62. Time

Bad luck.

And not because we didn't want it. But who am I lying to? The thing is that Archard turned out to be stubborn, and I understood too well that I had no right to demand something from him when I myself had five husbands. The one who has always been the voice of reason in our difficult company, suddenly showed a steely character and amazing insight in everything that concerned possible “us”.

"I can't," the Naakh confessed that same evening, when my men tactfully left us alone, dissuaded by a bunch of urgent matters, because we had a lot to discuss. - You are very dear...