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“Bonding with my mate has helped it a great deal and we think when the information is transferred to a completely unfamiliar person it will be passed more accurately. For now, when I do not understand a word right away my mate is very helpful and sends me images from your dictionary book.”
They had matching head cocks that time.
“Daddy?” Kenzie’s question was clearly about us but we had to be patient until they’d finished speaking privately or until his Daddy just figured it out on his own.
“Okay, I’ll ask this one.” The deputy frowned. “Full dictionary pages?”
Ah.
Um.
Yeah.
Daddy was very confused about what everyone else was confused about, so I knew it was my turn. “I have a photographic memory and when I was in middle school there was an issue. It wasn’t my fault but that asshole lost his front tooth, so I was grounded for a month and reading the dictionary was part of my punishment.”
For some reason my mother thought I could be bored into being better behaved…and straight…I couldn’t, but it’d come in handy for Daddy, though.
“Some people are just rude and don’t need all their teeth.” Kenzie shrugged and reached out to take my hand. As he pulled me out into the hallway, he smiled sweetly. “What other books have you read? What’s your opinion on human forms…are they crunchy or not?”
As I tried to decide which answer wouldn’t get me arrested by his mate, Daddy let us head out toward the cars and turned to the deputy. “I thought it was a skill my people here on Earth had developed.”
“Nope. That’s just a Wren thing.” The deputy sounded like he wasn’t sure if he could find the situation funny or not. He probably ran into that a lot, but I was just glad Daddy wasn’t considereda fucking alien. “I bet it’s been a big help, though.”
Maybe because Daddy Manny was too polite?
Was it a leadership thing?
A Daddy could keep his naughty side to himself thing?
Kenzie wasn’t the only one with questions, but manners probably meant his got to come first.
“So…has he told you what his mating customs are like? How do we get you married so his family accepts it? That’s always a thing in books. What about sex? Is that the same? Do we have all the same parts?” No, he got to go first because he never stopped talking. “I’m pretty sure the men at the diner are going to want to know if they have kinks too or is that just an Earth thing?”
That would be a good question they’d immediately want answers to…and we hadn’t really mentioned that in the meeting, so even eavesdropping wouldn’t have helped.
I couldn’t tell that to Kenzie, though, because he just kept going.
“Why does he look like us when we didn’t use to look like us? What does us look like before? Does he have any food allergies? Can he eat dairy?” Kenzie scrunched up his face but still kept going. “Daddy was going to make mac-n-cheese but now he’s worried about giving an alien a tummy ache.”
His mind was a busier place than mine.
That was amazing.
“Can we eat dinosaurs? I couldn’t decide if he meant they were all the size of chickens or if they tasted like chicken or if they were like really big chickens. The Florida guy was really excited, but he kept interrupting and that’s so rude.” Kenzie took a breath, but I wasn’t sure if that meant I was supposed to talk. “Oh, Daddy said I had to ask you if there’s anything your Daddy doesn’t like talking about. He wasn’t sure what an alien politician would consider private.”
Daddy was going to appreciate them at least thinking about privacy stuff.
“Does being a politician change that? I wasn’t sure and Daddy wasn’t any help. Politicians aren’t always his favorite people but aliens are different. I know that. You know that. We’re just going to help my Daddy with that.”
So Daddy Manny wasn’t a fucking alien but he was a fucking politician?
Chapter 20
Toman
“I do not know how to get to all the individual questions, my mate. The topics are too spread out. No. Diverse.”
Deputy Talon had made Kenzie slow down, but I could understand why he was excited. He was having dinner with an alien, so it was right out of a book according to Wren.
