He smiled and pulled his phone out.“You are going on Saturday?”
“Yup.And Friday night.Planning a date?”
“Yes.”
“Great.Just you, me, and four teens.”
“And our third.”
“Uh-huh.That is going to be harder to explain.I don’t normally let unvetted guys around Dorn.I will need information from both of you.”
He nodded.“Sensible.How old is he?”
“Twelve.”
“Ah.Interesting age.”
“Yup, that is why him having friends the same age who will also alpha out one day is handy.”
“Even the girl?”
“Yup.She’s going to be a terror, but her mother’s female alpha is doing great with her.”She smiled.“They are all coming to the convention.They are also all playing a new game, and the company is having a booth and a panel about the new game.The kids are stoked.”
“What game?”
Arwell smiled slowly and pulled out her phone.She tapped the app and showed Ryo the screen.“There you go.Riot Magic.”
He stared at the screen.“That’s a mage in a tunic with pigtails and a blood djinn.”
“That is correct.The game teaches math, shape identification, physical evolution, cooperation, and marksmanship.And you can level up and go into melee mode.There are five characters to play, and each one comes in male or female, so you don’t have to be the title character.The kids all play at the same time.”
He was tapping at his phone and said, “How is their mobile game?”
“Pretty good.I was playing it last night.”She grinned.“I always play as the djinni.”
He nodded, and she saw that he was downloading it.
Arwell smiled.
He glanced at her.“Well, if we are going to the convention, it behooves me to know what he is playing right now.”
“So, just like that?”
Ryo smiled.“Should it be more complicated?You glow to my senses, and I know I glow to yours.”
“How do you know that?”
“You look irritated when your gaze turns my way.”He grinned.“As if I am foiling some plan of yours.”
She grimaced and poured tea for both of them.“It wasn’t a plan, per se.Just an outline for Dorn and me.I am not his mother, and it adds a different tension to our relationship.”
Ryo frowned.“But you have raised him.”
“Yes, but I got him when he was two, and he knew I was not his mama.So, I left space for her.If she ever returns, there will be a place for her in his life, a place I have not taken.”
Ryo looked at her calmly.“May I hug you?”
She shrugged.“Sure, but why?”
