“Zahra?”
Carnage nodded.
“Maybe she’s just lonely.”
Carnage shook his head. “Jus’ ta’k, ta’k, ta’k.”
“But she’s nice?” Daniel said.
Carnage begrudgingly nodded. “Goood ‘emanaaade.”
~~~
“Hungry?” Angelle asked, as she got up and went into her kitchen.
“Always,” Boon said.
“I think I’ll make a quick sandwich. I noticed some ham in the fridge, and there’s a beautiful tomato sitting in that window, right there,” she said pointing at the kitchen window above the sink. “Would you like one?”
“That sounds delicious. I can make it if you want to rest,” Boon offered.
“No, I can get it. I’m feeling much better now that I’m up and moving.”
“I’ll be more gentle next time.”
“You will not,” she said, bending over to get the plate with the ham on it out of the refrigerator. She winced as she straighted up, the muscles in her thighs, belly and butt reminding her they’d had a work out the night before. “Okay, maybe just a little more gentle until I’m not quite so sore anymore.”
Boon came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her as she placed the plate of ham on the counter top. He kissed her cheek as he held her back against his front.
Angelle giggled and turned in his arms to face him and link her hands behind his neck.
“I do have a question, though,” she said, as she placed a kiss right at the corner of his lips.
“Yes,” he said.
“Yes, what?” she asked.
“Yes. You can have whatever you want.”
Angelle laughed. “No, that’s not it.”
“Oh, well, then, ask away,” he said, pulling her tighter against him as he slouched to better see her face.
“It’s just that I was wondering…”
“Mmhmm.”
“I mean, you’ve never been mated before, right?”
“There is only one mate for me. You. There will not be another, there has not been another.”
“I know, and I believe you. But, I mean, I know that Maverik was mated before and it didn’t work out. And now he’s with the right mate, the love of his life. So, I just figured that maybe there’d been someone else…”
“Why would you think there may have been someone else?” Boon asked.
She shrugged shyly, not really making eye contact. “I don’t know…”
“You know, or else you wouldn’t have asked,” he said patiently.
