“Hey,” I said on a big smile. “I like your house. The roof is freaking awesome.”
“Dohno,” he muttered as he walked passed me to the door.
I instantly deflated and I didn’t even know I’d inflated.
Then I turned rather despondently to follow him with my eyes. I figured he had Horde and war things on his mind and was in king mode so he was away to do king things.
But okay, so sure, he only lived here two months out of the year so this probably wasn’t an important place to him and sure, he couldn’t know that in my world, a husband bringing his wife home for the first time was a big thing.
But still…
At the door, instead of walking through it, he grabbed it and threw it to.
Then he turned back to me.
Then I caught the look in his eye.
Then I gave him another big smile as he stalked toward me. Then I let out a laughing cry when he got to me and caught me up in his strong arms.
We tested out the bed first.
It was huge, it was soft and it was sturdy.
We tested out the bathing pool next.
It was divine.
* * * * *
Let’s just say Twinka didn’t like Ghost.
Like, at all.
And we’ll also say she didn’t like the familiarity, consideration, caring and casualness with which I treated my girls and flatly refused to respond positively to me doing the same with her.
But I didn’t care.
I was f**king queen.
I’d endured a Hunt. I’d witnessed a suicide-slash-execution. I’d watched a challenge for the Dax. I’d survived a bloody attack in my cham. I’d assisted in a minor medical procedure with only the most primitive of instruments at our disposal. I’d seen one of my girls beheaded. I had belatedly made one helluva match between a tiny, sweet, beautiful, timid Fleuridian girl and a dark, proud, taciturn Horde warrior.
I could create thunder, lightning, rain, flowers and rainbows.
And I’d made a savage brute fall in love with me in a month.
Hell, by his account, it was practically at first sight.
So she wasn’t going to f**k with me.
Therefore I ignored her and so did my girls.
It worked great.
* * * * *
Once settled in Korwahn, life went on as normal. I spent time with my posse (on my roof, their roofs, in my dining room, their dining rooms, in my courtyard, their courtyards, you get the picture). I wandered the city with my protectors. I met my people. I shopped in the marketplace.
Lahn came home for dinner twice and before I went to bed three times. Other than that, my man was busy.