Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 67092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 335(@200wpm)___ 268(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 67092 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 335(@200wpm)___ 268(@250wpm)___ 224(@300wpm)
“It was this big mirrored ball that hung from the ceiling during an ancient dance ritual down on Earth. My mom told me about it, though it was before her time.” Kara sat forward in the passenger seat and looked at the glittering, diamond-like planet more closely. Its many-faceted surface did seem to sparkle and shine the same way the round glowing ball had in the vids her mom had showed her.
Sophia had decided it was important for Kara to learn about the human part of her heritage as well as the Kindred side and was always giving her tidbits of strange but interesting information about life on the world the Mother Ship orbited.
“It sparkles like that because of the natural refractors in the vegetation,” Raak explained. “It can make looking around difficult—blinding. Which is why I have these.” He popped open a compartment in the pilot’s chair and took out a couple of pairs of large, bulky looking sun shades.
“Oh, sunglasses!” Kara exclaimed, taking a pair of them and putting them on. “Uh, really big ones, too,” she added. For as soon as they touched her face, the shaded lenses grew to envelope her entire orbital region, sealing themselves around her eyes just above her eyebrows and just below her cheekbones.
“They’re heavy-duty, all right,” Raak agreed. “But that’s necessary to keep the damned planet from blinding you. Believe me, the first time I came to trade here, I didn’t have any and I was seeing spots in front of my eyes for a solar month afterwards.”
“That sounds intense.” Kara tugged at the dark glasses which immediately unmolded themselves from around her eyes sockets and let her take them off. “Why did you come here in the first place? Didn’t you say not many people do?”
Raak shrugged.
“I like adventure—like trying and seeing strange, new things. And believe me, baby girl, Xephron Five and its inhabitants are about as strange as it gets.”
Kara felt her heart pound as the disco ball planet grew bigger in the view screen.
I just hope one of those strange inhabitants can help me shrink my fangs, she thought. She no longer wanted them completely gone—she knew that now, after the awful encounter with Aunt Zeelah and Uncle Grennly on Tranq Prime. But she couldn’t go back to the Mother Ship with them in the state they were in now—so long and sharp and prominent and noticeable. It would be like a male walking around with an erection all day, right out in plain sight. It just wasn’t feasible.
If this Qi, whoever or whatever he was, could help her, Kara would be forever grateful.
But then I’ll have to go home and never see Raak again, she thought and felt a sharp dart of sadness pierce her. He won’t want to hang around the Mother Ship where everyone disapproves of him except me—not when there’s no way we can ever be together. Well, not permanently, anyway.
The memory of exactly how they had recently been together made her blush and squirm in her seat. Goddess, she’d never let a male touch her the way Raak had—and he had been so good at it. The few fumbling encounters she’d had with her last boyfriend—Jason, the human who had dumped her for biting him—had been nothing like that.
Raak had touched her with authority, as though he knew exactly how to make her body respond. And it certainly had, Kara thought, remembering how hard he’d made her come. Not to mention the hot, dirty way he’d talked to her while he touched her and sucked her nipples…
Just thinking of that made her nipples feel tight and her pussy feel wet all over again. Her fangs were throbbing too, as if they wanted to sink into his neck again…
No, stop it! Kara told herself firmly. You have to stop thinking like that—it only makes your fangs worse when you’re constantly horny for Raak.
But she could hardly help herself. Just the memory of the way he had touched her and made her come was enough to make her want it again and again…and again.
“I said, we’re about ready to land. Hey, you listening, baby girl?”
His deep voice snapped her out of her guilty fantasy and Kara looked up at him quickly, realizing she’d missed part of what he had been saying.
“Uh, sorry. I was, um, thinking,” she murmured, feeling her cheeks get hot with a blush.
“Thinking, huh?” Raak’s nostrils flared and he inhaled, clearly taking in her scent. “I bet I can guess what you were thinking, sweetheart.” He raised an eyebrow at her. “You need to bite me again before we go down there?”
“Oh, um…no. No, I’ll be okay,” Kara said quickly, though honestly, she wanted to take him up on his offer. But she was afraid that if she bit him and let him touch her again they might go further—might go too far.