Alien Betrayed by Marie Dry

Author:Marie Dry [Dry, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Opal Books
Published: 2016-06-08T21:00:00+00:00

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Maeve looked around. She’d spaced out again. She sat on the couch with Larz and had no idea how she got there.

Larz caressed her cheek, his large claw so gentle she barely felt it. “What do you wish?”

She had no idea what she’d said while she’d been out of it. More and more, she was losing pieces of herself. She feared one of these days she’d wake up and be someone else. The monster would win and Larz would never know how much she loved him.

She cupped his cheek in her shaking hand. “Nothing. Remember, this horrible human in front of you cares for you very much.” She couldn’t refer to herself as Marcie. She didn’t know what else they could call her, but she hated that name. And sometimes she thought she was not quite Maeve either.

She would give him this, make sure he knew how much she loved him, if she lost herself, if the monster won, at least he’d have that.

“This lizard man cares for you very much as well,” he said.

She laughed and cried a little, and they sat in silence for a time. Maeve wondered if his heart was capable of being as sad and heavy as hers was. She noticed the wooden club in his hand. “What’s that?”

He looked down at it and then gave it to her. She gingerly accepted it. “What am I supposed to do with it?”

“You hit me over the head with it.”

She recoiled. “What? Why?”

“It is an old Earth custom. If a woman wanted a man, she hit him over the head with it, and he knew she chose him and he claimed her for his breeder.”

“Who exactly told you of this Earth custom?”

“Zacar.”

“Do you believe it?”

“No. Natalie hit Zacar over the head with it, and he convinced Zurian that Julia had to hit him with it before he could claim her. Azagor is going to get his breeder to hit him with it as soon as he works up the courage to approach her.”

“He’s the warrior who fiddles with the equipment?”

“Yes.”

She looked down at the club in her hand. She loved the fact that he wanted her to hit him the way Natalie and Julia hit their warriors. Still, she couldn’t just bash him in the head. There were times she was tempted, but she’d never really do it. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

“Inferior human wood cannot hurt me.”

All right, maybe she could hurt him a little. She meant to give him a token tap but she got up and, in one smooth motion, swung the club and hit him at the base of his skull. She watched in horror as he swayed in place.

She dropped the club and knelt next to him. “Larz, are you all right. Call the doctor before you pass out.”

“I am all right.”

“No, you’re not. I hit you really hard and he needs to take a scan. Oh, I’m so sorry. I don’t know what came over me. Larz, in that moment it was as if someone else was in charge of my body and that someone wanted you dead.

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