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)
His life had definitely changed on a dime and we all probably needed to remember that just a little bit more.
Hmm.
Smiling at Klynn, I nodded toward Agent Murphy. “See? Some people from Earth can behave themselves. You just needed to find a human to talk to instead of the men at the diner.”
Bingo.
“They’re…” Klynn paused, probably trying to figure out a way to say something rude without actually sounding rude.
“Frustrating.” Agent Murphy decided to be helpful. “Although I have a few other choice words if you need help with your English.”
Dragons above.
Klynn smiled.
The world had officially gone mad.
Had we been thrown into an alternate dimension?
“Someone to practice with would be helpful.” Klynn shot Daddy a glare. “Everyone has been busy with…other things lately and I haven’t practiced as much as I should have.”
Oh, throwing us under the bus to get in with the sexy hottie.
I approved.
Daddy didn’t.
He started to open his mouth, so I squeezed his hand and interrupted. “We’re going to go make the rounds one more time and start moving everyone toward the gate before they get distracted. Will you guys take the end of the line and make sure no one wanders off?”
It probably wasn’t likely but someone doing something ridiculous was a strong possibility still.
“I’ve already explained to one man that he could not bring a cage to bring back a dinosaur.” Klynn nodded as Agent Murphy sighed. “They will need supervision. He wasn’t even in the list of people going through the gate.”
We were going to end up picking up random stragglers just because they all had severe impulse control issues.
“That doesn’t surprise me at all.” Agent Murphy wasn’t surprised as he led Klynn around the clearing but Daddy was.
“They were talking and getting along.”
Yeah, it was weird.
“Maybe Klynn finally read enough romance novels that he’s ready to talk to…an attractive guy?”
Was I allowed to question if they might be mates?
“I am not sure that is how mates work, my Wren.”
Well, at least I wasn’t the only one.
“So it’s okay that we think they’re mates?”
Oh.
“Do you think we need to explain to Agent Murphy what mates are?”
He knew a lot of weird facts about us, but every time someone tried to figure out why he either glared in silence or just walked off.
So of course it’d turned into some kind of game for the locals…and even the visiting council members had started getting in on the action. Pierce was pretty sure the locals’ bad behavior was contagious and Daddy was starting to agree with him.
“That is a question I have been wondering as well, my mate.”
We’d figure it out…hopefully before those two cranky cuties actually bonded.
“Mates are meant to be.”
Daddy did a mental shrug like he wasn’t really worried about it.
“If you don’t line up and get your shit in order I’m going to—” Whatever Boyd had been going to say was cut off as his mate rubbed his back, not even trying to be discreet about it, but it had the desired effect and the Canadian man who’d been wandering a bit too close to the gate moved back to the rest of the group.
What was in his bag?
Did he have a dinosaur cage too that he wanted to take with him?
Did his bag seem a bit too big?
Had he been hanging out with the Florida people too much?
“Please assemble in order, so we can proceed through the gate.” Daddy’d had enough dawdling too but he wasn’t as grumpy as Boyd. “Remember that some of us coming through felt a bit of nausea, but it faded quickly. Walk slowly so we don’t have an accident on the other side and once you are through the portal please move to the right.”
They were all so excited and worked up I had a feeling it was going to be more like bumper cars on the other side rather than orderly walking, but Daddy had high hopes that we could all walk without causing chaos.
It was cute and completely wrong.
“You’re representing Earth.” Boyd didn’t seem to trust any of them either. “Don’t do anything a local would do and don’t start any interstellar incidents. Don’t do anything that would piss off your mothers. Keep your fucking clothes on and don’t try to bring back any fucking dinosaurs. We’re not looking to start a zoo or change the ecosystem.”
Yeah, those weren’t reasonable goals either but it would be fun to see what was going to happen.
“Let’s go.” Daddy projected calm confidence with his mostly blank expression but inside he was just as excited as the rest of us. “There will be a slight pressure but it is not painful.”
“Kids did this so we can do it.” The only Florida man who could behave himself was a voice of reason. “They shouldn’t have but they did and none of the diaries said it was painful.”