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business.”
    “It must be taxing.”
    “Only physically, and I get a bit of shoulder tension now and then. That is why Wen was so familiar with me. He has seen me every week since I got here.”
    “You won’t see him again.” It was an order.
    She shrugged, “Fine, but you will have to step in and keep my shoulders relaxed.”
    He grinned. “Turn around and I will see what I can do.”
    She turned sideways on the couch and he started to work her shoulders. She groaned, moaned and sighed as the tension was worked out of her body. When he worked down to her hands and massaged her fingers, she purred with delight. The noise made him pause. “Where did you learn that?”
    “I heard it on the dance floor on Wyencar Prime.” She chuckled and wiggled his fingers for him to continue.
    He was very careful with her, but the moment he threaded his fingers through hers and tugged, she hissed and arched against him as heat flared in her body.
    Norod grinned and worked her other arm, culminating in the slide of his fingers between hers. “I saw how you reacted to your feet, but I didn’t see the reaction with your hands.”
    “His skin isn’t the same texture as yours and my feet are far more sensitive.” She smiled and was going to continue but Nikada walked in with a charming Wyencar dress.
    “I have been meaning to ask you two, why don’t you wear Masuo?”
    Nikada sighed. “It feels too odd against our skin. It creates a friction we do not appreciate.”
    Kori stifled a smirk. It simply and literally rubbed them the wrong way.
    They remained in the suite for another twenty minutes before they walked to the restaurant in the centre of the station.
    A crowd gathered outside in the hopes of seeing Annabella.
    Kori lifted her arm. “Tanyo!”
    The security guard parted the crowd and they walked through and into the restaurant. They walked to the private room and the moment the door opened, Kori was struck by a small dark-haired projectile that screamed, “Auntie Kori!”
    Kori picked her up and introduced her to the guests. “Annabella, this is Norod and Nikada Ru. They are taking over my contract, so I will be going away.”
    Annabella’s face screwed up in a frown. “I want you to stay.”
    “I know that, but we can’t always have what we want. Now, let me put you down and I will make proper introductions.”
    “No!”
    “Fine.” Kori slung Annabella to her back and smiled at Acuar. “Acuar, Host of Yalki, Honour, Bride of the Host, this is Norod and Nikada Ru. Norod has asked me to be his mate and Nikada will become my sister.”
    Acuar and Honour came over and greeted Kori’s guests.
    Annabella had her little arms around Kori’s neck and her legs around her waist. Kori turned her around and looked down at her. “Don’t you want me to have a chance at having a little girl like you?”
    Annabella scowled. “I don’t want you to leave, but I do want a playmate.”
    “Well, no child I had would grow as fast as you, short stuff. But, she could be a friend when you get older.”
    “I like friends, but mine stay smaller than me.”
    “Well, this would be a friend when you got older.”
    Annabella cocked her head. “A girl or a boy?”
    Kori sighed. “I don’t know. I hope it would be a little girl.”
    Annabella’s eyes flashed green for an instant. “Fine. I will let you have dinner, but you have to come back once a year to visit me.”
    “Once every five years.”
    “Two years.”
    “Done. I will come back and visit you every two years as long as your parents approve.”
    Honour grinned. “I was hoping for the once a year, but I will take a visit every two years.”
    “Good, now I have something to do with the money I have been saving up.” Kori grinned.
    She sat next to Norod with Annabella on her lap. They ate dinner and by dessert, Annabella was nodding off, but she was in Norod’s lap and he appeared perfectly comfortable with it.
    It was a good omen.
     

Chapter Eight
     
     
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