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It took a few seconds for Vic to drag her eyes away from his cocky smile to focus on what he’d just said.“How can you be so sure?”she asked skeptically.“Do you aliens all have super sperm or something?”
“The Knights of Order have never procreated before,” he told her.“We’ve been very careful not to create any cambions of our own after seeing the offspring of our enemies running amok.”
“I’ll run amok on you if you don’t get to the fudging point,” she grumbled.
Cam chuckled, then explained further.“We can tell when females are fertile,” he said in a casual tone.
“You can dowhatnow?”she asked, halting in her tracks.
“We can sense when you’re ready to have a child,” he repeated.
Vic felt her face go red from anger and embarrassment.“So, that’s why you’ve been pestering me to bond with you,” she said accusingly.“You want to make me your concubine and knock me up so you can increase the size of your army.”
“What?”the knight asked in total confusion.“That’s not what I said,” he denied.
Victoria snatched the hotplate and propane bottles from him, absolutely livid at being played.“I can read between the lines,” she said and strode off.“Don’t follow me!”she snarled.
“I’ve got some rope for you to use as your clothesline,” Cam said to her back.“If you still want it,” he added dejectedly.
Turning to face him, she felt bad for her outburst when she saw his crushed expression.“How can you be billions of years old and have no clue how to deal with women?”she asked, genuinely interested in his answer.
“I’ve never talked to females much before,” he said sheepishly, taking a coil of thin rope out of his jacket.“Usually, they just need to look at me and I can coax them into bed.”
Victoria struggled with herself, hating it that she’d obviously jumped to the wrong conclusion.“Come on,” she ordered with a scowl.“You can hang the line in the cabin, but then you’ll need to leave.”
“Yes, mate,” he said submissively, hurrying to reach her side.
“Don’t speak to me,” she said, increasing her pace.He bobbed his head agreeably, back to being cheerful again.
Chapter Thirty-One
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CAMRIEL WAS CERTAINhe’d blown it again when he told Victoria he knew she was fertile.Females had always been easy conquests in the past.His mate was very different from them.It would take effort to sway her to bond with him.He knew he was up for the challenge, but he couldn’t deny that being rejected over and over hurt.
Her mood changes made his mind spin and he never knew how she was going to react to the things he said.At least she was allowing him to enter her cabin.Neither he, nor Amaros, had spied the small dwelling while they’d hunted.It was well concealed among the trees.
