Chapter 16
TENN
“What do you think she is doing over there?”
“Who? What?” Tasha asked, flushed and beautiful from her exertions on the dancefloor. She’d just come stumbling over to the bar to get some water.
“Lualhati,” I said. “Look. She has abandoned the dancing and now she is standing before Warden Hallum.”
“Oh, I have no idea,” Tasha said. Her cheeks were so red. I wanted to lick them.
“Ah, stop!” she cried when I leaned in and started to do it.
“Stop looking so delicious, then,” I grumbled.
I couldn’t wait to have her all to myself again. It had been good to stay with Rivven and Shiloh all this time. But it had left us very little privacy. My loins had many complaints about this fact.
My delectable wife did not reply to my comment. Instead, she was now peering through the candlelit saloon to where Lualhati and Warden Hallum stood facing each other. Lualhati lifted her hand, but I could not hear what she was saying to him over the music.
“Oh! He took her hand!” Tasha hissed, grasping my forearm excitedly and squeezing. “Maybe she’s asking him to dance.”
“Clever Tasha,” I purred. “It would appear you are correct.”
Lualhati was leading Warden Hallum by the hand away from the door where he’d stuck himself since their arrival.
“This is great,” Tasha said, grinning widely.
“Yes, it is,” I agreed. “I cannot wait to see what counts as dancing to Warden Hallum. I never thought I’d get such a chance as this.”
“No, I mean that he’s dancing with her!”
“Technically, they are not dancing yet.”
Currently, they were standing together, still holding hands.
Then, the music stopped. When it started up again, it was a very slow song, the melody poignant.
Almost sad. Shiloh, Xennet, and Dorn stopped dancing.
Shiloh so that she could catch her breath.
Xennet and Dorn because they had no idea how to dance to this new type of music.
“I’ll change it to something more upbeat,” Tasha said, making as if to fetch her tablet.
I caught her ‘round the waist with my tail.
“Wait,” I murmured. “Why do we not wait and see what they will do?”
“Lualhati and Warden Hallum?” she asked. “Do you think they’ll slow dance? Warden Hallum probably won’t even know what that is.”
“Why don’t we show him, then?” I asked.
I grasped both her hands and led her back onto the dancefloor.