Dark & Otherworldly by Anna Zaires

Author:Anna Zaires [Zaires, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mozaika Publications

On Thursday morning, two hours before her hedge fund interview was scheduled to take place, Emily woke up to find herself alone in her comfortable alien bed. The intelligent material had shaped itself to her body while she slept, and she felt it massaging her neck and shoulders—a feature Zaron had enabled after learning that Emily’s back muscles were often tight from tension. She lay still for a few minutes, enjoying the bed’s ministrations, and then she got up. Despite sleeping fairly late, she felt tired and listless, almost depressed.

On Tuesday, Zaron had allowed her to send an email to Evers Capital explaining that she’d gotten delayed in Costa Rica by two weeks and asking to reschedule her interview. By Wednesday evening, they still hadn’t responded, and Emily knew that this was it: she’d blown her one chance to work with a hedge fund legend—not to mention, have a job in her field any time soon. With all the recent layoffs, Wall Street was drowning in analysts with her skill set, and everyone was competing for a rapidly shrinking pool of jobs.

If the upcoming Krinar invasion didn’t end the world as Emily knew it, she’d be unemployed for much longer than she’d hoped.

The thought brought her back to her senses. It was silly to worry about a missed interview when her entire species was facing a threat as serious as the Krinar. Over the last few days, Emily had tried to find out more about Zaron’s people, and what she’d learned wasn’t reassuring.

She’d already known her captor was stronger and faster than a human man, but she’d ascribed some of that to his tall, athletic frame. His body was magnificent, his sleekly bronzed skin covering layers of lean, hard-packed muscle. Any man of his build would’ve been stronger than average, and Emily hadn’t realized the full extent of Zaron’s differences until their walk two days earlier, when she’d seen him lift a fallen tree with one hand and move it off their path.

He’d done it casually, as if the thick trunk was a tiny branch, and Emily had stopped, gaping at him in disbelief. By her estimation, that tree was at least a foot and a half in diameter.

“What’s wrong?” he’d asked, but she’d just shaken her head, struck mute by shock. Walking over to the tree, she’d crouched and pushed at it with all her strength, hoping it was somehow lighter than it looked, but the trunk hadn’t budged even a fraction of an inch. The tree was so heavy it was practically welded to the ground, yet Zaron had moved it with no more effort than Emily would exert to lift a two-pound weight.

Her captor had observed her efforts with obvious amusement, his beautiful lips curved in a smile, and Emily had felt a cold trickle of fear as she recalled how fast he’d caught her that time at the lake.

The Krinar didn’t just have superior technology; they were more powerful in every way.

“How did you evolve to

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