Chapter 3
Sharon walked next to the tall commander as they headed to the suite of Kiljorn Prime Leader KadEN. She wished she could have changed her clothes or cleaned up a bit after that match with TylOR. Unfortunately, TylOR didn’t feel the need to offer her time to do that.
They stopped at the end of the hallway and TylOR knocked on the door. It opened to a man of slightly smaller stature who was gorgeous, like movie star gorgeous. The men clasped forearms. Then as TylOR motioned for her to proceed, the gorgeous guy introduced himself.
“Miss Task, I’m Prime Leader KadEN. Welcome to Kiljor.”
“Thank you. Your city and your planet are beautiful.”
She walked into a large foyer that was very simple but elegant. She followed KadEN down the foyer to an enormous living room. A very pretty brown-haired woman stood there holding a one-year old little girl with dark hair. The little girl wiggled to get out of her mother’s arms. The woman set her down and reached out a hand to Sharon as the little girl scooted across the room toward her father who bent to give her the kiss she wanted.
“Hi, I’m Prima Lindsey, KadEN’s mate. This is our daughter KatENs. Welcome to our home. Have you had a chance to be shown anything here?”
“Not yet. I’m not sure how much time I’ll have before leaving for this mission.”
“Come and sit down please. I’ll get us some Katieran Juice. Our cook says that dinner will be ready in a few minutes.”
“Thank you.” Just as she sat down, there was a knock at the door. KadEN went to answer it. She was surprised to see that Prime Leader KadEN and Prima Lindsey acted like a normal couple with a normal family. Primes and primas were like royalty — princes and princesses — on Earth.
Two more men arrived and of course they were good looking. One had black hair and the other had dark blond hair. She stood as KadEN made the introductions.
“Miss Task, let me introduce you to two of the males that will be in charge of this mission. This is Lieutenant Commander LazAR and Lieutenant TanAR.”
“Miss Task, good to meet you.” TanAR smiled at her. LazAR just gave her a nod. Both men were attractive. LazAR had the black hair and his personality so far came across as cold. TanAR had the dark blond hair that reminded her of sexy surfers on Earth and his smile was warm and friendly.
She didn’t shake hands with either of them but smiled at each man. “It’s nice to meet you, and, please, call me Sharon.”
Lindsey returned with a tray with glasses on it. Sharon took a glass and sat back down. She could see that her short hair had both men’s attention. Lieutenant Commander LazAR had a frown on his face and she could take a guess at the reason — she was female and Katierans didn’t like putting their females in danger. Whether Katieran or Kiljorn, they all acted the same way.
“Prime Leader KadEN, what exactly is this mission?” she asked.
“Prime Leader RendEL received a message from the Rebel leader OrIN. He wants to meet to discuss a truce.”
A truce? She was a negotiator but she was sure they had people who could do these negotiations. She said as much. “I have experience with these things, but why would you choose me?”
“He asked that a female be present during negotiations to keep tensions down and show our honest intent.”
Lindsey snorted. “He thinks having a female, a weaker gender in his mind, would lessen tensions. I bet he hasn’t met Jaxon.”
Sharon laughed because she had indeed met Prima Jaxon who had been over Lucy’s division. That woman was a beast. “So I guess you needed a female that could handle herself in these types of situations.” Also, she figured since they weren’t sending one of their own females, they wanted someone who was...dispensable.
“We would prefer no female be involved at all,” Lieutenant Commander LazAR said, indicating he had clear doubts about the mission.
Commander TylOR glared at the man. “I apologize for the Lieutenant Commander’s shortness. We take the safety of females and children seriously since we have lost so many of our kind.”
KadEN chimed in to reduce the tension. “Prime Leader RendEL tried to decline sending a female but OrIN refused to have the meetings if a female wasn’t there.”
“Why didn’t Prime Leader RendEL handle arranging everything from Katiera? I was already on Katiera.”
“We had received a separate encrypted message from a rebel informant. He was more familiar with my interrogator StrykER and even helped him and StrykER’s mate Melody escape capture a few months ago. The informant trusts StrykER and wanted to ensure that the message was not lost.”
“What was the message the informant sent?”
“That somehow this was a trap, that the Morins were involved, but he didn’t have all the answers yet. The message was a warning to stay away.”
“Why not refuse to meet with OrIN if it’s a trap?”
KadEN looked at TylOR before he spoke. “Both our enemies have joined forces. This is an opportunity to find out how deeply their alliance runs and possibly what their intentions are.”
