Tamed By The Alien Barbarian by King Celeste

Author:King, Celeste
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

18

Candi

Spending time on Mars made me feel wistful. Looking out at this mining operation from my control room pod, it was easy to forget just how far I’d come. Sometimes I wondered if I deserved all of this.

“Hey boss babe,” Mandy gave a halfhearted knock at the door of my pod, leaning her bony shoulder against the frame. She was chewing gum, making exaggerated clicks.

I gave her a small smile and said, “Hey sugar. Come in.”

Mandy pulled a pen out from her bun and flipped open a notebook. She was wearing a tiny pencil skirt and button-down blouse that barely buttoned at all—it was identical to the costumes we wore when we used to do our ‘office girls’ double dance on Fridays during happy hour.

“I figured I’d give you a quick rundown. Is now an okay time?” she asked, popping a big pink bubble all over her lips.

“Um,” I sighed and looked out the window. “Sure.”

I tried to focus. I could vaguely hear Mandy reading off of her list, telling me that her morning meeting with Chioma had gone according to plan and that we were on track to meet our quota this week.

“Do you remember the old days?” I asked abruptly.

Mandy looked puzzled, but she drew her full lips into a knowing smile. “I remember,” she said. “I’ve got a mind like a steel trap.” She tapped the pen against her head.

“Okay,” I said quietly, leaning forward on my desk. “So you knew me back then. Do you think I’m out of place here?”

Mandy blew another bubble, looking back down at her notebook. “On Mars? We’re human, babe. If we’re talking biology, we’re all out of place here.”

I sighed, spluttering my lips and said, “Okay, but you remember when all this started? The Mars project?”

Mandy laughed, giving me an exasperated look. “What’s with you wanting to test my memory today?” she asked.

I ignored that retort and continued with my train of thought, “You remember everything Jaxil said? About not being beaten by a stripper?”

Mandy softened, smiling kindly at me. “Candi, you know that was all talk. He was just threatened.”

I knew she was right, but a small part of me wondered if he was right, too.

“You want to know what I remember?” Mandy asked abruptly. “I remember that you were always the baddest stripper in the room. Now you’re just the baddest boss in the galaxy.”

I grinned in spite of myself. “I’m a little preoccupied right now,” I told Mandy. “Can we catch up on business later?”

Mandy nodded and strutted out of the room. I sunk back in my chair, my mind wandering back to Jaxil. I remembered the first moment I’d seen him—so cocky in that press conference.

It was funny, it seemed like I’d known him for ages, but in reality it had only been a blip. I wished I could put my finger on what it was about him that I found so incredibly charming.

My mind continued to wander, back to the moment he bent me over

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