“Their blue is different for yours.”
“Yes, there are many skin pigments, just like on your planet.”
“I don’t understand,” I whispered, “Why didn’t they leave me behind?”
“I asked them not to.”
“What about my mother?”
“You want to rescue her.”
“Yes. I want to rescue myself! I’m homeless.”
“You aren’t. Not anymore.”
Kronos came close to me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I froze. I hated how he had this effect on me, how no matter what I did, he seemed absolutely smitten with me.
“Why do you always have to do that?” I accused.
“Do what?”
“You’re acting like because we slept together it means something.”
“It does.”
By then, Kronos had both his arms around me and my head fell just beneath his ribcage. I could hear him breathing and the sound of two heartbeats. I pulled my head away gasping.
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“Stop.”
I pushed his chest and released myself from his grasp.
“I shouldn’t allow myself to get close to you.”
“Why?”
“You could be dangerous.”
“You’re the one who held me captive. You’re the one who put a knife to my throat.”
He had a point about that, whether I could concede it or not.
“You don’t always have to be such a smart ass.”
“My apologies, sweetling. Now come, let us leave the ship.”
We walked off the same way Thalassa and Morpheus did. As we descended the pearl white stairs, Kronos linked arms with me. It was like grabbing onto a tree branch for support. We passed a number of guards, a mixture of males and females, although I did struggle to tell the females apart.
They bowed their heads as Kronos passed.
“Are you communicating?” I whispered.
“Yes. Now hush, verbal conversation is seen as disrespectful in public.”
That didn’t make much sense to me but the ship was quiet enough to hear a pin drop, so there must have been some truth to what he said. One of the officers on the ship stopped in front of Kronos. She was tall, around his height, with light blue skin and a wild smile on her face. She pressed her forehead to his and he pulled away. I sensed something wistful.
Who was she? After a few moments of them “connecting”, the female pulled her head away, turned around, and walked off in the other direction.
