Page 9 of His Little Cinnabar (Eleadian Mates #12)

Chapter Nine

Janelle

I’m panting from both exertion and frustration. I can’t believe Papi held me down so the doctor could put that horrible thing inside me. And even more humiliating, he made me orgasm while the doctor watched. To further my mortification, he did so with two fingers up in my forbidden hole.

I can’t decide if I want to thank him or punch him. The big meanie. I don’t make eye contact with either man when Papi lowers me to my back on the table and Dankin uses some sort of odd device to scan my body. At least it doesn’t hurt, and he’s not touching me.

By the time the doctor gives Papi the go ahead to put a fresh diaper on me, my anger is waning. What they did was gross and humiliating, but Papi has a way of making it up to me by pleasuring me after he does something I won’t like.

When he finally lifts me into his arms, I cling to him around the neck again. He’s all I have to navigate this strange new world, and I don’t want him to be mad at me and leave me alone.

“I’m sorry, Papi,” I whisper in his ear.

He rubs my back. “It’s all forgiven, Baby girl. I know that was hard. I promise it will get easier. There are so many new things you’ll be introduced to when we get home. You’ll learn to trust Papi to guide you and make the best decisions for you.”

“Okay, Papi.” I lean my head on his shoulder. “You won’t put me down, right?”

He chuckles. “No, Little one. Holding you in my arms brings me great pleasure. I won’t set you down until you’re soundly asleep on the transport vessel. You’ll know nothing about it. In six months, when we get home, you’ll wake up in my arms. I promise.”

I lift my head. “Six months?”

“Yep.” He carries me across the hallway into another room where Dankin said we will wait for clearance to travel.

“That’s a long time.”

“It will seem like nothing at all to you, Little one. I will put you to sleep before we leave, and you’ll wake up on Eleadia as though you had a nap.”

“What will you do?”

“Take care of you.” He smiles at me. I’m glad he’s not mad.

“That’s why the doctor said my boobs will be bigger. Six months of you feeding me with no exercise will make me gain weight.”

“It will, Little one. You’ll be just as pretty no matter what you weigh, though. I don’t want you to worry about it.”

“I don’t think you understand how mean women can be. I’ll be humiliated if no one wears a shirt. You say the other women are nice, but if my boobs are flat, they will stare at them and wonder what’s wrong with me.”

Papi shuts us in a room that looks a lot like the apartment he had on Earth.

He sits in a rocking chair, keeping my body rolled against him, our chests touching.

“You’ll see, Little one. I promise. If a Little girl on Eleadia even thought about making fun of another Little girl, her bottom would get spanked so hard she wouldn’t be able to sit for a millennium. ”

I giggle. “That’s a long time, Papi.” I guess I’m done being mad. I’m unnerved that I can still sense his fingers in my bottom even though they’re not there any longer. And my pussy still tingles from the orgasm he gave me. I can’t believe he did that in front of the doctor.

He rubs my back. I like it when he does that . “A millennium is a very long time. I suggest you not even think about making fun of another Little girl.”

I gasp. “I would never do that, Papi. Hopefully no one will think to call me the stupid nickname the mean kids called me in school,” I grumble.

Papi frowns. “What nickname was that, Little one?”

I lower my gaze and whisper, “Plain Jane.” I lick my lips. “She has no brain.”

Papi’s entire body stiffens. He grabs the back of my neck and tips my head back. “I’m sorry that happened. That’s very mean, and nothing like that will ever happen to you again. I promise. Never . No one behaves that way on Eleadia.”

I purse my lips to hold back my tears. “Can I stay with you all the time?”

“Yes. You’ll rarely be apart from me, Little one. We don’t separate from our mates. I told you that.”

“But what happens when you have to go to work? Will I be home alone? What if someone comes to the door? Can I pretend I’m not there?

I don’t like to talk to people. What will I do when you work?

Will I get a job, too? I don’t have any skills.

” I ramble all of that so fast, not giving him a chance to respond. I have so many questions.

My head is spinning. I’m scared. How is this going to work? He has no idea how awkward I am or that people don’t like me.

“Janelle…” His voice is soft and kind.

“Why did you pick me? I’m weird and awkward. No one ever picks me for anything.”

“You’re not weird or awkward, Baby girl. You’re exactly perfect for me. You were fated to be my mate. Now take a few breaths so I can answer your questions.”

I inhale deeply.

“Good girl. My job is designing landscapes. I sometimes go to people’s homes to help them choose what plants and other flora they want in their yards.

I do a lot of that work from home after I’ve visited their houses.

You will always be with me. When I have to go to a property, you will come with me.

You will never be left alone for any reason.

I wouldn’t be able to walk away from you, and I’d worry the entire time.

We don’t leave our mates unattended ever.

If, for some reason, I had to go somewhere you couldn’t go with me, I would leave you with another Papi for a short time. Not long.”

A weight lifts from my shoulders. “You won’t leave me alone?” I keep harping on this because it worries me. It’s hard to believe everything he’s saying.

“Never. Can you feel our bond growing?”

I nod. It’s weird, but I feel it.

“That’s going to increase every day. Can you imagine me putting you down in here and leaving the room?”

“No, Papi.” The idea makes my throat constrict.

“I can’t imagine it either, Little one. It won’t happen.

And let me address something else. There is no class system on Eleadia like you have on Earth.

If you don’t want anyone to know your background from your time on Earth, you don’t have to tell them.

Every Little girl will look exactly the same.

Diapers, pigtails, pierced nipples. There’s no makeup.

No nail salons. No special hairdos. All Little girls are on equal playing fields no matter what background they came from.

There’s no room for the kind of mean behavior you’ve experienced on Earth. ”

“Okay.” I try to picture a world where some of the mean rich girls I knew in school would be forced to use a diaper and forgo their makeup.

Papi lifts my chin. “You know what I suspect, Little one?”

“What?”

“Fate doesn’t select a mate for us who has a mean disposition.

Fate selects for each of us a Little girl who is kind and loving.

Someone who will be able to adjust to our way of life.

There are times when Little girls arrive who have more difficulty than others submitting to their Papis and accepting life on Eleadia, but they eventually always come around.

You, my sweet, precious Little one, are not going to have many difficulties. I can feel it in my soul.”

I smile at him. I hope he’s right. I feel so lucky to have come into the club tonight and met Papi. It was such a random decision made mostly because I wanted to get warm. Was there more to it like Papi thinks? Was there a higher power that propelled me to go to the club on this particular night?

“What if I hadn’t come in tonight, and you had found another Little girl?” Papi makes me feel little . I don’t know how that’s a thing.

“Nope. It doesn’t work that way. I’ve been on Earth visiting the club every night for two weeks, Baby girl. I would have been there until you came in.”

That idea makes me feel special. “Why do you call me Little and Baby?” It’s partly my size, I guess.

After all, he’s more than twice as big as me.

I can easily curl up in his lap and snuggle into him forever.

But when he says little , I know he means something deeper.

“Is it my age? How old are you?” I figure he’s about thirty.

He smiles. “One hundred twenty-eight.”

I sit up taller. “Nuh uh. Don’t be silly.”

He laughs. “It’s the truth, Little one. We age much slower on Eleadia. You will too. We’ll live hundreds of years together.”

My eyes pop wider. “That’s crazy. Seriously?”

“Yes. We have a much healthier environment and lifestyle. We don’t have the kinds of stress and anxiety humans have. Our air and water are clean. Our food isn’t covered with pesticides. We don’t eat things that are unhealthy.”

“So you don’t have candy and cake and ice cream?”

“No. We don’t even know what those things would taste like.”

“But I do. Don’t the other mates want treats sometimes?”

“They might want them for a few years, but we still don’t have them. After a while, you’ll forget what they even taste like. Your palate won’t crave things you can’t have.”

I slump a bit. “Poop. Tacos?”

Papi lifts me up so I’m on my knees on his lap. He wraps his arms around me and holds me closer, kissing me softly before saying, “No tacos. But I also won’t feed you poop,” he teases.

I roll my eyes and wrap my arms around his neck. “You promise you’ll be the first thing I see when I wake up?”

He rubs my back. “Yes, Baby girl. I wouldn’t be any other place.”

I chew on my bottom lip. I’m so nervous about being alone on another planet. “What if you change your mind and you don’t want me anymore? What would I do? I won’t even know anyone.”

“That’s not a thing, Janelle. Our bond is permanent. We mate for life. Nothing breaks us apart. It’s not like Earth. Humans don’t have the ability to feel as deeply as Eleadians feel for their mates. They get married and divorced like it’s no big deal. That never happens on Eleadia.”

“Never ever?”

“Never. You don’t need to worry, Little one.”

I am worried, though. Very worried.