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I pushed with everything I had and then some.
She screamed, dropping her weapon and shaking her head back and forth.
“Isolde! No!” Rand yelled, pain suffusing the smooth timber of his voice. He dropped with her.
Everything inside me froze.
That woman didn’t deserve to breathe his air, but I wouldn’t take her life. It wasn’t mine to take, especially if he cared so much…
When she flopped onto the floor like a dead fish, I let the darkness take me under. This shit hurt, and I wasn’t about the pain.
* * *
“You all right, Doll?” Cabbie cooed.
“Go away,” I groaned and tried to swat at the hand stealing my pillow. I always hated waking up like this. It couldn’t have been morning.
“Did anyone ever tell you, you sleep like a dead corpse. Face down and in the starfish position. If it wasn’t for the snoring, I would have thought you were deceased. When the Cherries start your lessons up again, we’ll make sure they add sexy sleep poses to the agenda. Lord knows you need it. Not that I think you have anything to worry about. Those men would eat off of your toes if you wanted them to.” He sighed like he couldn’t believe what he was saying, and yet he one hundred percent believed it.
If I wasn’t so groggy and over life, I would have laughed. I just didn’t have it in me. What I did have, was more sleep. So, I snuggled deeper into the blankets.
Then the blankets were gone.
“You fucking hoe!”
“Ooo. Is that a human curse word? Not very offensive.” Cabbie stole my pillow too, the fucker. “I have two useful ones, and you have three. Who’s the bigger hole?”
“Cabbie, leave her alone. She expended too much energy too quickly and needs to recharge.” Sage, my asshole Sage, was coming to my rescue. When I was ready to face the world again, he was totally getting a blow job.
“Sage, darling, it’s been ten hours. I know you sent a message to Yunez, but we’re currently in a war. My girls are sending in reports of attacks on smaller villages in each House’s region. Now that the Fiasla secret is out, they’re not messing around.”
I opened one eye just in time to see Cabbie tossing out his hands.
“No one is saying a war isn’t happening outside these walls. But we can’t leave until Issy is up. And she won’t be up and useful until she’s recharged.”
“Then you better fuck her. Should I send the others in?” Cabbie snarked. “There’s a contingent of Stags who arrived in the night if you need assistance or advice.”
“Wha?” I couldn’t even form full words.
“What are you talking about?”
That. That was what I was trying to say.
“Mazzas are sexually thirsty beings. You must know this. They taught it in second school.” Cabbie paused dramatically. When Sage didn’t say anything, Cabbie dropped his head into one perfectly manicured hand. When had he had time to do his nails?
“Sage, Sage, Sage. What am I going to do with you? Yunez should have made sure you all were properly educated before unleashing you on the world.”
Sage stiffened. “We were working on it, but if you remember, we didn’t exactly have a lot of say in when Fiasla came out.”
“Fine, Uncle Cabbie is about to give you the birds and the bees chat. Iss, are you listening?”
“I’m here. Barely awake, but here.” All of my limbs were so full of lead, I only managed to adjust my head to get a better look at Cabbie.
“In the simplest terms, Mazzas are horny as fuck. Not just because they have a buffet of dick to choose from, or a small army of men to satisfy. It’s deeper than that. She can draw energy from her mates. She’s sleeping, because she’s depleted. She’s slept to regain her energy before, right? After the temple, then after the Mazza attack?” He waited for us to comb through our memories. He was right. I slept for an unusually long time after each event.
“Well, you’re in luck, my friend. You not only have a mate that is so powerful she needs multiple mates, but one of the two ways,” he held up two fingers, “that she can be replenished is sex. Sleep and sex. That’s the key to a happy healthy Mazza. Maybe toss her a cheeseburger every now and again and she’ll be yours forever.” He turned his head to me. “That’s what it’s called right? The human meal that so many love.”
I tried to grin, because this was not like any birds and bees talk I’d ever received. Only one side of my mouth quirked. “It is cheeseburger. I also enjoy sushi and pizza. I’m an equal opportunity kind of girl.”
