He took his seat next to her, taking the time to prepare her coffee and handing her the cup. He flushed with satisfaction at her sigh of contentment upon the first sip.
“How are you feeling? I mean, what a shitty ass family, but they were still your family,” she asked, sipping from her cup.
Rema sighed, leaning forward to place all four elbows on his knees. “Tired. I am very tired of dealing with my House.”
“So, let's never deal with them again. Cut them off like a diseased limb. I’m sure you aliens have a fancy way of disallowing any sort of link contact, and I’ll bet Imma and Dhenea wouldn’t mind blocking them from coming here if you asked.”
He smiled at her, enjoying the sight of her safe and sound, and drinking her coffee. As it should always be.
“I think that is an excellent idea.”
Chapter 24
Rema
After Patty finished hermeal, he scooped her up in his arms once more, enjoying the way she melted against him, and stepped out onto the balcony.
“We will join Imma and Dhenea in the palace gardens. Celebration has already started without us.”
Patty shrugged against him. “Fashionably late. I like it.”
He’d requested they be allowed to skip the whole thing, especially after the rough start to their morning, as Patty neededtime to rest, but Imma had told him under no uncertain terms that they must attend. He was still annoyed, though watching Patty move with a slight limp as she walked in front of him when they landed in the grassy field surrounding the vast greenhouse built into the mountainside did much to ease any irritation he felt.
He did wish to spare her any more discomfort, but that she had outward signs that he’d fucked her and fucked her hard, filled his chest with an odd sort of possessive pride.
Her slim body was covered in bruises where he’d gripped her tight as he’d pounded into her resistant cunt like a feral beast. The memory alone was enough to make his cock swell, and his eyes close against the building need to throw her to the ground and fuck her from behind right here on the grass.
The knowledge that she would probably allow it had his muscles tightening. When his wife glanced over her shoulder to grin at him, flicking one of her white flowers at him, he knew his arousal had not gone unnoticed.
His restraint was about to unwind fully when Dhenea stepped out of the open doorway set into the side of the wall of towering glass that made up the greenhouse.
“Safe. For now,” he whispered into Patty’s ear when she stopped in front of him.
His cock jerked when she shivered, taking a step back into him.
“It took you two long enough. Patty, why are you limping? How did I not notice you limping earlier?” Dhenea asked as she approached and Patty took a few steps away from him to meet her.
He didn’t think he’d ever seen her blush before, though her grin was lascivious when she answered Dhenea. “Rema’s cock was more of a challenge than I thought it would be.”
Now his own face grew heated as Dhenea’s laughing eyes moved to him.
“Ah, so you understand my plight now, Patty. I may have something that could help.”
She took Patty’s arm and led her into the greenhouse, leaving Rema to follow.
Inside, they had transformed the lush gardens into a crowded dance club, with hanging lights draped over every plant and surface, and tiered tables set through the area weighed down with colorful foods. Music from live performers that stood on elevated platforms weaved a seductive spell over the crowd.
“You’ve outdone yourself, Imma,” he said as they approached the Queen who was standing at the edge of the crowded dance floor, speaking with a small gathering of Neldre nobles.
Imma turned to him with widened eyes. “Did I just hear Rema call me by my given name? Surely not.”
“Yes, yes, tease all you want,” he said, shaking his head at her. His ears had turned hot, dammit.
Imma leered at him, as she drew them to the side, away from the nobles, so that they stood under one of the great flowering trees. “Patty must have fucked the obstinance out of you.”
Patty raised her hand. “Uh, actually,hefuckedmeinto a stupor and I think I made his attitude worse. Sorry.”
He didn’t know why talking about sex made him blush, but grinding against Patty in a public place and coming all over himself and her made him hard. It was a mystery.
