Page 19 of Fever

“Which it?” I smirk.

“The food.”

“On the desk is fine.”

She hesitates. “Won’t that ruin the gate control?”

I frown. “No.”

“But I saw it pop up from the desk.”

“Those are maps, camps, cities, stuff like that.”

Leah puts the tray down, fidgets. A scent of fear reaches my sensitive nose. It’s coming from her. Strange. She’s not a fearful female, and she has no reason to fear me.

Leah cuts her seared steak, and I cut my raw one.

“What do you do?” she asks.

I tap my fork on the plate. She’s interested in me. This is good. “I’m the Guardian Alpha, like my father before me.”

“What are you guarding?”

“The gate. On Regha, Guardians guard the mountain pass to the Regha capital, a place with harsh winters. But here on Earth, we guard the space gate and train to endure the severe conditions of the energy fluxes inside the gate.”

Leah pauses. “I didn’t realize you have to endure things as you pass through the gate. I thought it was an instant passage. You walk in and come out on Regha.”

“The people who pass through get instant passage, but only because someone has ensured safe passage. There are frequencies and adjustments to be made, and when I go inside, I can endure the radiation or other conditions while adjusting the coordinates that keep the passage…instantaneous.”

“You operate the gate control, then?”

“One of them. There are two.” It’s nice to hear she’s interested in my work. She puts her utensils down, and I glance at her plate. “You barely ate. Inder reduces appetite. I would prefer if you drank coffee.”

“I like inder.”

“But you will also eat a full meal. Three of them a day.”

“Yes, Hordesman.”

So we’re back to Hordesman.

She waves a hand as if chasing away an annoying fly.

I’m the fucking fly, and that won’t do. I change the subject. “Is your heat cycle regular?”

She locks eyes with mine. Hers narrow. “While in the office, I would prefer if we talked business.”

“Everything about you is my business. I hope you realize that I will service you in your heat, and the next and the next, until I bond you and stuff you with at least two babies.”

“Gah, I can’t have a normal conversation with you. It’s like all you think about is where you’re gonna put your dick.”

“Inside your Omega pussy. A nice, warm, tight place, made even tighter because my dick is too big to fit in the first place.” Leah blushes. It’s pretty. I push on. “I think you recall my dick from the morning. I think you’re curious about how it feels inside you. I think you’ve slipped those little fingers between your folds more than once since you met me, dreaming about my knot. Knotting is reserved for when I bond you, but if you beg, I’ll give it to you.”

I stand and round the table, place my palms on either side of her, bending to whisper in her ear. Her arousal hits my nose.Mm-hm.I purr, low, steady, seductive. Leah clenches her fists.

“Baby girl, don’t be so hard on yourself. You want the knot. I want the pussy. What’s the problem?” I nuzzle her neck, purring, but I don’t touch her anywhere, even though I can smell her Omega pussy drenching her panties. “Are you wearing underwear?”

“Yes,” she says, breathless.

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