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She picked up a piece of the chocolate treat in the box. It was a small thing, hard and firm, brown, with a little drizzle design on the top.
“This is chocolate fudge. Chocolate on chocolate – the most basic combo, but really you can’t go wrong with more chocolate. I think, for your first taste of chocolate, this is the best one.”
“And this is the kind of thing you do on camera?”
“Oh, yeah. My viewers love sending me sweets from around the world that I’ve never had to try on camera. And you’re a completely untapped audience! You not only have never had Earth sweets, but I’ve never had alien sweets. They’re super excited. I’m super excited. I can’t wait to show them my adventures with you in space.”
She held out the chocolate piece, as though to say that their adventure started with this.
His mate was strange. Her job was strange. He understood what she did, but he didn’t actually understand why or what her audience got out of it. These sweeties of hers. There was no story here. No interesting hook or anything. It was just a series of long running fluff… not even stories, just fluff.
But not all entertainment was gripping, thrilling content, he supposed. And he might not understand it now, but he looked at this female that was supposed to be his mate… and he wanted to.
Serval grabbed her wrist and moved her hand up. Bringing the chocolate to his lips. He parted them, earning a small gasp from the soft, curvy female, and he just knew she was staring at the sharp teeth lining the front of his mouth – so different from the flat line of her teeth.
He was careful not to touch her with them as he delicately plucked the sweet from her fingers.
It was sweet. Creamy and rich. Not at all to his taste.
But the heat in her eyes when he focused on her face, staring at the hand he still had encircling her wrist, was better than anything she could have fed him.
Chapter 5
Sophie
It was definitely weird to be moving in with a guy on the same day you met him.
It was doubly weird to do it on camera.
And then add in the mix that he was a fish-alien-man-person, and today was already off the rails from the moment her eyes opened.
He bit into the chocolate with shark teeth!
The mental image of him opening his mouth and seeing that all of his front teeth were pointed was burned into her mind even after she ended the live stream and followed Serval off the transport ship and onto his own ship. She wasn’t sure why his teeth, more than the moving tentacles on his head or the fins on his arms – and calves, as it turned out – and those big eyes over slitted nostrils were doing the most to freak her out. Maybe it was because she had to kiss that mouth.
Maybe. Probably. Did his people kiss?
Just another question in a long line that she wanted to ask but was waiting until after the stream when they were in a more comfortable environment. She loved her sweeties, of course, and she wanted to share her life with them, but there were some things that weren’t meant for the camera. And tender moments between her and her fishman mate, especially the first ones, were on the list.
“I hope my ship is comfortable for you,” Serval said, looking back at her over his shoulder as he sealed the doors connecting the two ships. They were both just casually floating out in space, connected by two doors, like it was nothing. “My species runs hotter than yours, so I might normally keep it too warm for you. I’ve turned it down a bit though.”
“That’s okay. I like it warm,” she smiled, not even lying. “Ice cream is frozen, and I love ice cream, and it’s better to eat it when it’s hot. That’s how my channel started, you know. I was making cool and yummy ice cream combos at my job at an ice cream shop. And it just kind of exploded from there. And ice cream is tastiest when you’re warm and snuggly.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever had anything like that,” Serval confessed, leading the way down the hall. “But I imagine you’ll have me trying it before long.”
Sophie just beamed. “I’m going to blow your mind! Ice cream is the best!”
He sent her a smile before stopping in front of a door. “This is your room. I’ve prepared it for you. I wasn’t sure what to get you or what you might like, so I got the basics. But anything else you need, just feel free to let me know.”
Sophie bobbed her head eagerly, excited to see what was inside.
The transport ship that brought her here had been very austere. Simple, plain, unadorned. It was clearly meant just to bring people from one place to another. Like a train car – it was nice, but it was all very impersonal and uninspired.
Serval’s ship, while smaller in size, was already much bigger in personality, and she had only seen one hall. But the differences were incredible.
The halls weren’t square, like the transport ship – and every other building she could think of – but were instead round with a slightly flattened bottom. Strips of light ran down the two sides, the ceiling, and under her feet, pulsing with a deep, purplish-blue color, swirling like galaxy patterned waves rushing across a sandy, nighttime beach. It wasn’t dim, though, there was still white light that seemed to be coming from the walls themselves. Doors were round as well, with lips at the bottom like she was in a naval ship. As far as she could see, there wasn’t a right angle to be found.
Her continued appreciation of the ship’s hallway architecture was interrupted when Serval said-
