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Reynaldo snorted from his desk. “It has coloured my desires as well.”
She checked herself, and she was dressed again. “I’m sorry. It was never my intention to cause any kind of distraction.” She tangled her fingers together. She felt horribly off-balance emotionally, and her neck burned.
Reynaldo sighed. “I didn’t mean it like that.”
“Right. I am going to my room to lie down.” She stood and then thudded back to the couch when the room spun violently.
Reynaldo was at her side and pressing his lips to his mark. He licked, and the spinning slowed and stopped. She nodded to him. “Cheers.” And got back to her feet. It worked better this time, and she walked out of the office. She needed time alone.
She walked to their rooms and was dizzy enough to try and enter Syar’s quarters. The guards stopped her. Not unkindly. She opened the queen’s quarters and staggered inside to drop on the bed. She found her phone and made a call.
When her friend picked up, she smiled. “Hey, Penny.”
Penny smiled, and then her smile faded. “Ven, you don’t look so good.”
“I got marked. Then I found out that it was just because the contract omega was pushing his alpha’s buttons.”
“Oh. Damn. Want me to kick his ass?”
“No. Three hundred sixty-two days. and then I am home, and I can start something new.” She smiled. “How’s the fam?”
She spent the next fifteen minutes chatting with Penelope and saying hello to Liella, asking her about the cookies they were making.
When the call was over, she felt better. She set her phone next to her and went to sleep.
* * * *
Syar answered his phone. “Hello?”
“What the fuck are you doing to my cousin? She’s exhausted, depressed, and I haven’t seen her that defeated in nearly a decade.”
“Who is your cousin?” Syar was grappling to understand.
“Ven, you twit. She looked like she was going to pass out while I was talking to her. What did you do?”
He scowled. “We mated with her. We showed her around a bit today.”
“What have you done to protect her? I mean not practically but in theory.”
“I am not sure what you mean?”
“Courting, asshole. Things that reassure her that you are interested in little ways. Clothes, food, flowers. That kind of thing. From what she has told me, the female jaguar is doing more for her well-being than you are.”
“I...”
“Never mind. Keep her in one piece until she comes home for my birthday.”
Syar had a thought. “About that...” He outlined his plan to her, and he heard a warming in her tone.
Reynaldo listened to the conversation in silence until Syar hung up, and then he sighed. “I am going to get some flowers.”
“Flowers?”
“I want to make sure that she knows she isn’t just a slick hole to fuck. She’s just let me mark her becauseIneeded it. I don’t think she will believe that it is because I chose it.” He got up and said, “Can you check on her? I will be back shortly.”
Syar nodded. “Is something wrong?”
“She’s masking her emotions. She feels very still, and that isn’t good.”
