Lacey's Luhpynes(31)

Ansell snorted. "Likely won't stop her for long. By the by, where's Shan and Martynn?"

"Shan should be arriving any minute but Martynn got stuck in the  capital. Something big was going on so he had to stay and deal. He won't  make it until the morning meal if not later. He did promise he'd try to  get here as quick as he could. Didn't want to miss meeting the lovely  Lacey Rose, the woman who finally hooked our boys."

Shaking her head, Lacey looked to Genny and smiled. "I adore you  already. I truly do because you gave me the two most amazing men ever to  be mine. And you welcome me like family. That means something to me. It  really does. I want to be family and family doesn't worry about every  little thing. Will you let me?"

"You are already family, Lacey Rose," Thorin told her. "Mainly because  you are actually willing to put up with these two hooligans. And you  have made my mate happy. Good enough for me."

Gennette smacked her mate's leg lightly. "No need to be so brusque, Thorin."

"Efficient," he countered.

"Brusque," she shot back. "That may work with the lords and the senators  but you need to be more open with family. Especially the newest member.  She doesn't know you yet, love."

"She'll learn." Thorin grinned.

Lacey couldn't stop her giggles even if she had wanted to. Shaking her  head she said, "Good lord, I see me in you, Genny. I love you for that. I  can see me dealing with these two just like that. Why have we never met  before now?" she asked with a shake of her head. "I think that the two  of us will be very, very good friends."

"The Gods help us all," Thorin muttered. He caught Gennette's hand when  she went to smack him. "Do it again, woman, and your children will end  up with one hell of a lesson."

"Oh Gods," Zhubin groaned. He grabbed a pillow and held it before his face.

"Not like they haven't seen you do it before." Genny smiled slowly. "But  I don't think Lacey needs to be shown just where your sons learned a  lot of what they know in the bedroom."

"La, la, la," Ansell was singing, his fingers in his ears. Zhubin was rocking back and forth moaning as if in pain.

Lacey was laughing her ass off. She couldn't help herself. Snickering,  she shook her head. "God you are too much. I freaking love it. See, this  is good." She patted Zhubin's knee and watched his parents interacting  together. "I need to take notes I think." She shot back after a moment.

"No!" both Zhubin and Ansell yelled, shaking their heads frantically.

"There is no need for you to be so loud, boys," Gennette said, shooting  them both looks to quell. "You do whatever you feel is right Lacey. For  now though I see we're being signalled in for the first course. So, we  shall leave off torturing my sons and enjoy a meal. Come, you can sit  next to me and we'll talk while the men ignore us."

Lacey was laughing her ass off and nodded. Standing, she moved away from  her guys and linked her arm with Genny's. "My parents died six years  ago and I haven't had a mother in far too long. I miss that, more than I  can possibly tell you." She admitted in a soft whisper of a sound, it  was something that needed to be shared just between the women. She then  gave the woman another hug, leaving the men behind as they walked away  chatting.

"Well you have me and I'd be honored to call you daughter, Lacey. You  are just what my boys need," she said as they walked into the dining  room. She guided Lacey toward the table and waved her into a seat.  "Hopefully you will find everything to your liking. It's food not  completely unlike what you'd get at home but it is a little different."

"Thank you. If I have questions you can bet I will be asking." It warmed  Lacey to know that this woman was willing to accept her so readily in  their lives. It made her happy, very happy. "It smells delicious and I  can't wait to dig in," she admitted to the woman as she settled in at  the table. When Ansell sat at her side she smiled at him and took his  hand in hers. Goodness, she loved that man.                       
       
           



       

"Well, don't wait on us. We decided not to stand on any ceremony  tonight," Gennette told her. "But come the holidays it will be a little  different. We're a bit more formal then, as is our tradition," she said,  passing over a bowl. "These are from my garden out back. Fresh-picked  right before the meal. They are, or so Ansell has told me, much like  your world's green beans."

Smiling at the woman, Lacey nodded. "I will turn to you a great deal for  what I should do and shouldn't do. I hope that you will be okay with  that Gennette. I have no idea how to function on this side of the Veil  and even on my side of the Veil I'm more than a little out of my depth.  Sometimes," she added with a grin. "But on this side, if you don't mind,  I will lean on you a lot. Especially come holiday time."

"Whatever you need dear." She smiled back. "But really, it's not too  different than yours I'm sure. We gather as family, have too much food,  celebrate with little gifts and enjoy being together as a family. I  suppose the only real difference would be the food and the blessing we  do."

"Even on the other side of the Veil they do something similar, love,"  Thorin told his mate. "Not quite as particular as we are on it, but the  similarities are there."

That had Lacey grinning. "Well I look forward to it, very much so." She  leaned back once more, Ansell's arms coming around her shoulders  automatically and Zhubin's hand on her knee. She felt the love from the  two larger-than-life men and she basked in it. This was where she  belonged, where she had always belonged and why she had fought it so  long was beyond her. She was here now, that was what mattered.

Ansell pressed a kiss to her temple. "Dig in. We have a lot to show you  after dinner," he said softly. "And you'll need your energy for later  too," he added with a wicked-sounding chuckle. The grins on Thorin's and  Gennette's face said they both knew just what he was referring to.

Lacey laughed and nodded, "So will you, big boy, so eat up." She  couldn't help but tease him back. God she loved these men, both of them.  She would now and for all time do anything she had to in order to  ensure that they all had a very happy and long life.

"Oh darling, I do plan on eating you up." His lips quirked further.  Thorin was coughing into his fist and looking anywhere but them.  Gennette's shoulders were shaking suspiciously, but her head was down so  Lacey couldn't see her expression.

Lacey didn't cave though. "You better. And you had better make me  scream." Yes, she was typically a very reserved person but something  about being on this side of the Veil, being with these people simply  made her want to be saucy, want to be naughty. "Just make sure to save  some for Zhubin."

"He's never had problems going after what he wants. And we've shared so  well in the past, except for the glo-rathan, but that was an isolated  incident I'm sure." Ansell grinned at her. "Besides, I think you are  more than enough woman to handle us both devouring you for hours on  end."

"I think so too." Lacey fanned herself finally, though, and licked her  lips. "Good lord, the things that you boys do to me." She loved it. Yep,  very much so. She loved having them doing to her what she knew she was  going to enjoy, a great deal.

"So, moral of this story, eat all your vegetables. You will need the  energy because you will be burning it. So eat," Ansell ordered again.  "And if you don't, no sex for you." He grinned and turned back to his  own plate which he started to fill with all sorts of meat and  vegetables.

That had her laughing, Gennette laughing as well. Both women knew the  truth. The boys had hit the end of their proverbial ropes and no matter  what, there would be sex tonight. Lots and lots of bonding sex. Lacey  for one couldn't wait for it.

"She thinks we're kidding," Zhubin commented from her other side. When  she looked his way he cocked a brow up. "We've waited five years, Lacey.  A night is a cakewalk in comparison." The look he gave her said he  really wasn't joking. And when she looked at Ansell's serious face she  saw the same thing. They were actually willing to put it off another  night.

"Even a night with me completely naked in front of you? Using my  battery-operated boyfriends in order to bring myself to climax time and  time again, you would willingly turn me down?" Okay so that was likely  far more than his parents wanted to hear but she didn't care.

"I, uh, need some, uh, something from the kitchen." Thorin got up. He  grabbed Gennette's hand and hauled her with him as she howled with  laughter.