Page 25 of Argen Mate
“You’re my family, now, too. What you want is important to me too.”
“Well, if my Mom and that brother and sister were missing, I would want to go help find them if other people were going to look for them. So, I say we don’t decide anything until we know if that’s going to happen.”
“That sounds like a good idea,” he agreed with a tender smile. “But when we settle down, I want to be home in bed with you every night. That will be excitement enough for me.” Then he gave me his sexy smirk.
We were both tired, but not so tired as I thought as my body responded to that glint in his eyes.
Our lovemaking that night was slow and tender and sensually satisfying. We held each other for a long time after we had reached our release.
As tired as we were, sleep didn’t come for a long time.
There was still a lot to do with over ten-thousand people to be settled on Farseek. Thousands of homes in five communities had been rebuilt in the three years since the attacks on Farseek. There were enough homes for the people that were returning, but not all had their homes replaced on the properties where they once lived. While they were on the journey to Farseek, the ship AI matched up people to the homes available. Most people were just glad to be going back to where they used to live where they would be free. Some were upset that their new homes were not where they used to be.
So, I told a few people about my experience being taken from Earth then rescued by Commander Maktu and his teams. Then we discovered they had never heard of Earth and had no idea where it was.
“We had a good cry when it looked like we were never going home. But we had a lot to be thankful for,” I told one woman. “We slept on the conference room floor for the first month.”
“They had nowhere else to put you?” the woman said.
“They didn’t. That’s before we got this lovely ship. All they had were the Dreads when they started their rescue mission,” I said. “It may not be the house you had in the place you used to live, but you are going back to your home world a free woman.”
“You’re right, I should be thankful for what I have,” she said.
“You said you wanted to live Nisaktu?” I asked.
“Yes, and this house is in Wasaytu.”
“Okay, then, I will put that request into the AI terminal so that we might find someone who wants to trade with you.”
“Thank you, Zoey,” she said with a smile.
It was good to keep busy because I missed Argen terribly when I had nothing to do. My friends included me at meals which was sweet of them, but sometimes it was worse, sitting with them with their mates at their sides without Argen at mine.
I missed him so much. He just had to be all right. He had to.
