Draco’s twin sister enjoys being pretty, Draco wants to seem grown up. They share everything. They’re practically joined at the hip. Now they’re five years old, Draco is a mama’s boy and his sister is a daddy’s girl. They’re both spoiled rotten.
Wilson is a businessman, he has a big fancy house with a lovely wife and more money than he knows what to do with. But he’s also the owner of a successful kink club, it’s not a secret, his wife is well aware and she supports him. He just hadn’t expected her to show up at his club one random Tuesday night, she had visited him before and this wasn’t her first time at the club, it was just unexpected.
Merfolk live in pods of four to five fated mates, all capable of producing eggs and sperm, but reproduction is decided through a ritualized fight during fertile cycles: the loser gets pregnant. Once submission is clear, the winners—who have fertilized internal eggs—implant them all into the loser’s single shared gestational chamber, where the eggs intermingle rather than being separated; the gestator contributes no eggs that cycle, only body, nutrients, oxygen, and risk. Their anatomy is evolved for this role, with an elastic, highly vascular brood cavity and a temporarily suppressed immune response, allowing them to survive carrying multiple unrelated embryos. The eggs develop slowly at first, then hatch internally and continue as live young, culminating in a live birth in a guarded reef or cave. Parenthood is attributed to the egg-contributors, while the gestator is honored for enduring the cost rather than considered a genetic parent. The system persists because pregnancy is burdensome, fighting favors stronger members remaining mobile defenders, everyone eventually loses across a lifetime, and harming or killing a gestator is one of the gravest taboos, since the pod’s future literally depends on protecting the one who lost. This all falls apart when a human woman becomes their mate. Fate is cruel. Now the pod must figure out of to make this work when their mate is a human female.