Behyr quickly picked up his plate, taking it to the kitchenbar. “I have business to attend to.” With a slight bow to the girls and thenThorne he strode to the door. “I will see you tomorrow morning for our walk tothe med center, Poppy. Please contact me if you need anything later tonightsince I am unsure when Wheaton will be available,” he said as an afterthoughtas he left.
The minute the door closed, the women grinned at each other,bursting into giggles. Thorne sat, confused as to what had just happened.
“What is so funny?”
“Men. Men are funny. It seems it doesn’t matter if they’rehuman or alien.” Poppy was still trying to control her giggles.
“Yes, they are. Did you see how quickly he lit out of here?It was like his pants were on fire.” Valerie was still laughing and thenlaughed harder when she noticed Thorne was still completely lost.
“Thorne, your face right now is funny. Let me explain to youwhat just happened.” Taking her bottle of water and shaking it at him, Poppysaid, “I noticed Behyr and Hannah had some chemistry at lunch today. There wasquite a bit of heat between the two of them. I have a feeling that mentioningthe good doctors as possible competition was just the nudge he needed to makehis move.”
“Or he may have just had business to attend to.” Thorneshook his head at the women.
“Okay, let me put it this way… If you found out that anotherwarrior was interested in Val, what would you do?” Poppy continued.
The expressions that ran across his face went fromunderstanding to anger quickly.
“That is not going to happen.” Biting out those words, heput his arm around Val’s shoulder and squeezed.
An angry look came over Val’s face at that statement. “Areyou saying that another warrior would not be attracted to me?” she askedtightly.
Judging by Thorne’s face, he must have realized how that hadsounded. He quickly sputtered out, “That is not what I am saying. I simplymeant that you are mine.”
By this point, Val and Thorne had created their own littlebubble and Poppy felt as if she were watching a soap opera. Wishing forpopcorn, she kept silent and waited for Val to respond to Thorne’s declaration.This was better than Netflix.
“I’m yours?” Val asked with a teary but happy smile.
“Of course you are. I believe I have shown you that thisweek.” He leaned closer to give her a soft kiss on the lips. “Multiple times.”
“Oh.” Val turned to Poppy and smiled widely, her eyessparkling with happiness. “We have to leave now.”
Poppy couldn’t help but give herself a little pat on theback for helping that situation along.
“Yeah, I can see you totally need to leave,” she said withan eyebrow wiggle that made Val and Thorne laugh. Poppy walked them to thedoor.
With hugs to both of them, she took the moment to whisper intoVal’s ear, “You really should drop by the med center and see me soon.” Leaningback to make sure that Val understood what she was saying, she was happy whenVal nodded back.
“I’ll try to come tomorrow. I’m going to talk to Thorne abit more and make sure we’re both on the same page. I’ll suggest he comes withme just in case the tests are positive.”
Knowing that Thorne would want to be there if Val found outshe was pregnant made Poppy feel a moment of sadness. She had found out abouther baby without Wheaton there. It was a moment she would have loved to sharewith him. Hell, there seemed to be a lot of things they were missing out onconsidering he hadn’t been able to even join her tonight. The bonding time theyhad once shared was no more and Poppy missed that. She missed their shareddinners. During those times they had talked about her previous life on Earth orthings that were trivial, like movies or music. They had talked about subjectsthat were unimportant but that at the same time were instances that made up whothey were as people. It was during those relaxed times that Poppy had felt ableto connect with Wheaton the most.
Wishing she could simply hear his voice before she went toher lonely bed, she paused when she heard the tone at the door. Had Valforgotten something?
Opening the door and seeing her beautiful man standing infront of her had Poppy grinning like an idiot. She felt like crying but didn’twant to scare him off so she settled for launching herself into his arms.
“I thought I wasn’t going to see you tonight.” Her wordswere muffled by his leather shirt.
“Nothing could keep me away, little flower.” Wheaton huggingher in return, his hand running down her back to cup her ass and lift her so hecould walk into the bedroom. As they walked, he kept talking. “Behyr came asthe Council was letting out and asked Hannah if she would share a meal tonight,so I escaped while I could.”
“He asked her to dinner?” Poppy smiled, clinging to him.
“Yes, why do you sound so surprised?” He lowered her untilher feet touched the floor.
“Because he had a full meal here not even an hour ago,” shesaid with a smile as he whisked her shirt over her head.
Unbuckling his pants, he quickly shucked them down his legs.After he was done with most of his own clothing he helped push her pants down.
Poppy grinned at Wheaton. “I have a feeling that Behyr maytake Hannah off our hands,” she said, eying the now half-naked form in front ofher.
Dear god, this man was pretty. She would never tell himso—that would probably ruffle his feathers—but he was so beautiful to her itmade her stomach clench. She was pretty sure that her stomach wasn’t the onlything clenching. Leaning forward to nip at his muscled chest, she heard himhiss, and flicked her tongue out to follow the nip with a lick.
With his chest fully rumbling, Wheaton leaned down to gripher under her now naked thighs. Walking her to the bed, he tossed her backward.Poppy let out a laugh at his playful mood and his hot gaze on her pussy as shelay back and
