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She covered her face. “Oh god.”
He nudged her. “Too soon for jokes?”
“Too soon.”
“Seriously, how are you feeling?”
“Achy, delicate. Uncertain.”
“Uncertain?”
“I know he wanted me for his heat, and you wanted me for it, but that is over now. You can go about your daily life now.” She wrapped her arms around her knees and stared at him. “My reason for being here is now in the past.”
He stared at her in shock. “I want you just as much now as I did before Reynaldo’s fun few days.”
“How does he feel? It isn’t one or the other. It has to be both of you or neither.” She shrugged. “He can let the link go cold, and I can hope that my mark fades enough to heal it.”
“Why? Why are you pushing away so hard?”
“Because no one who has had me has ever wanted to keep me,” she exhaled and ran her hands through her hair. “I don’t believe in fairy tales, so not having prince charming and his big kitty at my side forever and ever.”
“Good, I haven’t been a prince for years, and I am only charming while drunk.” He grinned. “And call Reynaldo a big kitty to his face. I dare you.” He sighed. “Why do you really want to leave.”
She smiled slightly. “You will get tired of me, and I will have to leave on your schedule.”
“And that will degrade your self-worth further.”
“Yup. I have fought my way to liking how I have turned out. Walking into this situation and being rejected again would probably be too much. And now, I did, and here I am, a whiney, needy bitch because I haven’t done anything like this before.”
He wrapped his arm around her and then hugged her. “Can we go cuddle in one of the morning rooms?”
“Is it morning?”
“No idea.” He chuckled and got to his feet, taking her with him. They walked the halls, talking softly.
In the morning room, they cuddled on a chaise, and he offered her ideas for how to use her focus for the benefit of the people of the island. She was good at getting women involved and listening. But first, she had to learn to dance and work on learning the language.
She listened to it with the attention of someone being given a quest then fell asleep against him.
Ven felt someone stroking her hair, and it was not the same man that she had dozed off on. A soft kiss on her cheek and a flower let her know Reynaldo had woken up. “So, you want to run, kitten?”
“It seems appropriate. It’s only been a week. You two are solid, and I don’t want to hinder anything. Also, I don’t know how to be in a relationship.”
“What about your boyfriend?”
“He just put me where he wanted me or dragged me into place. I tried very hard not to screw things up, but he left me anyway.”
She dragged the flower down her cheek and then rubbed her lips with the petals.
He hugged her. “We won’t do that.”
“But either you or Syar might want a family.”
“There are surrogates, or we can adopt.”
She knew that surrogates wouldn’t work for his kind of alpha, but it was sweet of him to mention adoption.
He said, “But first, let’s run you through a pre-pregnancy scan to see what your body is currently up to. It might be a different situation now that your healing has kicked in.”
