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His mother sighed and started walking.
“Fine, fine, mustn’t break protocol.”
“Yes, protocol,” Cocak said, nodding his head.
Chapter 25
Val
Nothing in the world could be much more embarrassing than waking up, stark naked and having your new mother-in-law wanting to meet you for the first time, especially if you are covered in sweat from the night before when her son had pounded the fuck out of you repeatedly.
Devin, for his part, seemed as surprised as she was that his mother had shown up randomly, and he did escort his mother downstairs as fast as he could. Val jumped out of bed and into the shower, still red with her shame and embarrassment. She replicated a clean outfit and then sheets. There was no way she’d get caught on a sheetless bed again with nowhere to hide from someone who had a direct eye shot from the elevator to their bedroom. That might be a design flaw that she’d have to bring up with Devin. An open floor plan was one thing, but getting caught in the buff was something else.
The com beeped. Val smoothed down her hair and ran her hands over the little sundress that she’d pulled fresh from the replicator. It was simple, but she didn’t want to take the time to program anything else more complicated. She answered the call. The whole wall illuminated with the screen. Meadow’s face was huge. She looked around furtively.
“She’s not here,” Val said.
“I am so sorry,” Meadow gushed out. “We were all napping when she arrived. And Kave? The idiot just sent her straight up!”
“I was naked.”
“Oh, God. At least you two weren’t doing it? I mean that, that would have been-”
“Can we please change the subject?”
“Yes, right. Is that a waterfall? Your place is gorgeous! Do you think he can add a waterfall to my place?”
That was not exactly the type of conversation pivot that Val wanted. Asking Devin to change any of his designs would not be good for their tenuous relationship.
“Do you have any details about Devin’s mother? Why she’s here?”
Meadow shook her giant head. Val was going to have to figure out how to change the settings on the wall-o-vision. She’d never had enough money to afford places with fancy screens or AIs. Talking to Meadow’s six foot tall head was disconcerting.
“Other than the fact that she must have some serious clout to get a transport here? I mean there are so few people out this way. Part of that is on purpose. It’s super safe. I mean who wants to invade a planet like... except the Suhlik did a few months ago, but that was an isolated incident.”
“Okay,” Val said. That told her nothing about her mother-in-law, except that she was determined and possibly rich.
“Can you dig a bit deeper for me?”
“Me? Deeper is my middle name… wait that could be taken the wrong way. Forget I said that. I was a librarian, you know!”
Meadow’s face clicked off the screen and the wall once again faded into its original color.
“Thanks,” Val said to an empty room. She got into the lift and headed down to the courtyard. Val tried not to think about the other piece to Meadow’s comments. The Suhlik had beenhere? She’d seen illustrations and vids of the shiny golden death lizards, but it hadn’t occurred to her when she landed that they were something to worry about here. They had said Jane had killed several, but Val had assumed that was when Jane was a soldier in the service. Val filed the information into the things she planned to ask the ladies about when they had some more down time.
In the far corner of the courtyard, she could see Devin walking away with his mother and a very black man. Not human black, but inky black. Even his clothes that he wore were dark, but not as dark as his skin. If she hurried, she could catch up with them. But then she’d be out of breath, and sticky and sweaty. No, this required a slow walk, letting them make their way to the base camp. Hopefully she would be able to give Meadow the time to dig up some information on her mother-in-law. Any information to help her bond from the beginning would be awesome. She’d yet to figure out Devin, but hopefully his mother could provide insights. She seemed ready to talk, if anything. Most of what Val had caught seemed to indicate he’d already listed a lot of her faults.
Did he really think she was that ugly?
Val shook off that thought as she crossed the pavilion. Last night had proved that even if he thought she was hideous, it had no effect on his ability to harden his cock and fill her multiple times.
Val had not gotten a close look at her new mother-in-law, and other than the fact that she was the color of a banana, Val could not say whether she was ugly or beautiful or somewhere in between. She’d been too busy hiding.
By the time she crossed to the path back to the camp, she could see that the three of them had settled at the mess tables, and Goru had come out to meet them. Perhaps she could sneak around them unnoticed and go directly to Meadow. As she drewcloser, Devin lifted his head up and made eye contact. The others followed his gaze, and she gave up all hopes of sneaking. They all knew she was there now.
Meadow came waddling over at high speed just as Val got to the table.
“Well?” Devin’s mother glared at him.
