Page 66 of My Pleasure

“Me too, Ma.”

Myra passed them plates, and they passed food back and forth until they had what they wanted for breakfast.

Ryuu came in with a tray. He wordlessly set the ketchup down next to Meryn, then passed Augustus, Hunter, and Johann a cup of coffee with small pitchers of cream and a bowl of different sweeteners.

“The French Press and lattes should be ready in a minute,” he explained, then headed back to the kitchen.

Meryn grinned evilly and squirt ketchup all over her eggs. When she was done, she passed the bottle down to Keran. “Try just a little, if you like it, you can add more.”

He took the bottle and squirt a tiny bit on the eggs on the outer edge of his plate. He took a bit and his whole face lit up. He picked the bottle up, and covered the rest of his eggs. He turned to Nicol. “Wanna try.”

“No. That looks gross.”

“More, for me,” he replied.

When Ryuu came back in, he set down cups next to Connor, Eoin and her, then took his place behind Meryn.

She lifted the cup and inhaled. “Smells perfect.” She took a sip. The espresso was mild and the cream thick, she didn’t even need to sweeten it.

Augustus set his cup down. “Me and Connor will go with you to the bank. I have a feeling there will be a lot of paperwork involved. Make sure you bring all your human IDs.”

“I will,” she assured him.

Augustus continued. “Rory is meeting with Castle News after breakfast. Eoin should be back by lunch. He dropped off the custody petition I finished last night, then he will be heading to one of the local taverns to get a read on the locals’ current mindset.” He took another sip of coffee. “After that we need to put feelers out for a place to live.”

Hunter looked down at her then over to his brother.

She watched, feeling a bit confused at his expression.

“Actually, I have an idea I want to run past Caiden,” he said.

Augustus raised a brow.

Hunter continued. “If all the warriors are getting mates, then we’ll want spaces of our own, especially with children.” He pointed to Meryn, then Keran and Nicol. “I was thinking we could build small warrior villas around the Nu estate.”

Johann rubbed his chin. “There’s enough room and it’s the perfect time of year to build.” He looked over at his son. “You’d have to reach out to Lycaonia and Éire Danu. Lycaonian builders can’t be beat, and you don’t want anyone else but fae craftsmen for interior work.”

“Aiden will have to sign off on it too. Treatment of the unit warriors have to remain uniform across all four cities,” Hunter added.

Meryn waved her hand. “You’re fine. We added on to the Alpha estate. Adriel moved the entire Eta unit to Level One and Darian is building some combination apartments and treehouses for the warriors in Éire Danu. Everyone is adjusting to having mates.”

Kiera frowned. “Didn’t warrior mates usually stay with the mate’s families. When did they start living at the unit estates?”

Meryn raised her hand. “I told Aiden he could either let me live with him or our mating would head south.” She paused. “I’m way clingier than I thought I’d be. Who knew?”

Hunter added more bacon to his plate. “More than one warrior lifted your name in prayer after that Meryn. We’ve always wanted to keep our mates close.”

“Made sense to me,” she shrugged.

Augustus took out his phone and made some notes. “After the official okay from our Unit Commander and Caiden, we’ll have Connor whip up some building permits.”

Connor, mouth full of food, simply raised a thumbs up.

“Did I hear my name?” Caiden asked, coming in with Aiden.

Both men sat down and immediately reached for a slide of bacon.

Hunter grinned. “Can we build warrior villas around the Nu estate for mates and kids?” he asked simply.