Alien Brute's Captive by Aya Morningstar

Author:Aya Morningstar [Morningstar, Aya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darkstar Press
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

26

Krakon

“So,” I say, “you figured you’d get someone like me, who had no choice but to come with you?”

“Something like that. No one was rushing to your beacon, Krakon. They told you not to do it, and you did it. A lot of ‘we told him so’ on the comms chatter. I’m sure someone would have eventually felt guilty enough to come get you. We thought you were stuck in orbit...not on the surface! To think you lasted this long.”

“You’d have come faster if you’d known?” I ask, but it’s a rhetorical question. “And after you saw how well this all worked out for me, you decide to go on your own impossible job? And to bring me along with you? Shouldn’t we learn our lesson, Thraxa?”

I’m aware that Catherine is glaring at Thraxa. And that Thraxa is loving it. Thraxa must know that I fucked Catherine, but we’ll both continue to not outright acknowledge it to save face. The swarm is one of the last concentrations of pure Cygnian blood outside of the aristocracy. We need the physical edge to stay formidable. If each subsequent generation outside the swarm is more and more human, then we can physically overpower them. Any pirate who fucks a human can stay in the swarm, provided he abandons his human and any child they may have. No hybrid can be brought into the swarm and dilute our lines.

Pirates were known to mess around with humans after first contact. The swarm lost a lot of numbers in the early years. Many pirates chose their humans and their hybrid offspring over the swarm. It became more and more taboo, if not outright banned. Things settled themselves as pure blooded humans became more and more rare--and valuable. Soon it was not at all common for a swarm pirate to even come in contact with a human, and without that temptation, the problem mostly solved itself.

Will Thraxa tell the rest of the swarm? No, she won’t. As long as I go along with her job.

I didn’t think I’d feel as embarrassed as I do. I’m not a born pirate, so the swarm’s taboos shouldn’t be as deeply ingrained in me. It’s the promise I made to myself, after I lost Aria. I broke it in the worst way. I slept with a human. I gave into her scent. I was weak. Now Thraxa is witnessing my weakness, and exploiting it.

How can I blame Aria or her human lover now? I was just as weak as them.

“What’s the job?” I ask.

“I thought you’d never ask. But first, let’s get the fuck off this rock.”

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