Page 147 of Sky’s Edge

He didn’t dodge it, he replied, You must know, it’s for the best. And it didn’t do either of us any good to put it off.

I did know that, but he was being deliberately obtuse about the timing.

I let it go.

It wasn’t my battle to fight (as Tanyn reminded me when I complained about this to him). I said my piece. I took my gal’s back. There was nothing more I could do (all of this also what Tanyn told me).

So with no other choice…

Onward.

On his weekend with me, Tanyn and I hadn’t spent the entire time in bed.

After hours, I’d taken him to my gallery so he could see it and be suitably impressed.

He was.

And he was this so openly, it meant the world to me.

He wasn’t just impressed, he was proud.

Of me.

And that felt awesome.

Further during his visit, Laura and Aleksei invited us to dinner at Spikeback.

Now it was me worrying about timing, because I’d shared with Gayle when I saw her Thursday night that things with Tanyn were serious, and getting more so quickly, but I didn’t want to force her to witness it.

She would have to eventually.

But to my way of thinking, now was not the time.

It was Monique who intervened in that, telling me maybe Gayle should see two beings falling for each other, those beings not fated mates.

Maybe it would give her hope.

So we went to dinner.

Gayle didn’t give much away.

This wasn’t a surprise.

I’d noticed she’d been retreating behind a wall of faking it. I worried about this, but I also thought she should have some time to deal how she needed to deal, and if that time became too long, I’d do something about it.

For now, we all just had to let her do what she had to do.

Our second Wednesday night together, yesterday, didn’t involve Tanyn and I spending all of it in his bed.

Oh sure, most of it was in his bed (and I enjoyed every second of it), but we did get out of it to go to the king’s dining room to have dinner. And he had a comm scheduled with someone in the Six Realms (in other words, someone in a different time zone), but he took me to his study, and I hung out with him and played with Hurley while he made it.

And I was learning that together time worked for me, even if his attention wasn’t on me.

And he was hot as all the hells when he was sitting at a kingly desk being king.

All the bids were in for the work on Sigil, some of it had already started (glaziers were hard at work replacing windows and masons doing repointing).

This meant I had a budget, Jorda had set up the warehousing, and working with Zyra, who I’d roped in (well, not really, she was ecstatic to be asked), I was buying all sorts of amazing things that would furnish and decorate once the building was renovated, updated and cleaned up.