Maverick Danker [Beyond the Marius Brothers 5] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour ManLove) Read Online Free Page B

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    But then I had an idea. I, in my normal dumbass way, just blurted out a question. “Do fae have money?” And people wondered why I didn’t speak much? I knew most thought I was the strong, silent type. The reality of it was I just didn’t have a filter between my brain and mouth.
    “We have gold, which I’m told is a form of payment here. Why, do you need something?” He looked worried, and that was the last thing I wanted.
    “No, no, nothing like that.” I chuckled as we headed up the stairs. “It’s just you got me thinking about where we’re going to live. One of the founding families here owns an abandoned estate and was talking to me about how they’d go about splitting the land up. I guess the idea is to break the few hundred acres up so someone could buy one or two acres and build a house of their own. Since we’re in a rural area, there are no housing developments around or apartments. But I want a place of our own, too.”
    “I don’t know what a housing development, apartment, or an estate is.” He looked annoyed but with himself.
    “Okay, tell me how you lived on your plane? Did you guys all live in one big house like this?”
    “No, the Queen had her palace and as one of her warriors I had a room there.”
    “So the palace was bigger than this?”
    “Yes,” he answered, his eyebrows drawn together. We’d reached our borrowed room and I opened the door.
    “This is an estate. It’s a huge mansion surrounded by lots of land.” He nodded as he walked past me and set down the tray as I closed the door behind us.
    “I understand.”
    “Where did everyone else live?”
    “In the village surrounding the palace.”
    “That’s a housing development basically. It’s plotted out so everyone knows where their land is to take care of and has a house on it. An apartment is one building full of rooms but almost like their own living space like some of the suites in this estate.”
    “You’re very good at explaining things,” he said proudly after a moment. “So this founding family person wants to turn one large estate into pieces that everyone can have as their own home and land?”
    “Exactly. Since I built most of the homes for my old pack, he was talking to me about how he’d go about breaking the land up and getting contractors to build solid, but simpler, houses.”
    “And you want to know about my gold so we might buy one of these pieces of land?”
    “Yeah, I guess I didn’t really get that far in the thought process,” I answered, my cheeks heating up. “I realized I agreed with you about wanting a place of our own. I remembered what Desmond had said to me and then realized I didn’t have enough money to buy land. Then I just blurted out the question to you.”
    “Blurt away,” he replied reassuringly with a smile. “I appreciate honesty from my mate. We should feel comfortable enough with each other where we don’t have to worry about what we’re asking. It’s not easy for me to admit that I’m lost on your plane, but if I can’t ask my mate for help, then who would I trust more?”
    “That’s a good point.” I hadn’t thought about it like that but it made sense. I should always be able to be myself around my mates. Granted we’d just met so there would be some adapting and getting comfortable with each other. But I always thought that’s why fate had come up with the idea of mates. There were just some people, not even specifically mates, that melded. I instantly felt I could relax around Mav and now Asterio.
    We ate in a comfortable silence, snagging pieces of fruit and pastries off the tray. It was as if we’d done this every morning for years, and I felt tension I didn’t even realize I still had after the loving Mav gave me leave my muscles. Maybe some of the questions Asterio had raised had been at the back of my mind?
    Good thing he was able to voice them, huh?

Chapter 4
     
    Asterio
     
    “I think we should buy a double-size piece of land