Lost Colony by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: menage, science fiction fantasy, alien beings, adventure romance, multiple heroes, steamy sexy romance, woman with male harem, cybernetically enhanced, human alien alliance, multiple sex partner
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing

Chapter Eight

Someone found a game of some kind—or maybe Neptune brought it with him. Clair hadn’t seen it before, but the guys gathered around the table almost as soon as they reached the hab and focused fairly intently on the game.

Clair was tempted to hit for the shower as soon as they were occupied, but Apollo had seemed to indicate the limited water supply required sharing. It boggled her mind to think of any two of the guys sharing that tiny shower, but who was she to judge? And she didn’t mind sharing. She wasn’t sure Apollo was interested in another bathing session—he hadn’t indicated an inclination for a repeat performance—but she wasn’t against it.

She was very much in favor of it, actually, but she wasn’t certain enough of his interest to feel like risking rejection.

Not that she thought he would be ugly about it.

He was always coolly polite even when he was angry.

But the thought of encountering that cool assessing gaze she got when he was trying to decide how to let her down gently was withering.

She didn’t even know, she realized, if the shower had been set up as the rest of the hab had been.

Shrugging it off for the moment since it looked like she would have to wait and see what their plans were, she got her laptop out. It was dead, unfortunately. But she found an outlet to plug it in and settled to studying the plan the government had come with to save humanity.

Not that she agreed with much of it, but it was a plan and she thought modification might make it acceptable and workable.

She didn’t like the idea of ‘playing god’ when she’d hated them for that, but she realized there needed to be a selection process regardless because Apollo had made it clear that, as big as their Ark was, it wasn’t big enough to carry everyone.

Least desirable, she decided, was habitual criminals—particularly violent ones. Considering the massive prison populations in the U.S. that was going to pare the list down a hell of a lot, but she felt like there were people among them that deserved a second chance.

Not the violent offenders.

They might or might not deserve a death sentence according to laws, but when bringing them mean leaving behind people who had never harmed a soul—well it wasn’t acceptable.

Beyond that, even the thought of locking ‘victims’ in with animals was horrifying. It would be on par with the Romans throwing the Christians in with the lions.

Of course, she was certain Apollo had something in mind for peacekeeping, but the limited space meant that should be reserved for the most deserving.

She stopped after that, realizing she just didn’t want ‘sorting’ humanity on her conscience.

Random selection didn’t seem acceptable either because that could still mean a lot of very deserving people were overlooked in favor of less exemplary specimens.

Maybe it should be based on jobs, she thought, wondering if that would eliminate her from the equation.

She couldn’t see a great need for a geologist on a space ark—that might take a life time to get to a destination.

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