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Vex

I don’t know how Rallan did it. I don’t particularly care.

I just made out with Simone and made her orgasm, and she didn’t seem like she hated it.

If I weren’t so pissed off at Rallan for discarding our entire plan, I’d thank him for getting Simone to even talk to me.

I don’t even know what game he’s playing right now.

The plan we came up with together to get Simone to talk with us has gone off the rails.

“Are you hungry?” Rallan asks Simone.

He begins to pull out some prepared food from the basket I brought when I set this whole thing up.

My part in the plan was to get the picnic ready, and Rallan was meant to grab Simone.

He wasn’t supposed to bring her to me twenty minutes late with swollen lips and a glassy look in her eyes that told me they’d done more than walk to the meeting spot.

“Did you poison it?” Simone asks, narrowing her eyes on the food Rallan is setting out on the blanket for all of us.

He shoots Simone a grin that makes it clear he doesn’t find her as scary as she wants him to.

He’s been with Simone nonstop since she came to this planet, and he helped her through some of the worst moments of her life.

He’s seen her at her worst, and he still has nothing but love and admiration for her.

“If I were to poison you, I would go the rest of my life with a neglected cock.” Rallan rolls his eyes as he hands Simone a fork. “I have no plans of not using my cock ever again, so no, you are in no danger of poison.”

“Your poor neglected dick, except I can hear you jerking off every day before you come to help me with my hair.” Simone snarls at him but accepts the fork.

She digs into the food as though she hasn’t eaten all day.

She’s been off on her own most of the day, so there’s a good chance this is her first meal.

She can become distracted and forget to take care of herself sometimes.

Especially when she’s working on something she’s passionate about, like preparing the houses for the other humans.

“You listen to me touch myself?” Rallan wiggles his brows at Simone, who scowls at him. “Do not worry. I listen when you touch yourself as well.”

Simone makes a shrieking sound to show her displeasure, and at the same time, I cast an accusatory look at Rallan.

There’s a lot I’m getting used to, and one of the biggest ones is knowing there’s a male who wants Simone as much as I do.

Not to mention, she might want him more than she wants me.

The only thing that makes it almost okay is that Rallan has no issues with sharing her with me.

Nope, it’s a me problem, and I’m still trying to figure out how far he can push things before I get too upset.

“Can we move on?” I snap.

I don’t enjoy this version of flirting he’s able to get out of Simone.

She’d skewer me if I were ever to tell her that she’s flirting with Rallan, but that’s what she’s doing.

Even Rallan knows it if his amusement is anything to go off of.

It makes me wonder how long they’ve had this kind of relationship.

Probably the whole time with how at ease he makes her.

She doesn’t worry about offending him or softening herself for him. She’s unapologetically herself and I’m envious he was able to make her so comfortable so quickly.

“Yes, you are right.” Rallan turns his full attention to me. “Explain to our mate why you broke up with her soul before she was sent here. It is what is keeping you two from finding happiness in one another, which in turn is stopping Simone from finding happiness on my cock. Fix it, please.”

“Do you ever think about not saying everything you’re thinking?” Simone snaps at him. “Why the fuck do you need to bring up your dick in every conversation.”

Rallan shrugs. “I will stop bringing it up as soon as I can pin you down and imprint the feel of me forever inside you.”

Simone’s eyes go wide. For a moment, I think she’s going to say something else to him, and their banter is going to keep going forever. Instead, her eyes grow glassy, and her toes curl into the blanket. It’s even worse than their banter because she’s getting turned on by what Rallan’s saying.

“This is the look I want on your face whenever my cock is mentioned.” Rallan leans back on his arms, his legs stretching out in front of him as he takes up half of the blanket.

“But not right now. We have other things to do. Vex, speak to her, or I will continue wooing her. We both know I am much better at it than you are.”

I huff before wrapping an arm around Simone’s waist and pulling her closer to me.

Rallan doesn’t fight me on it. I doubt he’d fight me on anything.

He just goes with whatever’s happening and wears a smile while he does.

The only time he’s ever been anything other than happy was when he was calling me out for not protecting Simone. He was furious then.

“Rallan told me you’ve been telling everyone I broke up with you,” I whisper in Simone’s ear as she takes another bite of her food. I can tell when she registers my words because her whole body goes stiff.

“You did,” she says in a low, angry voice that tells me I need to tread carefully.

Rallan watches us like we’re his entertainment.

He’s not going to be any help if Simone decides to kill me.

“I’m pretty sure your exact words were, ‘I hope you find happiness. If you find someone else, know that I want you to be happy.’ How’s that not you breaking up with me? ”

“I didn’t say we’re breaking up. I didn’t tell you that you are no longer my mate.” I furrow my brows, trying to figure out how she could have misunderstood me so much.

“You told me to go find someone else to be happy with!” Simone sets her food down on the blanket and turns in my grip so she’s facing me. “Why the fuck would you say that if you still wanted to be with me?”

My teeth grind against one another, and I take in a deep breath. “I didn’t know if I’d ever see you again, but that didn’t mean you were no longer my mate.”

“You didn’t know if you would see me again?” Simone asks with a bewildered expression. “So we might not have ever seen each other again, but we were still together?”

“Yes,” I say, my lips turning into a straight line, my brows pulling close together.

Simone puts her face in her hands and rubs her eyes.

She turns to face Rallan, who just shakes his head, telling her he’s not helping either of us right now.

“Vex, for humans, if someone tells us they hope we find someone to make us happy, it’s because we don’t plan on being the one to make that person happy. ”

“I understand this. I couldn’t make you happy while I was still on Earth. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to join you on this planet, so I told you I hoped you found happiness. Just like humans do.”

“No, but like, you told me to be happy without you.” Simone tries to clarify what she’s saying, but it confuses me more because she’s just repeating herself.

“I wanted you happy here, yes.”

“Without you?”

“Without me.” I tilt my head to the side. “What aren’t you understanding?”

Simone throws her hands up. “If you want me to be happy without you, how does that mean we’re still together?”

“Simone, you own my soul. Every piece of me is yours and will be yours until I die. Even then, you’re so stubborn that you might follow me into the next life just to prove you own me there as well.

I can want you to be happy with another and still know that you’re my everything.

We may not have been physically together, but there was never a moment where our souls weren’t connected. ”

Simone frowns, and for a moment, I think she doesn’t like what I’ve said. Then her tears start to rim her eyes, and I think I’ve really, really messed up. She turns to face Rallan again, and this time, he speaks.

“Is it really so hard for you to believe that we would be honored to be yours even if we could not have all of you?” He reaches up to cup Simone’s cheek, wiping away a single tear before it can fall. “He has never been without you, even if you thought you were without him.”

“And you’re just okay with that?” Simone asks Rallan, not turning to face me. It’s okay. She’s still trying to figure out how she feels about misunderstanding what I meant when I said I wanted her to be happy.

“Am I okay with sharing you?” Rallan tilts his head to the side. His eyes drift over to me and crinkle in the corners. “I have never been a male who was frightened of sharing a female. It helps that Vex is so terrible at wooing you. It allows me to prove I am the better of your mates.”

“Not even mated to her,” I mumble under my breath, loud enough for both of them to hear. Rallan’s eyes flare with the challenge in my words, and Simone turns to face me with her lips slightly parted. “What? It’s true.”

“Vex,” Simone starts to chastise me, but I take a page from Rallan’s book. I crawl closer to her, cupping her face between my hands and taking her lips in mine until her eyes grow hazy in lust again.

“Say my name again, mate,” I growl against her mouth.

I hope she’ll take me up on it so I can pleasure her out here in front of Rallan again and prove to him that only one of Simone’s mates has claimed her in all ways.

I’m a jealous and petty male. I can’t help it.

I’ve never had to share like this, and after having Simone all to myself for two years, I’m still getting used to the idea.

“Not yet,” Rallan interrupts my progress with Simone by wrapping an arm around her chest and tugging her closer to him. “We still need to see if you will kill me if I touch her.”

“It can wait,” I snap at him, not wanting to waste this moment with Simone now that some of the distance between us is closing. “I want her.”

“Do you want to make love to him right now?” Rallan asks Simone.

She licks at her lips, her eyes telling me she does, but she seems to think better of it and shakes her head.

Rallan gives me a knowing look like he knows she’s lying to us.

“Well, you will have to attempt to seduce her another time. Now, it is my turn.”

I grumble under my breath how this is all bullshit, and I don’t miss the way Simone smiles at me.

She might not have forgiven me just yet, but she’s closer to giving me a second chance now than she’s been since she was dropped off on this planet.

I hate to admit it, but Rallan’s helped a lot in getting her to trust me.

Now, I have to trust that he knows what he’s doing when it comes to pushing me.

Rallan stands from the blanket, offering his hand to Simone.

“I think we should take a bath,” he says. He gives me a wicked smile before tugging Simone close to his body. I don’t get a chance to object before they’re moving, causing my jealousy to bubble up inside of me.