NovelEnglish“Eat this now,” Evan demanded pressing food to my lips.
I took the meat and chewed as Damien continued to talk. “The females know what their female breeders know when they are born. They also know what their male breeders know, but the bond is tenuous. The women found when the human slaves carried a female of our species, the slaves temporarily bonded to the male breeder. It is how the young female learns.”
“We were unaware,” Christof said. “Nu-reeh told us you must have had a very strong female to have bonded to us while we were in the mountains and you were in the compound. Our Mistress believes your child will be worthy of her kind, such strength should not be wasted.”
I was too tired to worry about it. My men fedand putin the bed next to Hannah. She was so lovely. I cooed and watched her as she rested.
“What is ‘Hannah’?” Christof askedquietly.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“It was my mother’s name,” I told him. “On my world it also meant Favored by God.”
“That should be acceptable to Nu-reeh,” Christof told me. “She wanted to make sure you gave the child a strong name.”
It stung that Nu-reeh had the power to nmy child. I vowed that even if she changed the nI would always think of my little girl as Hannah.
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Kein pulled a blanket overand Bane lay down beside me.
“It is still early in the day, but Nu-reeh said you should rest,” Evan said sounding disgruntled.
“Go,” I smiled pushing at Bane, “I have rested alone before. There are better things to do rather than lay in bed all day.”
Evan would be made insane if he had to stay cooped up in this room.
“I think I will stay,” Bane sighed putting his head back on his folded …
The other men toldto rest and went quietly into the main room after closing the thick leather flap between the two rooms.
“She told you to watch me, didn’t she?” I asked Bane.
“Sleep, Ciara,” he ordered.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmI turned to Look at him and he Looked back at me.
“Go to sleep,” he repeated.
I stayed quiet but watched him. He wasn’t closing his eyes and he didn’t look like a man trying to take a nap.
“Yes,” he finally sighed.
“Nu-reeh wants us to watch you today. She said you would be weak. We are to provide what you need. Now rest or she will be angry.”
Feeling safe and protected, I did as he ordered.
I slept soundly until Hannah decided it was tto eat. She probably alerted everyone in the cave system with her screeching. I was so surprised by the sound I stumbled out of bed thinking it was an alarm in the compound.
Standing confused and bleary in the middle of the room, I just couldn’t get my bearing fast enough.
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