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is lit up with happiness.
    “No-rah!” I call out, my heart surging at the sight of her. She is so lovely, my mate. I could gaze at her for hours on end and be content.
    Her gaze flicks over to me and she gives a happy little squeak of surprise. No-rah tosses the furs down onto the cave floor and flings herself the short distance to my side, her arms wide. A moment later, she leaps onto me, flinging her arms around my neck and showering my face with kisses.
    I hold her tight and kiss her small face back, over and over again. My world is feeling more and more right by the moment. When was the last time she kissed me with such joy? She loves me, but we have been so tired lately. This, I realize, I need just as much as her smiles. I need her kisses, her small, cold human hands sliding over me. “I missed you,” I growl at her, fighting the urge to drag her to the floor and claim her like a barbarian.
    No-rah presses another happy kiss to my face. “I missed you, too! Where have you been? I was so worried.”
    “Caught in the storm.” I press another kiss to her mouth, but the father in me cannot help but ask, “Where are the kits?”
    She chuckles, and the sound is so light and airy it makes me smile in response. “Asha has been helping me. She loves playing with Anna and Elsa. Come, I’ll show you.” With one last kiss, she slides back down to the floor. I move to her discarded fur bundles and pick them up, holding them in front of my loincloth so no one notices just how much I have missed my mate. Others come up and give quick greetings, but my attention is only for my mate, who takes my hand and pulls me along to our cave. Her hips sway as she walks, and she glances back at me with a sultry promise in her eyes that makes me very glad I have the furs to hold in front of my cock.
    When we get to our cave, Asha is there, holding a small bone rattle over the twins, who are lying on a blanket. She casts a look at No-rah, then rises and steps away as I bound forward to hold my daughters. I have missed their little faces, their toothless smiles, and even the stink of a dirty loincloth. I hug Ah-nah close and kiss her round face a dozen times before No-rah takes her from my hands and I pick up Ehl-sah and give her the same attention. “I have missed my family,” I say, holding Ehl-sah close. It feels as if I can truly relax for the first time in a handful of days.
    No-rah casts a worried look at Asha, and then hands her the kit. “Kiss them for now, Dagesh, because they’re going with Asha tonight.”
    I frown in surprise. “They are? Why?”
    “Because you and I are going to have a night off, just the two of us.” She picks up a stack of kit-sized loincloths and puts them in a basket. “We are going to have a relaxing evening and we are going to talk.”
    I hold my daughter in my arms, trying not to scowl as Asha hitches Ah-nah on her hip and heads away with the basket that No-rah hands her. “We are talking now.”
    No-rah gives me a patient look and then holds her hands out for Ehl-sah. “We are going to talk.” As Asha leaves, No-rah glances at her and then moves closer to me. “That is human-speak for ‘you are going to give me your cock’.”
    Oh.
    Oh . I swallow a laugh, kiss my tiny daughter one more time, and then hand her off. My body hums pleasantly at the thought, and even though my khui is quiet in my chest, I am filled with lust for my mate, almost as intense as resonance. It has been a long time since we held each other and explored. I have missed it, and I have missed my No-rah. I watch as she bundles Ehl-sah into her basket and then takes the entire thing to Asha’s cave. She means it when she says we will have a night together. The thought fills me with an absurd amount of pleasure.
    While she is gone, I strip my filthy leathers off my body and wash with a bit of melt-water warming over the fire. I grow sleepy, lulled by the warmth in the cave, my eyes drifting closed. It has been a long