Big Bad Claws by Michele Mills

Author:Michele Mills [Mills, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-21T04:00:00+00:00

8

Finally, after lunch Zayzon had had enough of his brother’s prying and his female’s non-answers. He scooped Lila into his arms and carried her back to their bedroom.

“Wait,” she yelled out. “Get Max.”

He stopped. “Who?”

“The tiny cleaning bot. His name is Max. You can’t just leave him out in the front room. That isn’t his normally programmed location. He’ll be confused.”

Zayzon grimaced and turned, trying to look for this damn bot.

And then Heavy stepped forward and handed the red bot over to his Bride. “Here it is,” he rumbled. “And I like the name.” He winked at her.

She gave his brother a wide smile in return.

Grr. Zayzon needed some sleep. His brothers needed sleep too. Even his Bride needed rest after her late-night arrival. “I worked a double yesterday,” he said as he strode down the hall with both Bride and bot in his arms. “And I have to work again first thing tomorrow at sunrise. I need a nap before dinner, and you need rest too.”

“Okay,” she breathed.

He loved having her this close. When he’d reached adulthood, he’d found ways to begin casually scenting all of the unmated females on Timbur, without being obvious. Never had his senses lit up like this. None of the females on the colony were his Bride. He’d finally decided “fuck it,” he wasn’t going to mate because he didn’t want to bother searching off planet. He’d taken himself off the mating database because he was tired with dealing with the flood of requests for his hand—some respectful and some downright stalkerish. And there’d been too much going on these last few years, with the death of his parents and the banishment of his brother, and the Fever Brothers’ demotion. He shook his head, bemused at how strongly he’d felt that he wasn’t going to ever find his Bride and how he’d never, ever want to mate with a delicate human.

And here he was, with a human mate, and she was the center of his world.

He supposed he deserved this turnabout.

“Why do you have to work this much?” she asked. “Shouldn’t you be allowed a longer break between shifts?”

He stopped at the end of the hall and set her on her feet. “This is part of our penance. We received the worst domicile and the worst shifts, only after everyone else has chosen.”

“Oh.” She glanced at the row of doors. “There’s only one bedroom in this place for each of you? Are you sure there isn’t somewhere else I can rest while you sleep? I came into your room by accident last night. I truly thought that this compound was abandoned and empty. I didn’t know I was taking over your bed and you’d be coming home soon. You can have your bedroom back now. I can sleep somewhere else in this compound for the next moon cycle.”

What nonsense was this?

“No, you can’t sleep somewhere else. There are only enough quarters for each of us.” He rubbed at his chest because this untruth pinched his hearts.

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