I felt sick to my stomach as I headed to meet them. My mind had gone crazy after I had gotten back to my room, continuing to dissect everything that Zeni had said.
It had affected me enough that I had to pause before leaving the house to try and get myself under control.
“Something wrong?” came a voice from down the hall. It was Zeni of course.
“Nope, everything’s great,” I said, knowing that she could see right through me.
“Tell Thane I liked his new tattoo,” she said with a wink, disappearing from sight.
Now I really felt like I was about to fall apart. I definitely hadn’t seen a new tattoo the last time I had seen Thane undressed, meaning it had to be new this week. I really needed to take classes in how to psych out my enemies. Because Zeni was a professional at it.
My worries were dampened when I caught sight of the guys. They were standing in front of the mansion, one of Corran’s small planes behind them. They were back to their usual human forms and I made a mental note to ask them to go back to their natural forms. I didn’t want them to hide anything from me. If I was really going to make this relationship work I would need to love all of them. Horns and all.
It wasn’t like it was hard. The three of them were enough to set the mansion on fire. They were dressed in traditional Vepar clothing, but the clothing had some kind of silvery threading this time that made it seem dressier than their usual clothes. They looked perfect.
“Fuck pet, you look stunning,” said Thane. “I had always pictured you in Veon clothing and it looks better every time I see you in it.”
I blushed.
“Hi,” I said softly, feeling shy all of a sudden.
I realized we had never really gone on a date. Hawaii was the closest that I had come to a date with one of them, and I had only been brought along because they needed me to be watched at all times and Corran needed to do his experiments.
This felt different. And it was making me feel nervous.
“Ready to go?” asked Derrial as he slowly took me in. I nodded.
Corran came up beside me and put his arm around my waist, pulling me in close to him. He buried his face in my neck. “You smell delicious. I just might take a bite.”
They were being so playful. I wasn’t used to it. The thought hit me that maybe they had been like this with the others. It made me see red.
I shrugged Corran’s arm off of me.
“Tell me what the other dates were like,” I told them, looking at each of them in the eyes.
“What do you mean?” asked Thane, taking a step towards me. I held up my hand to stop him. I couldn’t seem to think when they touched me and I wanted a clear head for this.
“Some of the other girls…” I started to say before my voice broke. I cleared my throat and started again. “Some of the other girls mentioned that their dates had gone rather well,” I finally was able to get out.
Derrial looked at me with something that resembled pity. I hated it. “They went fine,” he said slowly as if I was a feral animal that he was trying to calm down.
I kind of felt like one.
“What does fine mean?” I spit out.
“It almost sounds like you’re jealous,” said Thane in an amused tone.
I was silent for a moment and all three of their eyes started to do that glowing thing. “You are jealous,” said Corran delightedly. “I didn’t think it was possible. Does that mean…?”
“That I care about you?” I asked exasperatedly. “Yes asshole, it does.”
Their grins were the widest that I had seen.
Suddenly I found myself being shuttled towards the plane. “Time to go, green eyed monster. That’s a human saying, right?” Thane laughed at his own joke since we knew the only green eyed monster in the area was him.
Derrial scooped me up and began carrying me before I could put up much of a fight.
“You still haven’t answered my question,” I screeched, trying to get loose.