First Contact by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing

Chapter Eight

The meeting at the U.N. was long and tedious and Alida didn’t see that a damned thing had been accomplished. Basically, everyone was frightened that the aliens would use their superior capabilities to take over and or take everything and they wanted to be reassured. So they postured and blustered and tried to pretend they were more intelligent than they actually were.

She could almost feel embarrassment and pity for them—except she was one of them and she didn’t see that they were doing a great job at protecting anyone’s interests.

She felt like trying to explain to Vulcan that the politicians weren’t the best or brightest of us. They were just the people that were willing to do the job nobody else wanted.

Because it was a thankless job.

Fortunately, most of the people that went into it were in it for the power and the money and didn’t give a damn about thank yous.

What really sucked, to her notion, was that even after Vulcan had mortally insulted her she couldn’t just give him the cold shoulder or abandon the job she hadn’t wanted in the first damned place. She was stuck with it. She couldn’t show her ass and quit, and she couldn’t afford to do a bad job because she wished herself a million miles away.

The aliens were dangerous to the human race and any understanding of their motives was still hazy.

It had been unnerving before.

Now it was depressing on top of being dangerous.

She didn’t feel up to trying to apologize for her fellow humans for being what they were or trying to help him understand stuff she only understood part of the time herself. And, really, what difference did it make? Would it make? He had come with preconceived notions about them. She was sure everyone from his planet had already judged them and found them lacking. It wasn’t likely she could change his opinion.

She supposed, that was what she had really been assigned to do. She was supposed to convince him that they’d totally misjudged the human race. They were equals and they deserved to be treated as equals, but she was damned if she could figure out how she was supposed to accomplish that.

He sure as hell wasn’t going to have a better opinion if she took their suggestion to heart—not if he had any of the traits of mankind.

Because it seemed the moment a woman gave in to a man and let him use her she was diminished in his eyes, her value dropped considerably.

Wasn’t that likely to be the case with the aliens, as well?

Or not?

She thought the suggestion, statement, that they didn’t touch was a strong indication that seduction wasn’t in the cards—maybe by any female—or male for that matter.

She certainly wasn’t the best Earth had to offer.

Maybe, since they’d decided that could work, they should have put some effort into finding ‘Ms Best’ and offering her up as a sacrifice?

“You are … pensive,” Vulcan observed when they were nearly back to the base.

Alida turned to look at him blankly—because she had been thinking, really hard, about a lot of things.

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