I rolled my eyes. What the hell did that mean?
“Are you trying to win me over?”
“I don’t need to try.”
“You’re awfully arrogant.”
“Yes. My people have been told that arrogance one of our flaws.”
“Wow. So there’s not a lick of humility.”
“Enough that I came here to ask you what you wanted me to do with Taylor. If he intends to hurt you again, what will you do?”
“I can handle Taylor.”
He raised an eyebrow in disbelief.
“Were you handling him when I found you?”
“I was drunk! I was just a little drunk.”
“You were completely out of it and he could have overpowered you. He would have hurt you. How can you promise me that won’t happen?”
“You could take care of me like you did last time,” I replied, smirking.
“I suppose that I could.”
He moved closer to me so I was pressed between him and the console.
“Taylor might also harm another girl. What then?”
“Dunno.”
“Well. Because you have willed it, I will let him go. If he hurts another, he might not face such mercy.”
“That’s it?”
“On Devor, only the person who has been wronged can decide the fate of their attacker.”
“What about murders?”
“Then the family decides,” he said, frustrated, as if alien law was my area of specialty or something.
“So we let him go and then what?”
“You go back to your life, Jess. I will continue to observe you until my period of observation is over.”
“I’m just supposed to go back to my life with information about an alien on planet earth and say nothing?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t understand why you brought me here. I don’t understand why you were watching me.”
“Because, you are fascinating.”
As he said those words to me, his eyes glowed a brilliant yellow. I gasped and he pressed his finger to my lips.
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