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He turned his head and nuzzled her hair, drawing in her scent. It had changed over the last several days, becoming stronger, sweeter, fuller.
“How long have you and Ketahn been…having sex?”
pregnant?!
“The nausea, the spotting, the pelvic pain, the swelling in your belly, and tender breasts are…are signs of pregnancy, Ivy.”
“Our broodling is growing inside you. My heartsthread…”
“I weave my word into a bond, my nyleea. Nothing in this world shall harm you or our broodling. You are the heart that beats outside my chest.”
“I have you, vi’keishi.” Little flower.
“Bossy ass spider.”
“It’s about time,” Callie said, crossing her arms over her chest. “Been watching you two eye fuck each other for days.”
“They call their stems decks?” asked Ahnset. “I think that is something different. Their word is dick,” said Rekosh. “Deck,” Ahnset repeated. “Dick,” Rekosh corrected. “Ah, fuck,” Cole said, throwing his hands up. “This is that whole zirkita thing again, isn’t it?” “You guys started it.” Lacey rolled her eyes. “Always talking about your dicks.”
“Always a partee pooper, huh?” “I do not know partee, but I have not made poop on it.”
“My name sounds right in your voice, female.”
This was her tribe, these were her people. And she would fight for them.
There was no What to Expect When You’re Expecting Vrix Babies for Ivy to read.
“Did I hurt the broodling?” Ivy blinked. “What?” “The baby.” He covered her lower belly with a hand, his touch so gentle but uncertain. “If it is inside you, and I am inside you…”
Did he really think he was poking the baby with his cock?
“We will share words later.” “We will share much more,”
“They are so small. So delicate. So…strange looking. How have you mated this creature without breaking it?”
“The last time we had a fresh meal, you ate as much as Urkot,”
“Nalaki doesn’t place herself above the others. She treats them as equals. That’s why she is daiya and not queen.”
“I won’t let Zurvashi take you from me,”
“You are mine. My luveen, my heartsthread, my everything.”
“Claim me, Ketahn.”
“You are mine, Ivy,” he growled. “I claim you, now and forever.”
“Let’s just say I lost my favorite pair of pants that day. The end.” Cole blew out a heavy breath. “Shit.” “Yes. Literally.”
“We vrix and these hyu-nanz are meant to be together,” Nalaki had said. “If not, why would they be able to communicate with us? Why would they be able to make broodlings with us? I cannot believe anything such as this could happen were it not the will of the Eight,
“There is only one worse pain I have endured in all my life.” “And what was that?” asked Ahnset. “Listening to Rekosh talk every day.”
“Kill that bitch so we can relax a little, dude,” Cole said.
“You are mine.” She dipped a hand into the paint and pressed it over his hearts, which thumped harder beneath her touch. “Hearts.” She moved her hand down, placing it just over his slit and making his claspers stir. “Body.” Now she coated both hands in paint and lifted them, cupping each side of his face. “Spirit. You and I are as one, Ketahn.”
He drew in her familiar scent; it was the first he’d learned upon hatching, even before that of his mother.
Sibling luvvvv
“I, Ivy Foster, challenge you for rule of Takarahl.”
“I am his mate,” she said, the words coming out strong and smooth, “and he is mine.”
“I cannot help you. No one can. If we do, it will become war. But say the word, sister, and I will battle them all for you.”
She bleeds. She can be killed.
“Ketahn chose the better female.”
I challenged the queen for Takarahl. And I won. Shit.
“You are queen. I cannot command you.” “What? Well, I…I…I command you to command me!”
“Before all of you and the Eight, I declare Ahnset tes Ishuun’ani Ir’okari queen of Takarahl in my place.”
“I fall deeper in love with him every day,”
“A sexy spider man.”
“The baby is coming.”
“but um, my water broke.” “It did not break, it spilled,” Ketahn said. “Like a flood.”
“You are my heart beating outside my chest, Ivy. You are my reason, my desire, my everything.”
The shape of a vrix with the softness of a human. A perfect mix of two worlds that had come together as one.
“Our son.”
“Akalahn. Akalahn tes Ivy’ani Ul’okari. Son of the female who freed Takarahl, the once-queen. He who is our hope, our joy, our future.”
