Page 33 of Free Beast Mate

“Emma,” I commanded.

Nope.

“Answer me,” I ordered.

She lifted her middle finger.

“You’re upset,” I said.

“You should become a detective.”

Smartass. I bit back a response and plunged on. “I have something to show you. Can you turn around?”

“No.”

“You will stay staring at the wall for…eternity?”

“No, I will get up to pee and shower.”

“And eat?”

“That too.”

A smile tugged on my lips. “I sleep in that bed, you know.”

She scooted away and plastered her body to the wall. Was it an invitation? My dick thought so. I knew it was. Emma was eager to mate, had rushed in here thinking I was with someone else. It sure seemed as if she possessed a mating instinct, something human women couldn’t possibly have. Evidence showed humans didn’t mate as we did. They didn’t have urges; they had their feelings or twisted moral obligations binding them into fragile unions they called marriages but they didn’t have mating.

Emma was different, it seemed. Lucky me. I hadn’t known a single beast who didn’t pursue their mate with might. Not a single one had been forced to reject their mate. I had to be the first. Must’ve wronged the Beast Mother somewhere on my journey. I wondered if it was because I’d betrayed my father. I wondered if it were at all possible She had punished me for refusing his request to stay on Tineya. He’d asked me to take over, carry on his name. I refused. Jamie was the oldest. It was his place, not mine. Not to mention, Jamie was the strongest beast, unbeatable in a challenge, which was one of the reasons we gave Jamie the title of the Alpha Beast, Alpha of all the beasts, not just Alpha Jamie.

I nudged her hip.

“Don’t touch me.”

“If you turn around, I won’t have to.”

Emma lay on her back. “What is it?”

Her braid tickled my thigh, and I reached for it. She slapped my hand. So sweet and yet so determined to defy me. The more she defied me, the more I wanted to spank her. Did she want me to spank her? I groaned. This would not go well for me. I’d have to go inside the cube during her heat. There was no way I could resist Emma’s virgin pussy call.

“Yes?” she asked.

Right. Why was I here again? Ah. “What is this?” I lifted a circular disc.

“A vacuum for the floor.”

“Mm-hm. And where did you get this?”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. Tom gave it to me. It only works in your quarters.”

“Okay, two things, babe. One, this vacuum is old, made on Tineya. Our cleaning staff used it back in the day. Two, these aren’t my quarters.”

“One, I don’t know anything about where it came from,” she lied. “Two, you live here, so these are your quarters.”

“You know where it came from. This is my cage.”

“Ha! A cage.” Emma sat up. “Would you like to trade places? I live in a two-by-two. We all live in two-by-twos. Except for you, Amoris, because you’re special. And spoiled. I bet you don’t even know how the thing in your hand works.”

I narrowed my eyes, then pressed some buttons on the thing, commanding it. “How did you figure out the Tineyan commands?”

“The vacuum came with a manual. In English.”

Oh dear Mother, how I wanted to spank her. “Really?”

“Not really. I figured it out. It has three buttons. It’s not that hard.”

I slid the thing off my lap. It clunked on the floor and began its business of vacuuming. I stayed on the bed, thinking. I hadn’t left my cage in over three years. They’d captured me, and I awoke in here. Took me a year to accept my situation, the one I couldn’t change. I’d die in this shithole. And this poor girl would die with me. How could she not understand why I didn’t want her in here? I wanted more for her, more than I could ever give.

“Emma, would you tell me about your two-by-two?”

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