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“What’s that about?” I asked her.
“Korrik has decided he’s going to convince me to mate with him,” she muttered. “The grumpy bastard is stalking me. Luckily, he doesn’t have wings.”
I snorted.
Her lips curved upward, just slightly.
“Make him work for it,” I told her.
“Oh, I am.”
“Dammit, woman,” the unseelie general snarled, as he leaped out of the trees and landed hard on two thick legs. “Stop running from me.”
“Stop chasing me, then,” she shot back.
“In your dreams, female.” He stepped beside her, crossing his arms over his chest. Though their bodies didn’t touch, all it would’ve taken was one heavy breath from either of them to make their arms meet.
Teris’s eyes flew open, and my attention was focused completely on the sabertooth I’d claimed. His gaze collided with Ervo’s, and then Nev’s—and then he jerked upward, snarling, “Where is she?” His chest was heaving when his eyes landed on me as the last word left his lips, and his shoulders sagged in relief. “No one’s touched you?”
By no one, I knew he meant the men.
I shook my head in response, and he relaxed further.
“Next time you kill a dragon, don’t try to eat it, brother,” Nev drawled.
Teris snorted, grabbing a fallen bit of a red dragon scale off the dirt and tossing it at his friend. Nev dodged it with a grin, and the sabertooth turned his eyes back to me. “You look hungry,” he growled.
Iwashungry.
But also too nauseous and stressed to eat.
“She hasn’t slept or eaten since you were injured,” Ervo said, and I shot him a glare. He lifted a shoulder in response, as if saying that if I were his female, he’d want to know.
“I’m fine,” I countered, though Presley and Mare were legitimately holding up all of my weight.
Teris stood swiftly, glowering at me as he stalked toward me. I glared back, muttering a curse when he grabbed me out of the other womens’ arms and threw me lightly over his shoulder. “Thanks for saving my life,” he growled quietly to me. “Next time, don’t risk your own when you do.”
I slammed the base of my fist into his tight ass, and a few snorts rolled through the people in the gathered crowd who had seen. “Don’t even start with me, Ter,” I growled back.
He squeezed the backs of my thighs, trying to calm me and failing. “Thanks for the urrtolo,” he called out, to the Wild Hunt males. “Make sure everyone knows that Naomi is mine.”
My scowl deepened, but since my face was to his back, no one saw. “Where are we going?”
“Home.” His blunt answer made my heart swell.
“You have a house here?” My voice was hopeful; I couldn’t have stopped that if I tried.
“Wehave a house here.”
“We grabbed food for the two of you,” Priel said easily, from somewhere in front of Teris. “Boxed up and everything, brother. Good work with the dragon.”
Teris made a noncommittal noise. “Don’t bite one.”
Priel chuckled. “Thanks. Congrats on the mating, too.”
“Mmhm.”
I saw flashes of North’s dark hair and Priel’s inked skin as they walked past us. And while I didn’t know where they were going, I thought I might actually like the two of them. There weren’t many fae I knew, and there were even less that I liked. But Teris’s friends—his family—just may have started to make that list.
