Deven's Leap of Faith (Triads in Blue Book 10) by Alyssa Hope & J. P. Webb

Author:Alyssa Hope & J. P. Webb [Hope, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-11-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 5.

Deven sat across the table from Tad and slowly began to unwind, listening to the man’s stories, some of them more outrageous than others. Even when the plates of food were delivered by very large blue people he didn’t feel nervous, as the cooks seemed to be genuinely friendly, and the food was good and kept on coming. He could get used to the skin color. It was really quite attractive, now that he’d had time to think about it.

“You are Nevi and Eva’s third?” one of the cooks asked, and when he hesitated, his mouth full, Tad answered for him.

“He is, but he’s still new to this. Although not to the eating part, obviously!”

Deven grinned and shoveled more food into his mouth.

“He says it’s good”, Tad interpreted for him.

‘It is. Very good, sir.’

The cook reeled backwards and laughed. ‘Sir? Now I am sir?’

‘Anyone who cooks like this, yes, sir.’ He felt Nevi and Eva slide into place on either side of him, and he winked at the cook. ‘It’s too bad I’m already taken, or I’d propose to you …’

An arm went around him from either side, and he shrugged, smiling. ‘I did say I was already taken, didn’t I?’

‘He gets giddy when he eats too much’, Nevi explained blithely, and suddenly he was over Nevi’s shoulder and being carried off down the halls, waving a meat sandwich at the cook as he went.

‘Pay attention. You’ll have to remember how to get to our quarters, we don’t want anyone accusing us of letting you get lost in the corridors. It’s a big ship. Very big.’

‘Aah. So if I follow the blue stripe I get to the living quarters? And the green goes to the dining hall? Red would go to power, which would be to engineering? And yellow would be to the bridge?’

‘He’s far too clever, this beloved of ours.’

‘Well, to be fair, he’d have to be clever to be a match for us …’

Despite the intake of food and the show of bravado, or maybe because of it, the day was taking its toll on Deven. When they entered his triad’s sleeping quarters he took a quick look around and then a stumbling dive towards the bed. He was mostly asleep even before he hit the mattress.

He vaguely heard the murmurs of ‘beloved’ that were coming to mean home to him, and there was a warm blanket being tucked around him, and then he had happy dreams of flying and being in the arms of his beloveds.

His healing sleep was interrupted by a distressing dream and strong feelings of panic. He had a sense of being trapped somewhere, and he felt like he was fighting through a fog and unable to see any light. There was only pain and loneliness. Was he dreaming about what would have been his fate if he hadn’t escaped to be rescued by his two beloveds? Warm arms came around him and soft mouths murmured into his throat, and he finally managed a deep untroubled rest.

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