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around them. Forestalling any reply she might have made. Once it was done, he reached down and scooped her up by the thighs. Carried her out towards the main room.
    “You haven’t eaten since yesterday.” he commented.
       Andi was already slender. Hardly any weight at all in his grasp. She hadn’t in fact eaten much of anything since she had come aboard.
    “Who told you that?”
       He touched a kiss to her shoulder and felt her stiffen slightly. He waited for her to tell him to stop. To his delight, she relaxed not long later,
    “You found my presence unsettling and wouldn’t speak to me, my one. I did what I had to, to ensure you were properly cared for.”
    “You were worried about me?” she was so surprised by this.
    It made his heart hurt. “Of course. I am still.”
     
    Ohlen set her down on the lounge at the end of his bed. Reaching for a blanket to lay over her lap and another to knot around his waist. Andi curled her legs up under the blanket while he typed in a request from the galley. Her lips rolled together. Teeth tugging nervously at the lush curves.
    Curves that enticed him after what he’d seen the commander and his mate doing in the temple. Ohlen had gone in to pray for guidance, interrupting an intimate moment between the two. He had inadvertently seen something that had made him insanely curious. Curious and aroused. Thoughts for later.
       “Why did you not stay at the observation deck?” 
    Ohlen reached for a soft skein of her hair, moved deliberately slow to give her time to withdraw, rubbing the silkiness of it between his fingers. Andi shook her head, not hard enough to pull her hair from his fingers and twisted her hands around in the blanket. Looking at her lap,
       “Because I’m not a good person and I wanted to watch him die. Listen to him screaming. I wanted to see him bleed.”
    She jumped at the touch of his fingers on her cheek, but she didn’t jerk away. Her lashes fluttered. Rose to mee his gaze. To his amazement, the subtle fragrance of arousal wafted off her beautiful self. He swallowed the growl that filled his mouth.
       “How does that make you a bad person? He hurt you irreparably. It is only right that he be hurt all that much more. That you feel vindicated by it. I did not want you to watch and find a legitimate reason to fear me. More than you already do.”
    Her lips gave a little wobble as she turned her cheek into his touch. Leaned forward slightly towards him. Her body and her scent telling him without a doubt that she was comfortable in his presence. The relief was unimaginable. Andi sniffled. Scooting an inch or two closer to him. He held his breath to keep from doing anything to make her move away.
    “You are the first person to have protected me like that, Ohlen. He’s dead and won’t ever touch me again. You made that happen.”
    “You are my mate, Andi. The only one I will ever have. I will allow nothing, no one, to harm you.”
    “I believe you.” she murmured. Blushing when he smiled back at her,
    “Good. May I ask you something?”
    “Okay.”
    “I happened to interrupt the commander and your lieutenant in the temple. They looked to be eating at one another’s lips and taking great enjoyment from it. I’ve never seen any of my people do this before. I can only assume perhaps it is a human proclivity. What is it?”
    Andi frowned at him for a minute. When she understood what he was asking, her eyelashes fluttered again. That sweet, intoxicating scent of her arousal once more perfuming the air between them.
    “Kissing.” she murmured.
    Rolling her lips together as she smiled and scooted a little closer. Her breath caught when he rubbed his thumb over her bottom lip. Pulled it free from her teeth to soothe the pressure of her bite.
    “Later, when you have come to trust me with all of you. I would like to know this…kissing.”
    Before she could answer him, the alert at the door to his quarters beeped. “Wait here a moment, my