Page 16 of My Monster, My Choice

“Hmm. What do you have to offer, my gambling Adroki?”

Such words shouldn’t make such a longing roll through me. But she called me hers. I would offer this female the world on a platter.

“I might agree to anything you wish for an entire night. I’d be at your beck and call.”

She narrows her eyes. “That sounds interesting. I can command you at will?”

My tentacle, brushing up the bare skin of her arm where I fling it across the back of her chair, tastes the pheromones that erupt in a sweet burst from her skin.

Sudden, heady arousal.

“Anything,” I say, emphasizing the word so she understands of what I speak. Then I lean closer to her, my words for her ears alone. “You may command me to use my mouth. My tongue. My tentacles, in any way that you wish. I would worship you, Christina. If you would let me.”

“It doesn’t seem fair that I would just command you to do my bidding, though,” she says, her tongue darting out to wet her luscious lips.

“If I win the wager, I won’t throw away the chance to command you to do wicked, dirty things to me.”

She grins. “Game on, Adroki. I almost feel bad for you. It’s like taking candy from a baby.”

But, oh, Christina. Do you not see that it’s me who wins?

I reach up and brush a lock of hair, tucking it behind her strange human appendage that she listens from. The ear. Hers is delicate and furled like a flower. She wears the lobes pierced and tiny pieces of glass adorn the studs.

I shall offer her diamonds. I shall steal a pair of this strange jewelry, affix the largest diamonds I own, and replace them in her drawers. The diamonds will be so big, they will cover her lobes. They will draw attention to the beauty of her face.

They will mark my need to possess her.

I lower my head to hers and my thumb brushes the slender line of her jaw as I cup her neck. I angle our heads to where our mouths meet and lock.

A small sigh of contentment erupts from her. I part her lips, tasting her, stroking against her tongue with my own. She’s just as eager and the knowledge makes my cock harden beneath mynevra, the plate that covers it. She will be an exciting partner in bed. There is no pretense with Christina. No confusion. No misplaced guilt.

She is a female in charge of her own life. Not a victim, no matter how hard President Montgomery tries to lock her under his thumb.

With me in her corner, he may as well give up.

“Woohoo!” Kenny yells. “My momma isa kissing Elex!” I grin against her mouth before pulling away and we turn our heads toward him just in time to see him make strange arm movements, wiggling his fingers as he spells out. “K. I. S. S. Spells kiss!”

When my gaze averts to Christina, I find her looking at me. There are snickers all around us, and even a few clap as Kenny takes a bow like a seasoned performer. There is no embarrassment in her gaze, no regret, nothing I would expect from a human female.

“I win, Adroki. Did you see the arm movements?Thatwas a cheer.”

I blink. Aggressive female. Much more of a turn-on than that should be.

She leans in and deposits a small kiss to my lips. “I shall take it easy on you.”

“Oh, make me suffer,” I growl.

“Okay, we’re about ready to make contact,” Mikhail says and Kenny scrambles to find a seat.

I snag him with a tentacle and pull him onto my lap. This is the life, my boy on my lap and my mate against my side, the knowledge that we will come together in her bed tonight on both of our minds.

I also notice that Christina has been distracted from the worry she showed over her daughter being carted away from her so quickly. She hadn’t seen herkishin six planet rotations and had just a few brief minutes with her, enough to witness Tera’s anger with being tricked into mating Relion. While the rest of us knew the love between the two of them is real, Christina did not. In addition to that, she has amaman’snatural worry for her ownkish,no matter the age.

But as soon as Mikhail’s business is finished and he brings Tera and Relion to the hologram, I can feel Christina relax. It’s obvious that Tera and Relion have made up and are again full bloom in love with each other. His tentacles wrap around her the way they always did before and both are smiling, despite the tears that roll down her cheeks as she sees hermamanandkishlingsafe and sound in Eden with the rest of us.

Even though I do not need to make the promise, I still vow right there and then to always keep these two safe. I pull them to me as they leave the hologram space and wrap them in the comfort of my tentacles too.

I don’t even mind the knowing grins from the other dancers and Britonians. The entire group is nosy.

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