Dancer knelt beside her and took her hand in his. “Mia, you have all you need and more. There’s nothing I would deny you or Kalea. Buy whatever it is she desires.” He winked at Kiara. “Can you please call them back and say that Kalea wants to look like a fairy princess? They should bring things to make Her Fae Highness deliriously happy.”

Sumi’s lips trembled at his kindness. She still couldn’t believe the male she’d been lucky enough to find. “You are too good to be true.”

He snorted in denial. “Says the woman who has to fight a battle for me while wounded. Really don’t think I’m that big of a prize.”

She squeezed his hand. “You would be very wrong.”

Hauk smiled, even though he cringed inside. But then, her last boyfriend had tried to kill her and Kalea. Compared to that, he was a definite step up. Sad, when he thought about it.

Kissing her hand, he rose. “I’ll be right back.” He motioned discreetly for Kiara to follow him.

Once they were alone, he leaned down to speak so that no one could overhear him. “Do you know anyone who could bring clothes for Sumi also?”

Adjusting Zarina on her shoulder, she smiled. “Way ahead of you, big guy. They’ll be coming in two hours.”

“Thank you, Kiara.”

She patted his arm. “Anytime.”

He started to leave then thought of something else. “Did you request more conservative clothes for Sumi? I’m not sure I want her in typical Andarion fashions, and she’s thankfully more modest in her tastes.”

She smiled. “Don’t worry. That, too, is already done. Notice my hoo-has are never hanging out. No need in getting someone killed needlessly by a jealous assassin husband.”

Hauk laughed. “Again, thank you.”

“Is something wrong?” Nykyrian asked as he joined them.

Hauk gave him a dry stare. “We were just planning our afternoon tryst. Want to join us?”

Nyk let out a harumph. “Sarcasm like that could get you gutted.”

“And I’m sure that when I die, it will be the result of just such a comment, at just such a time.”

Kiara sighed at them both as she handed Zarina off to Nyk. “All is well. We were talking baby clothes and women’s fashions.” She pulled out her link and headed for a secluded corner.

Nyk raked a less-than-flattering stare over Hauk as he turned Zarina around to hold her back against his chest. “Women’s fashions? So you really do wear frilly pink underwear, huh?”

Hauk groaned at something that had been a long-running joke between Nyk and Darling, that Darling had only recently told him about. It’d started back when they’d first become friends. Darling had been riddled with severe panic attacks, and to get him past them, Nyk would tell him that Hauk wore women’s underpants. “I hate you.”