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“Like I said, it’s a long story. I can tell you all about it, but it’ll only piss you off, and I don’t want you angry right now.”
Tristan squeezed her again in reassurance. “I can live with that as long as you do tell me what happened when you’re ready.”
She nodded, throat thickening with emotion.
Eventually Tristan let go, keeping her firmly at his side as he eyed Cazar with no small amount of disdain. Her mouth popped open in shock. She hadn’t even considered the notion that her brother might plan on squaring up with her mate.
Clearly, she’d been mistaken.
“So this is the alien you’re shacking up with?” Tristan eyed Cazar up and down, clearly unimpressed. Evie bristled at his tone.
Cazar stiffened, a scowl forming on his face. “There is no ‘shacking’. Evie is my mate.”
Tristan scoffed. “Over my dead body is my sister married to anyone without my approval, especially a big, gray asshole who didn’t even ask for her hand.”
“Are you seriously doing this right now?” Evie snapped at her brother, smacking his chest hard.
Tristan winced, rubbing his sternum all the while still staring daggers at Cazar. “I just think you can do better. Someone that can protect you. He looks harmless.”
Evie let out a shocked, borderline hysterical laugh, quickly replying with, “Cazar protects me just fine!”
And Cazar didn’t look harmless. He was muscular, extremely tall, and power radiated off of him in waves. Toroq might not be with him anymore, but Cazar had been physically altered forever. Her sweet alien could be a force to be reckoned with if pushed, and she knew it.
Cazar snarled at her brother in warning. Tristan, the thick-headed jackass, wasn’t deterred in the slightest, squaring his shoulders and glaring back as if he was completely unbothered by the Aragnokan.
Evie didn’t know what to do to diffuse the situation, shooting a helpless look at Jakkar. The senator merely shrugged, appearing as baffled as she was before he returned to his seat. Why was it all spiraling out of control?!
She hadn’t expected any kind of territorialism by stepping in here, but she should have realized it was coming. Tristan had always been overprotective, which was a huge reason why she kept all of her relationships under the radar. Although, in the case of Stephen, that had been a definite mistake.
Tristan might have been stationed elsewhere for most of her adult life, but he meddled where he could, and he never thought anyone was good enough for her.
“Evadora has chosen me, and I have gratefully accepted,” Cazar said smugly, his voice growing more guttural as he spoke. “Your approval is not needed.”
That was the wrong thing to say to her brother. Tristan’s eyes bled into a cold fury that immediately put her on edge. This was the anger she’d been hoping to avoid.
“Care to run that by me again?” Tristan asked, the calm in his voice belying the iciness radiating from him.
Jakkar stood back up quickly, robes swishing around his feet as he wandered to Cazar’s side. He leaned toward his son. “Apparently, it is an Earthly custom to seek approval from the kin of your mate before completing a bond.”
Cazar curled his lip in distaste, a deep rumbling coming from his chest. “Then it’s a good thing he is not on Earth, though I am more than willing to send him back where he belongs.”
“Is that a threat?” Tristan asked, gently pulling away from Evie to glower at Cazar. “I’ve never kicked an alien’s ass before, but I’m excited to whoop yours.”
Evie waved her hands at all of them, hoping like hell to cut the macho situation off before it got out of hand. “I can sort this out right now,” she said a bit desperately.
She raced over to Cazar, grabbing his hands and dragging him across the room until he was towering over her brother, who was unfazed by the height difference. “Tristan, this is Cazar. We are mated and in love, and it would mean the world–eh,universeto me if you took some time to get to know him before you came to any rash decisions.”
“See,” Cazar said condescendingly, pinning a hard look right back at Tristan. “Mated and in love. Evadora ismine.”
“Cazar!” Evie scolded. “That isnothelping.”
Cazar sent her an indignant look. “He wishes to take you from me!”
“God willing,” Tristan muttered under his breath.
Evie rolled her eyes in exasperation, cupping Cazar’s cheek. “Baby, I’m not going anywhere, okay? Ididchoose you.“ She glared at her brother as she gritted her teeth, “And I am extremely happy to be your mate, too, despite this uncalled for pissing contest right now.”
Tristan winced at her irate tone, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly.
