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Thankfully, Andi’s voice brought him back to reality. Gods, what was wrong with him? He hadn’t thought of that time in his life in years! His whole body felt tight and unnatural. Under the damn kilt he was wearing his cock was suddenly rock hard, even though the scars at the small of his back were burning.
“Thrax?” she asked again.
“Fine,” he said, and cleared his throat. “Just…thinking. That’s all.”
“Thinking about what?” she persisted.
“The mission. Shouldn’t we be going? They’ll be folding space for us any minute.”
“Just let me get your invitation to the party. I printed it for you from the digital one they sent me when I sent a request on your behalf,” Kat said. She went out of the room and came back with a stiff piece of parchment. On it, written in elaborate golden script were the words,
Admit one Queen and one submissive and breedable male-wife to the Golden Feast of Queen Pantyitch Tieradaughter and her male-wife, Turg this fifth day of the month of Horstella.
“Panty-itch?” Thrax demanded. “Seriously?”
Kat shrugged.
“That’s her name.”
“Wow—that last name’s a mouthful,” Andi remarked, staring at the parchment.
“The Delta Salacions have a matronymic system of naming,” Kat explained. “As opposed to a patronymic system, which most countries on Earth have. For instance, your last name is ‘Peterson’—somewhere far down on your father’s side there was a man named Peter and his son ended up with the last name of ‘Peterson.’ So instead of that, you take your mother’s first name and add the word daughter to it—then you have a matronymic name.”
“Huh…well, I guess that would make me ‘Andrea Elladaughter’ then, since my mom’s name is Ella,” Andi remarked. “But what about Thrax—does he just go by his first name?”
“He can, but the people at the party will be expecting him to take your last name,” Kat told her. “So for the purpose of this mission, you two are Queen Andi and Thrax Elladaughter.”
“Okay. But what do they mean by ‘submissive and breedable’?” Andi asked, frowning.
Kat shrugged.
“Sorry, as to that, I can’t tell you. I did a lot of research into their culture but not their sexual practices, since you hopefully won’t be there for long. I can tell you that your male-wife is supposed to walk two steps behind you at all times. He’s also not supposed to speak in the presence of women unless he is spoken to first. Basically, he just has to show you respect and keep his mouth shut.”
“Well, Thrax isn’t exactly a talkative guy.” Andi looked up at him. “Are you?”
“No,” Thrax said shortly.
“And…this won’t be a problem?” Kat asked, raising her eyebrows. “Because a lot of human guys wouldn’t like this—though plenty of human cultures still expect women to act like that around men.”
“Not a problem,” Thrax assured her. He didn’t care if he had to walk two steps behind his partner and keep his mouth shut—as long as no one tied him or gagged him or forced him into a pain collar, he would be just fucking fine. “Andi takes the lead on this one—what’s the big deal?” he said.
“Okay, then good.” Kat nodded. “You’d better get going. Good luck on your mission—Commander Kier is a friend of my guys so both Deep and Lock are rooting for you to bring him back.”
“We’ll do our best,” Andi promised her. She looked up at Thrax. “Come on—let’s get to the ship.”
“Right behind you, Queen.” Thrax made an elaborate “after you” motion with one hand and his partner laughed and slapped him on the arm.
“You don’t have to start that until we get to Salacious Delta, you know! Come on, let’s go.”
They left Kat’s suite but inside Thrax was hoping that the mission would be simple…and quickly over. He truly didn’t mind playing a submissive male…but he didn’t want his past to bleed into his present, which was what he feared would happen if they played these parts for too long.
5
ANDI
“Kindred vessel you are cleared for landing,” a strong, female voice said over the com-link of the long-range shuttle.
Andi leaned forward.
