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She clutches at my hand with both of hers, and looks down. “I mean, Elena is still pulling her disappearing act, even now. You can’t just lay that sort of information on him, you know? Like, Oh, by the way, the mother you don’t know isn’t even your mother, it’s actually this other woman you also don’t know who we can’t get in contact with right now—but it’s not because she doesn’t love you, she actually just doesn’t know you’re hers because there’s this thing called surrogacy and a whole bunch of people did some illegal things when you were created… It’s too much for a kid.”
I know this has been weighing heavily on Ana’s mind for months now. We both decided that for as long as Elena is not in the picture, there is no need to complicate things further by telling anybody else that she is Asili’s biological mother—not even Elena herself. But Ana still feels guilt over the situation, as if she is responsible for this mess, and I know she just wants everybody to be happy.
“We’ve been through this, my dear,” I say, and I push my chair back and twine my fingers with hers, tugging her to come sit in my lap. “Do you want me to send my people out to track and retrieve Elena from wherever she might currently be? Bring her back here to resolve the situation?”
“No,” she murmurs, staring down at her fingers as she settles against me. “She has to come back to us in her own time when she’s ready.”
“So then answer me; do you think we made the right decision to keep silent for now?”
“I…don’t know of what else we could have done better.”
“Neither do I,” I say. “We have made the best decisions we can.”
Ana’s body deflates against me, and she leans forward to tuck her face into my neck. “I love you, Vahadr.”
“You will ruin your beautiful hair like that,” I warn, and when she smacks my chest I smile, and I kiss the top of her head. “I love you too.”
“By the way, I thought you said Syeshin would be coming to the ceremony? I haven’t seen him all day.”
“His mother was unable to make it out of the house today, so he has stayed home. Truthfully, I think he’s enjoying the rest after all that wedding planning.”
The music picks up around us, something a little jarring and entirely human playing, and Ana sits up again, a much bubblier expression on her face now as she looks at me. “I told you that man was the loyalest person you’d ever meet! Look at how amazing a job he did with this wedding, and he didn’t once let you down in his Presidential Assistant duties the whole time he helped me with this.”
“Yes, well…”
“Say it,” she demands, and her grin is almost predatory. “Say that I was right when I told you to re-hire him.”
I consider her for a moment. “I was right in trusting your instincts about him.”
Ana bursts into laughter and stands up, grabbing my hand in hers. “You’re such an impossible man!”
“I’m a better male, for having met you.”
She kisses me happily as I stand, and wraps her arms around my waist. “Damn straight you are. Now come on, I want to dance.”
I grimace faintly as she drags me out from behind the table. “I told Syeshin not to allow for this ridiculous human ritual.”
“And I told him that we were doing it. He knows who to listen to in this relationship.”
“Traitor…”
As we head towards a cleared ‘dance floor’, we pass a grinning Mari trying to coax a blank-faced Kyrin for a dance as well, and I know instantly from his stance and the way his eyes trace the outline of her figure, that he will capitulate and do as she wishes.
It would seem that human females have rather a strong effect on Zvezdi males.
And I have never been happier for it.
