Hitched to the Alien General by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mina Carter

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They were watching her.

Kenna kept up her pretense of a betrayed wife all through the afternoon and evening meal. It didn’t take much. They were all so ready to believe “Steve” was a spy. She’d caught hints of the conversation through dinner. Whispers as they all looked her way with pity—stereotyping him because he was “too good-looking” and “they’d known something was up.” Comments about that “poor young woman all alone now” had made her blink. Either they were all expert actors trying to mess with her head, or at least some of them had bought into Dex’s bullshit.

She sighed into the darkness as she sat on the compound wall looking out. She’d come out here after dinner, murmuring to the guards that she needed to clear her head. A nod and she’d been waved through but, for the last hour, they’d watched her carefully.

So they should. Her only reason for coming up here was to see where she could drop down the wall on the other side and make it to the ship. She was pretty sure Xaan would have set the security system so she could access it, and she’d like to see the walls of that prison stand up against Latharian shipboard weapons. She’d blow the shit out of the place to get him out.

But she couldn’t do any of that while the freaking guards were watching her like hawks. She felt like she was under the damn microscope. Get bored. Wander off, she mentally urged them. Nothing to see here. She managed to stop just short of waving at them. She wasn’t supposed to be as perceptive as that.

Just when she thought she might be able to slip away into the shadows, footsteps behind her made her turn around. Inwardly, she suppressed a sigh. Dex was coming along the catwalk at the top of the wall toward her, his expression splitting into a smile as he saw her looking.

But he was just a fraction of a second too late. She’d seen the cold and calculating look he’d covered up quickly. Yeah… if she really was Suzie Renner and she turned him down, she’d end up in the same unmarked grave as her husband. Dex wasn’t the type to take no for an answer.

“Hey,” she smiled as he got closer. “Couldn’t sleep either? I came up here to clear my head.” She motioned to the valley around them, the fields painted in shades of grey and midnight, silver glimmers from the triad moons above casting highlights over the top of the crops and drawing the line of the river to the west. “This view, huh? I can totes see why you guys decided on this place.”

Dex took a seat on the block next to her, obviously dragged up here on purpose. “Yeah…” He looked out over the valley. “It’s paradise alright. We count ourselves lucky every day.”

Huh. Paradise rotten more like.

Kenna kept her thoughts to herself as she slid a sideways glance at the guy. She had to give something, she knew that, to keep them off the scent.

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