Claimed by the Alien General by Eva O'Hare

Author:Eva O'Hare [O’Hare, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eva O'Hare

I am so relieved to be off of that planet.

“Fortunately, you haven’t lost much time. General Cepos, feel free to command this ship. I’ve arranged transport to get back home unless you’d like me to stay on. I’ve already been briefed on your mission,” says Colonel Midos.

Bast and Cepos exchange looks. “Perhaps you should stay on with us, Midos, unless duty calls you elsewhere. We could use the extra hand.”

This Colonel Midos is the usual tall drink of Rakesh water. Tall, muscular, blue-eyed. His hair is cut low like Cepos’, and he wears what appears to be a Rakesh military uniform. His tunic has intricate stitching around the collar, and the bottoms of his harem pants, which gather around the top of his boots, have that same embroidery.

Cepos and Bast aren’t wearing this uniform now, but I’ve seen them both in it.

“And you,” Cepos says to me. “Should you like to return to Rakesh? It would be safer in the palace for you until I return.”

I consider what Cepos is offering for only a brief second. I could go back. I want to go back because I’m overwhelmed by what happened back on that planet with the human male and the beast, which makes me think of something. Not to mention being on a spaceship that lost its shit. I think I might be developing a spaceship phobia.

“They’re trading humans. Who’s doing something about that?” I ask Cepos, thinking about that human man and the eleventh woman. “Isn’t that against the rules?”

“Not in all systems,” Cepos says.

This means that the Rakesh would be poking their noses in places where they don’t belong to help the humans that have been stolen.

Something must be done. I don’t know what.

The eleventh woman, like that human man we just met, is likely being held under duress, and who knows in what sort of conditions. Even if we find her, I still don’t think it’s a good idea for the first faces the eleventh woman sees to be some more aliens. No offense.

“So I’m staying,” I say to Cepos.

I try to read Cepos’ expression to see what he’s thinking regarding my decision. And then he says, “You don’t have to come with us, Jamila. You just went through a lot back on Nendor III.”

“I’ll live,” I say. “I am living. For now.”

Cepos frowns. I know he’d prefer it if I wasn’t managing to survive by the skin of my teeth.

“Ivy?” Bast asks. “Would you like to return to Rakesh?”

Ivy looks at me and narrows her eyes. She snatches her eyes from me, which is an improvement on her rolling them, I guess, and her eyes sweep over Bast next. And they exchange a look that is familiar to anyone who has ever been smitten with somebody.

Damn. I would have never guessed that Ivy and Bast would have bonded. I sure would like to get the details on that courtship. But something tells me I’d have to pry it out of Ivy to get the deets.

“I’ll stay too,” Ivy says to Bast.

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