Page 39 of Breaking Ties

The captain asked, “Overlord, you aren’t going to partake?”

“I ate earlier, and I will be content for some time. My consort needs to keep her strength up.”

She was mortified but kept eating. Conversation started up, and Alyssa’s male asked, “Oracle, how did you know that we would suit each other?”

Aubrey finished swallowing and said, “Do you want the polite answer or the actual answer?”

Alyssa blinked. “What’s the polite answer?”

“The stars showed you two twined together, happy, smiling, and relaxed.”

Her companion said, “What is the actual answer?”

“The visions showed you two having sex on every available surface. Your eyes were silver with a green glow in several of them, and I am trying not to let everyone I know know that I have seen them naked. It’s creepy.”

Alyssa’s cheeks were bright, and she pressed her hands to her face.

“I also see you a few years down the road, and your gentleman is making a bunch of toys for the kids.”

Alyssa blinked. “Kids?”

“In a few years. No rush.” She smiled brightly.

Vress turned her head and snorted. “She does not mean a few years.”

She put her hands over his mouth and said, “Shush. We just lost our world. Not everybody wants to rush before they have processed the loss.”

His eyes crinkled, and she looked over at the captain’s appalled expression.

“The oracle required silence to work.”

Vress started laughing, and she let his mouth go.

Alyssa said softly, “I am wanting to rush on. I have grieved my family for two years; I am going to lunge into a new life with both hands, and if I have kids, I am telling them about the world that was.”

Her partner squeezed her hand. “I have family who will welcome you, whether we bond or not.”

Alyssa smiled. “This feels weird. Good but weird.”

He leaned over and whispered in her ear. Alyssa went scarlet but nodded.

Aubrey smiled. “Boy, am I glad nothing embarrassing is going on over here.”

Vress’s hand was cupping her breast under the dress and his other hand was between her thighs.

Alyssa’s eyes widened, and then she smiled. Aubrey winked and tried to hold a conversation while arousal was slowly built under Vress’s hands. This was going to be embarrassing, but she would get used to it.

She was on the edge of an orgasm when she got a vision of Whisper with one hand extended and a swirling orb hovering over her palm. The robes the woman wore were moving in a breeze that didn’t have an effect on the people watching her.

Aubrey was about to let Whisper know, but she arched over Vress’s hand and groaned low. Her body pulsed under his fingers. There went the dignity of the oracle.

Chapter Seven

It took three days for Vress to let her out of his sight, but when she could finally sneak away, Aubrey headed for the gym. She really needed to use her arms for something other than Hmrain riding.

The crewman who had been assigned to her smiled. “Lady Aubrey, how did you meet Overlord Vress?”

“I told the Education Station that I would have no other. As the oracle, my words have weight.”