Chapter 35 Steel's Mate, Rieka

• Rock finally understood his reason for feeling strange. It seemed that Rieka was part of his family. Rieka was rather lost. She couldn’t understand a thing going on. Godiva and Xena were just stunned.
• Afraid of the way Steel looked at her, Rieka felt uncomfortable. It was obvious that the word mate sounded weird to her and she couldn’t find the courage to ask due to Steel’s gaze, which was so burning, she thought that she did something wrong. With her voice as soft as a feather and her countenance as squirming as a mouse, she said,
• “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to bother you.”