Alien AI's Marine (Warriors of the Lathar Book 14) by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter [Carter, Mina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mina Carter
Published: 2021-01-25T18:30:00+00:00

The humans were lying. He was sure of it. But about what, he didn’t know.

Risyn B’Kaar leaned back in his chair and studied the human male opposite him. Major Jay Stephens was… not as he’d expected.

Where the females had gone through stages of defiance, challenge and fear, all of which he could easily read and decipher, the male was a different matter.

Far from the weak-spined creatures they’d been told human males were, Stephens was tall and heavily muscled with a dangerous aura that wouldn’t be out of place on any Lathar. He didn’t move or act like a warrior though. A subtle difference that was enough to throw off Risyn’s readings of him.

“So, you’re telling me that the three of you boarded the S’Vaan vessel and took on an entire clan of purists to rescue your females? Without backup?”

Jay shrugged one shoulder, leaning back in the chair opposite Risyn.

“Being honest, I didn’t do much. Seren and Nyek took point and that paladin…” the human whistled. “Covered in blood, head to toe. I wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alley, if you know what I mean.”

Risyn raised an eyebrow, declining to comment on the odd statement. He had no idea why a meeting’s location or time of day would make a difference to the commander’s combat ability, but it seemed significant to the human in front of him. Two of the women had made similar comments, so he assumed it was something cultural.

“You all traveled to the enemy ship together? And returned together?”

“We did.” Jay nodded, expression open and honest. Anyone would believe him.

Risyn did not.

The human was lying. And he was doing it so well it was almost imperceptible. Behind all the smiling exterior and smooth answers that matched the answers his compatriots had given there was a wall.

It was like a glass slope behind the human’s eyes that Risyn couldn’t penetrate. Not that he was telepathic, that was one trait the Lathar had never been able to tease out of their genetics, but his sensors were so sensitive that sometimes he might as well have been. Not with the human, though, and it set him on edge.

“So three warriors and three human females?” Risyn tilted his head slightly. “That is a large number of passengers for a shuttle that size.”

Jay smiled. “We did kinda have to get cozy. To be honest, I was out of it mostly on the way back. Took a hit to the head early on so I could have seen pink elephants with laser guns out there and I wouldn’t have known the difference.”

Risyn had no idea what a pink elephant was. The word didn’t seem to have a direct translation from Terran in his matrix. It must be some kind of ferocious predator from Earth.

With a rumble in the back of his throat, he settled in his seat, watching the human with an assessing eye. “So you weren’t aware of everything that went on during the rescue.”

The male grinned and spread his hands.

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