Alien Conquest by Sophie Stern

Author:Sophie Stern [Stern, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-27T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lana

I wake up, and I’m not in my bed.

The bed I’m in is soft and warm and comfortable, and it’s not mine.

I’ll never wake up in my bed again.

I’m not sure why this bothers me so very much.

Change comes for everyone. No matter who you are, no matter what season of life you’re in, change is inevitable. Why, then, is it so hard for me? I’m a fully grown adult woman of Alipoiaen. I shouldn’t have such a hard time with the fact that my life is different, but all I think of is the fact that I miss my parents and that I’m stuck on a planet of people I don’t understand.

Cody.

I don’t understand Cody.

He’s nice. Really, he’s so nice. He’s interesting and he’s kind and he’s…I don’t know. Pained, somehow. Cody seems like he’s had to be strong for a very long time, and I think that carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders can get quite exhausting.

I bet he must be exhausted.

He has to be.

I don’t want to think about last night too much. I don’t want to think about what happened between us because I know perfectly well that I made things awkward and uncomfortable between us. Why couldn’t he have just fucked me? It would have been easy, and we would have gotten all of this sexual tension that’s been swirling between us out of the way. It would have been great, easy.

It would have been wrong.

Cody isn’t the type of man who just takes a woman to bed, and I can see that now. It doesn’t mean I don’t want him. It doesn’t mean that at all. No, this just means that I’ll need to be patient with him because if there’s one thing I know about men, it’s that Cody has a secret.

“Good morning,” there’s a knock at the door and Rae comes in.

“Hi, Rae.”

“Ready to start the day?” She asks with a smile.

I’m not ready.

In no world am I prepared to go face everything that’s happening to me, but I don’t think I have much of a choice.

With Rae’s help, I get cleaned up, dressed, and primped. She styles my hair and applies some things to my face that I’ve never seen or heard of before. When I ask Rae why she’s doing this and what medical benefits the creams have, she just smiles and shakes her head.

“You look beautiful,” is all Rae says, and then she brings me downstairs. I try to protest. I need to clean up my bedroom, after all, but she shakes her head again and tells me the other house workers will take care of everything. My only concern, Rae tells me, is eating.

She drops me off in an empty room and leaves without another word. There’s a table in the center of the room, along with several chairs. In front of one chair is a plate of food and a selection of drinks.

I understand what’s happening now, and I take a seat.

The food, as expected, is really tasty and delicious.

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