“Okay,” she sighed, but her features betrayed her relief.“Whatever you say.”
His female was dressed in her training leg coverings and a dark tunic that reached her upper thighs.It was the smallest one he could find on the vessel and she’d altered it so it wasn’t so large around her chest, something Devix approved of.
“I’m a little nervous,” she admitted, as the elevator tube lowered them to the bottom level, the only access point off his vessel.He’d landed it in the north docking bay on Rozun, the farthest one from his home towards the south.Perhaps it would throw off Sarkon, or the scouts he would send in his stead, who weren’t always the most intelligent.
“Do not be,luxiva.This will be your home,” he told her, before another thought occurred.He added, “For the immediate present, at the very least.”
Cara glanced at him and nodded slowly.She was pressed into his side and he had an arm wrapped around her waist.It was part of his plan to make it apparent to any beings that saw them that she was his mate.And a universal truth that extended to most species was that no one ever fucked with a Luxirian and his mate, unless they cherished a slow and painful death.
His mate’s footsteps were steady beside him as they walked down the narrow hallway and Devix activated the ramp so they could disembark.
The north docking bay was always empty, save for a few fuel hands milling around.Considering it was the furthest docking bay from the colony’s center, not many journeyed there.As they stepped from the vessel, only one fuel hand approached, the being’s gaze darting briefly to his mate before looking up at Devix.
“Agilvexof fuel,” Devix told him in the Rozian language, which was a mixture of many.It was a language that had been difficult at first to pick up, but Devix had learned eventually, forgoing a language implant because one didn’t exist for Rozian.He jerked his horns back towards the vessel.“How much for docking?”
“Acential,” the fuel hand replied, a creature whose planet resided in the Second Quadrant, but Devix couldn’t remember the name of.
Devix paid him, pleased the being never looked back at his female.That was what he appreciated about Rozun.There were too many species living on the colony that if a new one appeared, no one raised a single question.
“Let us depart,” he murmured softly down to his female, tugging her closer, once they were out of hearing range.
“That was kind of sexy,” she whispered up at him.“You speaking another language.”
Devix huffed out a breath, feeling those words in his cock.“I speak many languages, female.”
“What was his species called?” she asked, briefly glancing back over her shoulder at the being they just left.
“I cannot recall,” he said honestly.
“What did you talk about?”
“He told me the price for fuel and the fee for docking.”
“Hmmm.Does…does anyone speak English here?” she questioned, raising her eyes to him.They were almost at the doors of the docking bay.Outside, there would be a transport craft he’d rent.
Devix thought about it, but figured it was unlikely.“Your species is newly discovered,luxiva,” he told her.“Most who live here are uninterested in receiving language implants, so I would not think so.”
“Oh,” she murmured, seeming disappointed by what he’d just said.
Devix could understand that it felt strange to realize not many spoke one’s language.“I can teach you Rozian,” he offered.If she accompanied him to the markets, she would need to know a few phrases.
Cara perked up at that.“Is that what you just spoke?”
“Tev.”
“And istevRozian…or Luxirian?” she questioned, smiling a little.
Devix’s hand squeezed her hip, feeling her lush curves underneath his palm.He was pleased to discover that she’d regained some of the weight she’d lost at the Pit.
“It is Luxirian.”
“And will you teach me some Luxirian as well?”
His throat went tight, affection warming his chest, an odd sensation that he’d only ever experienced for members of his family unit.“Tev, if you wish.”
They stepped through the docking bay doors and Cara gasped.
Devix took his eyes off her to view the landscape of Rozun.He tried to remember what he first thought of it when he’d first seen it, but couldn’t.Instead, he tried to see it through her own eyes.
