After Aldin's visit, a week of calm and happy life passed, which was overshadowed only by the absence of Lee and the impossibility of full-fledged sex with Nantes.

I bathed in the love of my parents, enjoyed closeness with my husbands, studied the Delgardis library, talked with the servants, studied Murzik, who smoothly migrated from Alex’s room to our bedroom, and periodically ran into Gryzlik, who was watching for me in the most unexpected places, so that I would at least once scratched his belly and back during the day.

With great interest and pleasure, I watched the morning training of Kai and Nantes. Looking at the polished, lightning-fast and...