Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 101147 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 506(@200wpm)___ 405(@250wpm)___ 337(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 101147 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 506(@200wpm)___ 405(@250wpm)___ 337(@300wpm)
Kaja greets Meg with a heavy thump of her tail. The wolf’s mouth opens, and her tongue pants out. She appears to be smiling. It’s a sweet expression. Meg’s eyes fill with wonder. Kaja doesn’t need to worry about Meg accepting her. Meg loves all the strange creatures of the planes. With the exception of kelpies, for some reason. Vampires, on the other hand, might see Kaj as a lesser being. My people aren’t known for their easy acceptance of the odd and different. Especially in high society.
And that is why my plan will work. So why does my stomach turn at the thought of judgmental eyes on my Kaja?
“You’re an idiot, Dante. Werewolf is what she is. You don’t have werewolves on your plane?” Meg asks, though she never takes her eyes off Kaja. Kaja nudges her hand, an invitation to pet. Meg runs her hands down the wolf’s strong back.
I wonder if I can get her to do that when Kaja is in human form. It would be way hotter that way. My brain’s on sex. “No, we don’t have hot chicks who run around in fur. Well, not if they don’t want to get coated with blood. PETA. They should be arrested for wasting the blood.” I think for a moment about Meg’s statement. “Is she from the Earth plane?”
Meg’s hazel eyes are staring into Kaja’s blue ones. “No. They’re a legend where I come from. Though I thought about her a lot last night. When she was talking, before the translator took over, it sounded like she was speaking Swedish or maybe Finnish.”
I shake my head. “No idea. Everyone speaks English on my world. You know, language of the conquerors and all.”
Meg’s hands work over Kaja’s fur. My wife seems to love it. “How does the whole door thing work? When I left from this plane, I ended up in Fort Worth. The Vampire plane is very similar to the Earth plane. If we found a door from your plane to mine in Dallas, would I end up in another Dallas?”
I laugh at the thought. “No, it’s far stranger than that. While the planes might look similar, they aren’t. Didn’t you notice that the time of day shifted as we went from the Vampire plane to this one? It’s several hours off. And there’s a door in upstate New York that leads right off a cliff into an ocean. Some corporation managed to put in a slide. They sold tickets for a while. Then some plesiosaur ate a couple of kids. You know how it goes.”
“So Kaja is from someplace like Sweden, but not Sweden.”
I don’t care. All that matters is she’s here now.
Meg seems content to continue her intellectual exercise. “Of course, it makes you wonder. Maybe they started out on the Earth plane and fled because humans can be real assholes, you know. And maybe there are still werewolves on the Earth plane. After all, there are vampires. Maybe they hide like the vamps. Because again, humans can be assholes.”
“Yes,” I agree readily. I arch a single eyebrow. “They can also really interrupt an interesting morning. Tell me something, Meg. Did I interrupt your opportunities for hot sex with your new spouse the morning after your wedding?”
Meg flushes, her cheeks going pink. “Oh, I’m sorry. I thought that since… Cian told us what was going on. I thought you probably wouldn’t be doing that.”
Does she remember who I am? “You thought I wouldn’t have sex with my consort? I have sex with everything that allows me to, but you thought I wouldn’t fuck my own wife?”
I firmly intend to fuck her at every given opportunity. I know I should play it cool, but I’m also honest with myself. I won’t be able to hold back, and I don’t really want to try. This crazy possessiveness is only a phase. Fucking Kaja will put everything back on an even keel.
“Fine, you’re a man-whore,” Meg says, flustered. “I thought you would want to get to know her, that’s all.”
I stare at her. I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what I just said.
“Not in a sexual way,” Meg complains. “Men. Have you even talked to her? Have you asked her about her home plane and what she misses about it?”
“Of course,” I retort. “It sucked, and the men there sucked in bed. Then she just moaned a lot. Don’t look at me like that. I learned an enormous amount of information about her from those moans. I learned that she likes the middle setting on a vibrator. A nice twist and midlevel hum and she goes off like a rocket.”
Meg rolls her eyes. “You are useless, Dante. Fine. I’ll go, but when you’re done, please send Kaja to my tent for some breakfast.” She looks down at the wolf with a friendly smile. “We can have some food and get to know each other. We’re family now. It’s so awesome. I have a werewolf in my family.”