Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Most of what he said was clearly understandable, but I was missing an important piece.
“Mochi?”
My mate had not used that word and it was not one I had encountered before him.
Ah.
Another not-English word.
As soon as his giggles stopped, my mate gave me the actual image and quickly recounted the story.
It must have been obvious what he was doing because Kenzie made more dramatic sounds and the deputy was shaking with laughter he was trying to restrain. Even trying to hold back their emotions was dramatic. My people were never going to understand their liveliness.
“You made lovely desserts. I have no idea what the diner men were thinking but they were inappropriate.” Giving him the answer he desired had Kenzie sending me a wide smile and made my mate giggle again.
“You’re so charming you might end up becoming a local too, Daddy.”
My teasing mate was enjoying himself too much.
“I can’t decide if that is a threat or praise, my naughty mate, so it seems a punishment is in order when we return to our room.”
I might not ever be a local…but I was learning the culture and that was what mattered.
Chapter 21
Wren
“Are we sure he’s not a mage?” Not even bothering to use the mate bond since the room was so loud the human in question couldn’t hear us, I smiled when Daddy narrowed his eyes at me. “You’re not like other mages. I like your magic.”
He knew fun stuff.
He was also learning to roll his eyes. “Would it help if I gave you the Daddy glare and told you to behave?”
“Probably not but you’re sexy when you do it.” A giggle behind us said at least one other sub in the room agreed with me but they moved before I could turn around and figure out who to tease. “Why is it so crowded in here?”
We were only a few minutes late for the last meeting before the trip, but it was packed like the diner men had brought new sex toys in to show everyone.
“It will be related to food or mischief.” Daddy looked appropriately skeptical as he glanced around the room. “I wish they would stop proving Klynn right, however.”
Laughing was probably the wrong response but he was so funny and so frustrated. “He came last time.”
I wasn’t sure if we were going to count five minutes but it’d been a start.
“Yes.” Standing straighter, Daddy gave himself a tiny peptalk not to be dramatic. “He introduced himself and even spoke to Lorne again.”
That was one sparkly dragon who’d gotten hell when everyone realized he was one of the first people to meet our alien friends.
“I think they were talking about books which is even better because it’s something Klynn likes.” There wasn’t much he liked besides nuggets and dirty books, but it was definitely moving us in the right direction. “It’s going to be fine. He’ll be happier once there isn’t the pressure from everyone to overshare.”
That was definitely part of the problem and he’d done much better once we’d thoroughly gone over the fact that safewords weren’t just for romance novels and sex mate shenanigans.
“I just wish I understood why the anticipation of going back to our world wasn’t making him happier.” Mentally frowning and outwardly looking like he wanted to sigh, Daddy started looking for someone in charge that time. “This is chaotic.”
“Someone tattled on Agent Murphy.” Boyd came up beside us, frowning the way Daddy really wanted to. “Evidently him being a pain in the ass is entertaining and there was a rumor Kenzie had made more mochi, so they were hoping for a show.”
“Has anyone figured out how he already knew about us?” Humans who knew about us were usually a lot happier or at least a lot less pissed. “Have we burned down his favorite tree or something? His house?”
We were slightly impulsive and accidents happened.
“Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll see if someone can figure that out.” Studying the agent who was propping up a wall across the room and glaring like he was daring anyone to talk to him about something ridiculous, Boyd huffed. “He was sent out immediately after Pierce used some of his contacts and it was too quick for them to have explained our world from scratch.”
“Yeah, he even knew right off the bat to safeword with the diner men and to explain he wasn’t a mage.” Clearly I wasn’t the only one who’d gotten confused with grumpy and glaring equaling mage. “Is anyone else besides the diner men’s wives bugging everyone?”
Daddy’s dramatic sigh coming through our bond said he still wasn’t happy with having to do a sweep of the car every time we drove anywhere.
Boyd shook his head, though. “Not that we’ve found. And yes, we’ve gotten very good at doing those searches. We’re keeping half the companies making that shit in business at the moment.”