The Krinar Chronicles: Vair: Beyond the X-Club (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Hettie Ivers

Author:Hettie Ivers [Ivers, Hettie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novel
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-09-09T18:30:00+00:00

I LOST SIGHT OF JAY and Shalee after their second dance, when they moved to the lounge seating area along the wall and wound up drawing the privacy curtains. From the way they’d been all over one another on the dance floor, I didn’t expect that I’d see either of them again very soon.

It felt uncannily like the last time I’d been here when Jay had abandoned me for Alien Barbie Shira, only worse, because this time Vair wasn’t by my side. And Jay’s departure and subsequent love fest on the dance floor with Shalee had made Vair’s absence feel all the more pronounced.

It had also made hanging out alone with Tauce nearly unbearable.

But at least I was safe, I reminded myself.

Safety was key.

I’d given in and taken to wearing my glasses on top of my head instead of over my eyes in order to scan the crowd and people-watch rather than watch Tauce stare at his own hand. I was beginning to come to terms with the fact that I really couldn’t see very well with my eyewear on anymore.

Another thirty minutes and an “alien Shirley Temple” later, my stilettos were killing me. My night was going nowhere fast and I had nothing to lose, so I decided to try and throw out a few of the interview questions Jay had come up with.

“Hey, so um, Vair said … he said that I could interview you. Is that … is that okay?”

Tauce didn’t react. He didn’t even twitch an eyelash. He just stood there, staring me down.

I fidgeted on my feet, tucking my hair behind my ear. “So what are the Krinar’s ultimate plans for us as a society?”

I’d known it was a bad question. Tauce confirmed it.

His eyes widened. Then he slow-blinked. “You do this for a living? And they pay you?”

Ass.

Fine. “What’s with pushing veganism on the planet when you’re all here getting high on human blood? That hardly qualifies as a vegan diet.”

He made a soft grunting noise and pinched the bridge of his nose, shaking his head.

Fuck.

“How long have you worked here?”

He gave me his back.

Not even that one he’d answer?

“How do you like living in New York City?” I called after him as he walked to the other end of the bar.

“Hi, Tauce.” A striking blonde woman strolled up to where he had gone to ignore me and leaned across the bar, spilling ample boobage in the process in her ultra-sexy, barely-there dress. “Will I see you in the basement later?”

At first I thought she might be a Krinar, but then I realized she was too short to be a K. And as I looked closer, she looked vaguely familiar, but I knew I didn’t know her.

As I watched Tauce’s apathetic response to her flirting, it hit me where I’d seen her before: gracing the covers of tabloids in the supermarket checkout line. She was a well-known soap opera star who’d been on the same show for ages. I was pretty sure she’d even won numerous Daytime Emmy Awards.

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