Chapter 452

On the compound everyone just expected me to be Paterian. Respecting my thought process or considering I felt differently would have been scoffed at. My husbands tried very hard to respect my human differences now.

“Thank you for that,” I said leaning forward and caressing Kein’s cheek. “There is no use remembering bad times, though. We have learned and have much to look forward to.”

Kein continued to look troubled as his fingers pushed my skirt above my knee. He stroked the delicate flesh they had started their torture on and began to apologize again.

“Enough!” I ordered pushing the skirt down and eyeing Kein sharply. “We are done with this!”

There was absolutely no way I was letting them describe to Hodlen’s family what they’d done. It was a private matter, it was the past, and it wasn’t something anyone else needed to know. I wasn’t going to look back.

Kein’s eyes met mine and then he leaned forward and kissed my knee. He wouldn’t press the issue far