“Good night,Aneah,” he said. “I’ll see you in the morning.”
I’ll see you in the morning?What the fuck?See me right now! See me naked and really, really eager to bounce on your big dick all night!
Nope. Nuh-uh. He opened the door, ushered me inside, and closed it behind me. And then he left. Went… wherever bad daernir males go when they’re refusing to fuck their wives. Was he serious?
I screamed. Actuallyscreamedas I marched to the bed, grabbed a pillow, and threw it at the wall. I had never in my life needed a dicking down as badly as I did at that moment. And the worst part was that it should have been easier than it had ever been before to make it happen. And yet my alien husbanddidn’t even want to sleep in the same bed as me. What was happening? Was there some reason he wouldn’t take this step with me? I thought he was attracted to me. Very attracted to me, even. But maybe he was faking it. Maybe he was really just using me to avoid this arranged marriage and I fell for all his soulmate bullshit, and his hot, dangerous pheromones and now I was stuck on a strange planet in a sexless marriage. Oh. My. God.
“If he thinks he can do me like that, I’ll feedhimto the cekets,” I said.
Mr. Darcy meowed in agreement and stretched his little paw out in a demand for attention.
“If your new Daddy doesn’t sleep in here tomorrow night, you have my permission to scratch him,” I said, plopping down by him and stroking his soft fur. He closed his eyes and bobbed his head in contentment. I figured that meant he was on board.
CHAPTER 25
YIRI
I didn’t getto see Cora the next morning. I felt bad about that, but if I faced her too soon after waking with a hard and weeping cock, I might lose all restraint and beg on my knees to mate with her.
I am not a male who begs.
Other males beg me for their lives.
Businesses, families, and governments from here to Cendaqua begged me to trade with them and protect their interests.
Yiri Ahlon did not beg.
But fuckingIbar. I might start if my wife didn’t ask for me soon.
So I left without checking in on her and told Takka to make sure she had whatever she wanted. Safer to send him while I retreated into my work.
Our soldiers had picked up a couple of guys who used to run with Masoh in one of Zacal’s clubs while Cora and I were having dinner the night before. I spent the morning questioning them, but in the end, we let them go. There wasn’t anything credible to suspect them of. No good reason they’d still be loyal to Masohafter what went down. One of the guys asked if we were looking for new soldiers. Fucking kids.
By the time I finished with them, Zacal had a meeting with Bruukto Shek lined up, and he wanted me and Evik both in on the call. That shit took the rest of the morning and an hour out of my afternoon.
I got a few alerts on my nexus frame throughout the morning when Cora opened certain files on my nexus core. It seemed my little mate was curious about a few things. My work contacts, my credit accounts, and my medical files. What was she doing? Planning to kill me for my money? If so, she might want to cover her tracks a little better. I could see everything she poked into. Right now, for example, she was looking through my search history in Earth’s nexus system. I’d done a few searches on her and her parents, the weird religious sect they were a part of, and the last place Cora worked. I was glad now that I’d erased all evidence of my searches into her previous lovers. There wasn’t much more for her to see there.
Except, maybe there was. Another alert came through when a saved search was opened. It was an older one, and maybe it would be fine. She probably wouldn’t mind. She didn’t mind the art on my arm, and this was no different.
I got a message from her a few minutes later.
Cora: I’m going out. Zoddi and Xokat are going with me.
Me: Be good, wife.
Cora: You first, husband.
I chuckled and sent an order to Zoddi to keep me updated on where they went. At least I didn’t have to feel guilty about her being bored at home. This was why I’d planned ahead and made sure she had a team ready to take her wherever she wanted to go. Yeah, I wanted to kill the same soldiers I picked for the jobbecause they were getting to show my mate around my home city without me, but that was the life I led, right? Sacrifice and violence. It was fine. We had a gala to go to tonight, and if I played my cards right, I could get home early enough to seduce her before we had to get ready to leave again.
CHAPTER 26
CORA
I was prettysure Yiri wasn’t cheating on me. I couldn’t find any evidence of another female in his contacts or his spending habits. He didn’t have any STDs, but there was a notice in his medical file that his last birth control dose lapsed as of a week before I arrived in Muria, and he had declined the prompt to make an appointment to re-up.Interesting. We’d need to chat about that. I was still covered by mine, but had he stopped his because he wanted kids soon? Or was he just too busy to go to the doctor? Or maybe hedidn’twant kids yet. Maybe that was why he was avoiding my vagina like the plague.
There was also no evidence of him talking to anyone else on BMM. When he said I was the first woman he reached out to, I didn’t really believe him. I thought maybe I was the first to respond, but even that would have been crazy. He was just too handsome to ignore. But when I checked, I found that he truly did only talk to me.
This search for a mistress started in a jealous rage after he didn’t show up for breakfast, but the more I searched, the more I just got the warm fuzzies for him. Was that pathetic or what? It still didn’t help with the intimacy problem, though.
