smiled as if the light bulb went off over his head. “Are you in love, Cuidi?”
“I don’t know,” I admitted, blushing again. “My dick appears to be. I’ve never not gotten hard before. I think it’s loyal to Finbar now.” I glanced at Barry, the tears back in my eyes. “He says he loves me and I freaked out. Margaret said I should go about my day like normal and it would tell me how I felt about him. I didn’t get it until now. She knew I wouldn’t be able to make my normal deals, didn’t she?”
“I think so.” Barry knew Margaret, having met a few times at the market. “She’s a wise lady.” He tapped his finger against his chin as I pulled back on my shirt. Most men would have been embarrassed that they couldn’t get hard when they were being intimate but for me it was just too weird for me to understand how I felt yet. “Tell me, do you miss him?”
“I just left him not a half hour ago.” I scoffed, thinking that was a little pathetic for someone to miss another person already.
“Sure, sure, but look inside your heart and just ask yourself if you miss him.”
I thought about it. “I’m sad that I left without talking to him first. I don’t like knowing he’s going to wake up and be hurt that I’m gone.” Then I realized something else. “I want to be there to have breakfast with him before he starts his day. I like how cute he is when he’s sleepy and shuffling around the room. He bumps into things and curses them like they aren’t stationary and are trying to hurt him.”
“Cuidi, you’re in love,” he chuckled, smiling brightly at me. “Your body isn’t responding to someone else freely offering sex and you’re wishing you were with your man. You got scared because you’ve never been in love and ran. To me that’s a true sign that you know in your heart what you feel.”
“I don’t understand.” I walked out of the barn and stood in the sun, wanting the comfort of it to help my fried nerves.
“When the castle guards beg you to stay longer, pledging themselves to you. What do you feel then?”
“Horny, but not bad that they desire me so when it’s time to leave.”
He spread his hands out as if to say, there’s your answer . “So if I
didn’t love Finbar I wouldn’t have gotten so freaked out? That doesn’t make