Chapter 417

Hassar promised to talk to Fuji. The administrators didn’t like the way Stayne described his relationship with her. A coupling was something both sides should be agreeable to. Stayne made it sound like he and his brothers were at Fuji’s disposal.

“Go back to your chores,” Gunth ordered to the general crowd once Hassar was done talking. “Get everything settled before nightfall.”

“And sanctions for the unplanned pregnancy?” Kein asked as the men behind us started to disperse.

Gunth’s eyebrows shot up and I knew we’d used a word he didn’t know.

“The new child,” Damien clarified. “We created a child without the administrators’ consent. In Ciara’s native language the word is pregnancy. Our owners never taught us the Paterian word, we have always used the human equivalent. What are our sanctions?”

I shook my head and smiled. My men were always willing to take punishment they felt they deserved. Now was no different.

“Go to the evening meal,” Gunth said