“Thanks, Mao.I have this for you.It’s a thank you from Meeda.”
He took the bag with curiosity.Kazuya came in smiling.
Mao took the bottle out and frowned.“What is it?”
“Meeda’s heat.She figured since you caused it, you should have it.”
Mao’s shock was evident.“What?”
Kazuya chuckled.“You have a mate.”
Vine shook her head.“He doesn’t.He’s bound to you first, and he was only doing you a favour to offer her the blood.So...he doesn’t.”
Mao looked at the purple, blue, and teal swirling in the bottle.Gold flashes were frequent in the bottle.“Her heat.”
“Yeah, it was just starting, so she got rid of it.”
Mao took his phone out and tried to call.“Damn it.Why isn’t she answering?”
“She went to the islands.She can distract her body with water and sky.That requires the islands.”Vine chuckled.“That’s where they work when they are filming for their new swimsuit lines.Meeda is the model.”
Vine lifted her phone and brought up the videos, turning her screen to show him.Meeda frolicking in the sand, building a sandcastle, windsurfing, diving, scuba diving, snorkelling, and then the silhouette of her taking off a silky wrap and diving into the water with the wide tail waving at the camera before she disappeared into the waves.
She laughed and put her phone away.Kazuya stared.“So she’s an omega.”
“Yeah, she’s a bit muddled, but yes.Dark elf, pixie, mage, omega, it’s all in there.”
Kazuya nodded.“Right.Shall we see to you first, and then we can discuss this more thoroughly?”
“Nothing to discuss.She hit the water as soon as they got there and has travelled two hundred miles in the last day and a half.Whatever Mao is eating did her some good.”She smiled brightly.“Shall we?”
Mao was standing, staring at the bottle and looking like he wanted to howl in frustration.
When they removed their clothing and washed, Kazuya said, “That was a little cruel.”
“She’s lived her entire life waiting for someone to hold her.One male does, pats her on the head, and indicates that she was a favour to his boss’s female friend.”Vine scrubbed her front, and he took care of her back.“We are lucky she didn’t completely go insane.Nothing for her is ever quite right.”
“What do you mean?”
“She was offered blood in the shadow domain.All she could drink, but she had to drink from the dead or tortured.She associates her feeding with someone else’s pain.The first person she found who could have been a mate took off.The second person patted her on the head and offered to let her bite him again if it wasn’t inconvenient for his boss.”
Kazuya sighed.“He’s been with me for one hundred twenty years.His demon ages very slowly.Sex is something that he engages in occasionally, but he doesn’t have the normal drive of his people.”
“Probably why he’s lived so long.Did he bottle it?”
He snorted and finished his smooth strokes of her back and thighs.The water sluiced over her, and he walked her to the edge of the pool.
He stepped in and sank, and then he rose up on his tentacles and took possession of her again.He eased them into the depths and kissed her.Breathing for her came later.
When he lifted her out of the water, he was smug, and she was sleepy.He had repaired the damage that the attacks had left behind.All of them.
She looked at the octopus hickies on her legs and snorted.“How many more treatments do I need?”
He smiled.“This was the final one.You take to the pressure healing very well.I was able to go deeper than any other healing.”
“Oh, right.About that.Why did you—”
“Because it was part of the injury.Didn’t you enjoy it?”
