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“Braxilk, to get in and out of your territory. Plus, Grim and Tok are probably too heavy to ride on one with one of your warriors, anyway, and I’d want to bring them for our own protection.”
Gahn Thaleo remained silent for a long moment. Finally, his tail did that small, subtle twitch again.
“I agree to your terms.”
“Alright, then,” Valeria said. She swirled her index finger in a tight circle in the air beside her head, then pointed at the shuttle. “Everybody back on the ship!”
CHAPTER TWELVE
Stephanie
In the end, it wasdecided that Dalk would stay behind to keep the caves and valley clear of any predators or other danger while we were gone. He was still pissed about being held captive and had no interest in going to Gahn Thaleo’s mountain. Bariok and Vaxilkai were only marginally less angry about going back to that mountain, but they kept their emotions on a tighter leash. “I’d let you two stay behind, too,” Valeria had told them, “but then we’d only have Grim, Tok, and Zoren. That’s only three warriors to six human women. Gahn Thaleo is our ally, but still, that’s a risk. Not one I’m willing to take.” Vaxilkai and Bariok had grunted their agreement, and so we all trundled back into the shuttle. Well, all of us but Dalk.
By the time we’d all gotten into our seats on the shuttle, Gahn Thaleo was long gone. He’d taken off immediately after the decision about us going to his mountain had been made.
“I don’t trust that guy,” Nasrin said as we buckled in.
“Why? Because he looked like he was trying to see straight inside your brain there for a minute?” Fiona said. She’d clearly noticed what I had – the snag of Gahn Thaleo’s attention on Nasrin’s face.
“Exactly,” she said.
“Do you think he’s your...” Tilly asked. She didn’t need to finish the sentence for us to know what she meant.
I frowned.
“I don’t know,” I said. “Have you guys ever known a Gahn, or any warrior, who didn’t try to instantly find and claim his mate the second he got his mate vision? Buroudei, Taliok, Baldor, Kor, even those two,” I said glancing over at Grim and Tok. “Hell, Grim literally kidnapped Valeria.”
“That was a misunderstanding,” Valeria piped up from the cockpit as we ascended.
“OK, but still. Kor searched the desert endlessly for Zoey, desperate to find her. Baldor literally launched a huge attack on our settlement, ready to go to war to get Theresa.”
“Yeah, I see your point. That’s different from just waiting for us to show up here and then being all like, ‘Fancy a bite and a bath at my place?’ kinda thing,” Fiona replied. Her brown eyes narrowed, a wicked grin splitting her face. “I see you left our least favourite alien gym bro off your list of guys who went batty trying to claim their mates.”
“Ugh. Don’t remind me,” I groaned.
Fiona chuckled, then turned her attention back to Nasrin.
