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and Saia trusted him with her life. “It’s nice to see you again.”
    A tall human female approached his side. He pulled away and
held an arm out to the female. “Saia, Queen Xochis, this is Jessica, my mate.”
    Jessica stepped forward and held out her hand. Both Saia and
her mother looked at it. It seemed to be a normal-sized hand, free of jewelry.
“You have a very nice hand,” Saia said.
    Jessica blushed and looked at Rasha.
    “Mother, the humans clasp hands together in greeting,” Taio
said.
    “Really?” her mother remarked.
    Saia looked at Jessica’s hand again and shrugged. Then she
extended hers. Jessica smiled and stepped forward to grab it. Once in her palm,
she pumped it up and down.
    “Nice to meet you. You can call me Jess,” she said.
    “Likewise,” Saia replied. “Here, Mother, you try.”
    Her mother held out her hand and let Jess shake it. “What an
odd little practice.”
    “We are learning more about the humans every day.” Taio
pulled out a chair and indicated for his mother to sit, while Rasha pulled out
Saia’s chair.
    “This is nice,” her mother said as Taio pushed her closer to
the table.
    As Taio and Rasha did the same for Eva and Jess, Saia let
her eyes wander around the room. She recognized many of the different species,
some she had met and a few she had read about. She really wanted to meet
someone new. Someone who could tell her something about the universe she didn’t
already know.
    There has to be someone interesting here.
     
    JB looked toward the door as everyone else did. Taio stood
at the entrance, with Eva on one arm and a taller female who looked just like
him on the other. He waited as everyone rose to their feet.
    “That’s his mother, Queen Fainia Xochis of Drazlan,” Lo’Ren
said from the seat next to him. “It’s customary for you to stand when she
enters the room.”
    “I’ve already pissed him off today, no need to do it again
if it’s not totally necessary.” JB stood.
    Taio proceeded through the door, followed by three other
females. JB immediately found himself staring at one in particular.
    Her head was cast down slightly, her face obscured by waves
and waves of jet-black hair that brushed the swell of her round butt. She wore
a pale-purple formfitting dress. The floor-length gown had designs made of
colored crystals. Her skin was the same color as Taio’s, but different. It
seemed to glow. Her build was tall and slender with a hint of curves where they
were needed most.
    She turned her head.
    He caught his breath.
    Beautiful.
    As her lavender eyes locked on Lo’Ren, he willed her to look
his way. Her features were sharp and foreign, but beautiful in every way. Her
cheekbones were high and defined. Her lips were full and pink. She had a look
of longing in her eyes and he wanted to know why.
    No, he needed to know why.
    Was she upset?
    Who had taken the joy away from such a perfect female?
    Look at me. I want to know you.
    “Uh, unless you’re inviting Taio to kill you, I would sit
down,” Lo’Ren said, tugging on his sleeve.
    He glanced around to find he was the only one still
standing. JB sat but kept his eyes on the female across the room. “Why would he
kill me? She’s not human.”
    “She’s his younger sister, Princess Saia.” Lo’Ren popped a
piece of meat in her mouth and chewed. “Look the other way, human.”
    That information alone should have been enough to make him
turn his head and focus his attention on something else, but he couldn’t.
    Princess Saia.
    Rasha grabbed Saia in a bear hug and lifted her from her
feet. JB watched, waiting for her to turn his way. His heart thumped. He wanted
to go to her, meet her.
    She was his .
    He shook his head, trying to dislodge the misplaced thought.
    Where the hell did that come from?
    Then she turned toward him. Their eyes met.
    And there it was.
    His heart felt as though it were seized in a tight fist then
dropped to the pit of his stomach.
    “This is where you take