Heart of the Agraak by S.J. Sanders

Author:S.J. Sanders [Sanders, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction Romance, alien, romance
Publisher: S.J. Sanders
Published: 2019-11-28T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Frankie spent much of the day marveling at the numerous flowers that grew everywhere. How had she ever thought that the swamp was ugly? Water ran everywhere in heavy rivulets toward the river, making any concept of dry ground a thing of the past, her boots sinking into the spongy ground no matter how much care she took in where she stepped. The trees offered quite a bit of reprieve from the water, but there were often spans where the trees thinned, and she was forced to walk through the water and mud.

Kaede had cautioned them all that getting sucked into the mud by miscalculating where they placed their feet was a very real danger. She’d walked confidently until Grish, to her right, suddenly disappeared from her field of vision. It had taken all of them to pull his large frame free of the mud. Ever since that episode, she worried that every step could be the treacherous one that would attempt to swallow her alive.

No matter how beautiful the scenery, her eyes kept straying to Kaede. There was something different about him. Although they’d agreed to just enjoy each other physically, she understood that there was something more going on between them than the lust of the ormar. Not that the ormar wasn’t powerful on its own. Even when it was satisfied, it itched again beneath her skin after a couple of days. This led to a particularly voracious coupling on those nights when they retreated onto a platform. It was a good thing that she wasn’t the bashful type, or else the knowing looks her crew gave her would have had her dying of mortification long ago.

It wasn’t just that, though. She felt drawn to him beyond lust. He held himself apart from everyone, but with her he showed another side to his quiet fortitude. The latter alone attracted her in a way that her brief infatuations with some of the males in her crew never had. He was like a barrier against the worst that the universe could throw. Beyond that, she knew him as a giving, compassionate, protective male who always had a moment to show her affection in passing.

She was experiencing emotional stirrings for a male who she should’ve been keeping her distance from. A male of a species she’d hated for the last five years.

Before him, she didn’t know that the Agraak could be steadfast, loyal, and compassionate. All she saw of them was through the lens of what had been committed against her species and the Arobi and painted over the entire species with the same brush. Whatever they’d been in the past, she assumed the species was no friend to anyone, much less humanity. Kaede had been tearing down those misconceptions, showing her something more than existed beneath the exterior presented and controlled by the upper raniks.

She was forced to reevaluate everything she thought she knew.

But over time, the guilt she felt for wanting to enter into a relationship with a male of a species that held her own in slavery lessened.

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