She regarded me long and carefully. “As long as that’s what you want. Then I completely understand.”
We didn’t speak more about the mating ceremony after that. With the lesson over, we thought it best to call it a day and began to clear away our used teaware.
Unconsciously, I allowed a small yawn to slip past my lips. I probably should have gotten more sleep last night, but Xaden’s renewed vigor was impossible to deny and was… completely and utterly contagious. I couldn’t say no and, honestly, I did not want to.
The abrupt yawn, unfortunately, did not escape the queen’s laser-focused attention. “Did you not sleep well last night?”
My face heated up with a mortified blush. Perhaps sleeping with her son the night before our first-ever bonding session as mother and daughter-in-law had no
