Devina gasped. “What?”
“We Nmen will die for our mates, but it turns out that our women are just as fierce in times of trouble.”
“Wilma stabbed him?”
“She basically cut his throat from here to here.” I showed from under my chin and down to my Adam’s apple. “None of us men in that room will ever think of women as fragile after we witnessed five women take on five men and kill two of them. You should have seen the way Marni kept stabbing the captain like she was taking out years of pent-up rage on men.”
“That’s awful.”
“Yeah, but it was them or us.”
She wet her lips. “I’m glad you lived and came back to me. Imagine if none of you had come home and someone else had showed up here. I could have been in big trouble.”
“True.” We were quiet for a while before I spoke again. “I still can’t believe you risked everything to come here. I was going to track you down in the Motherlands, and then I found you in my bed. Whomever said females were the weaker sex must not have met the same women as me.”
Devina narrowed her eyes. “Where did you hear that women are the weaker sex? That’s nonsense. We rule most of the world.”
“That you do, but not on this side of the wall.” There was humor in my smile when I began kissing her jawline and moved up to her lips. “We like strong women, but we don’t submit to them.”
She was kissing me back and making small sounds of pleasure. “Maybe in time, you’ll submit to me.”
I chuckled while kissing her. “Never. That’s a promise.” My hand had lifted her shirt up over her belly and I pulled it higher, curious to see if the pregnancy had made other parts of her body swell as well. “You don’t know how much I want to make love to you right now.”
“Do you think it’s safe with the baby?”
“I think so. Frederick told me that he and Starr did it up until a few days before she gave birth.” My hands were weighing her breasts, which had indeed grown. “God, you have no idea how sexy you are.”
“Tyton, do you believe everything happens for a reason?”
“Sure.”
“What are the odds of my getting pregnant from one night of sex?”
“Well, we did do it several times.”
“I know, but I still feel like this was meant to happen and that my nana worked her magic from the other side.”
“Could be. But I’m happy to take it from here.”
She smiled at me and lifted her face to meet my kiss. Our tongues twirled around each other as if they too were hugging a good friend. We might only have spent one night together but being close to Devina felt like the most natural thing in the world. I had played the sound of her arousing little moans in my mind a thousand times these past months. Now that I was suckling on her nipples and letting my hands slide down between her legs, she made those same amazing sounds.
“Ahhh…”
I took time to feel and kiss every inch of her. The first time we had been together, I’d been eager to get inside her, but now that she was pregnant, I took time to investigate my mate and enjoy her soft curves. “You are gorgeous.”
“So are you.”
“Yeah? Are you getting used to my muscles?”
“I guess, and I always loved your eyes. They’re very pretty.”
A low groan sounded from me. “Don’t call me pretty.”
“Handsome then.”
I moved up to kiss her, deep and demanding. It only made her breathing faster.
“Tyton…”
