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Liz snorts. “Yeah, pretty much. But I think they’re taking too much trouble with us to eat us. Unless we’re a delicacy of some kind, which I wouldn’t rule out. But . . . yeah.”
And then I am shocked anew as my khui resonates inside me. My inward being, which has lain dormant for so long, which recognizes no mate amongst my people? It vibrates and sings at the sight of this new creature. I stare at it.
It wasn’t a monster come to eat me. It was this monster. Who’s come to eat me out.
But no. She is my mate. My other half. I’ll do whatever is necessary to keep her.
feel like there’s an alien bingo card somewhere that just got checked off. Horns? Check. Tail? Check. Crazy-ass cock? Check, check, check.
From now until my spirit departs this plane, there shall be none for me but her.
He gazes at the others and then puts a hand on the back of my neck and pulls me against him, possessive.
“He says he’s going hunting and to get firewood, and for us to keep an eye on his mate,” Kira relays, amusement in her voice. “Mate, huh?” This time, it’s my turn to be shocked. “Mate? What? He thinks we’re mated?”
trace my fingers down her soft cheek. Does she not realize? Anywhere she goes, I will gladly follow. She is my heart, my resonance, my soul. My mate. It grieves me she is so miserable here, with me.
“This is my mate. I resonate for her.” As if on cue, his chest starts to vibrate, the thick, steady purr jiggling my cheek. “She is beautiful to me. Different, but beautiful nevertheless.” He brushes his fingers through my hair. “I have seen her bravery, her spirit, and her will. She has trusted me when she has no reason to. She has given me her body when she has no khui to compel her. And it does not matter what any eyes think of her but mine . . . and to me, she is the most wonderful, most attractive, and most compelling of creatures.”
“A Great Dane can still make a Chihuahua pregnant,” Liz points out. “Guess which one you are.”
“Oh boy,” I say faintly. “Can . . . can anyone else?” If they can, I might die of embarrassment.
Something bright flashes in the sky. I freeze under Vektal, and we watch, breathless, as a spaceship, swimming with lights, hovers in the skies over the mountain. It circles and then hangs in the sky over the spot where the old cargo bay was left behind.
