Margo smiled.“He’s for Geri and Cori to take a whack at while I work with Chloe and Skylar.Isolde, I will teach you later.Much later.”
Isolde patted her belly.“We are just studying, and we are bringing water and towels.”
Chloe smiled.“I am up first.Where do we start?”
Margo nodded.“Ladies, line up.We are going to learn to throw a punch.”
Chloe grinned, and the others lined up.Posture was corrected.Hand position was confirmed, and hyperextension was pointed out.As one, they started to punch the air, and Arven grinned.“I have had dreams like this.”
Margo laughed.“Pervert.”
“Every chance I get.”He chuckled, and they started to run the class.
Two hours later, the ladies were limp and sweaty, and Arven was catching his breath.Geri was pretty good, and she got better as time went on.She remembered all of her moves, but the body was twenty-five percent taller.It made for some tricky accommodations, but she was managing it.
Chloe looked at Margo and Geri.“Just a full disclosure, your guys are offering to pay for footage of your combat.”
Margo paused and then laughed.“First, not my guys, but I am unsurprised.”
Geri frowned.“Why do they want to watch us...oh.”
Arven was laughing.“Mathor are just as fixated on grace and aggression.It is the pinnacle of beauty.”
Margo looked at him.“Then what is the deal with the unmarked in Aken-Var’s quarters?”
Arven blushed.“They are aliens and need to be protected.”
“Oh, yeah.He did a fucking great job of that.”
Chloe looked at Arven.“You have been talking to him.”
Arven nodded.“Of course.”
Geri put her hands behind her back and looked at the ceiling, whistling softly.
Chloe laughed.“I think we know how.”
Geri lowered her head.“But I didn’t make contact with what’s-his-face.”
Margo sighed.“Aken-Var did.He’s sharing that way.”
Arven grinned.“He’s an excellent leader.He’s only had one lapse in judgment in his entire career.”
Margo looked at him, and he inclined his head.“He trusted that you were safe without him entering the quarters to check on you.The curators swore that you were safe and well.”
She smiled.“And then I wandered out all bloody and carved up.Made a liar out of all of them.And that moron had the nerve to scream at me in court for two hours while I dripped blood all over the floor.”
Arven nodded.“It was his first time seeing her since she left his quarters...he was shocked.”
Margo checked her nails.“And when he is shocked, he gets screamy.”
Chloe paused.“So, you were messed up—”
“In the same outfit that I had been sent to him in five days earlier.”
Arven stared.“They didn’t even give you a change of clothing?”
“Nope, so I was coated in the scent of our coupling, and my mate never came for me.Not even a shower in that cell.”
