Page 28 of Gemini
I doubted that. The idea of him not being with me now already made my heart ache. I slid my fingers through his hair. “Promise?”
Something flickered behind his eyes. Doubt. Hesitation. Right now, he did not want to go that much anymore.
But he still said, “Promise.” The hair along my arms rose as his wings propelled him out, higher and higher until I couldn’t see him in the dark sky.
“He will be fine.” Baelor’s arms wrapped around my waist, pulling me against his chest. His lips met my temple, kissing the skin softly. “He is powered by the moon. He needs to burn some of his energy off before he can even consider going to sleep.”
I gritted my teeth. No one said anything aboutsleeping. Right now, his human bride was eager to spend some time with the both of them. Burning his energy. Naked time. Time that would leave my throat raw from screaming, lips swollen from kissing and pussy throbbing from—yeah. That.
My hair was pushed to the side and I was brought back to the present by Baelor’s sharp teeth scraping against the sensitive skin of the side of my neck.
Right. Nitochi wasn’t the only one who could fulfill some of my current desires…
Baelor’s fingers were deftly and assured as he untitled the knot at my hip and unwrapped me from the strange but definitely sexy piece of fabric his mother had dressed me with.
“You truly look beautiful,” he said, dropping the reddish garment to the floor before he slid both of his arms around my waist to hug me from behind. “It might be odd, but we had never seen a human female before. We have been worried you would look like the male specimens…”
My jawdropped as I turned my head toward him, just enough to look at his face. “What made you think men and women would look similar? You look really different from the females in your species…I mean, you look a little like your mom, but only from a genetic perspective!”
I mean, the woman didn’t even have the same coloring as them…I hadn’t seen any other female Gemin yet, but it seemed that the black or white skin was reserved for the males…
“Wedon’t,” Baelor said as he nuzzled his face in the crook of my neck. “But we know other species in the system that do. TheCanco, for example.”
I heard Baelor’s pants drop to the floor right before he started walking us to the pool.Don’t look, don’t look, don’t look…
“What’s a Canco?” I croaked.Real smooth, Wendy.
My feet reached the edge and I went down the little steps, letting the warm water envelop my ankle, my shins, my knees, until eventually we stopped in the middle and only my head wasn’t immersed.
“The species that lives on Cancer.”
I chuckled. I never met the humans in charge of the program for more than a thirty minute meeting when they came to tell me I was compatible to be a bride for one of the species in this system. TheZodiacsystem. Had they named all the planets after the Zodiac signs? Were theCancojust giant humanoid crabs?
“Do they have eight legs, a thick hardshell and taste delicious with aïoli?” I asked as I turned to face Baelor.
He looked at me with wide eyes.Oh.Did I just suggest we’deata whole species in this system? Judging by his face, I most definitely did.
“What are you—”
“It was a joke,” I rushed out. “It’s just—your system is filled with planets that have the same name as human astrological signs. I mean, we don’t use them anymore since we started colonising space and months and astrology aren’t relevant anymore but—anyway, cancer is associated with a sea creature called a crab. They were imported from Earth to my planet and considered a delicacy.”
Baelor blinked. “I have no idea what you mean.”
“It’s fine!” I brushed it off. “It was just a poor attempt at a joke that you couldn’t have understood anyway. It didn’t land, and I’m sorry it might have seemed like we could have been eating…people. We don’t.”
Oh dear, maybe I should have drowned myself to stop talking.
I slid my hands over his chest until they reached the back of his neck. “What Iactuallywanted to ask was, what do they look like?”
Baelor seemed to relax. Maybe hedidbelieve humans were eating Cancos…
“They do have a thick skin, mostly on their arms and back. It varies from brownish to various shades of red or purple.” I pinched my lips between my teeth.They’re like crabs, aren’t they…“But they don’t have eight legs…Just two. And two arms too.” He paused. “But, their thumbs and forefingers have a sharp edge…”
“Would you call itpincers?”
He seemed to think about it for a minute. “Yes.”
I held back another chuckle.Yeah, they’re humanoid crabs. I wasn’t sure what role humans had played in this system’s evolution, but if there were twelve planets, all named after the Zodiac signsandtheir species had traits from those signs…I mean, it made sense. Gemin on Gemini—two polar opposites sharing a soul…Though it was strange that this particularity only affected the males.
