Alien General's Chosen: SciFi Alien Romance (Brion Brides) by Voxley Vi

Author:Voxley, Vi [Voxley, Vi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Leiya

Well, that didn’t work out at all like I intended, Leiya thought.

It had been a good plan. In fact, it had been several good plans, but who could have guessed that emotional manipulation wouldn’t work on the warrior said to be incapable of feeling?

She’d tried everything – running, anger, reasoning, guilt-tripping, and finally just trying to be too much for him to handle. Nothing had worked. Faren really was going to keep her.

But that wasn’t even the worst part. It seemed that Leiya’s day was about to get even worse, reaching its end with a thundering finale. She really had done something to the gods or fate, it seemed.

Faren had left her alone again for a while. Famous generals had other duties to attend to besides her, but of course it didn’t matter that she too had plans. She was scheduled to appear at concerts, but Faren was probably going to cancel all of them. Leiya wondered if her audience would demand her release. Possibly. Probably, actually. Quite another thing was whether Faren would care. Possibly not. Probably not.

Even the prospect of disappointing her audience diminished in the face of the horror that awaited her when night arrived.

There was only the single bed in Faren’s quarters. Big enough to allow both of them to sleep freely, but no way was she going to get in there.

Faren, naturally, disagreed.

“I can sleep on the floor,” Leiya offered as the last resort.

Oh gods, I can sleep on a tightrope if I have to. Just. Not. There.

The general denied her even that small mercy. Leiya protested as she dared, but she’d learned to stop at the point when Faren’s eyes got too cold for comfort. She didn’t know what he might do. Her mind provided several possibilities, which she did her best to ignore. It seemed the general had a very strict idea of how things should be going, and no reasons she could come up with were good enough.

Leiya did not want to push him to the point where he’d throw her over his shoulder again and simply carry her to bed.

Er, a part of her protested. That terrible, treacherous part had been silent for the most of the day. She’d been too upset and too scared to even consider the other feelings. Back when Faren’s broad, mighty shoulders had given her a pretty good idea of what he might look like under his armor. Not all of those feelings were negative and disappointingly few wanted to hold on to her resolve to deny him.

Faren was still watching her, waiting to see if she’d protest further. She sighed. At least he hadn’t tried anything. So far, he’d let her fight like a gesha was supposed to. And he was just proposing sleeping in the same bed. That was the lesser of all possible evils, wasn’t it?

Leiya sighed.

“I will not touch you,” Faren said, apparently once again reading her mind somehow.

She found the strength within her to nod, thinking she was just too tired of the day to continue fighting.

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