Do not get angry with me now if you do not like the choice you made, if seeing me with them has upset you.” He took a deep breath. “You sent me away to them so why are you so angry now? What bad thing do you think I have done to you?” Words were beyond her for long seconds as everything he said sank in. She took a deep breath, glaring at him. “You know, if you’d told me you slept with them I wouldn’t have let you touch me.” Her voice rose. “I didn’t know their chores you were offering me included touching you! I thought a house helper was someone who cooked your meals, cleaned your house and just worked for you.” His tight stance instantly relaxed and he slightly paled. His eyes closed for a second and then opened. “I’m sorry, Shanna. I believed you knew what a house helper was and what their duties were to me as their protector.” He took a few breaths. “I will not touch them anymore. That is what I offered you today but I offer it again. If you agree to take over their duties to tend to my personal needs I will no longer need them in my bed.” Shaking her head, Shanna just stared at him. “Wow. I thought my ex-husband was a conceited dick. You take the cake if you think I want to touch you ever again and think again if you believe I’d let you touch me after this. You can take your offer and shove it up your ass.”

“I am offering you sole access to my body.” He was stunned.

“Lucky me but I’ll pass. I want to go live with Oval. He won’t screw around with other women if I bound to him, right?”

A snarl tore from Berrr. “You are mine.”

“No, you have six damn women that are yours. Your bed is way too crowded to add another. I didn’t know when I said I wanted to go home with you that you were a man whore or I would have happily gone with Oval.”

“You will not bound with Oval and what is a man whore?”

“It’s a man who touches lots of women, it’s a bad thing, and it makes me disgusted.

You can’t stop me from leaving, Hyvin. If not to Oval then give me to another man who doesn’t have house helpers and will only touch me.”

“I’m offering you that.”

“Gee, thanks but no.”

They glared at each other. Berrr finally growled at her. “I won’t let you go.”

“I’m not asking for your permission. If you don’t contact Oval then I’ll find him on my own or someone else, anyone else, but you to live with.”

“Why are you so angry?”

She let her gaze drop to the floor between them. Why am I so damn angry? I shouldn’t care if he has so many women he doesn’t know who to do. She was furious though and she had to admit it was because she’d met a guy she thought she’d hit it off with, a guy who she really liked and someone whom she had been falling for. That man doesn’t really exist. It hurt and that pissed her off. Pain-induced anger was totally acceptable to her since it beat crying her eyes out that the jerk was a man whore.

She glared at him. “I want to go live with Oval. I made a mistake and I didn’t understand that house helper meant harem girl.” She threw up her arm to stop him when his mouth opened. “Harem girl means one of many women a guy is sleeping with. This place is a circus and I’m out of here.” She dropped her arm. “I’m leaving you, Hyvin. It was a big damn mistake to be with you in the first place.” Furious glowing eyes burned into hers and a dangerous growl rumbled from his throat. “I will not let you go, Shanna. You are mine.” Shanna glared back. “You can’t stop me from leaving.”

“I can.” He crossed his arms over his chest. “You belong to me.” Lifting her chin, Shanna clenched her teeth for a second. “We’ll see.”

Chapter Six

Shanna was going to kill Hyvin Berrr, no doubt about it. She jerked on her arm but it didn’t come free from the headboard as she glared at the soft material binding her wrists on each arm and wanted to scream…again. The man was a pig, a jerk, a chauvinist, and damn it, really strong.

Last night he’d refused to leave her room so she’d had to inch around him to get out of the bathroom. He’d followed her across the room to the closet she’d raided for baggy, shapeless dresses, the only thing to be found there. Beggars couldn’t be choosers so she’d grabbed the softest one, shoving it over her head, just to be covered up. She’d turned around and almost smacked right into one naked alien who glared down at her.

“Why are you dressing? It is time for bed and I like to sleep without clothing.”

“Good for you. Why don’t you go do that? You have six women waiting for you.” Berrr frowned deeply at her. “You are upset with me over the women so I will not sleep with them anymore. They are already settled in for the night in my bed so I will sleep here with you.”

Gaping up at him, she slammed her mouth shut after it fell open. “You’re not sleeping with me ever. In the morning I’m out of here, Hyvin.” He growled. “You are to call me Berrr.”

“And you are to get the hell away from me, Hyvin. Let your harem call you by your first name.”

“I only allow one house helper to call me Berrr and that is you. You are special to me, Shanna. I didn’t want to leave your bed but you asked me to go to my own.”

“And I’m asking you again. Leave, Hyvin.”

He shook his head back and forth. “The other women make you angry so I will change their duties in the morning. I had no desire to share sex with them. We sleep without clothing on. I had already refused their offer to tongue me.”

“Don’t bother.” She moved around him, going for the bed. The oversized garment she wore was so huge it resembled a muumuu more than a dress. Alluwn, Berrr’s ex-whatever, must be a big woman. “No need to change a thing since I’m not staying.”

“You will stay.” He followed her. “You chose me, Shanna, and I am honored. I understand why my sons are bound to humans. Now that I know you I refuse to let you leave me for another warrior.”

Spinning, she glared up at him. “You refuse? Well, I refuse to stay with you, damn it. You’re a man whore and I don’t do man whores.”