Free Bared to Him by Jan Springer Page B

to make sure I am not
dreaming this reunion.”
    Miranda
laughed at Cat’s choice of words. She stepped into the other
woman’s embrace and into a warm hug.
    “ I was so worried something bad happened to you two. I can see
now we were just jumping to conclusions,” Cat said.
    “ Why wasn’t she answering?”
    Calder
had turned to Gray to question him. But Gray ignored him and gazed
at Miranda over Cat’s shoulder. His gaze was so possessive and so
heated that Miranda trembled at the intensity.
    Catalina
let her go.
    “ What’s wrong? You’re shaking?” she said with a
frown.
    “ I’m fine. Seriously. Never felt better. You didn’t have to
come all this way. Goodness, your wedding is in a couple of days.
You must have tons still to do.”
    Cat
grinned. “Oh, I should take this opportunity to apologize for the
last minute invitation. Calder proposed rather suddenly and well
anyways, everything is ready. We’re well organized. We had
originally hired an Octo wedding planner but she had so many
ideas.”
    “ We dropped her like a hot potato. She had too many ideas, if
you ask me,” Calder grumbled but he winked teasingly at
Miranda.
    “ Calder’s right. If we had waited to be married and listened to
all her ideas, we would be a hundred years old. So, we agreed on a
fast and simple ceremony with family and close friends.”
    “ Friends like you two. I’m glad you both are okay,” Calder
said. He stepped forward and gave Miranda a quick hug.
    “ We were…occupied, last night. Miranda decided to Turn when I
was already in the water. But she kept her head and she did great,”
Gray said softly.
    “ Oh, my goodness!” Shock splashed over Catalina’s
face.
    Calder
remained silent, but Miranda did notice an interesting knowing look
pass between the two males.
    “ Oh, sweetie. Come, let’s go and make something for everyone to
eat. You must be starved.” Catalina didn’t wait for an answer as
she suddenly grabbed Miranda by her hand and pulled her into the
nearby salon.
    “ You two men stay there. We’ll call you when breakfast is
ready,” Catalina said to the guys.
    When they
reached the salon, Cat instructed Miranda to have a
seat.
    “ You must be famished. You poor dear,” she cooed as she opened
several cupboards and started dragging out some packaged food that
Miranda had brought along for the trip.
    “ Actually, I’m okay. We ate fish. Lots of fish.”
    Cat
hesitated and peered over her shoulder at her. The other woman’s
cheeks were a bit flushed.
    “ Then you must be tired. I know when I first Turned, I was
confused and tired. Calder and I…um…well, let’s say it was a
confusing time.”
    Miranda
smiled. Warmth embraced her heart at Catalina’s concern.
    “ Actually, I did a lot of research on the Octo site so I knew
what to expect. Kind of knew, anyways. I thought I was going to be
able to handle anything but when it happened, it was just shocking
to go through something like that. I was stunned at first and then
my instincts took over.”
    Cat
giggled. “Oh yeah, instincts are quite nice where males are
concerned.”
    Miranda
patted the bench seat beside her, eager now to get the low down on
Cat’s first Octo experience with Calder.
    In a
second, the other woman had joined her. Before long Miranda was
blushing at how Calder and Catalina had met thru Cat’s mobile
tattoo service. He’d contacted her and had requested a tentacle
tattoo on his cock and Cat hadn’t even known she was an Octo when
Calder had started to pursue her.
    By the time Catalina had finished her story, Miranda was glad
she hadn’t been kept in the dark about her heritage as Catalina had
been. Cat’s confession made a proud confidence weave through her.
For the first time in her life, Miranda realized how lucky she was
to have her overprotective dad and that he had told her about the Octoposeidon
and about her mother being one. And that there was a chance that
Miranda would Turn.
    Suddenly,
she really liked