Yiri made a deep sound somewhere between a grunt and a hum, but said no more. His big hand closed around my small one again, totally swallowing it up to the wrist. Big hands. And jeez Louise, I was still shocked by his height. I guess I’d never had a good grasp of scale during our video calls.Although. Now I had hishandsfor scale, andholy shit.
He made another sound beside me, loud enough to cut through the noise all around us as we made our way through the Transport Station. This time I’d definitely call it a grunt.“Aneah,” he said, voice extra deep and gravelly, “what are you thinking about?”
My eyes darted to his hand wrapped around mine again. “Um. How tall are you?”
His head cocked to the side, but he answered. It took a second for the translated conversion to filter through.Six point five nine feet.
“Aneah,” he growled, his hand squeezing mine tighter.
“What?”
“Whatever you’re thinking about, save it for later.”
But my mind was entrenched in the gutter.So tall. BIG hands.I kept thinking about that night he jacked off on our call. Yes, he’d seemed big, but that was before I understood that his hand was like two of mine. I chewed at my lower lip, my eyes drifting sideways to the crotch of his black pants. Yeah, there was something really big in there. A freaking monster.Oh my god.
“Think about Mr. Darcy,” Yiri snapped. “It’s loud in the docking bay. Vessels taking off and docking, vehicles and caddies everywhere. If he doesn’t like noise, he’s hating it.”
My lustful thoughts evaporated instantly.
“Oh no!” I gasped. “How far are we? My poor baby!”
As it turned out, my new husband was a liar. The private docking bay was actually much quieter than the public parts of the Transport Station. It was probably the perfect place for Mr. Darcy to wait for me, and for that, I was grateful that Yiri had sent him ahead. But…
“You made me worry for nothing!” I glowered up at him, hands on my hips.
Yiri lifted a shoulder. “You were turning a lot of heads. Many species in Bion 8KV have more acute senses of smell.”
“Are you saying I stink?” I raised my arm to sniff at my pit, but I couldn’t smell anything.
“When you start thinking dirty little thoughts, you smell too good to be walking around this place with only me to guard you.”
Oh my god. “You knew? Crap,everyoneknew?”
“Not everyone,” he said as if it were no big deal. “Just anyone with a strong nose. Mostly, they looked away when they saw me with you.”
“What if I had been alone?”
“In public?” he asked.
“Yeah.”
Yiri laughed. “Aneah,you will never be alone in a public place. If I can’t be with you, your security team will be there.”
“Security team?” This was the first I was hearing about any such notion.
“Our family is very important to the economy of Eissoi,” he said. “It’s a very wealthy region of an already affluent world. Security is necessary.”
“Like a bodyguard?”
“Yes,” he said, allowing a pause for the translation. “Two of them.”
“Two bodyguards?”
“You’ll meet them in a few days when we’re home,” he nodded. “I handpicked them from the men who work for me, and they were trained by my aunt’s team, who all have years of experience. This is us,” Yiri gestured to one of only a few vessels in the private docking bay, and it was possibly the only thing that could have distracted me from the news that I would have two bodyguards with me everywhere I went… Apparently forever.
A laugh burbled up my throat at the large, silver thing looming over us. “A flying saucer?! Are you kidding me?”
Yiri paused, a look of confusion crossing his features. “From the translation I’m getting… yes? Have you seen a cruiser before?”
