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“Penny for your thoughts?” Sasha says softly, rolling her head against my shoulder. She looks up at me with her soft brown eyes.
“Huh?” My translator is no help with the strange phrase.
She giggles and snuggles into me.
“It just means, you’re thinking awfully hard and I’m curious what about.”
Ah.
My eyes dart across her to Brettin who narrows his eyes at me.Don’t do it,he tells me silently.
I look back down at her upturned face. Her cheeks are pink, making the strange pigment dots stand out against her creamy skin. The odd dots cover most of her smooth flesh, but she doesn’t seem to be concerned by them.
I force myself to swallow around the lump again. How will she take the rest of the news? I decide there is no sense in waiting around any longer to find out.
“We have more to tell you,” I say, lifting her limp hand from where it rests on my thigh and bringing it to my lips for a kiss.
“That sounds kind of ominous,” she says. I don’t miss the way her body stiffens slightly beside me.
“Not ominous,” I say. At least, I hope not.
She doesn’t relax, though. “That doesn’t sound very convincing.”
“Well,Imuri,” Brettin nuzzles the side of her neck. “That depends entirely on you.”
Her eyes bounce between us as she worries her bottom lip between her small white teeth.
“We have the coordinates to your home planet,” I say, threading my fingers between hers.
Her thin brows drop low over her eyes and the skin between them puckers.
“Wait, you mean you had it this whole time?”
“No,” Brettin quickly tells her.
The way she purses her lips suggests she doesn’t quite believe him.
“We found out yesterday, when we commed a fellow bounty hunter to let him know you were safe.”
“Oh,” she pushes herself up, gathering the blankets and holding them over her breasts. “Why would he care if I was safe?”
Bretting and I share a look and then I quickly explain everything leading up to rescuing her from the raiders. How Rovos is mated to a human, and his team rescued two of the females who were sold at the same auction she was. One of which was now mated to a male named Treto.
At the mention of the other females, Sasha’s eyes light up and she pushes herself upright.
“You talked to Bela? She’s, okay?” Her relief has her shoulders sagging and her eyes turn glossy from unshed tears. “And Skylar is with her? I’ve been so worried about her, about both of them, but mostly Skylar!”
With little warning she flings her arms around my neck.
“Thank you! Thank you thank you… for telling me!” she whispers into my neck, then she turns and hugs Brettin as well.
“Rovos has invited us to visit them anytime you may wish. Perhaps…” I nearly choke on the words I’m about to say. “Perhaps we could stop on our way to your planet.”
The excitement suddenly dims from her eyes, and she pulls away from us.
“Oh,” she looks down at her lap. “To be honest, I’d sort of expected to never return home. I—this changes things.”
Brettin reaches across her, hooking his finger under her chin and turning her so she is looking at him.
