Captive: A Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance (Barbarians of the Sand Planet Book 2) by Tana Stone

Author:Tana Stone [Stone, Tana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Broadmoor Books
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Max swallowed the sweet drink, but made sure to take a small sip. She did not trust these guys not to try to get her drunk.

She spotted Kush’s dark-blue cloak as he skirted around the edge of the open area, and an uncomfortable heat warmed her cheeks. She hated how they’d left things and the pained look she’d seen in his eyes. She’d obviously hurt him, and she could sense that it was not a hurt that would dissolve quickly.

What was wrong with her? Why couldn’t she just admit how he made her feel?

“Are you overly warm?” T’Kar asked, his gaze lingering on her face. “Should we step out of the suns?”

“I’m fine,” she said, taking another tiny sip of wine and trying not to think of Kush. “I’m adjusting to the heat on your planet.”

“It is why we spend so much time indoors.” T’Kar set his own glass down without touching it and clasped his hands behind his back as they walked. “I trust your accommodations are to your liking?”

She shrugged. Were they really going to pretend she was some honored guest, when she was staying in a windowless room behind a locked door, with guards barring he entryway and what they thought was a eunuch supposedly watching her every move? “It’s the nicest cell I’ve ever been in.”

He flinched at the characterization. “Cell?”

“Even the bounty hunters didn’t put guards outside or a watchdog inside,” she said. “Doesn’t it seem like overkill for one little woman?”

T’Kar’s gaze went to Kush as he stood against a stone column, his head bowed and his eyes barely visible beneath the shadow of his hood. “I take it you do not have agasis where you come from?”

“Guys who’ve had their balls cut off?” Max said. “No, that went out of fashion a couple of millennia ago.”

She didn’t sense the same urgency in T’Kar that seemed to emanate from his father. And she definitely didn’t get the feeling he had any interest in her, which was good. Even though the alien was attractive, he didn’t do it for her. Not like Kush. The realization made her mouth go dry, and she took a swig of wine.

The chancellor would be disappointed, not that she cared about that. Even if Max wasn’t attracted to Kush, there was no chance she and T’Kar would have made any sort of match. Although she didn’t sense arousal from him, she did pick up on interest.

“Tell me about your home world,” he said, leading her farther away from Kush’s post.

“Earth, or the labs I’ve called home ever since I left Earth?” she asked, continuing when he gave her a blank look. “The planet I come from pretty much destroyed itself with overpopulation and self-destructive stripping of resources. Now it’s a bit of a wasteland. Dead oceans, barren soil, one natural disaster after another. Anyone who can get off, leaves. I was actually born on a scientific research colony.”

“My people also value discovery and technological progress,” he said. “It’s what makes us unique on our world.

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