Dredge by Lula Monk

Author:Lula Monk [Monk, Lula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Samantha

She breathed in and out, forcing her body to take on a meaningful rhythm with the motions. She squeezed the sides of her head with her knees. Breath in. Breathe out. This was as close to a panic attack as she’d come to since she was a child. She didn’t miss the sensation.

“Do not bend over too much, Samantha,” cautioned the Glim sitting on the bed beside her. “You do not want to injure the Glimling.”

Samantha started wheezing and gasping again. Breathe in, breathe out.

She couldn’t believe what she had done in the medical bay. She should have just let the four-armed alien puncture the amniotic sac so she could miscarry the freak growing in her belly.

Breathe in, breathe out.

What was she thinking? She needed the Glimling growing inside of her. Having this thing inside you is the whole point, she reminded herself. You need this thing for the plan to work.

Breathe in, breathe out.

She thought about the tiny glowing dot on the 3-D projection. Her heart fluttered. She felt sick, dirty, wrong.

What she was doing . . . this whole plan. It wasn’t right. First, she would betray Dredge, and then what? She would abandon her own baby?

She hated herself just thinking about it.

But then she thought about all those women Dredge had mentioned earlier, the ones in what he’d called the Entertainment Sectors of the Hub. The ones owned by Galactic Continuity, pimped out with the ultimate ultimatum: fuck or get turned into a pile of ash.

Breathe in, breathe out.

She had to do this. Even if it meant betraying Dredge and her child, she had to save the human women on this space station.

All the things that could go wrong assaulted her mind, pushing into the already crowded space there, competing with all her other worries and fears.

Damn it all. She had to at least try.

“Are you okay, Samantha?” The Glim’s concerned tone coupled with the way he was gingerly stroking her back brought tears to Samantha’s eyes once more.

“Everything is happening so fast,” she whispered. Her head was still between her knees. “I thought I would have nine months to get ready to have a kid. But it’s going to be two months from now; I just don’t know that I’m going to be ready.”

Dredge gave her a reassuring smile. “Don’t worry, Samantha. I can tell by the concern you’ve shown for our offspring already that you’re going to be a great life-giver.” Then, more softly, “A good mother.”

Samantha had that sad feeling tugging at the back of her soul. Dredge really was a nice guy. He was trying to be kind to her given her circumstances, even if he was the reason she was in such circumstances to begin with.

Part of her wanted that important fact to be the only part of Dredge that she saw, but it wasn’t.

“I’m sure you’re right,” she said. “I think I just need to come to terms with the fact that everything is happening a lot sooner than I thought it would.

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