Dark Spy’s Resolution by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-22T06:00:00+00:00

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Kalugal

Kalugal chuckled. “Let me worry about winning Jin over. I can be quite charming, and the ladies find me very appealing.”

He was a good-looking man, but that wasn’t why he was confident in his ability to win over every woman he set his sights on.

Kalugal could change his appearance to precisely match the lady’s taste in men, and as to his personality, he had enough experience to woo and charm even the most resistant. In fact, he enjoyed himself more when females didn’t just drop into his lap.

What was the fun in that?

For the win to be meaningful, it needed to be challenging.

Regrettably, these days most young women had lost their natural instincts and succumbed much too easily. Not only that, many fancied themselves pursuers instead of embracing their traditional role of seductresses.

“I have no doubt. Especially when you compel them to feel that way.”

“You insult me, cousin. I never compel women into my bed. I might compel them to reveal information relevant to my business interests, but only if more mundane methods of coaxing it out of them fail, which rarely happens.”

In the spy’s case, though, he might have to break that rule. If she couldn’t prove the tether’s removal, and if she was resistant to his charms, he would have no choice but to compel her to mate him. After all, rules were meant to be broken, and pragmatism demanded that he set his moral code aside.

“Let’s leave matchmaking out of the deal, Kalugal. You’ll have half an hour with her, and it’s going to be in full view of my people and yours. Even as skilled as you claim you are in the arts of seduction, I’m sure you can’t convince a woman to marry you under those conditions. Not without using underhanded tricks like compulsion or thralling.”

Kalugal huffed. “You are one to talk about underhanded tricks. You sent a spy after me, who inserted a mental camera and voice recorder into my brain. How is that better than compelling or thralling someone?”

“It’s not the same. You might not be free to do anything in secret, but you still have your free will. The only times I sanction thralling or compelling is when it’s necessary to hide who we are or to save lives, immortal and human.”

“I didn’t know that you had compellers among your clansmen.”

“You don’t know many things about us.”

“Same here. But if I marry your clanswoman, we can become allies and share information. Maybe even cooperate on some projects.”

Kalugal had no intention of getting the clan involved in his dealings, but he would love to know what they were doing. As far as he knew, their goals were to stay alive and to stop Navuh and the Brotherhood from enslaving humanity. For some reason, the clan believed in humanity’s ability to govern itself in a democratic and peaceful way, which was an absurd notion. Most of the world was governed by dictatorships of this or that kind, and humans had been at war with each other throughout history.

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