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)
“Couldn’t tell you what it looks like because I’ve never seen it,” Raak told her.
“What? But then how…I mean, I don’t understand.” Kara shook her head.
“Qi is one of the Unseen,” Raak told her. “He has achieved what all the Xephronians hope for—complete invisibility. And here we are at his domicile now,” he added as they came to a halt.
Kara looked to where he was pointing but saw nothing…literally nothing. There was just a very large square of cleared land, about as big as a football field, with nothing to see but hard-packed dirt. Or was it dirt? She frowned and squinted her eyes at it. It was black, whatever it was, providing a strange contrast to the silvery reflective surfaces of the Xephronians all around it.
She reached down to touch some of the black stuff to see what it actually was…and found that she somehow couldn’t reach it. Though she could see it plain as day, when she reached for it, her seeking fingers encountered something hard and smooth that wouldn’t let her make contact with the black stuff.
“Hey—why can’t I touch it?” She looked up to see that Raak was grinning at her.
“You’re doing the same thing I did on my first visit here,” he remarked. “You can’t touch it, baby girl, because Qi’s palace is in the way. It’s like you’re trying to reach through the brick wall of a domicile to touch the foundations—it can’t be done. Well, not unless you’re able to phase through matter.”
“So this whole thing is a building?” Kara flung out a hand, gesturing to the vast, empty-looking square of black dirt. She winced as the back of her hand banged into something. “Ouch!”
“Uh-huh—the Palace of the Unseen. You okay?” Raak asked, frowning. He took her hand and examined it carefully. “Gotta be more careful, baby girl. Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it can’t hurt you.”
“Okay.” Kara flexed her bruised fingers and frowned. “Um, if we can’t see the entrance, how do we get in?”
“I will open the door for you,” their plant-person guide said in its clear, tinkling voice. “But first you must disrobe and become all-flesh.”
“Uh, what?” Kara asked, frowning at it uncertainly.
“It means you have to strip.” Raak was already tugging his shirt over his head to reveal his muscular chest and unfastening the magno tabs that held his flight leathers closed.
“What?” Kara wrapped her arms around herself protectively. “You didn’t tell me we had to get naked.” She put a hand on her hip. “This is why you said I was dressed perfectly for Xephron Five, isn’t it? Because I only have one thing to take off to be completely nude.” She gestured down at his silver uniform shirt and frowned at him.
He frowned back.
“Didn’t think you’d mind. After all, baby girl, didn’t I just see you naked not that long ago? Or mostly naked, anyway.” His dark, silver-ringed eyes scanned over her body and his voice dropped to a low growl. “Saw you and touched you too, as I recall.”
Kara felt her cheeks grow hot with a blush and her fangs throbbed with the memory of their time together. But she was still hesitant.
“Well…yes, I know that,” she said, frowning. “But just because I let you see me naked doesn’t mean I feel comfortable letting a whole bunch of strangers see me naked too!”
Plus, she’d been out of her mind with lust and need when she’d acted in such an uninhibited way around him. She was more in control of herself now and the idea of taking all her clothes off in front of the big Unbondable—not to mention a bunch of strange aliens—made her distinctly nervous.
“Don’t worry,” Raak told her. “Nobody here but me has any sexual interest in your sweet, curvy little body, baby girl. And they’re only going to see you for a minute anyway. In fact,” he added mysteriously, “You’ll only see yourself for a minute too—or me—so enjoy the sight while it lasts.”
He flashed her that wild grin of his—a white slice in his dark face—and held out his arms as though to let her look at his body, which was, by now, completely nude.
Kara tried not to look and found she couldn’t help herself. She’d seen Raak with his shirt off, of course, but the big Unbondable completely naked was a sight to behold. Her eyes ran up his long muscular legs, cut torso, and broad chest and shoulders before sliding back down to rest on the long, thick shaft that nestled against one thigh like a sleeping snake.
He’s so big! she couldn’t help thinking and her fangs throbbed at the thought. Goddess, if he was that huge when he was completely soft, how enormous must his shaft get when he was hard?
And what would it feel like inside her?