Page 49 of Just a Beta (Betas in Waiting)
Emhara sighed.“Not an endorsement from a man who just had a plate full of beans.”
Myrtle burst out laughing, and her plate was empty.
Teyval looked pleased.
Meritha ate delicately, as if she had trained for it.Emhara watched.Meritha probably had trained for it.
“You are skeeving me out, Emhara.”
“I have never seen anyone eat peas that neatly.”
“My aunt Minara taught me to eat like a lady.It freaks people out and hypnotizes them at the same time.”
Emhara smiled.“One of those.”
Myrtle was smiling and eating quietly.
Emhara was going to ask another question when she heard, “Emhara?”
She looked up and blinked.“Mateo?Wow.The whole pack.Date night?”
Persephone nodded.“You are looking better.Much better.Did you see the new hostess?Holy shit.”
Emhara laughed.“We have seen her.Her name is Nimue.”
“Wow.She makes me feel like she can kick my ass and take care of me at the same time.”
Meritha smiled.“Perceptive.Yes, to both.”
She chuckled.“Emhara, can I have a hug yet?”
“I am still a little tender, so be careful.”She got up, went around the table, and hugged her sister-in-law.
Persephone was small and cute, but she was wearing five-inch heels.It helped.
Mateo loomed behind her.“Dad showed me the picture you drew of him.”
“Ah.Yeah, I did that.”
Persephone continued hanging on.
“Can you do one of me?Perhaps the whole pack?”
She frowned.“I don’t have enough supplies.I can only do stuff on the paper pad Father got me.”
Mateo smiled.“When can you get more supplies?”
She reached into her cleavage and pulled out the black card.“I am guessing that it will be as soon as I hit an art supply store, and after I ask Samsor for some of his space until I can find a place of my own.”
Persephone looked at her with shining eyes, and Owen said, “You don’t want to live next to us?”
“It isn’t my house, and I have situational connection to Samsor, the bruising in my body won’t be gone for another three weeks, and I don’t know how long he wants to wait.”
There was a clattering of cutlery behind her.
Duran chuckled.“He will wait.Echel will wait, and I will wait.You are recovering, and we can deal with that, but we do plan on cuddling your brains out.”
“Is that a euphemism for something?”
