Provoking Odium by Cynthia Sax

Author:Cynthia Sax [Sax, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cynthia Sax

CHAPTER TEN

“Come here.” Odium drew his female to him once more, tucking her curves into his muscular form.

His female’s family was unlikely to be alive. That truth had emotionally damaged her, and he had been the being to relay it.

That jabbed at his heart.

But raising her hopes would’ve been cruel, would’ve increased her pain, and he couldn’t, wouldn’t tolerate that.

“We’ll to fly to Sabik Binaire and uncover the source of the distress signal.” He murmured that plan into her brown curls. She smelled of sunshine and him. “The sender might not be your sister, but they could be one of your kind. And they might need assistance.”

Returning to her manufacture planet would also put his female’s processors at ease. If they didn’t investigate the situation, she would always wonder who had sent the signal. That would cause her permanent damage.

He wouldn’t allow that to happen. His arms tightened around her.

“You’d agree to fly to Sabik Binaire?” She tilted her head back, gazed up at him. “Without knowing anything about my family, my kind, or my past?”

He studied her. She wanted to relay that information to him. “What do I need to process?”

She gazed at him for one, two, five heartbeats.

Her jaw jutted.

And he processed at that moment she meant to verbally push him away.

“I killed my parents.” Defiance sharped her voice.

She was daring him to reject her.

He would never do that. “How did you kill your parents? Did you shoot them between their eyes, plunge a dagger in their hearts, fly your freighter right through them, cutting their bodies into two?” He was intentionally harsh.

His female jerked back from him. “No. Never. I would never hurt them like that.” She took a ragged breath. “But I killed them all the same.”

“Tell me how you killed them.” He backed that request with the strength of a command.

Her lips parted.

“And tell me all of it.” Odium would hear everything she sought to relay to him. “Start with the incident where you lost your eye.”

She stared at him. “How did you know that was when I first fucked up?”

“I will determine if you fucked up.” He utilized her words. His overly self-critical mostly human wasn’t skilled at judging her own actions. “And you’re my female. I process more about you than you project.”

Her mechanical eye was a source of much of her trauma. Odium gazed at her beautiful face. He was 86.2359 percent certain about that.

His little warrior’s forehead furrowed. She said nothing.

“Tell me everything you deem pertinent.” He issued that order. “If you relay any half-truths to me, I’ll smack your ass.”

His female blinked once, twice. Her cheeks turned pink. The scent of her intensified.

Silence stretched.

He waited for her to be ready to speak, to share her past with him.

“You won’t like what you hear.” Her gaze lowered. “I’m not a good being.”

“That is for me to judge.” He forced himself to remain stern with her. Softness would make the task more difficult for his female.

She took a deep breath, held it, exhaled, took a deep breath, held it, exhaled.

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