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dry mouth and found it surprisingly good.
    The second reason she’d not been afraid was because Braden
intrigued her. She wanted to talk to him, to learn about him, to get to know
him. What was he behind his melting smiles, and why had he chosen her and her
library?
    “You said you wanted to ask me questions,” Braden said.
“What do you want to know?”
    Calder and Katarina watched sharply while pretending not to.
Calder was better at it than Katarina.
    Elisa had many questions, but she decided to stick to
harmless ones while Calder sat there, radiating menace.
    “Your eyes.” She leaned closer to Braden, looking into them.
“I’ve never seen eyes that color, except on off-worlders. And your irises
widen. That can’t have any sight benefit, can it?”
    Braden didn’t have any fucking idea, and he didn’t care. He
only cared that Elisa’s breath touched his skin as she looked him over. His
irises were widening even now.
    “Women want the Shareem to want them back,” Calder answered
for him. “So our creators made our eyes change when we’re aroused. That way the
lady knows when we’re hot for her, even from across the room.”
    “Only if your dick’s too small.” Aiden stepped way too close
to Braden, the heat of his body blanketing Braden’s side. He slid a firm arm
around Braden’s shoulders. “My lovers don’t need to look at my eyes to
know how much I want them.”
    Aiden caressed Braden’s shoulder a little, fingers skilled,
and Braden felt himself reacting. A level one, Aiden could bring off a woman
just by touching her hand. A level one was all about sensuality and softer
pleasures, scented oils and massage. Slow, beautiful sex.
    Aiden was also the lover of Ky, a level three. A match made
in…well, who the hell knew, but it worked for them. Their lady Brianne, the
sweetheart, brought them together and made the three of them whole.
    Now Aiden was plying his sinful pheromones over Braden. Firm
fingers toyed with the chain on Braden’s biceps, and Aiden’s perspiration
moistened Braden’s skin.
    Braden lifted the caressing hand away. “I don’t care who
you’re fucking, Aiden, as long as it’s not me.”
    “I care,” Brianne said, coming to stand at the high table
next to Elisa. “I’m the jealous type.”
    “Yeah, and that turns me on, sweet baby.” Aiden abandoned
Braden for her so fast that Braden laughed.
    Aiden curled his arm around Brianne and pulled her up for a
kiss. Not a friendly peck, a long, tongue-filled, mouth-slanting kiss. When he
came up for air, Aiden’s eyes were fully blue.
    “Hey,” Ky said. “If he gets some, so do I.” Ky put his arm
around Brianne from her other side and pulled her into an equally sensual kiss.
    Elisa watched them with a surprised expression but her look
was intrigued, not disgusted. Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the table,
but she faced the unusual situation without a word. Braden’s liking for her
rose several notches.
    Judith set another tray on the table, put down fresh glasses
and started picking up the empties. “Keep it calm,” she said to Ky. “I don’t
want to get shut down. Besides, there’s no one for me tonight and that’s not
fair.”
    Judith glanced speculatively at Braden and then at Elisa.
Judith had been known to dabble with a female—hell, with anything humanoid and
sentient. Judith wasn’t picky. She’d go double with a woman on a Shareem and
even play a little with the lady while the Shareem watched.
    But she must have sensed that Elisa had no interest in
female play, because Judith gave a regretful shake of her head, picked up her
tray and walked off again.
    “Poor Judith,” Aiden said. “Surrounded by hard-cocked
Shareem and no one to scratch her itch.”
    “She’ll be fine,” Calder said.
    He was right. Judith rarely lacked for sexual company.
Judith had been with Calder once, only once. Before he’d met Katarina, Calder
had never let a lady be with him a second time. Back then, he’d been