Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77812 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 389(@200wpm)___ 311(@250wpm)___ 259(@300wpm)
“I have refrained from explaining how we would reproduce those devices, but eventually someone from my world will come through the portal and answer questions honestly.” Daddy shrugged as Boyd groaned. “I will apologize in advance for the chaos that will cause.”
It was going to be fun, so I hoped we were around to see it.
“I’ll worry about that when it comes.” Shaking his head like he was pushing away the images that had popped into his head, Boyd straightened. “Alright. It’s time to get this under control. None of the busybodies brought treats, so it’ll be easier to toss ’em out.”
I loved their logic.
“They should know better than to cause problems empty-handed.” It was just bad manners…based on local customs at least. “Okay, you wrangle everyone else and we’ll go try to get Agent Murphy to the table this time.”
People had to stop asking him if he was Team Binkie or Team Badass.
It was getting ridiculous.
“I think you must explain the main problem, my mate.” Daddy patted my head as I groaned. “You haven’t offended him again since the first time. Everyone else is repeating the problems.”
Once I’d gotten my pants back up, he’d stopped grumbling about naked dragons and impulsive fuckers. But in our defense, he only had human hearing and had opened the wrong door when we’d been given a break that was too long for everyone to behave.
“He liked you, too.” As far as we could tell after he’d stopped bitching. “At the very least he’s not weird around my sexy alien and he didn’t stay angry long after walking in on us.”
Aliens.
Plural.
He hadn’t been weird around Klynn either but that was probably because he was coming along to make good impressions on the alien leaders on the other side of the portal…and to get them to promise to keep out the dinosaurs.
Klynn had also kept his clothes on and hadn’t asked inappropriate questions either.
“We will attempt the conversation together.” Daddy sounded like I wasn’t going to be able to talk him out of it, so I just sighed and did my best to look boring by the time we weaved our way through the crowd.
“Agent Murphy, hello.” Keeping the conversation light and hopefully without anything triggering to the grumpy human, I gave him a toned-down and very grown-up smile. I was incredibly boring and fully clothed so nothing could go wrong. “Did you manage to get coffee this morning before the pot died again?”
He nodded, watching us both skeptically but not immediately losing his mind. “Yes, but at some point, I’m going to have questions about that.”
“Me too.” I shrugged when he looked like he didn’t believe my response. “Honest. My family doesn’t explode coffee pots and can use all electronics safely. It must be a local thing.”
Nodding slowly, the agent didn’t seem to think I was lying. “I’m not sure if I need to make a note of it, but it needs to be addressed.”
“Agreed.” Daddy was just watching us quietly, which seemed to mean it was still my turn to talk. “Now, I’ve been voted as the one to point this out, so don’t shoot the messenger, but…”
This was ridiculous even for the locals and the way he rolled his eyes said he was expecting nothing but insanity to follow.
He really was smart for someone who worked for the government.
“It’s been decided that you’re…attractive when you’re grumpy and glaring at everyone.” He didn’t seem to realize how often he did it either because he was back to it again already. “So you’ve been put in Team Badass and it’s only going to get worse because they’re trying to decide who you need to…date.”
No point in throwing around the mate word with a human.
For some reason the old men at the diner had decided they liked him and they were planning on keeping him even if he was a G-man.
I couldn’t decide if they were really old enough for that reference or if they’d been watching old movies, but either way, it was getting ridiculous.
“I’m not sure the best way to handle this, but the suits aren’t helping either.” When he just blinked at me, I had to keep going. “Suit porn is a thing the diner men have been researching.”
They’d actually gotten chased out of every nice menswear store in about a hundred-mile radius, so they were back to only being able to do online research from what I’d been told.
It only took a few seconds for what I said to really hit our new agent friend and he groaned, scrubbing his hands over his face. “For fuck’s sake.”
I managed not to laugh or even smile, so I was an amazing ambassador for my species but it was exhausting. “Yeah, I agree. I can only suggest you try to glare less and if anyone asks you about who you’re dating it might be helpful to at least lie about that and make someone up?”