Chapter 45

I could love you. The words sat in Rikash s mind like a riddle as he waited for the elevator to take him down to the level down. As with his level, there was only the one domicile, and the elevator bell would notify his second of his arrival. Nadyr opened the door without him needing to knock. "Arken," he greeted Rikash, stepping aside in order to allow Rikash to enter the chamber. As Rikash passed him, his second inhaled. No doubt, the Arken thought, scenting Amelia on him, and the scent of come that she had smeared over him, that he had deliberately left for this visit to the level below his own domicile so that Nadyr could smell that the Arken had just rutted the female that he coveted. Amelia had rutted him so thoroughly that it had taken much longer than Rikash had intended before he felt recovered sufficiently to interrogate the telepath for himself. She had marked and rutted him, however, without changing the grey of the Bond, her motivation being secur