His To Steal by Taylor Vaughn

Author:Taylor Vaughn [Vaughn, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor Vaughn
Published: 2019-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Zinnia

Stars zip by all around me, blurring and leaving colorful streaks in their wake. Before I left for my return trip to New Terrhan a few hours ago, Kira told me all about the faster than light drive to distract us from our sadness of having to part again.

Apparently the vibrant star blurring caused by FTL travel is the reason even the most humble of Xalthurian interstellar conveyances are built with 360 degree windows.

Not that the promise of the amazing space view had worked for her kind but faint-hearted parents. When Kira had invited them to come live her at the royal palace, Joel and Gloria had taken one look at the Kel’s personal ship, laughed and told her there was no way they were getting on that thing—not after the first space craft they ever stepped foot on crashed on a barren red planet.

“Now I’m losing you, too,” Kira had told me sadly at the palace field where interstellar spaceships set down and take off. “Make sure you at least enjoy the view.”

She’s right. I’ll most likely never make this trip again. I should be enjoying the one-time view. Right now, I should be standing at that window now, completely mesmerized..

But I can’t stop staring at my legs.

A couple of days ago my best friend Kira helped me climb into something she called a “fix it” machine. It put me to sleep, and when I woke up I had better-bordering-on-bionic vision, blemish-free skin, and most shocking of all, two matching legs.

I turn my now smooth legs this way and that, using my newly bionic vision to scan for any imperfection at all. But I find not a one.

I have legs. That look the same. That work the same. There was a time in my life when, like the Little Mermaid, I would have paid any price for a perfect set of human legs. Up to and including my voice.

These legs should erase the last seven months. I should be overjoyed, bordering on ecstatic.

But no matter how hard I try to conjure joy for my windfall, my heart lays like a chunk of iron ore in my chest. Ugly and misshapen.

It’s been three weeks since the Kel (that’s what they call kings on Xalthuria) set down at T’Kan’s cabin. Three weeks since the alien who turned out to be my best friend’s husband of six months, revealed that everything T’Kan had told me after injecting me with that translation trip was a carefully crafted lie. Three weeks since my first “real” relationships dissolved into a pile of ashes.

I shake my head at my two perfect legs. Kel D’Rek had also taken Kira from the planet, but he’d ordered Kira’s poor vision corrected before she’d woken up from her sleep disc. T’Kan hadn’t even let me know such technology was available.

I do not mind your slow speed, Zinnia. It gives me good reason to walk slower, as well and savor our time together. I also like this human hand convention very much.

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