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“Is she going to be upset?” I ask, not wanting to step on any toes if Kendra happens to have a harem of demons that she doesn’t want me interfering with.

“Oh, no,” Deja gives me a wild look like she can’t wait to be doing what we’re doing. “She’s going to love this.”

“Okay, fine.” I relent and let Deja pull me through the great hall. “I make no promises on sleeping with any of them, though. I don’t even know if I want to.”

What I really want is for my hot demon mate to have any interest in me at all because I think he and his other mate are pretty cute. Too bad I haven’t seen either of them since they left me in Deja’s care the first day. They said they were working on getting the house up and running, but I thought they’d at least be here for meals or that I’d see them in passing.

“No, we aren’t doing anything like that tonight,” Deja says as she guides me into the dining hall. “We need to clear it with Olivia and her mate, the tribe leader. Not that they need to know your sex life, but they’ll want to know if we’re playing around with the unmated males so they know what’s happening. No need for the big guy to punish his brothers if nothing bad is happening.”

“Oh, joy.” I roll my eyes, still allowing her to drag me right over to the demon the doctor was talking with the first day about bringing more women to the tribe.

The doctor told me his plan involved bringing more women here but told me when the time came, he’d explain all of that to the demons. I’m really crossing my fingers he does that soon because I have a feeling everyone is going to want to know what that’s about.

“Dath’s mate and Beren’s mate,” the demon at the head of one of the tables says in greeting. Olivia, his mate, is fast asleep in his lap, her head nuzzled into his chest, legs kicked up on the arm of the chair. I knew it was getting late, but I didn’t realize it was so late that there would be women passed out in their mates’ laps.

Deja doesn’t even seem phased by it. She just pulls up a chair in front of him and sits down, pulling me right alongside her. “We’re hoping to ask you if Nia can play around with the brothers like Kendra does.”

“My mate will have competition?” Erkoz pokes his head around my chair, his wide eyes seeming even wider as a smile splits his lips. I don’t even know when he came so close to us or that he was even in the dining hall. Somehow, he always seems to know the perfect time to be in places where he isn’t needed.

“Go away.” Deja shoos him away with her hand, but he only leaves for a second before grabbing a chair, pulling it over to Olivia’s side of the table, and sitting down. His eyes track between Deja and me and the other demon, waiting for us to talk.

“Pretend Erkoz is not here,” he says with a wicked gleam in his eyes. “I am only listening so I can help in all your mischief.”

“Fine, but only because you’ll probably be useful in this endeavor,” Deja says.

“Yes, yes, very useful, the most useful male.” Erkoz nods in agreement. Then he sits back in his chair, arms crossed over his chest, and waits for Deja to get the okay from Ralleth to allow me to find a demon mistress or mister? Whatever the male form of side piece is.

When she finishes explaining my predicament, Ralleth tells me I am free to entertain whichever brothers I want so long as they aren’t mated and my advances aren’t rejected. The idea of that has my cheeks burning in embarrassment, but Deja doesn’t let me feel it for very long before pulling me to another table and pointing out the eligible demons that I’m going to try to flirt with tomorrow.

Erkoz watches us for a while before his amusement seems to fade. I almost go ask him why he seems upset, but then he’s slipping out of the great hall, leaving Deja and me to our planning.

6

Lyath

“You enjoy cock, right?” Erkoz’s voice startles me as I make up the bed in the bedroom Beren and I have been preparing for Nia. It would please us greatly to have Nia stay in our bed, but she is still growing accustomed to our world.

“Does Beren know you are here?” I ask, leaning against the far wall and crossing my arms over my chest. I know my mate, and he would not appreciate anyone asking me the kinds of questions Erkoz seems to want to ask me tonight.

“He saw me come inside. I doubt he knew I was going to ask about your enjoyment of cock, though.” Erkoz shrugs. “I figure you are the one to ask because he may only get angry at me if I were to ask him.”

“I do enjoy cock,” I snort as I answer. “I would not be mated to a male if I did not.”

“So you do not enjoy what is between a female’s legs?” Erkoz asks, taking a step toward me that has me frowning.

Erkoz has never shown any interest in a male before, but maybe being mated to a female that he shares with another has him curious about things. I will not be the male he is curious with. Oh, most definitely not.

“Does your mate know you are here?” I tilt my head to the side and raise one hand. “I am flattered, but I am not interested in you.”

“What?” Erkoz’s eyes go wide, but then his smile spreads even wider. “You think I want to make love with you?”

I motion at him, intruding into one of my bedrooms, asking me about my enjoyment of cock, and his need to continue to step closer to me until I had him stop. There is no other way to interpret his actions, and he seems to understand why I am questioning him.

“No,” he laughs and raises his hands. “I do not wish to be sealed, and Kendra would murder me if it were not Xoth who I tried with. She has asked many times, but we are hesitant.”

“Hesitant because of?”

“For reasons that are irrelevant to our current conversation,” Erkoz says, his laugh still in his voice.

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