Page 17 of Culture and Curiosities
People aspects indeed.
“Our government has kept the news quiet until more information was gathered, but this will bring joy beyond measure, my mate.”
Just as finding my mate had brought me.
My mate.
Chapter 5
Wren
That was so…
Not knowing what to say was so weird it cleared some of the emotion running through me and I wrapped my arms around my mate.
My mate…hmm…
“Daddy?”
He stroked my back, making a soft hum that sounded like something he’d practiced. “Yes, my mate?”
“What’s your name? I’m going to call you Daddy most of the time but I need to know your actual name to be able to introduce you to people when we get to that point.” I needed to figure out when that point was, but somewhere between after we’d fully mated and before that Canadian lady dragged us through the portal seemed like a good plan.
From what I’d heard she was a force of nature and the diner men were still deciding if there should be a Team Bulldozer. I couldn’t decide if I was excited to meet her or was just going to hide because she’d be too much to deal with.
“Oh.” He was still and nearly silent as he thought and forgot to pretend to look human, going so quiet it was almost likeseeing a predator in the woods. “You are right. I did not make introductions.”
Before I could tell him that was alright, he huffed. “The locals skip that step as well unless they are gathering information.”
Giggling, I nodded against him and gave himattention mewiggles. “They’re pushy and nosy and I love it. They’re so funny.”
I could hear the smile in his voice as he went back to stroking his hands over me and nuzzled the side of my head like he was supposed to. “They have been unexpected. Klynn does not appreciate them.”
Daddy’s friend sounded a bit like Pierce and I couldn’t wait to meet him to get to be nosy too.
“I am called Toman. My name is Toman. Yes. That is better.” His grumbles as he got the wording right had me trying not to laugh. “I came with a small party through the portal. However, our third member went back through again to share our first information.”
“You’ve got a wonderful name, Daddy.” Toman. Toe-Man. My man. My Daddy man. My Daddy Manny. “That’s close enough to a human-sounding name that we won’t confuse the diner men.”
They had enough on their plates figuring out kinks and age play, so we didn’t need to add anything else.
“They appear easily confused.” Daddy was so funny but the best part was how serious he was. “I am glad my name will be easy to say, however. I did not expect the names your people took to have changed so much.”
Oh.
“Um, well, there were locals that I’m told our people spent a lot of time with but the next wave of outsiders who moved here after us were Scottish.” Hmm. “From a land across the Atlantic Ocean called Scotland. We took a lot of their names after we mated and married them and started having kids.”
And it’d just stuck.
“There is much information to exchange.” Daddy Manny sounded thoughtful and like the list was adding up in his head, but nothing I could feel from him said he was worried about it. “Where would you like to start our discovery, my mate?”
When I giggled, he made a cute thinking sound he must’ve heard at the diner. “I should have been able to guess your response.”
Shrugging, I kissed his cheek before snuggling against him again. “Building our bond, Daddy. That’s very important too. With a stronger bond you’ll have a better understanding of everything Earthy.”
Making sure to wiggle against him so he could feel just what kind of bonding I meant got a little moan from him. Daddy Manny might not give off a lot of emotions and expressions, but bodies were still bodies. “We should also explore to make sure we’re compatible. There’s only one way to figure that out.”
Oh well.
