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least see that this would limit their freedoms.
    Other than that, he wasn’t at all fond of her attitude. She barely made eye contact with him, despite the fact that they were sitting right across from each other, and when she’d looked up to see him watching her with narrowed eyes, she’d glared at him and gone back to her food.
    It wasn’t right. Humans were weaker, and by the logic he’d always lived by, that meant they should be subservient to them. As his future life mate, she would be seen as an equal, and that didn’t feel right either.
    Who was this untrained and untried woman to think she was a match for him?
    “What is your name?” he demanded when she glanced up again, and she made a face at him that had him narrowing his eyes again.
    “Roxanne,” she said after a moment.
    “Hmph. Strange name.”
    “Oh because Aedian is so common,” she snapped back. “How many vowels can you stick in one name?”
    He blinked at her, quite sure that she was insulting him, but not at all sure how she was doing it. “You speak nonsense,” he said.
    She rolled her eyes, which he had gathered from his time here was a gesture of disrespect. “Right, okay. Why don’t you stop talking to me then?” And without waiting for him to say anything else, she went back to picking at her food.
    It was enraging that she thought she could talk to him like that.
    When he glanced around at Shiia and Demos with their women, the scenes were different. They each were sitting beside the women they’d chosen, speaking softly to them and offering them things from their plates.
    Aedian snorted. That was all well and good for them. Demos was soft and still young enough that his horns were getting their curls, and Shiia was old enough that his horns would curl no more. Shiia looked at his bride to be like she was something to be held close and petted, and Aedian did not understand that.
    And he was certain that if he tried to do that to Roxanne, she would bite him.
    Not that he’d ever lower himself to try.
    The feast went on for several hours, with more food and spirits being brought out by the servers. By the time people finally stopped eating, the sliver of the moon (and they only had one, which he was still getting used to) had risen high in the sky, and night was deep and dark around them.
    People began departing in twos and threes, wishing the new couples well with the traditional calls and jeers.
    The champions bore it well, though Aedian just sneered. When he looked, Roxanne was nowhere to be found, but he wasn’t worried. There was no way she could escape the compound, and he was sure that someone had just moved her to his rooms.
    There he would be alone with her. Much to his displeasure.
    Draining the last of his drink he got to his feet and stretched, arms high overhead. There was still a bit of lingering soreness from the day’s exertions and it felt wonderful. He reveled in it for a moment before resigning himself to what he knew was inevitable. Sooner or later he was going to have to go back to his rooms and deal with what would be there.
    Didn’t mean he couldn’t take the long way around the compound to get there, though, and it was another fifteen minutes before he was letting himself in.
    Roxanne was there when he walked in, standing in the middle of the main room looking uncomfortable.
    She was still dressed in the light, slightly sheer garment that she’d been put in to be presented to him, and in the brighter lights of his main room he could see more of her body than he’d been able to before, the curves of her generous chest and hips drawing his eye.
    “Why are you staring at me?” she demanded, folding her arms across her chest defensively.
    “Because you are pleasing to look at,” Aedian said matter of factly.
    That seemed to surprise her, and she blinked, forehead creasing in a frown. “Oh. Was that a compliment?”
    Aedian shook his head, walking further into the room. “No. Statement of fact.”
    That