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Abu ate it like this!

The words swirled around in my brain and the panic slowly transformed into adoration.

Abu. Daddy.

I still couldn’t believe she was calling me that. In all my years on the other plane, I’d been so certain that I’d never hear it—especially in reference to myself. Just a year ago, if anyone had approached me and said that I was going to be sitting at a table with my mate and our daughter like areal family, I’d have assumed they were insane.

Now? Satisfaction filled my chest and when my mate and our daughter returned to the room, I couldn’t stop myself from marveling at the rightness of us sharing this meal together.

“I’ll eat slower, I promise,” I murmured to Tasia, worried that she wouldn’t want me to be around our Gruk-ir if I was a bad influence.

“Don’t worry about it,” she said with a little wink that almost stilled the heart in my chest. “She tries to get away with anything you let her.”

After that, she took my plate. “No, I—” I started, but she waved me off as Gabbi sat at her seat, eating again with her fork as if nothing had happened at all. Tasia returned with another plate filled with the orange gooey food for me.

I was too distracted by the sway of her curvy hips at first to realize what was happening but when she put it in front of me, I blinked at her.

“Are you sure?” I asked, and she nodded, her lips curling in a rueful smile.

“It’s the least I can do after you got us here and bought a bunch of food,” she told me, shaking her head. “I’m sorry we’ve been a burden.”

“You’renevera burden,” I insisted and she looked away, licking her lips before sending another small smile my way.

She tucked into her own meal while Gabbi hummed a little song to herself—that sounded very much like the theme song from the television show with the little blue dog—so I forked up another bite of the golden goodness, pacing myself so I didn’t scarf it down the same way a second time.

The ache that seemed to always be in my chest eased as we ate, the comfortable silence—that I’d only ever experienced with my brothers—only interrupted by Gabbi’s loud smacks that she giggled at with glee.

This is how it’s supposed to be. This is how I’ll keep it.

My lip curled at the thought of the only person that was capable of taking this away from me. My claws curled into my palms and my lip twitched with a sneer.

If that fucking male comes near them, I’ll tear him apart with my bare hands.

Chapter Sixteen

Tasia

The dip of someone on the bed was what brought me to awareness first. Kneeling on the bed. I reached out to him—instinctively knowing it was a male—but he didn’t touch my fingers. Instead, he yanked my hips closer. I gasped in shock, but my heels remained on his shoulders, exactly where he’dplaced them.

For some reason, I liked it—the tiny bit of roughness. Just the smallest hint of violence behind the movement. The breaking of steadfast control over his strength.

Enka.

He parted me with his thumb, my pussy glistening and slick for him.

“You’re so wet,” he murmured, his voice a low groan.

“Am I?” I gasped, never being one to get wet quickly. It was something I’d always thought was a problem with me. Maybe it was about who I was with, instead.

His deep growl sent a shiver through my entire body. My fingers clenched in the blankets around us. He was acting like he loved this—enthusiastically enjoying it—and he hadn’t even started.

My breath hitched, my thighs tightening around his ears. He rubbed his face all over my cunt, basking in my scent, and I tilted my pelvis to rub against his mouth.

“I want to do this every day for the rest of our lives,” he purred, and I wanted that too. More than I’d ever wanted anything.

I was so close. His thick tongue swiped through my pussy before delving deep. And that was when he gave my clit a hard suck. My back arched and I shuddered against him, my stomach contracting under his huge palm, where he was pinning me to the bed.

I released a plaintive breath. He looked up at me with those dark eyes, a playful smirk on his lips, running a tusk along my inner thigh and it was everything I could do to not grip them and drag him up my body.