First Species by Tamara Rose Blodgett & Marata Eros

Author:Tamara Rose Blodgett & Marata Eros [Blodgett, Tamara Rose & Eros, Marata]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tamara Rose Blodgett LLC
Published: 2020-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

Camille

Okay, this just sucks. My cheeks are windburned from cold, and my hunger has turned into a dull tummy ache that would be a lot more pressing if it weren't for the fact I'm hanging on for dear life on the back of a gorilla guy with fangs.

My life is insanity, I get that.

Wind bites at the lengths of hair that are starting to unwind from my fast job of putting it up for the second time after the Mutable mess at Culver's.

The hair was not meant to withstand a fifty-kilometer trot on the back of a beastman. Because that's exactly what Kiel is.

Finally, we arrive at the Final Enforcement building. A structure I pass every day on the way to teach.

A light sweat covers Kiel's body. His strong hands are firm but not brutally tight where they wrap my thighs. Body tense, he rotates in a slow circle, keeping his head cocked as though listening for sounds I can't hear.

I want to turn my wrist and look at my embedded timepiece on the inside of my arm, but that's impossible with both arms wound around his neck.

Glancing at the worn asphalt, I note how far I am off the ground. I think about how he kissed me, and it seems like a year ago when it was within the last hour. That turn of thought brings me to the wonderful, blissful time early today when I was just a special needs teacher.

Before becoming a transition babe.

Before Mutables.

“Safe,” he says quietly, and holding onto my forearms, he slowly lowers me.

My feet hit the ground, and he murmurs, “Stay close, female.”

Female. He doesn't have to tell me twice.

“We just have to get into the building?” I ask, furtively scanning the parking lot.

Kiel nods but says nothing. “Take my hand.”

Reaching forward, I slide my smaller hand into his much larger one, grabbing a look at him from the side.

A prominent brow ridge anchors a rugged face, fashioned of hard bone and planes. Golden eyes survey the entire area, noting the two parked vehicles along with the small sounds of night. In the distance, a train bleats like a dying goat, and a faraway car's decaying motor lumbers up a steep hill out of sight.

“We'll make a break for it.”

I feel my brows meet and tug against his arm, slowing. “What's wrong? Everything seems fine. You could hear a pin drop. It's as quiet as a big city can be.”

“Exactly,” he cuts the word like a knife.

He begins to stride toward the front door, towing me at a jog directly behind him. Kiel's eyes pass over a car that's seen better days. Then his attention shifts back to the end goal: The door that leads to Final Enforcement.

Before he can use the pulse pad, the door sucks open. Standing just inside the threshold is a tiny woman who growls a greeting. “This way, First. There's Mutables around, fucking up everyone's evening.”

I blink, belatedly recognizing the notorious bounty enforcer. Bald-speaking doesn't really cover it when describing an encounter with Narah Adrienne.

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