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But if he had any feeling for her, he would have at least introduced himself properly, shared his name. Told her something about him. Instead, he had avoided her after his questioning. Avoided the woman he was about to take to his home planet and breed with.

“Believe what you like, Elissa. But if you tell them anything about us, you will be coming back to Earth for the funeral of your sister.”

Behind her, the doors opened and Harri straightened up, her alien had walked back into the room. A momentary look of disgust crossed Harri’s face and then he smiled and said, “All finished. Have a great journey, Elissa. We are all so proud of you.”

Then he left, her world in turmoil. There was no one she could turn to, no one to tell. She was all alone, as was Tikki, whom she was now leaving in danger. With no way to warn her.

 

Chapter Eight – Marin

She looked so pale, and so frightened sitting on the hospital bed. The thought of being his woman must be weighing heavily on her. But he knew how to please an Earth woman; maybe he should tell her that. Reassure her that when he took her, she would find it hugely enjoyable.

However, this was not the time. Damn if he didn’t wish that they had lessons on how a woman thinks, not just how to please her in the act of mating. Yet there seemed to be some confusion even amongst the human males as to how to understand a female.

“How are you feeling?” he asked.

“Feeling?” she repeated, and she was right to question him. Of course, with his heightened senses, he already knew.

“Yes.” He wanted to reassure her. “I know you will like Karal. It is beautiful.”

“And lonely.”

“I will be there for you.” He hoped to make her stay with him interesting at least. Marin often forgot that his task was not to simply procreate, but to find a way to make her
like
his species.

“That might be more appealing if I actually knew who you were. You know, they announced my name to the whole world, well, two worlds, and yet I don’t know yours.”

“Ah. I forgot you have no Stream in the hospital. I have been subjected to, what do you call them, StreamViews. They ask me question after question regarding things about which I have no idea. Your Earth culture is so different from ours.”

“You mean I am the last person to know your name, yet I am being given to you to breed with?”

He winced at the accusation in her voice. She had returned to the woman he had been told she was, not the woman he had met only two days ago. He paused to watch her, to read her mood. She was more agitated than before, and again scared. He could put it down to her feelings about going to a new planet, but there was more. Such a complex creature.

“My name is Marin.”

“Well, Marin. Shall we go and play charades for a little longer?”

“Charades?”

“Play out a scene. That is what we are doing, playing happy couples.”

“I am not used to
playing
at anything.” He looked bemused.

She stared at him, trying to decide whether to answer his comment. Yes, there was something new about her. And he had an overwhelming need to know what. He took a step toward her, and she leaned back, afraid. He was undeterred; he had a hold over her, a knowledge that she wanted to keep secret. If he had to, he would use that now to bend her to his will. But before they left this room, he wanted to break down her first barrier. He needed them to look more relaxed when they walked out to the flash of cameras.

He had been told the best way to do this was to kiss her. Kiss her in such a way she would be weak at the knees. Yet for a man who had never kissed a real woman before, only a simulation, he had no idea if he could accomplish that.

Slipping his arm around her, he pulled her to him. She went rigid, her eyes opened wide, and panic emanated from her body. He could feel it as his fingers touched her skin, brushing her hair back from her face. Was it unfair to do this when she couldn’t fight him off because of her damaged hands? It didn’t matter: she couldn’t deny him, she had agreed to this, or rather, her sister had. The only way she could back out was to tell the authorities of her deceit. And he knew she wouldn’t do that. No, she had to play along.

He leaned in to her, tilting his head to one side. She moistened her lips with her tongue, which was a good sign from what he recalled. Funny—all of a sudden, despite the many hours he had studied how to kiss a woman, it all disappeared from his head. The voice in his head screamed at him to pull back, not to make a fool of himself in front of her. But he couldn’t, his desire for her won, and he parted his lips and pressed them against hers.

At first she froze. He moved his lips, the action becoming instinctive, his hand went to the small of her back and he pulled her to him, pressing her firmly against his body. Her curves melted around him, they could almost be one being, standing here together.

As if made of ice, she melted against his heat. Her lips moved, opening slightly as a sigh escaped her. Encouraged, he probed her mouth with the tip of his tongue, running it along her lower lip before pressing forward. She allowed him access, and then as he moved it in and out she sucked on his tongue, nearly making him explode.

It was not Elissa, the human, who felt her knees go weak. It was Marin of Karal who staggered under the great weight of his desire. Desire for a woman who was only a breeding slave. Yet he knew, as the colours rushed unchecked over his skin, that he would never be able to let her go to another man. He understood the Earth tradition of one man, one woman in a relationship. He also began to understand the human emotion they called jealousy. Because he wanted to covet her, keep her as his own. The rest of his race be damned.

All that from one touch of her lips. What would happen to him when he took her to his bed?

 

Chapter Nine – Elissa

Unexpected emotions flowed through her. She had been kissed before, but never like that. Never with such passion, such hunger. The way he had drawn her to him, she had felt the press of him against her leg, the long length of his cock, at least she presumed it was his cock. No one had exactly given her a biology lesson on the Karalian body. She was at least relieved that she felt a similar size to an Earthman. He wasn’t going to rip her in two when they mated.

That was still something her mind wanted to shy away from, despite the sensations he elicited in her with his lips. Elissa had never been the kind of woman who slept around; she’d only had sex with men whom she had been in a relationship with for a while. Those men she could count on one hand. Unfortunately, Harri was one of those she could count.

“We need to go,” he said.

“What about my luggage?” she asked.

“Drak and Okil will follow us.” He lifted his eyes to look at the guards who remained outside her room. “They will bring your bags down with them. You understand they will be searched.”

“Yes, I know you don’t trust me.”

“In the same way you do not trust me.” He paused and then added, “I was chosen so that the Hierarchy could see if there is any way for our two species to settle our differences.”

“You mean to see if there is a way we can get along. Two people who don’t like each other.”

“Something like that.”

“So, that kiss. It was a test?”

“I prefer to think of it as an experiment.” He looked at the watch he had on his wrist. It flashed a couple of times and then he said, “We need to move, the cruiser is ready and it’s time we left the planet.”

“I’m scared.” She didn’t know why, but she had to tell him.

“I know.” He saw her expression change. “I did not mean to belittle you or sound conceited. I can tell almost every emotion you have.”

“Oh.” She thought back over all the emotions she had experienced since the lottery results. “Oh,” she repeated.

“It’s new to me too. My people have more control over our emotions; you on Earth show them so openly. It makes you easy to read.” He guided her out of the door; the two men turned and went back for her bags before following them to the elevator. The four of them squeezed in, and Marin pressed the button to take them to the ground floor.

They stood in silence, Elissa taking the time to think over his revelation. She would need to be more guarded over what she let him see of her emotions, especially if they did question her about the bombing. Looking at him sideways, she tried to make out his thoughts, but his skin was back to its neutral colour. Surely if she had killed two of their kind he would send out his anger and hatred across his skin; certainly he wouldn’t have kissed her with such passion.

Her lips tingled at the memory. Maybe Harri was lying. Maybe the resistance were scared that she might learn to like the Karal and then pass on the information they needed about the resistance. By making her believe she was a thing they hated, it would breed distrust in her head, making her less likely to be open to them about what she knew.

The doors of the elevator opened. Marin took her forward toward the exit doors while the other two Karalians, stepped out and waited. She wanted to ask why, but then she saw the waiting crowd outside the hospital. Thousands and thousands of people. There was a kind of stadium, which looked to have been hastily erected. It formed a perimeter around the cruiser they would use to leave Earth.

As he led her to the doors, he smiled briefly, and she knew he could tell how terrified she was when he said, “It will all be over soon. We say goodbye to the President, he gives you his blessing and does a speech about how our worlds are working together for the common good, and then we leave.”

“Just like that. I never knew it would be such a big deal. But then I never knew
I
was going to be
the
big deal.” She laughed nervously. “I felt so sorry for the person who was going to win the lottery. If I’d known it was going to be me, I would have felt even worse.”

He came to her, pulled her close, and kissed her once more. This time her knees did go weak, and the size of his cock seemed to have grown even bigger. Maybe he liked the attention of the cameras. And in some ways it did take her mind off the waiting crowd, because now she did worry if he was ever going to fit inside her. Had the Karal heard of artificial insemination? That would be so much easier. And yet she wanted to explore the way he would make love to her. If his kisses were anything to go by, his lovemaking would be out of this world. She smothered her smile; she might not be laughing later when they did finally consummate this weird agreement.

He turned and half smiled, before frowning slightly at her. He knew she had thought something funny, and wanted to know what. Maybe he felt insecure, like she was laughing at him. She nearly reassured him, and then thought
what the hell, that will teach you to tune on my private emotions.

Outside the cameras had already started to flash, no doubt the zoom lenses of the paps picking up on their embrace. Was that why he had done it, for the cameras? It didn’t matter; the whole thing was a farce anyway. If it weren’t so serious, if it wasn’t happening to her, she would find it incredibly funny. If somewhat sad—that a woman would willingly volunteer to go to an alien planet and breed the next generation of those aliens, all for the price of clean air and fresh food.

He placed his hand on the small of her back and used a little pressure to guide her forward. Together, they walked out of the building, which had been cleared for them. No bustling nurses, no patients bleeding out on the floor. It was quiet, and she longed to stay there, to spend the rest of her life in the silence of the cool hospital, instead of facing the crowds and whatever lay beyond the stars.

Yet, irrevocably, he guided her forward, holding the door open with his broad shoulder for her to pass by. She brushed against him, quite innocently, but was stunned to feel him tense. He was struggling with a different set of emotions than Elissa, but they were just as strong. Hers were rooted in the unknown, in fear for what was to come. While his were rooted in the unknown and the anticipation of what was to come.

“Here at last is our lucky lady lottery winner. We would all like to wish you a speedy recovery, Elissa. I can quite see how you could spill coffee on yourself at the prospect of being the first woman to be invited to the planet Karal. I sure hope you enjoy your stay there.”

The voice-over boomed out, with cheers and sniggers from the crowd. He made it sound as if she had won a two-week vacation to the Oxydomes that covered the large beaches in the Mediterranean. Not a lifelong sentence of breeding aliens.

“Wave,” Marin said in her ear. She automatically lifted her gloved hand and waved to the crowds, glad the doctor had given her some strong morphine earlier. There was also a morphalite tube in her pocket if she needed it. And that reminded her of the deadly stim’ Harri had given her. It, too, remained in her pocket; she had dropped it in there when Marin entered her room. Now she wanted rid of it. No matter what Harri said, and how much of it was true, the stim’ would never be her way out.

The President greeted them, his face beaming at all the attention, knowing his ratings would rise after this spectacle. Elissa took the stim’ from her pocket, wincing as her glove rubbed her sore skin. Dropping it to the floor, she made sure she stood on it and ground it into the tarmac. That done, she smiled and waved at the crowd, not really listening to what was being said, only hoping it would be over soon.

 

Chapter Ten – Marin

“All systems ready, Shall we leave this forsaken planet and return home?” Okil called form the control deck of the space cruiser.

Marin was seated next to Elissa, strapped into his seat in the cruiser. He looked at Elissa, seeing her pale face and sensing her unease. But they had to go; he didn’t want to spend another moment longer on the foul Earth than he had to. “Let’s go home, Okil. I can’t wait to wash the dirt off me.”

“We have clearance from the tower.” Okil flipped the switches to prepare for take-off; the cruiser seemed to hang for a second and then the g-force pushed them back into their seats. He thought that Elissa was going to throw up, but she kept it together. The endless climb went on and on, and then they were powering out of the atmosphere, heading toward the beacons on the far side of the moon, which would open the wormhole to take them home.

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