My Servant System

"Astra dear, you simply cannot go outside looking like this. What if you lose any of them, hm? These are valuable things that your Mommy got for you."

The youngest pup just grinned at me and continued to fasten all of her pieces of jewelry onto herself, the vast amount of rings, bracelets and necklaces that now adorned her making her look gaudy... yet also very adorable.

Her auburn hair and fur were glowing in the light coming in from outside, while her radiant smile always lit up the room no matter what, especially whenever she was in trouble or knew she needed to convince people to do what she wanted.

It was that sort of ’manipulativeness’ in Astra that sort of worried me about her future since she was extremely competent in weaving together words, looks and actions to get exactly what she wanted, whenever she wanted.

Where Camilla worried me because of her somewhat brutish nature, and Nicoletta worried me because she was determined to push herself so damn hard, AND Zariah worried me because she was... well, Zariah, Astra being like this was honestly more worrying than all of them.

Maybe even combined...

I knew damn well how potent a coy look, thinly veiled whisper, and a purposeful walk somewhere else could be to the average person, let alone to people that weren’t aware that this pinkish eyed Caninekin was going to be using Lust Mana on top of all of that.

She had no idea that she had it either, yet already she was slowly becoming something to be feared... and that really got me worried, though admittedly I don’t know if I could deny that I was also oddly proud of this happening...

It was like looking into a mirror and seeing myself, just younger, far more fluffy and adorable, and also noticeably not bound to someone else via the soul, which was something that - and I will never tell Jahi this - sometimes did wear at me.

That knowledge that I was never going to be truly free of her was sometimes a bit ominous and very terrifying, yet more often than not I was relieved because it made making her mine that much easier.

Knowing when she really needed that uplifting talk, when she was desperate for the right kind of sex, and being aware of just how much she was hiding behind her usual sly smile and practiced arrogance... all of that made it easy for me to make her completely and utterly mine.

Most of her, anyways, since a fair amount of her was reserved for Anput and Leone as well, and now that I was slowly getting fat again thanks to her repeated efforts to sire an heir, I knew that more of Jahi was getting ’taken’ from me.

Not that I minded, anyways, since some of me was being taken from her as well... which just thinking that had me idly stroking my belly, something that Astra caught as she skipped over to me and pressed her head against my hand.

"Mama, when do we get to see our new sister?"

Humming softly, I reached down and stroked her ears as I ignored how she was quick to try and change the subject, something that both amused and irked me in equal measure; her being so fluffy and adorable made it difficult to be ’upset’ at how good she was at this, but still...

"Not for some time now, my pup... a few more months. A few more long, long months... Now, are you going to take a few of those off, or do I need to pick which ones stay here at home?"

The way she immediately pouted before brightening up when Anput entered the room made me roll my eyes even as a smile tugged at my lips, and before she could weave together some elaborate plan to go out as she was, I turned to my mate and shook my head.

"Astra refuses to take off some of her jewelry, and I don’t want it getting lost. If she won’t pick which pieces she can do without..."

I left it at that, and while Anput was initially going to just shrug it off and let Astra do whatever she wanted, a sterner look from me made her stiffen up before she gave an indulgent smile to our pup, saying "Listen to your Mama, alright? ’Cause if you go out there and lose one of these, you won’t be getting another one from me, alright?"

Astra pouted before she tried to argue "Then I’ll just get Mommy Jahi or Mommy Leone to get me more!", to which I just chuckled and said "They won’t be getting you anything else, Astra, not when I tell them not to do so."

The amount of ’betrayal’ in her innocent eyes as she stared at me made me chuckle again, and this time Anput couldn’t help it as she hoisted our pup into her arms and said "Though while your Mama there says no more jewelry, we could probably make our own~! Won’t be as pretty as what you have here though."

My mate just ignored my glare while Astra blinked a few times, causing Anput’s smile to widen before it stiffened as our pup shook her head, saying "No, it needs to be pretty." rather resolutely, and even with a bit of disdain that only a youthful brat could muster.

There was no winning in the face of an argument that was founded entirely in the mind of a child, so Anput just let out a wry chuckle and shrugged her shoulders before she held Astra still, allowing me to start plucking off some of the many pieces of jewelry she had thrown onto herself.

"But Mom..!"

"No, your Mama said that these need to go, so don’t keep fighting me on this..!"

Astra wiggled around before going limp when she realized that Anput wasn’t going to let her get away with this, letting her Mom take off some of her jewelry before baring her fangs when her favorite pieces got targeted.