Free The Ambassador's Accidental Marriage (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) by Rachel Clark Page A

tended to be miserable at this age anyway—but then Felicity leaned closer and whispered exactly what she had in mind for the sister Cindy had only just met.
    Cindy hoped like hell that the recording devices picked that up. Threatening physical and sexual assault against a minor might have earned her a slap on the wrist back on Earth, but on Descon it was enough to get Felicity’s ass thrown into maximum security. They took protection of their offspring very, very seriously. When added to the charges that would likely come from her gleeful admission that she’d manipulated both IGAC and the government of Earth there was a good chance that all the money in the world still wasn’t going to ensure she saw one more day of freedom.
    The door slid open and Eric, Loukie, and about a dozen heavily armed guards entered the room.
    “Thank you, Felicity Saunders, for giving us enough information to not only clear our wife’s good name but to also make sure that you will spend a very long time as a guest of our criminal justice system.”
    “Y–Your wife?” Felicity stuttered the question, obviously missing the part about her impending incarceration. She screeched in outrage as the guards pulled her arms behind her and roughly secured her wrists together.
    Loukie smiled and followed the guards and their prisoner to the door before closing it behind them. With the room emptied, she and Eric wrapped their arms around Cindy and pulled her close. “Are you okay, mubellabina?”
    “I am now,” she whispered. “Please tell me the recorders caught every word.”
    “Yes,” Eric said, glancing at Lila with concern on his face. “We have already forwarded a copy of the video and sound recordings to the authorities on Earth.”
    “Thank you,” Cindy whispered sincerely. She didn’t know what the penalty was for selling a child, but she hoped Lila’s mother got the maximum punishment. How could any mother treat her child as if she were a possession to be sold?
    Lila stood in the middle of the room, her arms crossed, her features frozen, but it was obvious to everyone that she was holding herself together by attitude alone. Cindy couldn’t even imagine how horrible a life her young sister must have lived.
    “Go and talk to her,” Loukie said with a soft kiss to Cindy’s forehead.
    “I’ll call the physician to check her physical health,” Eric added, “but just knowing that she has family who will accept and protect her should help her through this.”
    Cindy looked up at her tredella and mubella and thanked every deity she knew for the gift of this man and this woman. They’d never doubted her integrity, never questioned her motives, even when everyone who’d known her had turned their backs, and now they easily accepted a child into their lives simply because she was related to Cindy.
    In her time as an intergalactic ambassador she’d travelled to many foreign lands and met many different people, so she knew without a shadow of a doubt there wasn’t anyone in the universe more wonderful than her lovers. She hugged them tighter for a moment and then stepped away to try to help her sister.

Chapter Seven
     
    Several days later, Eric held Cindy in his embrace as they watched his father and father-in-law indulge Lila’s request to play a type of interactive video game together. The two men were obviously awful at it, and Lila spent a good deal of time trying to instruct the men on what to do next, but already the kings were acting like doting grandfathers. Eric knew Cindy felt very grateful for the love and acceptance of a child who’d obviously had none in her young life, and he hoped that she understood how welcome her sister truly was. Family was very important to Desconians, and Lila seemed to be blossoming under the care and attention of her family already. Of course, Eric knew that things wouldn’t always run this smoothly, but at least it was a promising start.
    He smiled at the kings’ antics and pressed a