Their Unusual Mating [Paranormal Protection Unit 5] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Honor James Page A

try to think about having other men to have to juggle or please. “In fact I think that you and I should curl up in the middle of this holy crap big bed, turn off the lights, and just talk until we are both ready for sleep. How does that sound to you?”
    “That sounds like a good plan,” he said quietly. “And it’s not really that large, at least not when you consider that Katherine was buying in relation to what she needed to purchase for herself. It is nice to have all the additional room, though I haven’t yet managed to fill it all at one time. It is a challenge that I’m still attempting to figure out.” Shifting, he pulled the blankets back so they could climb under and waited until she was settled before he turned the lamp off. “What would you like to talk about, Rimi?” he asked curiously, instinctively finding her hand so he could lace his fingers with hers and just feel the heat of her skin to his.
    Rimi moved so that she could curl up against him and sighed happily as she did so. “This is much better.” Their hands were still joined. She was heated by him and felt so very much better. “I just wanted an excuse to stay with you,” Rimi admitted softly. “Wanted an excuse to just be here with you, in bed with you.”
    “Oh,” he murmured softly and wrapped his other arm around her shoulders, pulling her in closer to him. Resting his cheek to her hair, he breathed her in slowly. “Tell me about yourself, Rimi, everything. I want to know all about you, little one,” he said softly, running a finger up and down her back gently.
    “My parents died when I was really very young. There was a burglary at my mother’s shop and the person who broke in killed both Mom and Dad. I don’t even recall them,” she admitted. “I have my godmother. She was there for me but didn’t raise me. I went from aunt and uncle to uncle and aunt and so on,” she told him. “At least until I was able to go to boarding school. Then I was pretty much raised by my teachers, professors.” She shrugged. “But it was a good life. I enjoyed myself and I always knew that I was loved.”
    “I’m sorry,” he murmured, not sure what to say. “No one should have to lose a parent so early in life. Especially when they are needed to help us grow and blossom,” Laighean said quietly. “I was lucky. Mine were alive when I was put into stasis, but I found out they passed a few years later. I don’t even know where they were laid to rest. Maybe one day I’ll figure it out.”
    “Wouldn’t they have been in stasis as well?” Rimi asked with a frown. “You are Fae. Weren’t your parents also Fae?” Lifting herself up and on her elbow, she looked at him. “Did they pass while in stasis and perhaps their bodies are still in the stasis whatevers?”
    “My father was Fae. My mother was a Lynx changer,” he murmured. “Because mother couldn’t be forced into the stasis by the rules governing the Fae, I think that Gaia allowed my father to choose whose law to abide by. Looking to protect her as was his way, he likely would have chosen to remain with her and be under Lynx law. But without the Fae there to protect them and without actually getting approval from the Cats’ King, they would have been without a House to protect them. Or that is my best guess. I honestly don’t know. All I do know is they were not there when we woke. Believe me, I looked very carefully.”
    “I’m so sorry, honey,” she whispered softly. “I’m so very sorry that you had to lose them and you didn’t even know that you had lost them. I can’t even fathom just how hard that could have been on you, was on you,” she admitted quietly. “But you have me in your life now. You also have Kat and her three men, and you can call us your family.”
    “I will call you mine,” he murmured, drawing her in closer to him. Sliding a hand to her hip, he gently rubbed his thumb to the bare flesh he found just above her waistband. “Katherine is my