NovelEnglishI smiled at my friend. His acceptance of this seemed to be calming the rest of them.
“I still don’t Like it,” Damien growled sitting at the edge of the bath and watching us.
Christof agreed with him and I crawled out to sit on Damien’s lap and hold him close.
“Nobody has ever taken care ofthe way you all do,” I told him stroking his face.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtDamien relaxed and smiled slightly. He liked that, I could tell. It made him calm a tiny bit more.
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“We still need to feed you,” he said dryingwith a towel. Being treated like ssort of invalid had been irritating. I stopped
Damien and reiterated the idea that I was well. They just had to stop or it would makeinsane.
“On Earth,” I insisted, “humans would actually go places where they weren’t fed well and they were forced to work hard to lose weight. I’m sure if it continued I’d get injured, but right now I’m fine.”
Damien did not like to repeat himself. His face becslightly irritated as he spoke.
“I said we believe you are well. We will watch you, though, Sister. If you start to becill, we will do something about it.”
Smiling up at him, I placed a kiss on his chin. I’d never doubted they would care forfor a moment.
I had a snack before we headed back to the compound, dried and preserved worms. When I was pregnant and bonded the flavor had been wonderful. Now without my men’s opinions influencing me, I choked them down as quickly as possible, much to everyone’s amusement.
“Please,” I begged earnestly, “I won’t refuse them, but please find something else forto eat. If I have to eat worms all the time…They are just so nasty,” I finished pleadingly.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“We could help you,” Kein said with a teasing glint in his eye.
I threw my hands up and begged. The Last twe’d done that, it was just awful.
“Oh, no, I said I wouldn’t refuse them. It was only a question if there was something else I could eat.”
“We will find something you like,” Christof promised with a grin.
We made the trip back to the compound withwrapped Like a mummy. The men had used blankets from the bed to wraptightly head to toe. The fabric keptwarm and hidden from prying eyes. While we were still in the wild Land between the mountains and the compound, my face was left uncovered.
I Looked longingly back at the mountains and imagined Hannah Looking at me. She was out there somewhere, I knew she was. Tears slipped down my face as I realized how long it would be before I saw her again, if ever.
The transport slowed to a stop and Christof pulledto face him.
“Why do you make tears?” he asked.
“Hannah,” I told him simply, “I will miss her terribly. She is out there and I will never again be as close to her as I am right now.”
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