Sign Here for Horns: A SciFi Alien RomCom (Vandalar Concubines Book 1) by V. K. Ludwig

Author:V. K. Ludwig [Ludwig, V. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-20T22:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Lilly

“Um…” I breathe, and Jax narrows his gaze, the tension between us palpable. Not the sizzling kind. More like the awkward kind where silence has the power to echo until your brain hurts.

I don’t want a boyfriend.

Really, I don’t.

And if I did — which I don’t — who says Jax even wants me? He doesn’t grow emotionally attached to females. Didn’t he say so himself twenty minutes ago?

“Lilly?”

Everything around me turns upside down. Shit, shit, shit. I need an answer. “My… saikh?”

He shrinks by a few inches, intense eyes narrowing on me. “Is that a question or a statement?”

I have no idea. “A statement?”

He stares at me way longer than is comfortable, face neutral, but eventually presses a long kiss onto my forehead. “You honor me.”

Am I? Because his posture is all wrong. Lips pressed tight, shoulders rounded, tail hanging limply behind him. Considering how badly he wanted to be my saikh, shouldn’t he be more energetic? If I didn’t know better, I’d say he’s… disappointed?

The romantic in me swoons over the thought. But the thirty-one-year-old, mature, rational divorcee says I’m probably overthinking this.

I read enough self-help books ever since Nick moved out — all uniformly suggesting I’ve got commitment issues — to know I’m trying to find excuses why this won’t work. But the one I have is rock solid.

All this cooking, cleaning, and edging me to orgasms? It’s too good to be true. Those are just the efforts of a saikh doing what he was trained to do, right?

“I will please you,” Jax says as if on cue. “And I’ll start by getting dinner ready.”

He walks off, tail claw dragging over the grass, taking nothing of that tension with him. Nope. It creeps into my body instead, manifesting itself as locked joints, and I can’t shake the feeling that things will get a lot more complicated from here.

Great. Emotional confusion.

Just what I need.

I force my feet to carry me back to the patio, where I grab the two glasses and the bottle, my mind racing. Between a boyfriend and a saikh, the latter is the better choice, isn’t it? At least then I know what I’m getting: the pretty illusion of a picture-perfect relationship.

For as long as he can keep it up…

Inside, Jax cuts fresh cherry tomatoes into a bowl of salad. “How hungry are you?”

“Not at all, to be honest. That out there kinda spoiled my appetite.” And I would be surprised if it didn’t spoil his. “I’m truly sorry this happened.”

Jax tosses the knife aside, grabs my waist so quickly I can’t dodge it, and lifts me to sit on the counter. “Just remove the ad before more females show up and try to get a sneak peek of my penis.”

“Gosh,” I groan and sink my face into my palms. “I can’t believe she did that. You have no idea how terrible I feel about this incident.”

He tugs my hands off my face, a new kind of appetite flaring in his eyes. “How are you planning to make up for it, mej liku?”

Sudden warmth spreads through my core.

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