Amon lifted his head, eyes narrowed. "Learn from them? Esther, I don't think you realize—"
"Do you know how to use electricity to make me come so hard I can't see?" I asked, blinking innocently up at my sphinx and privately crowing at the constipated expression that took over his handsome features. "Or how to revel in my sexual interests so that I feel free to explore, but from the safety of your company?"
Amon huffed and collapsed on top of me, groaning into my shoulder. "No empty promises from me today, I see."
"Try for me," I mumbled into his hair, sliding my hands around to soothe the tension out of his back.
Amon's head lifted, eyes finding mine again, studying me. "You want more than just one gentleman visitor for each evening."
"You want more than a girl at a house you can offer gifts to in exchange for sex," I answered, shrugging a little. "And yes, I do. I feel it when one of you is away."
Amon smiled at that, bending and nuzzling our noses and mouths together. "Then I will learn from them, and from you. And vice versa, I'm sure," he added a little tartly, but he nipped my lip as I giggled. "And now I would like to learn how much you missed me, my little star."
His arms circled me, grin brilliant as he hauled me up until I was a heap on his lap. His tail appeared from beneath his long coat, swatting at my hip playfully as he stretched his arms out across the back of the couch and offered himself to me like that.
I scooted back to admire him, arching an eyebrow as I remembered what Auguste had said about Amon the night before. "Is it true that you're some kind of prince or king amongst your kind?"
Amon was letting his disguise fall away, and I ran a finger over the fine suede of fur running from his brow down to his nose as it wrinkled with annoyance. "Sphinxes are equally respectful to one another, we don't have human titles like that."
"Hmm, well you are my king then," I said, and Amon’s annoyance with the word seemed to vanish with my answer. I rose and curtsied again as he laughed. "I think, given that, I ought to get on my knees before you."
Amon growled as I sank between his spread thighs, but he slouched into the couch, eyes hooded as he watched me go coquettishly about unfastening his pants.