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“Very cool,” Bella mimicked.

She dropped the stuffed animal and skipped acrossthe room to yank a plastic sword from the toybox. She turned and swung it in awide arc before jabbing it at another stuffed animal sitting on the floor.

Was it weird that she had a toy sword? Ithought so. “Bella, where did you get that?”

“Papa give me,” she said. She jabbed it atthe stuffed animal again. “I fight like Papa and Uda fight.”

I frowned. Court had said they were farmers.I was sure of it.

Bella had returned and she plopped her tinybody into my lap. She was holding a children’s book and she opened it to themiddle. “Read, Evie girl.”

“Um…” The book was written in Draax. “Ican’t, Bella.”

“No read?” Bella pouted at me.

“She can’t read Draax, meena.”

I glanced up. Court was standing in the doorway.His lovely copper eyes dipped briefly to my chest, and for some reason, my stomachmuscles fluttered, and my nipples hardened. I looked away quickly as Bella jumpedout of my lap and ran across the room to Court.

“Uda, I hungry.” She grabbed his hands andswung her body back and forth.

“It is supper time, meena. Wash your handsand then go to the kitchen, please,” Court said.

Bella ran from the room and I stood up,acutely aware of how sore my back was from sitting on the floor.

“How do you feel?” Court asked.

“A little sore,” I admitted. “Would it beall right if I had some more gallberry juice?”

He nodded. “You do not need to ask. Justhelp yourself to it whenever you want.”

“Thank you,” I said.

Looking directly into his gaze made me feela little fuzzy in the head so I stared at his chest instead. Big mistake. Hisshirt was tight across it and brought back memories from this morning. I’dbeen too shocked to take a close look at his naked chest. Was it smooth andhairless like Bran’s? Did he have a six-pack?

My gaze wandered down to his stomach andthen to his crotch. He’d had an erection this morning. Both him and Bran. ThatI could remember. In fact, the way their dicks had pushed at their briefsseemed to be burned into my brain.

My face was flushing and the chill I wasalways feeling had disappeared. Now I was warm, much too warm, and I resistedthe urge to fan my face.

“Human?”

I tore my gaze from Court’s crotch andstared at his face. There was a look of – was that amusement and lust? – onhis face and I quickly looked away again as a fresh new blush covered my skin.I studied his hands instead. They were big and strong and callused. I knewthat because they’d been cupping my ass and playing with my nipple this morning.His hands were rough and hard and –

Evie, stop it!

I took a deep breath as Court cleared histhroat. “Will you eat dinner with us or in your room?”

“Oh, um, I’ll eat with you if that’s okay?”I still couldn’t look at him. I was suddenly afraid I might do something inappropriate…like hump his damn leg.

“Yes, we would like it if you joined us.”

There was silence and then Court said. “Wewill see you in the kitchen?”

I nodded. “Yes, I’ll be right down.”

I waited until his footsteps had faded beforeI walked from Bella’s room to my own. I checked my reflection in the bathroom mirror,groaning at how red my face was. My hard nipples were hidden by my thicksweater, thank God, but my pussy felt swollen and achy and my panties were definitelydamp.

What the hell was wrong with me?

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