Enslaved 3: The Gladiators by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mf
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2011-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Loren gaped at Kael in dismay. In the back of her mind, she knew he was right—and not just about her being safer. She needed to stay near the ship’s controls, but all of her sense of safety was wrapped up in Kael at the moment and, like a child that only felt brave when their parent was holding their hand, she didn’t want to let him out of her sight. She couldn’t tell him that, though! He expected her to be brave and strong—like the Hirachi women! But she wasn’t! She was a weakling and a coward. Bracing herself to pretend that wasn’t true to keep from diminishing herself further in his eyes, she cast around for an excuse to stick to him as if she’d been plastered to him. “But …I’m freezing in this … thing! I thought I’d go with you—just to find something to put on!”

Kael surveyed her and she bit her lip, realizing abruptly that nobody had anything on to speak of. The men were wearing nothing but the loincloths that covered their genitals and Karen and Shara were both dressed in the tissue togas just like her own—which was hanging off of them in tatters from their own assaults.

“Alright, we’ll stay here and try to figure out how to set a course … uh … somewhere.”

“Stay here now. Settle where when figure everyting out.” Kael turned and looked at Dakaar and Balen. “Dakaar stay. Guard ….” He glanced at Karen and Shara and left it at that. “Udders, we go down. Next level split, search, come back to liff. Go down next level.”

They’d already reached the lift when a thought abruptly struck Loren. “Hey! I had my suitcase with me when I got here. If you see it …?”

She could tell from the look on his face that Kael didn’t have a clue of what she was talking about. “It’s brown … uh … fake leather. Looks about like your loincloth thingy.” She drew the size and shape with her hands in the air.

Kael sent her a skeptical look, but he nodded.

Karen was studying her speculatively when she turned to her again. “You want to tell me how you got here with a suitcase?”

Loren immediately felt embarrassment flood her at the memory. “Long story,” she muttered dismissively.

Karen waved her hands to encompass the ship. “I have a bad feeling we’re going to have a lot of time on our hands.”

None of them needed a reminder that they were a long ways from being out of the woods and her lips tightened. “I told you pretty much the whole story when we first taken,” she reminded her.

“Except about the suitcase.”

Loren felt her face reddening. She uttered a huff of irritation. “They told me they were sending me to study alien technology—with the aliens. I didn’t actually volunteer, but I was scared to say no and …. You know everything else,” she said tightly, unable to meet Karen’s gaze.

“No long story,” Shara commented.

Loren blinked at her.

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