“No, they are also gone. My mother when I was young, and my father a few years ago in the war. His transport was shot down.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I have cousins. An aunt and three uncles. You might like my cousin Banni. She’s a sharpshooter but tells pretty good jokes.”
“I’ve always wanted a bigger family.”
“And now you have one. And a title you might not want.”
I snorted. I definitely did not want. I wasn’t really into the whole fancy image thing. “Does this mean I need to learn manners and proper protocols for different events?”
“I don’t care how you act, as long as you stay with me. Fuck protocol.”
“Okay, that’s easy to say, but not acting the right way at the right time can make life harder. I’d rather know the rules so I know when I want to break them.”
“That’s fair. I’ll ask Banni to visit. She’ll make the lessons more enjoyable, and she’s excellent at breaking the rules.”
We fell into silence for a long moment, then I sighed. “What do we need to do before tomorrow?”
“A lot,” Kex said with a growl, but this one wasn’t one of his sexy growls.
I sat up. “Well, how about we get started? The sooner we start, the sooner we can have sex in a proper bed, right?”
This time his growl was sexy and he sat up and kissed me. “In a bed, on this couch, in the bath, against a wall, on the table, inthe garden, up a tree, in a closet, and anywhere else I can think of.”
I blinked at him. “You have a bath?”
“Is that all you heard?”
“It was the most important part. Well, the wall part also sounded interesting.”
He leaned up and kissed me, but I pushed him back before it got too intense. “Work first, right? How can I help? Is there literally anything I can do to make this easier?”
“My Emily, your very presence makes this easier.”
“Blow jobs then. You do all the work, and I’ll provide the blow jobs.”
He frowned. “What’s a blow job?”
I smiled. “It’s when I suck on your dick.”
He groaned. “Yes, I think that will be quite adequate assistance. But right now if you could cease being so tempting, I need to call my steward and would prefer it if my cock didn’t join the conversation.”
“Do you think if I keep talking about him, he will bust out of your pants like he did your little leaf diaper?”
He leaned forward and nibbled on my ear. “You’ll be the death of me, I just know it.”
“I sure hope not.”
sixteen
. . .
Kex
I paged my steward,then spent the time it took him to arrive forcing food down my mate.
The door chimed way too soon, and Laness, my steward, inherited from my grandfather, entered. “Laness, this is my mate, Emily. She was part of the crash in Monai earlier this week. Her language is Earth English. You’ll need to add it.”