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“No.” She eyes the block in my hand.
I slide it back into my pocket. Our little mermaid is overly interested in our technology. I can’t help but think that she’s looking for an escape again. She hasn’t accepted her life here yet. I’ll have to be sure to tell Nico about it. “Are you hungry?”
“A little. I’d like more to take off these shoes, though.”
“Yes, of course. I believe Mother said you’re to stay with her in my sister’s old room.” I reach for her hand, and she takes it. Any opportunity to touch this female, I’ll take. My cock hardens.Fuck. “This way.”
She follows me down the long corridor, and I try to see the place through her eyes. The vast floor-to-ceiling paintings. The golden doorframes and large sculptures sitting on the floor. She’s right, they do belong in a museum. I open my sister’s door without knocking. She’s two floors down now with her pod. But it still makes me laugh when I open the door without knocking.
“This is your sister’s room?”
“Yeah. She had a thing for light blue growing up.” The pod bed has been made up, and the curtains are open. The ocean outside is illuminated to bring a brightness to the room.
“Castor?” My mother’s butler stands behind us in the hall.
“Augustine.” I greet him with the traditional handshake.
“Ophelia said to make up Kai’s bed.” He raises eyebrows at me.
“Oh, yes. Annabelle is Mother’s guest for this evening. Annabelle, this is Augustine.”
She curtsies as she did at the docking ceremony.
“No need for formalities with me. The room is prepared, and Ophelia said for you to help yourself to anything in Kai’s closet. She’s left quite a few things.”
I jerk my head back. “You’ll, of course, go get new clothes as soon as there is time.” Her lips are parted, her eyelids slits. I want nothing but to strip down and lay her on the bed. She shakes her head at me. “What?”
“Nothing. Thank you for making the bed for me, Augustine. It’s very kind of you.”
“Yes, thank you Augustine.”
“I will bring you some food if you like?” Augustine’s posture is perfect.
“Please.”
He nods and leaves.
“What is it?” I touch her shoulder, brushing her hair away.
“It’s a really big bed.” She runs her hand along the edge of the footboard.
“It’s Kai’s old bedroom, and it’s tradition for mermaids after the change to have pod beds. You would think it’s easy to sleep in a big bed, but one that size takes getting used to. It’s a lot of work to get out of at night.”
“It’s all feeling a lot more real, seeing this. Nico’s bed on the sub is big, but this is... real.”
“I can’t even begin to imagine how hard this has to be for you.” I search her blue eyes for an answer. While she’s beautiful, she’s smart too and a bit awkward, but I like it. The way she glances at me, turning like my stare is too much? She glances at Nico and Holter the same way. She’s dangerous. Because I want to give her the world, and in doing so, I could give up a lot.
She’s on the other side of the room and turns back to me. “It’s a really big bed.” Worry lines form on her forehead.
“It’s a really big bed.”
“Are they normally this big?” She puts her hand in the middle of the bed and motions to half.
I shake my head. “Not everyone has a bed this big, but they’re normally bigger than half.”
“This big?” She moves to around three quarters.
“Yeah, I guess so.”
