Disgust. Awe. Confusion. Lust. Need. Home. Hate.
The weirdest array of emotions tangled in my belly and sparked through my muscles, pulling everything tight as I debated between stabbing and humping. The emotions and panic were so tangled, that there was a strong possibility that I would stab and hump the wrong ones.
"Yes?" I pushed as much false sweetness into my voice that I could. Pretending for an instant that I could look even slightly innocent as I stood there in nothing but glitter.
After all, I didn't know what they were here for. The TerraLink guy may not even know who I was. Seemed more than likely, now that I could see Natalia. She was grinning and posturing herself toward the Coxian as though she was trying to suck whatever sex juices he possessed through a straw.
"What can I do for you gentlemen?" Innocent. Kind. I really wasn't sure I was pulling it off.
"This is Fey from the planet of Cox," The TerraLink official began, gesturing to the golden Coxian, even though his eyes never left my breasts, that tongue still darting out as if he could taste me. Sick.
"Nice to meet you, Fey." I bowed my head slightly, doing as I had been taught so many years before. Prim, proper, and polite as my mother used to say when she’d prepared me to be sold off-planet.
I pulled it off about as well as I was pulling off innocence. I had met Fey before after all, now I had a name to go with the wide smile. All of those pleasurable butterflies were doing somersaults through my nervous system at hearing his name, the grin he was giving me washing away all of the nerves and fear that had ripped through me only a moment before.
With one look from the golden Fey, an overwhelming desire to fall before him overtook me. To let him take me in any way possible. All of those perfectly built defenses were falling away, the knife beginning to slip from my fingers.
Hell no.
I wasn't going to let this liquid alien turn me into goo, not with the TerraLink guy right there. I gripped the knife harder, still trying to keep my face impassive as I pulled all of my rage and panic past the tightening heat that was forming between my legs.
"Nice to meet you, Kylie."
Screw that I guess. He’d said my name and all of those perfectly controlled emotions might as well have been jelly. Who fucking cared if the greasy TerraLink rep was now readjusting his pants?
I giggled.
I fucking giggled.
Then Natalia giggled.
Then all the girls giggled.
NO. KNOCK IT OFF. No giggling.
"What can I help you gentlemen with?" I asked, zipping that damned giggle into the outer reaches of hell where it belonged. Both men took a step forward, Fey holding his hand out to me as the TerraLink officer let his eyes dive down to the apex of my thighs.
God. What was it with these creeps?
"Fey had approached us with an intent to purchase you, and we are here to facilitate that sale," the TerraLink rep said.
I was being sold.
Not arrested. Sold. They had no idea who I was.
“Oh?” I asked, searching him for any sign that he knew me, trying not to show the absolute delight at being chosen by the Coxian. It was exactly what I had been dreaming of for the past few days. Going with him, getting off the planet where I was wanted for murder? It sounded too good to be true. Oh, and there was the other too-good-to-be-true: I craved this alien more than I’d ever craved a morsel of food when I’d been starving on the streets.
It was my escape. It was what I had wanted long before I had cut off the ambassador’s dick.
Here it was for the taking. Except… was there a catch? Realizing I was maybe too desperate to care, I didn’t question it.
“I accept.” I stuttered out, trying not to giggle as I looked at the overexcited Fey. My eyes moved to the TerraLink rep whose eyes finally reached my eyes for the first time. Any residue of the Coxian's power faded away in the wake of iciness in his voice. The hard light in his eyes. The greasy stretch of victory that he was trying to pass off as a smile.
"Or is there some kind of problem?” Any attempt at calm was gone. Even Natalia's smile slipped, the Coxian's magic failing as he looked between me and the TerraLink rep, his eager grin fading.
"Yes, Kylie Robbins, we have quite the problem. You see, you’re supposed to be dead. You can imagine our surprise when we heard that you were alive."
8
Fey
"What do you mean that you are glad to see her alive?" I asked, rounding on the tall TerraLink bastard the second the door shut behind us. The air had filled with something heavy and foreign.
When I had brought Natalia and the hoity-toity man from TerraLink, Deniel, in here it had all been eagerness and exhilaration. I preferred that to whatever this was. This felt like when Myro had been assigned to me all over again.
Anger near death.
"I would like an answer to my question." I kept my voice hard as I turned, Deniel standing with his back to the door. Natalia and Kylie stepped behind me, behind the old woman's massive desk, leaving me perfectly placed in the middle.
Fine by me, I could take this bastard. I may not have any super alien powers like some of the aliens in the main room, but that was why my father demanded that we know how to fight. Coxians weren't much good in a fight unless you could use spontaneous orgasms and
