She blinked."Wait.Your people cannot reproduce?"
"We have never met a compatible species."
"What about your own females?"
"There are none."
His words made so much more sense now.Why any race would be so pleased and joyful over a child--if they cannot have them, then any child, hers or anyone's, would be considered a great gift and protected with everything they had.
And the fact that her father was out to annihilate the entire species?Erase them from existence?
It made her even more determined to bring peace and end her father's reign of tyranny.
As much asshe would enjoy just spending the day in very little clothing and letting Bahran have his way with her, she did clean up and get dressed.And yes, there was fresh underwear in the survival bag that Veta had put on the escape pod.
Caoimhe was almost disappointed about that.
Instead, she put on a pantsuit and started helping Bahran with the ship work.It wasn't particularly hard work.Most of her effort, since she wasn't an engineer, was holding things for him, and since her hands were smaller, reaching into tiny spaces to get parts connected.
And be there for kissing.
Because Bahran liked to kiss.
A lot.
Any time she got near him, he'd pull her in for a kiss.Some were quick, others were intense.
She'd dropped a few tools in the process when he'd ambushed her for a kiss.
Bahran pulled her against him again, and she dropped the little hooks she was holding for him.They kissed for a few moments, and each one was just as wonderful as the last one.
"You dropped that," he said as he caught her in another kiss.
"You just like looking at my backside."S turned to pick the hooks up.
And wiggle her butt at him.
He made this growly noise, and he gave her a light swat on her bottom.
She cried out as she stood.
A sound gave her pause.
Something she'd not heard before.Different from his clanks and clatters of adjusting the ship.That was a noise she had gotten so used to.It was almost a background mesh of sound to her.
No, this was something else.
Her gut started screaming that something wasn't right.
"Bahran, where's my escape pod?"
"I left it outside.Why?"
She looked toward the entrance door they had come in.The door was next to a larger hanger door that she'd never seen from the outside.It was how he got his own ship inside.In the hanger, she could see the lines of it, but from the outside, it was well disguised.
Otherwise, where they'd landed looked like a plateau of rock in an otherwise empty space.Like a tourist spot, really.
Still, she had a funny feeling in her gut."Do you think it will be found out there?"
