Chapter 15
Jamie chose a seat close to where Drake was sitting and started the process of buckling herself in. She’d barely fastened the final restraint when she felt the shudder of the engines kicking on.
The blank wall in front of them lit up with an image of their surroundings. It flickered, then focused on the collapsed roof above them. The majority of it had tumbled in on itself long ago, but the edges still held, making a jagged hole that suddenly seemed too tight to fit the ship.
Jamie held her breath as the ship slowly lifted from the ground. The hole grew larger as they approached, and she fought the urge to close her eyes.We won’t fit. Wecan’tfit. Oh Lord, we’re going to crash.
And then, they were through.
Drake had proved himself to excel at every other skill he’d displayed, so she wondered why she’d doubted his ability to pilot the ship. They were rising into the night sky until they paused above the trees around them.
Jamie looked out over the vista of fields and farms, wondering why he’d suggested she buckle in tight. Everything was still around them.
Then all of a sudden, it wasn’t. The ship shot forward and the farmland became a blur. Jamie had to turn her head and fight off a bout of motion sickness as the ship rushed through the air at speeds she couldn’t even imagine.
“What do you think?” Drake asked, turning around to look her way.
“I think you should keep your eyes on the road!” she yelled, gripped by panic.
He had the audacity to laugh. “I thought I was the one with color-changing skin. You’re looking a little green at the moment.”
“Shut up, turn around and drive!” she said, and then she did succumb to the urge to shut her eyes up tight. The blur around them was too much to handle.
She blocked out his chuckle and focused on her breathing.Fifteen minutes, he said. I can handle that.
Jamie realized that, when her eyes were closed, she couldn’t really feel the sensation of movement from the ship. There was a faint hum, but that was it. They could have been sitting still for all she knew.
She risked cracking open her eyes and saw that the world was still a blur, but when she breathed deep and didn’t focus on the streaks of light passing them by, it wasn’t too bad. After a couple of minutes, she felt well enough to relax.
Her eyes fastened themselves on her pilot. He was back in his human disguise, just a normal looking guy she wouldn’t even give a second look to. But now she knew that underneath, he was anything but normal.
Drake was easily the tallest male she’d ever seen, and, she was fascinated to admit, the most handsome. His muscular body was a woman’s dream. It didn’t appear overly-swollen or out of proportion, like some bodybuilder who worried only about packing on mass. He was definitely well-defined and clearly strong, but his body, though exceedingly large, didn’t seem terrifyingly so.
Everything was just right.
She remembered how silky the tendrils on his head had seemed. They were thicker than human hair, fuller, but oh so soft. And his eyes, like midnight pools with a golden ring around them. If she wasn’t careful, she could lose herself in eyes like that.
Jamie wished that he could put aside his human disguise. She wanted to see him again in all his Zantharian glory.Maybe after all this is over…
She stopped herself from going down that garden path. This was no time to be thinking about a future when she wasn’t even sure if there would be one. Her planet was in peril, apparently the whole galaxy was. When compared to the danger facing countless races, her hopes for a time when she could touch him again seemed inappropriate.
And still, deep inside, she knew she wanted that again. She longed to be possessed by him, ravaged and wrapped in the rapture of his arms.
He’d taken her in a way no human male had ever come close to. Her entire being had belonged to him in those moments. It was so overpowering, so intense that she’d lost consciousness.
And I missed his climax. I regret that.
She’d been excited to watch his face change as he reached the ecstasy of his peak. Instead he’d fucked her into unconsciousness.
And she prayed to God that he would do it again.
“We’re approaching Lake Michigan,” he said, and she jumped, not realizing that they’d already covered such a remarkable distance. “Let’s see what Herman has to say. Maybe he can get a bead on Lakewood’s location.”
Unfastening a couple of straps, Jamie was able to bend down and pull open her handbag. She tugged out the robot, holding him tightly in her lap.
“Well, Herman, what do you think about supersonic flight?”
Several lights blinked over the ball’s surface. “By my calculations, we’ve been traveling at over 3,000 miles per hour. While jets are able to fly faster, I doubt the ride is as smooth.”
