The Nanny's Unplanned Marriage (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Rachel Clark Read Free Book Online

opened wide enough Cindy Richards came bouncing into the apartment. Loukie followed her more calmly.
    “I just heard,” Cindy said with a wide grin. “Why wasn’t I the first to know?”
    “I think you were,” Serena said with a laugh. She, Jerrod, and Kaydin had spent the whole night getting to know each other. Until the door chimed, Kaydin and Serena had been happily sleeping in each other’s arms. Jerrod had woken them both briefly before going to work, but since it was the Desconian equivalent of the weekend for the schoolchildren, Kaydin and Serena had the chance to sleep in.
    “As soon as Jerrod turned up for his shift I knew something was different. I would have been here sooner if Eric hadn’t decided to distract us. Apparently being a princess still means I’m not allowed to wake people too early, no matter how exciting the news.”
    Loukie and Serena both grinned at Cindy’s mock complaint. Their friendship had felt very strange at first. Cindy was an ex–intergalactic ambassador and now married to both a prince and a princess. Technically speaking she was royalty. Why she’d even decided to be friends with Serena was still a cause for wonder. They were so very different, but despite their differences somehow the friendship worked. Cindy had a way of making Serena forget she was a flat-broke human speaking to a Desconian princess.
    “So details please,” Cindy said as she helped Loukie lower her heavily pregnant body onto a chair and Kaydin joined them in the kitchen. “When? How? Be specific.”
    “Last night,” Serena said, wondering how much was appropriate to share. She knew Desconians were quite relaxed with their sexuality, but she wasn’t sure how much of that culture Cindy had embraced. Fortunately, Kaydin answered for her.
    “Last night, after mind-blowing sex and some of the most amazing orgasms I’ve ever witnessed, Jerrod demanded it.” He laughed at Serena’s nod of agreement and pulled her into his arms.
    “Ah yes,” Cindy said with a wide grin at her wife, “the same tactics that Eric and Loukie used. Wipe out all my objections with incredible sex.” She winked at Serena. “Although I do believe they actually asked.” She stepped over to the coffee machine—one of the few things imported from Earth—as if making coffee for Cindy in her own kitchen was the most natural thing on the planet. Considering the amount of time Jerrod, Kaydin, and Serena had spent with Cindy and her partners it probably was.
    “Well, you know Jerrod almost as well as we do,” Kaydin said. “He’s a man who knows what he wants.”
    “Very true,” she said with a thoughtful look. “Have you organized the mubella claiming ceremony yet?”
    “Not yet,” Serena said with a small smile. It was barely breakfast time.
    “Of course not,” Cindy said, rolling her eyes as if she’d just realized the time of day. “Maybe I can help you with that. I mean, if you want.”
    “Would you like to be my bridesmaid?” Serena asked as genuine affection for the woman wound through her. Cindy had been a wonderfully supportive friend from the moment they’d met. It showed very plainly how poor Serena’s relationship had been with the woman she’d called her best friend when she’d lived on Earth.
    “I’d like that,” Cindy said with a soft laugh. Serena had heard the story of the ambassador’s accidental marriage—where the word bridesmaid had been misinterpreted by the translators to mean mubellabina, wife—so asking Cindy to take a supportive role in her marriage to Jerrod and Kaydin seemed strangely fitting.
    “Excellent,” Loukie said with a devilish grin. “While she’s helping you, she can stop hovering over me.”
    “Never going to happen, my love,” Cindy said with genuine emotion in her voice. “Although, once the baby arrives I might hover over him—”
    “Her,” Loukie interrupted in what was their typical teasing argument. They both kept changing their minds, just saying the