Business or Pleasure (The Department of Homeworld Security Book 3) by Cassandra Chandler

Author:Cassandra Chandler [Chandler, Cassandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Paige shifted closer to Khel as they rode the bus toward his ship. They had used her phone so he could give her a general idea of where it was located and they could find the best route to get there. He reached over and held her hand. He had disposed of the disintegrator already, trying to make sure they weren’t tracked.

She didn’t want to think about what he had done with it. Or that she sort of wished they had kept it with them.

“I still don’t get it,” she said. “Why does the Coalition want their technology to be so traceable?”

“They don’t want our technology to fall into the wrong hands. It could be reverse-engineered, or used to upset the balance of power on a planet not ready for that level of advancement. That’s one of the reasons I wasn’t allowed to bring anything out of my ship. If I were to have an accident or an Earthling managed to get their hands on my equipment somehow, it could have catastrophic results.”

She snorted, a joke coming out reflexively. “I managed to get my hands on your equipment, and I’d say things went rather well.”

His face turned pink. “I haven’t had a chance to thank you for that. I appreciate your help.”

“Yeah, they all do.” She looked away, not wanting to ask her next question, but being unable to stop herself. “Is that why you reciprocated? To balance out the scales?”

“Of course not.” He squeezed her hand a little tighter. “I did it because…I wanted to share that with you.”

“Curiosity.”

“Intimacy. I told you, I could have explored…physical interactions many times. I chose to do so with you.”

Lucky me.

She might have been his first, but she doubted she would be his last. The amount of passion he had shown wasn’t something he could put a lid back on. Hell, he’d probably go back to his ship and start a new trend of sex without that drug.

The thought of her lovers going on to other partners had never bothered her before. She wasn’t sure why it would do so now. It wasn’t like she could leave Earth to be with Khel or he could stay. She wasn’t even sure she wanted that. Right?

And they weren’t even lovers yet. Not really.

Yet.

“How far to your ship?” She kept her face turned toward the window.

“Not very. It’s attached to the bottom of one of your highways in a section of the city that is sparsely inhabited.”

“It’s on the underside of an overpass in a crappy section of town. Fun.” At least it was the middle of the day.

Had she really only met Khel a couple of hours ago? It seemed like so much longer. Being attacked by space frogs, having some pretty serious foreplay, and watching a building basically blow up made the time seem to dilate. That and the three people he had killed.

One had almost killed her. She would never forget seeing the wall in front of her just disappear, the Tau Ceti pointing his ray gun at her.

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