Venomous: (Alien Warrior Book 1) by Penelope Fletcher

Author:Penelope Fletcher [Fletcher, Penelope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: erotic alien romance, Alien Abduction, alien warrior, sci fi romance, science fiction romance, alien romance
Publisher: Stephenson & Fletcher
Published: 2014-12-23T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Our food arrived, and we traded stories and jokes as we ate.

They fed me with their hands, and I tried everything offered.

Fiercely’s stew was a favourite.

It was rich and gamey, accompanied with floury flatbread he dipped in aromatic butter made from fermented goodbeast mylk, hand curdled then rolled in a blend of wild herbs.

Then Venomous received his order of chargrilled patties.

Salty, with a seasoned, crunchy crust and a moist, flaky centre, he dipped it in a fruity chutney before feeding it to me.

Realising I loved the dish, as I devoured the first patty, he teased me, yanking his hand back as if scared I’d chomp his fingers.

Determined to get them to laugh at one of my jokes, I said, “Why don’t customers ever return to restaurants on the moon?”

I waited a beat to drop the punch line.

“They are usually freezing,” Fiercely mused between bites.

“Or ablaze from solar radiation,” Venomous added. “Often lacking gravity, so there would be no at–”

“Because there’s no atmosphere,” I squeaked in a rush because he was about to ruin it, as he had the last six. “Customers never return to restaurants on the moon because there is no atmosphere.”

“They were on a moon,” Fiercely pointed out. “It was likely there was no atmosphere.”

I pinched the bridge of my nose.

Venomous finished guffawing at me rather than my joke. He told one of his own. “Greedy Baxnonians will charge a Zutki nugget even for a Hydokon plasma blaster if you visit their star cluster, yesss? But what can they not charge you for?”

I mumbled, “It’s a good thing you give me orgasms.”

“The free trip around their sol each rotation,” he finished.

Hands thumping the tabletop until the dishes rattled, Fiercely cracked up.

Venomous bellowed right alongside him.

They leaned over to crack their heads together with such force the table rocked.

My gaze pinged between them. “And you think I’m not funny.” I poked Fiercely’s hard stomach. “You tell one.”

“Thsst! I do not do jokes. I do riddles.”

I folded my arms on the tabletop then dropped my forehead onto them. “Okay, I’m in the crash position. Go.”

“Your lair has three hot spring toggles that each control one running spout in the bathing pool. All three point in the off position. You do not know which toggle controls which spout. You want to know which spout connects with each toggle, but you can leave the pool no more than once. You flip the toggles, leave the pool, and reason which toggle goes with each spout.”

My head lifted, and I just stared.

With a self-righteous smile, he crossed his lower arms, upper ones opened wide. “How did you do it?”

My eyes crossed. “Ugh.” I decided there was no point in even trying to figure it out. “So you trained as warriors together?” Unrepentant, I snagged a juicy segment from the platter of citrus fruits and cheeses in the middle of the table. “How does that work, when you come from different provinces and belong to separate guilds?”

Fiercely looked disgruntled at my abandonment of his mind twister.

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