Bait: Planet Athion Series (The Tradrych Strain Book 2) by Marissa Farrar

Author:Marissa Farrar [Farrar, Marissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alien abduction, series, sci fi romance, dark sci fi, alien pregnancy, alien invasion, dark romance
Publisher: Warwick House Press
Published: 2019-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

When my tears finally dried, I yanked off my much-hated dress and stepped into the shower, willing the hot water to wash away what I’d done.

Every inch of my body screamed wrong, wrong, wrong.

I wanted to scrub off my skin, hell, I wanted to scrub the inside of me as well. It wasn’t going to get any better, either. With frustration, I waited for the soap to be dumped on top of me from above. The tiny blob of gel didn’t feel like anywhere near enough. I’d need a thousand times that amount to get myself clean. Tears bit at my eyes, but I wasn’t going to allow myself to cry again. I could have stayed safe and protected with Nad and Miko, but I hadn’t, and Diarus had come here for me as well. He’d willingly put himself in danger, and I was going to be strong, like he was.

I scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed, trying to erase the feeling of him from my skin. My body felt battered and used, and a hollow pit had opened up inside my chest.

How long did I have until he came back to take me to the event that evening? I needed to pull myself together before then. I couldn’t let him know what had just happened had affected me so badly. He needed to continue to believe there was something special between the two of us, something none of the other women—however many he might have here—could provide him with.

“Tara?” The faint echo of Zoe’s voice came down the vent. “Tara, what happened? Are you okay?”

But I couldn’t even bring myself to answer her.

What would I tell her? I just wanted to forget this had ever happened.

I dragged a comb through my hair, the blonde locks still a little damp, despite the automatic dryer. I took the dress from the auction out of the closet, where it hung among all the identical silver dresses, and lifted it to my face. I pressed my nose and mouth against it, remembering how Nadeusz and Mikotaj had dressed me up, ready for the auction. How fucked-up was my life now that the memory of being readied to be sold caught me up in a wave of nostalgia?

I stepped into the dress and pulled the boned corset up to support my breast. Then I did up the side of the dress and let my hands fall to my sides. I was nowhere as primped as I’d been at the marketplace, my hair a shiny sheet around my shoulders, instead of piled high on my head, but the dress still made me feel elegant, at least on the outside.

A knock came at the door, and my stomach lurched.

It was already time.

Instead of Polityk Borys, it was one of his guards who opened the door and stepped into the room.

“He’s ready for you now,” he said.

I sucked in a breath and nodded. I was relived Borys wasn’t the one to come and fetch me. I knew

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