He headed off to his room.Apparently, he had a guest tonight.
Abert grinned.“The soundproofing is holding.”
Hannah laughed.“That’s a good thing.”She looked up to their bedroom and smiled.“I wanna go test it.”
Abert laughed.“When are you planning to have kids?”
“I don’t know.It will be a while.My family is verymarriage comes first,and Neekil is very much that I cum first and second and third, and then he might chip in.”
Abert snorted.“Yes, I know.The soundproofing wasn’t always what it is now.”
Hannah grinned and sprinted up the stairs.Her new brothers had thoroughly tested the ice cream.Izzy was going to be busy.
When she walked into their room, her grin faded at the look on Neekil’s face.She walked up to him, and he took her hand.He murmured, “It sounded familiar.It was.We had to learn about it in our ethics courses.He was an agent.A sandman.And she had been to the XIA recruitment tour.He stalked her the moment she graduated.The moment she turned eighteen, he was at her door, dragged her into the woods, and attacked her.”
“And she fought back.”
“Oh, yeah.It took a number of corpse hunters to find all the parts of him.She was screaming constantly, and sedation had to be employed.She was a tremendously powerful being who had her power taken away by someone who trapped her in her dreams, and she was in them when he died.”
“Fuck.”
“It took her ten years to find her way out.”
Hannah covered her mouth.“How is she so normal-sounding?”
“I am guessing it was her grandmother.Abert said she needed a touchstone.She currently has none.”
“Oh.It could explain why she doesn’t want to socialize.”
“Why?”
“Do you remember how fast Jennel went from being a single mom to banging an XIA team?”
“Yeah.Days.”
“Yeah.Imagine if you didn’t have a teenager to hold you back.”
“Oh.Whoa.”
“Yeah, she probably would have climbed Day-ek while the moving van was there.”
Neekil grinned.“He would not have minded.”
“True.Those two, well, four, are just fun to watch.”
“Yes, I am still trying to figure out what kind of theme the wedding is going to have.”
“Wedding?”
“Jennel and Jennor.I haven’t been to many minotaur parties, but this one is going to be huge.”
“Oh, right.I will find something.I have that card that Leo gave me.It’s a nice shop.”
“I would like to pick something out for you.”
“They aren’t open evenings, so tough.”She walked up behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck, sliding her palms down his chest.“So, Abert has upgraded the soundproofing.Wanna test it?”
Neekil closed his laptop and turned to pull her into his arms.“Absolutely.”
