The Hunter's Mate by Susan Trombley

Author:Susan Trombley [Trombley, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Hunter heard her voice echoing through the tunnel the Inu’A had shown him when his antennae had told him her trail led this way. To them, the place was one of worship, but of a kind far different from the temple where they embalmed the dead. This place was about life and the pursuit of it—the creation of it. A place they told him was watched over by the gods of fertility, Adrak’So and Gria’So.

The names were not in their language, but were from an even older language loaded into Hunter’s translator, and they translated into the equivalent of the word “zookeeper” and “assistant zookeeper.”

Hunter figured he wouldn’t enlighten the Inu’A about their “gods,” seeing no point in ruining the happiness this place he was now descending into gave them. When he left the tunnel, his ears were focused on Tarin, whose voice rose and echoed and bounced around the huge cavern. His eyes were drawn by the imposing statues that flanked the artificial waterfall that continuously fell into a large pool between the bases of the statues.

On a ledge that slightly overhung the pool, Tarin sat with her legs crossed, her head tilted as if she were addressing the feminine statue.

Her voice had led him down into these depths, but he only now heard her words as he approached her, struggling to find the right words to say to her that would convince her he’d never hurt her, and that he would do whatever she asked him to, to prove that she could trust him forever. He would remain by her side for all eternity, and never once would he look at another female with that kind of interest. Never once had he looked at another female with any kind of interest that wasn’t professional. Bakt’s hands scrubbing his skin because he was too much in a hurry to learn the ins and outs of grooming this new body had been impersonal and clinical, but even if they had lingered too long in any particular place, they would have done nothing to arouse him.

Only Tarin could arouse him, and he already felt his sex hardening simply because she was near and her pheromones were strong and blissful on his receptors. At least the Inu’A had brought him a wraparound skirt to wear to cover his sex, because it felt so vulnerable and exposed, dangling outside his body the way it did. He now understood why creatures like humans and the Inu’A and even the Iriduans bothered with clothing. They needed it to protect the fragile bits that they’d been cursed to have hanging on the outside of their body.

This made him wonder what Tarin’s sex looked like. He hoped she had some kind of cloacal opening if they were to mate, and didn’t need to be pierced by an aedeagus, which was sometimes the case when a queen had shelled for her own protection while still a virgin. His new organ was not sharp enough to pierce a

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