Page 13 of Mated in the Stars

“Not today, buddy,” I grunted, twisting to shove the pig through the door.

Liatris, always good for reading the room, slammed the door shut behind it. Given some time the pig would cool its heels and decide to go back home or at least somewhere a dragon with a bow wasn’t trying to shoot its balls off.

“Why in the name of bacon would you do that to a guy?” The newcomer dropped his bow and narrowed his eyes on me. “I’ve been tracking that fucker all day.”

“Looked like you lost that battle,” I crossed my arms, searching out why this guy was so fucking familiar.

He scratched at his chest with his free hand and all our eyes went there. He wasn’t my mate, but the vague outline of a star shape was coming up on his chest.

“What sort of parasite did you fuckers give me?” He glanced down and then around at our bare chests. “Where the fuck am I?”

“Starscale 1,” Selt said, finally letting Liatris come out from behind him.

“You’re the first to come through the new door. Looks like it’s your lucky day too,” Liatris nodded at him.

“He let my pig go!”

“F PIG!” Minter said.

“And why am I holding your baby?” he asked as Minter squirmed out of his arms.

“Brover,” Minter said and shot the guy a dirty look.

“It’s nice to meet you Brover but I’m not your---”

“Mom?” I blinked at him.

“What?” Selt laughed but I couldn’t look away.

This man smelled nothing like my carrier. Looked nothing like my carrier. Dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin. Nothing like my mother except the bright yellow star coming up on his chest. I bit my lip. Where the hell was I gonna keep Mom while Dad took care of Elio?

“At Sunny’s house?”Was my dragon’s only idea.

Chapter Seven

Nelum

“Mum?” I blinked at the dragon with the blue star on his chest. “Did you hit your head while wrestling my supper?”

“It’s a long story,” he sighed. “I shouldn’t have ---”

“Teddy?” The dragon with the red star on his chest said, cutting the other guy off.

“How about we all calm down,” the guy with the green star said, stepping between me and the one called Teddy. He kicked my bow and the fallen arrow away. I could stab him with any of my arrows or the dagger on my thigh just as easily as I could shoot him. So, I let him get away with it. This wasn’t the first world of weirdos I ran onto while hunting hogs. Probably wouldn’t be the last. Though, something about this particular world left its mark on me. The fucking star shaped parasite on my chest itched like a son-of-a-bitch.

“Is he who we think you’re talking about?” The green scaled guy with the extra scales making a line across his chest asked.

“Yeah, Xav. I think so,” Teddy nodded.

Teddy looked like a confused little boy. Somehow, I remembered what that man looked like as a confused little boy. I wasn’t going to feel my own forehead and give them the satisfaction of knowing their parasite worked on me and was giving me fevered hallucinations of him standing around with two other little kids, looking up at me like I might whip up a dinner every night or something.

“Who am I then?” I grunted.

“Do we even tell him?” the elf asked.

“Tell me what?” I asked, tired of them all talking about me as if I wasn’t standing right here.

If the elf hadn’t been an omega and the kid wasn’t with them, I’d have worried about other problems that might come up. Being alone with a handful of strange alphas didn’t always turn out to be a fun time. Though, unless “Mummy” was Teddy’s kink, none of them were looking at me that way. The guy with the red scale on his chest seemed to be mated to the omega. The last guy looked more as if he’d like to kick my ass than try to hit on me.

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