Export Duty by Cassandra Chandler

Author:Cassandra Chandler [Chandler, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cassandra Chandler

Chapter Nine

Lily was getting used to this whole “alien” thing. Sure, there was a lizard lady on her couch, chatting happily with her Nana and petting two of the cats who had joined them. And somewhere in the backyard, there was a gorgeous guy from another planet running around.

A guy Lily had straddled on the floor of the bathroom.

She wanted to do so much more.

If he’d only had sex with people who used that awful-sounding drug, he must have been denied so many things. The sense of connection and fun and…

Who was she kidding? She hadn’t felt those things herself yet. With Rin, though… She had a feeling things would be different.

She was already drawn to him. Now that she’d had a few minutes to think, she realized it went beyond physical attraction.

His passion for what he believed in and his desire to help his friend and to take care of others made him that much harder to resist. For the first time in years, Lily was wondering if it would be so bad to give in to temptation.

This was ridiculous. Rin was an alien. What had Nana called him? Satyrian? That wasn’t right.

Someone knocked on the door. Lily’s heart beat faster. Rin must be back. But why was he knocking?

As she crossed the room, she said, “What kind of alien is Rin again?”

“He is Sadirian,” Cyan said, with a particular sibilance Lily was starting to get used to.

“Sadirian.” Lily murmured the word. She liked how it sounded.

She was eager to pick up where they’d left off in their earlier conversation. Especially if they could get some privacy.

Opening the door, she felt the broad smile of anticipation on her face, her heart pounding in her chest.

The beat seemed to stutter for a moment. Her mind went blank as it tried to comprehend what was before her.

Ants. Giant ants. Giant ants as tall as Lily, standing on two legs and with enormous heads as big as watermelons and grapefruit-sized segmented eyes and too many arms to count and gleaming cocoa-brown carapaces and—

Lily screamed. A sustained note of pure terror that rang through the trees around them.

In front of her, the two giant ants stepped back, grabbing onto each other and letting out a screech that made Lily’s ears ring. Their antennae stiffened like lightning rods on top of their heads and their eyes strobed from white to black and white to black over and over.

Her lungs emptied, Lily finally stopped screaming. She felt dizzy from lack of air, the world spinning around her in a surreal swirl. She could hear scuffling behind her, but didn’t want to take her eyes off the giant ant people standing right in front of her.

The ants kept on making their terrible sound for moments longer, their many stick-like arms wrapped around each other in a tight embrace. The eyes of the one on Lily’s left went completely black and its antennae flattened against its head. It looked up to the sky, letting out a broken chirr that sounded almost like a sob.

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