Chapter 26

In the meantime, Rikash thought as he crossed the foyer to the elevator and selected the floor for his domicile, he needed to prepare his mate both for the medic and her lessons. As the elevator lifted to his level, he opened the surveillance files on Verika, his eyebrow arching as he watched her rutting. He turned it off after thirty seconds, vaguely disturbed. During their rutting, the dominant female had not demonstrated any perversity. There had been a power struggle between them that often had resulted in both standing so neither was above or below, but that was not abnormal when two dominants chose to rut. He frowned as the elevator doors opened and paused in the hallway to replay the surveillance clip that he had watched. Nadyr had not placed surveillance in the den, and the copulation was taking place in the living area – that in itself was not unusual, Rikash was not above taking his mate in the living area if the mood took him. He winced in sympathy with the