Of Another Dimension (17 page)

A guarded look entered my sweet mate’s eyes and he gave me a wan smile.

“There won’t be any babies for us. I can’t have any.”

“Hey, that’s okay. I mean, I knew it might not be possible between two different...”

“Ah, no, you don’t understand
, baby. What I’m trying to say is that
I
can’t give you babies. Just me.”

“Have you
ever tried?”

He flushed blue.

“You’re the only female I’ve ever been with, but no. I
know
I can’t.”

He'd been a virgin?
I was his first…

A f
lash of warmth filled me at the thought.

“I was your first?” I asked
, wide eyed, wrapping my arms around him.

He nodded and seemed puzzled that I was so pleased by this.

“You don’t think less of me for it?” he asked quietly, eyeing me uncertainly.

“Why would I think less of you? You gave me something special. A gift you can only give away once. I was your
first
.”

“I never thought about it
that way,” he said thoughtfully. “On Sodrad, a female picks a mate based on his sexual prowess and the more bed partners, and or sex he has, the bigger his horns will grow.”

I let out a tinkling laugh and snorted.

“So… you’re saying your brothers are manwhores?” I snorted on a laugh, thinking about his brother’s big horns.

“Yes, I guess I am.” He chuckled and
gave me a heart stopping smile.

“I love when you smile,” I told him honestly, kissing
the tip of his nose.

He captured my lips with his and hugged me tight.

“Thank you,” he murmured reverently against my lips, running his fingers through my hair.

“For what?” I inquired, raising my brows in question.

For sayin' he has a nice smile?

“For loving
me
for
me
. Making it okay to be
me
,” he murmured softly and carefully touched our foreheads together, letting out a deep breath as he closed his eyes.

“There’s something you’ll need to know with Teila here. It’s bound to come up and I don’t want you to be blindsided.”

“Okay,” I said slowly and ran my hands lovingly up and down his arms.

“On Sodrad
, anything that isn’t
normal
is perceived as an abomination.”

My stomach dropped at his announcement and I could already see where this was headed.

“My mother took one look at me and told my father to kill me,” he admitted and my eyes widened, alarmed.

“Father refused and took care of me himself. He had to hire females to breast feed me
, since Mother refused to even look at me, and he just made sure no one saw my uh... deformity. When I was seven, my mother took me to a medical center and since they wouldn’t euthanize me, she had them sterilize me instead. They’d never done it before. It isn’t something that’s practiced on Sodrad. They voiced all this, and how they worried about how it would affect someone my age, the complications they might have with someone with my
difference
, not knowing what it would do to me. She didn’t care. Father came home early and found out what had happened.
Everything.
He took us and left Mother. I haven’t seen her since.”

I was going to say something, but he stopped me.

“There’s more…”

More?
I wanted to shout.
There’s more?

I kept quiet and let him talk
, worried about what more there was to tell.

“
I met a female named Siva and grew to care for her. She said I held her heart and that she wanted to mate with me. I thought she meant it and admitted to my uh... problem, but she didn’t believe me. I think she thought it was a joke. She reached into my pants and felt both of my cocks. She freaked out and left me, spitting venom at me the whole way.”

“That bitch!” I hissed and wanted to go hunt her ass down right this minute.

He laughed and nuzzled my temple.

“Within a few weeks, word had spread and everyone knew about ‘Kieve
, the deformed Sodraden’. People shunned me and a few even cursed me openly in the middle of the street. Teivel and Sieren left with me when I received a notice to leave Sodrad or I would be deported to the Morclen star system. For all of their refined technology, the Morclen are not a species you want to have to live with, near, or by. We came here.”

A small silence ensued as I tried to let it all sink in, the little wheels in my head spinning.

“That’s terrible. Do you miss it, though? Sodrad?”

I know I wouldn’t if they were all that stupid, but that’s his home planet... all he’d ever known... that had to have been hard for him.

“Not anymore.” He stared down at me tenderly and his sunny smile returned. “If I wasn’t here, I never would have met
you
.”

“That Siva bitch is a brartna!” I declared
and meant it.

He looked at me shocked for a minute, then grinned.

“You have a dirty mouth, baby?” he chuckled, “Who taught you that word.”

“A little birdy,” I whispered huskily
and nipped his bite mark.

“Mmmm… I’ll have too…”

“Rise and shine, chomcharra!” Sieren called cheerfully, interrupting us as he thumped loudly down the stairs. “Get your butt down here for morning meal and help me make your
breakfast
! You promised!”

“Noooo,” I moaned and flopped back on the bed
, groaning dramatically. “Do I have to?” I asked Kieve with a pouty lip.

He nipped at it and I sucked it back in.

“You promised,” he sing song-ed, mocking me as he hopped up out of bed, his tight, well-muscled, red ass flexing with every step he took.

“You are a mean, mean male, demon lover!” I called as I heard water running.

He laughed as I hurried to get dressed.

****

“This is good,” Sieren commented as he took another bite, closing his eyes in food ecstasy. “What do you call this?”

“French toast.”

I hummed and put another one on their version of a stove.

“Does it taste the same as your human french toast?”

“Pretty darn close,” I smiled and flipped the bread over. “I’m really surprised you had a spice so close to cinnamon.”

He didn’t hear me.

He was too busy cramming french toast down his pie hole.

I eyed his bald head and asked him something that I’d always wondered, but never felt comfortable enough with him to ask him.

“Why are you bald? Does having a lot of sex make you bald too? Do you think Kieve will go bald?”

He choked on his bite of food.

I thumped him on his back and the bite he was choking on flew across the room.

It landed on Teila’s chest as she walked into the room.

I put my hand over my mouth to stifle my reaction.

If she’s going to marry Teivel and live with us, I don’t want her to hate me.

“Oh!” she huffed, outraged.

She looked up and saw that it was Sieren who’d accidentally spit food at her and gave a big fake smile,
quickly flicking the food off of her chest.

“Oh, Sieren, are you alright?” she tittered and hurried over to him.

She practically purred as she ran her hands over his chest, rubbing intimate circles over his upper torso.

I tu
rned back to the stove and smirked at the look on Sieren’s face.

He looked trapped.

Maybe she’ll take Sieren and Teivel for mates and leave
my
Kieve alone.

I grinned at the thought and hummed
happily as I finished breakfast.

****

“How do you like morning meal?” Teivel asked Teila politely as we ate.

He liked the food too and had a heaping stack on his plate, his eyes glazed over as he dug into his second helping.

“I can’t believe you let
her
touch our food,” she whined, picking at her breakfast.

“I didn’t spit in it or anything,” I joked, “I save that kind of madness for Teivel’s food.”

“Hey!” Teviel barked, offended, but didn’t stop his scoop and shovel technique.

“Does it mean something on Earth if you spit in someone’s food?” Sieren questioned. “Is it good or bad? How come you spit in
his
food, but not
mine
? Should I have spit in yours? Do you spit in Kieve’s?”

“Whoa, hold your shaxnas there
, my little bowl of Sierio’s. One question at a time, buddy,” I chuckled, laughing at him.

Dude’s a frickin’ nut.

Teila looked mortified, so I hurried to explain.

“It was a joke. I’ve never spit in anyone’s food. If I did, it would be a bad thing, so p
lease don’t do it to me” I said quickly, grinning at Sieren.

“Oh.” He sounded so
disappointed. “What do you do when you want to show someone you care for them, then?”

“I guess it depends... what do you guys do when you like someone?”

“You already know that,” Teila snapped at me, “You two were doing it all night!”

I blushed and pursed my lips at the venom in her voice.

Bitch! Bitch! Bitch!
I wanted to scream, but I had a better idea.

No skinny
red tooth pick is going to act shitty with me and get away with it.

“So sorry we kept you up
, Tatas,” I smiled sweetly as I butchered her name, “But us humans are horny little bastards. It’s a good thing Kieve has two cocks or I’d never let the poor guy sleep.”

Kieve laughed uproariously and set down his rit
ual breakfast cup of dark chocolate mint sludge. He picked me up and headed to the front door with me in his arms.

Sieren shook his head at us
, smiling, and Teivel stopped mid chew as his jaw dropped.

“Come, my insatiable mate! We have shaxnas to tend to!”

“Yes, demon lover! To the shaxnas!” I crowed in my best ‘heave ho!’ voice.

****

Lunch rolled around and we made our way back to the house.

“You know, with you helping me, everything gets done in half the time. You’re a hard worker, mate. Thank you.”

“No problem, lovveerr boy.” I drew out the word, “You can thank me later,” I danced a little around him, holding his hand, grinning with a wink.

He chuckled at my antics.

When we reached the house he paused.

"I'll be right in
, baby. I want to go check on something first."

"O
h, okay," I agreed and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

I watched him saunter away towards the barn.

Mmmm…

Good grief
, he has a sexy rump!

“You two are perfect for each other,” Teila clipped at me from the front porch swing.

She was filing her nails and had on a really fancy get up.

Someone was dressed to the nines to play in the mud.

I sighed inwardly, ready to be the bigger person in this particular scenario.

"Look, if we're both going to live under the same roof, I don't want us to be at each ot
her all the time. Truce," I tried and held out my hand.

She snorted and sniffed snootily
at my proffered hand.

"Why should I worry about something as insignificant as
you
? You're no threat to
me
. Go play with your mate and leave me alone." She sniffed disdainfully in my general direction, shooing me away.

"As long as you don't get any ideas about making a move on my man, th
en you've got it, sister." I grinned menacingly, baring teeth, giving her a warning look.

"Oh," she laughed mockingly, "You don't have to worry about
that
. I wouldn't touch
your mate
if he was the last male in
this
galaxy or the
next
."

"Good," I said smugly, "you wouldn't be able to handle someone as
virile
as him anyways."

She rolled her eyes at me and blew on her finger nails.