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If you continue I will embarrass myself and upset you.”
    At her confused expression, he let his attention drift to his hardness, evidence of his desire for her, and then met her stare once again. He had no doubt he would spill himself like a youngling if she continued.
    “Oh. Oh .” Her face flushed. “I’ll go get cleaned up then.”
    She retreated, bending down to retrieve a set of clothing humans called scrubs, and then she continued to the shower. The moment she tugged on the handle, droplets flew from the showerhead and pattered on the tile wall. A delicate slip of her hand beneath the spray.
    To test the temperature. He would have to remember his human mate couldn’t endure all temperatures like his kind. They couldn’t regulate and adapt their bodies to all climates. She reached for the tie of her robe then glanced at him over her shoulder, an expectant expression on her features.
    Right.
    Tave forced himself to move, forced himself to turn in place. “Apologies.”
    The moment his back was to her, he heard the soft thump of fabric hit the floor, and it was as if his eyes moved of their own volition. He found his gaze traveling to the mirror, staring at the reflective surface with his peripheral vision and catching sight of her body’s true form.
    Bless the ocean’s depths. She was pale… luminescent… everywhere. And curved, lush roundness covered her form. She wasn’t hard and firm like Ujal females. She wasn’t the image of perfection he’d been raised to appreciate. She was the complete, glorious opposite of what he’d been taught to value. She was curvaceous, delicious, and so very tempting. He wanted to trace the lines of his pyabi ’s body with his hands, his mouth. He ached to worship her body and fill her until she grew his hatchlings within her warmth.
    Rina didn’t glance at him as she snapped the curtain closed, and he released the breath he hadn’t realized he’d been holding. With that exhale, shame consumed him, overpowering all other emotions that ricocheted through his body. He’d assured her he would give her privacy and yet he’d violated that oath the moment her back was turned.
    For the first time in his life, he had to admit he’d acted without honor and he hated himself for that shortcoming.
    Tave shook his head, berating himself.
    A knock echoed through the room, followed by the whoosh of the curtain being shoved aside. He glanced at his mate, noting that she poked her head through a parting in the fabric, but kept her body covered.
    Good. He would hate to have to kill whoever knocked.
    “I will not grant anyone entry, my pyabi . I vow it.”
    I vowed not to look, too.
    He would keep all vows now. He would battle his own desires. He would overcome his desires.
    Silenced reigned, her stare seeming to bore into him, and then she replied, her voice soft. “Okay.”
    With those two syllables, she disappeared from sight.
    Trust. She had given him a measure of trust. He wouldn’t violate it again.
    The knock returned and he growled anew. He stomped to the panel and opened it slightly so he could see the person requesting entrance.
    “What?” he snapped and then cursed himself. His dam . Of course his dam would intrude when his cock was hard as a rock and begging for release. While his mate was mere feet away, wet and naked. Not receptive, but still near. “How can I assist you, my dam ?”
    His dam straightened, pushed her shoulders back, and tipped her head until her nose was in the air. It was the position she often took when talking down to recalcitrant subjects. And her son.
    What had he done now ?
    “We have come to a decision.”
    Tave opened the door a little wider, giving him more space to face off against the formidable female. “We?”
    “Yes.” She jerked her head in a decisive nod and then gestured behind her. “We.”
    He peered over her head and met the gaze of the other female who had come with his mate to UST. Where his mother was lean and polished,