Page 171 of Tempting Fate

“I swear you live to torment me.”

“For the rest of our lives. Now answer it.”

With a groan, I accepted my sister’s comm.

A close up of her face hovered in the air. “Airi, you got tusk gems? Let me see!”

Shohari’s girlish excitement took me aback, and I swayed with a rush of affection and bittersweet nostalgia. For a moment, we were children again, with fewer worries and the innocent certainty we could survive against our mother together. I jutted my tusks at the camera. “Here.”

She wrinkled her nose in approval. “They suit you. And I have news about Mother.” Her face split in a broad, vicious smile.

“Tell me.”

“She’s only been arrested!”

Arrested? “For what?”

“Galactic fraternisation. I wish I’d seen her face.”

“You do? I’m grateful I never have to see it again,” I said, suppressing a shudder.

Her eyes shone with joy. “So don’t go to Orkri. I expect she’ll be deported there.”

“She’ll hate that.”

“She will. Airi, I… I’m glad it has worked out.”

I glanced up. Imani leaned in the doorway, a soft smile on her face and a hand trailing over a breast. “As am I. Thank you for bringing me here. But can I go now? I have a mate to fuck.”

Shohari hissed, jerking away from her comm. “Eww, I do not need to know.”

“Think of it as payback for the trip here, sister.” Gods knew they had subjected my ears to far worse. “We can catch up properly soon.” I swiped the call away, then typed a hasty message.

Airida

I’d say sorry, but I am sure you know how it is.

I added the ‘winking smiley’ Imani favoured from the human language pack. If Shohari didn’t know it, Garrison could explain.

“Are you done?”

Imani’s husky tones stole all my attention. I dropped my device on the chair and drank in the sight of her. “Yes. Bed?”

She slunk towards me. “You’re going to fuck me, huh?”

“Unless you’re too tired?”

Imani shoved me towards our bed. “On your back, kitten.”

I paced backwards until my legs hit the walls of the nest, and I fell in.

My fierce mate.

Imani prowled over me like a tsati. She straddled me, grinding her bare cunt over my length.

Bliss washed over me, my mate’s warmth, the soft comfort of our nest. Yes, in fact, she could fuck me, and I would love every moment of it.

Imani flopped down, her chest to mine. “I thought I could summon the energy, but no, I’m far too damn tired. You want me, you’re doing the work, kitten.”