CHAPTER 3
Raiza
I stewed in the seat behind him, imagining all the ways I could end him if I only had the tools or stronger guns or pretty much anything at my disposal right now. I watched him warily as he moved around the cabin of his personal airship, powering on the engines and stowing away the weapons I’d used to try to kill him.
He’d touched me and I should have hated it.
Sure, it made sense for him to pat me down for anything else I’d concealed, but he’d done it in a way meant to humiliate me and worst of all, there was a part of me that enjoyed it. Even now, my breasts were throbbing with desire and my pussy was aching for something more, but I didn’t know what. My core constricted and I wondered if this was what desire was.
I shouldn’t wanthim. Not like this.
I’d seen other humans engage in sexual activities together, but I’d always turned away because I’d been too embarrassed tolook. There wasn’t much room for privacy in my world and I’d given them as much as I could, or at least I’d tried to.
There was only so much I could do when the wet sounds of fucking were happening less than six feet away from me. It was safer to stay in groups, especially in times of weakness like when we were sleeping. The soft moans shared between couples were branded into my memory and right now, I was wondering if I was experiencing just a little bit of that.
His hands on me had made me sensitive. Theyshouldn’thave.
I glared at the back of his head. This was his fault. Maybe he was making me react like this. What if making me want him was just another part of his alien abilities?
He sat down in front of me, typing in several commands into the dashboard before the engines whirred a bit louder and the ship lifted off the ground.
My stomach dropped precipitously. The feeling of weightlessness was jarring and for a second, I was grateful to be bound to the seat. As we lifted higher, the force of gravity pressed down on me, and I closed my eyes.
I decided in that moment that I didn’t like flying.
It took several more minutes for us to stop rising into the sky, and when we finally leveled out, I hazarded opening my eyes once again. He was watching me with a curious expression, and I struggled not to scowl at him.
“Shouldn’t you be flying this thing?” I muttered, realizing that his hands were nowhere near the dashboard. He grinned, the pearly whites of his teeth far too bright against the blood-redcolor of his skin and a shiver raced down my spine. My pussy tightened at the sight.
I hated that.
“Autopilot still exists, Raiza,” he chided, and I blushed, immediately feeling like I was out of my element. How was I supposed to know? In the human world, the last working plane probably flew through the skies a century ago. His gaze on me felt judgmental and I pressed my thighs together. He glanced downward and my heated cheeks burned that much hotter.
I knew enough about my body to identify that I was wet. I wondered if he could sense that. Trying to be brave, I searched his face for some hint, but I found nothing. Eventually, it grew to be too much, and I turned away as the full weight of today’s events finally settled on me.
I hadn’t been able to kill him. What if one of my fellow soldiers saw me drag him into that building? What if they’d seen me bandage his neck and pet his brow?
They’d brand me a traitor to humanity. It was a fate punishable by death.
My breath rattled anxiously in my chest. I looked back at Commander Talyn. Did it really matter now though? I was his prisoner and there didn’t seem to be any option of escape at this point.
The odds had been stacked against me in the first place. Maybe it was possible that he couldn’t die? That the aliens had found evolutionary mechanisms that would allow a man like him to escape all manner of death? Maybe he was the ultimate undefeatable super soldier.
His lips edged up in a chillingly seductive grin. I glared back at him, trying to figure out what his motives were and what he had planned for me when we arrived wherever we were going.
I couldn’t shake feeling like I was an innocent rabbit caught in a hunter’s trap. I did my best to ignore that screaming voice inside my head.
Thus far, Talyn hadn’t shown any indication that he wanted to kill me. If anything, it almost seemed like he wanted to understand me, and I could figure out a way to work with that. I’d survive this. Death wasn’t an option for me.
“Where are you taking me?” I asked, doing my best to keep an anxious tremble out of my voice and failing at that too.
He cocked his head, studying me intently before he was ready to answer me. “I am taking you to my home base, the alien city of Zenarkin,” he replied, and I stiffened visibly. He noticed.
I knew whispers of such a place. I’d never been there myself. No one I knew had ever gone there either. It was so far inside alien territory that none of us had dared venture there. It was too dangerous.
All our supply and reconnaissance were based at the outer edges of their land where there were still places left to raid. Sometimes, we were desperate enough to attack their outer camps, but those were only manned by low-tier aliens that we were able to kill.
Escaping from so far inside enemy territory would be nothing more than a dream.
