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ALEENA

Aleena had expected her new husband to want to change the color of her eyes as soon as they got home. But to her surprise, after carrying all the bags and boxes up to the sleeping chamber for her, he told her he was going to work in his study a little while longer.

After cleaning the kitchen and getting rid of the ruined roast, she went to check on him—only to find him still working. So she selected a Salana book and took a long soak in the tub while she read it.

The book turned out to be a spicy one with lots of kissing. Reading the scenes made Aleena feel hot all over and her nipples throbbed.

Looking down at her naked body, she noticed her new nipple bands and she wondered when her new husband would decide to take them off. The special gold and silver alloy they were made of was specially designed to react only to a woman’s husband—she couldn’t take them off herself and she didn’t want to wear them all night. Maybe she ought to go ask Bear about it and see what he said.

That gave her a new idea—maybe he was waiting for her to ask him about removing the nipple bands and about changing the color of her eyes. That wasn’t the way things were done here on Karpsian Sigma, but maybe it was the way of things with his people. She already knew the Kindred didn’t believe in punishing their wives—maybe they also waited for the woman to initiate intimate relations?

The thought grew in her mind and she began to feel restless and worried. What if Bear was sitting in his study right now, wondering why she hadn’t come to offer herself to him yet? Might he be waiting for her and all the while, she was lounging in the tub and reading a naughty novel? That would be inexcusable behavior!

She got out and wrapped herself in a towel. She’d been half afraid he might already be waiting for her in the bed chamber, but it was empty when she went in.

Aleena dug through her bag once more, feeling glad she wouldn’t have to wear most of what it contained. All of these old clothes could be thrown away now that she had the lovely new outfits Bear had bought her. But there was one special garment that she still needed—her Joining night outfit.

It was something she had scrimped and saved to buy back when they still had money. She had hoped that one day she would get Joined, and she wanted to be ready. And now, years after she had bought it, she would finally get to wear it.

Aleena pulled it out and held it up to admire the scrap of fabric in the soft, golden luminescence of the wall glows. It was a short little dress that barely reached her thighs and it was made of white, nearly transparent lace. Thin straps at the shoulders held it in place and there was a deep V neck-line that tied at the throat with a silk string. Once untied, it would fall open, revealing her bare breasts completely to her husband.

She had a tiny pair of lace panties that barely covered her pussy to go with the little lace dress and she slipped them on, feeling naughty when she saw how little they covered. Why, the soft mound of copper curls and the top of her slit were visible above the little triangle of lace! She wondered with a shiver that was half fear/half anticipation if that would tempt her new husband to take her.

Well, there was only one way to find out. Taking a deep breath, she left the bedchamber and went to knock on the study door.