“I can always find another hostess job.”
“Fine.I will start working with it tonight.”
“Uh, don’t I need to give you authorization or something?”
“You just did.”She chuckled.
Half an hour later, Jienne was in one of the eighteen guestrooms and in the spare pyjamas that the room contained.She was showered, warm, fully clothed, and in an astonishingly comfortable bed.
Ava grabbed a computer, labelled it for Jienne, transferred the money into a holding account and five hundred of her own into the market.The numbers started climbing almost immediately.Ava grinned and closed the laptop.
Her little money engine was working.Time to get a bit of sleep for herself.“Up to cuddle, Nigel?”
He crawled up onto her bed and flopped on the other pillow, his three hundred and fifty pounds making a dip in the mattress.
Nigel grumbled.“We need to get you a mate, Ava.”
“Ha.”She pulled a pillow under her head.“They are messy, and you have to keep feeding them, or they get bitchy.”
“Like you.”
She snorted.“Stop being so accurate.”
He looked at her with his colour-shifting eye.He was a blend of canine, feline, bird, and something with scales, all of which blended into a human consciousness.“Are we staying for a while?”
“It depends on my meeting with the assessment team tomorrow.If they say I go, I go.It would be back to Daycross for us.”
“Etgar is fun to play chess with.”Nigel had a hopeful tone in his voice.
“Do you just want to go back to Daycross?”
He looked at her hopefully.“I was very happy there.”
“You are the wild beast of Daycross.”
He wiggled happily.“I know.”
“How do you get along with horses?They restarted the polo club.”
“I think I can make friends.”
“There are a lot of alphas skulking around now.They are the ones playing polo.”
“You could enjoy that.”
“They play to keep, and most of them are taken.”She chuckled.“Plus, I am a little old for that sort of thing.”
“You are in your thirties.You aren’t dead.”
She sighed.“I feel that way sometimes.”
“We are alive.We are free.Uradda is down, and its actives can have lives now as legal citizens of other countries.They are also finding out that building a whole bunch of active omegas was a fucked-up calculation.”
“And yet, you are here.”
She looked at him as their conversation relaxed her.“I am here.”
“Is she safe?”
