Taken by Space Pirates: A SciFi Alien Romance (Bound to the Alien Book 2) by Flora Dare Page A
Authors: Flora Dare
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agree now, everything will be ever so much more pleasant."
Her exoskeleton parted, revealing cold dead eyes that surveyed each of us.
"No takers? I am unsurprised. You should know, most of the rest of the crew submitted by the end of the first day."
The chairs flipped back, laying us flat and stretching us out. Dr. Blattodea stood over me. "Oh yes, little Thea, I knew your father. He's the reason I know so very much about the life bond. It's a pity he died before he could share in my success."
I blinked back tears, I had no idea what to say.
"But this will really be a crowning moment for me, and it will hopefully bring about the last piece of the puzzle I need. It really is fitting it's you. And so humorous that it will be with a human! Your father would be appalled. I enjoy that."
She forced a gag into my mouth. "You will consummate your bond with your young man. I would prefer not to drug you, to have an untainted observation. Remember, you will be fully bonded, so if you don't allow me clean data, I will quite enjoy using your bond to torture both of you until you beg for death."
With that, my cage started moving, leaving the room and humming down the hallway. I had no sense of what was happening around me, until I entered another room. The cage turned back into a chair, twisting me with it. I was directly across from Sam, who stared at me accusingly.
Chapter Eleven
I looked around the room, avoiding his eyes. It was Spartan, but clean. A plump and welcoming bed was the only furniture. The chairs abruptly dumped us both on the floor and merged back into the walls.
Sam stood first and just towered over me. He finally reached a hand out to me and helped me to my feet. A wave of exhaustion crashed over me and I staggered. Sam guided me to the bed and I sat, sinking my head into my hands.
I said, "I suppose you'd like an explanation?"
He sat next to me, his voice softer than I expected. "It would be nice. But knowing there is something between us, I'm not surprised." He took one of my hands in his.
"You've heard of the Pogona ?"
"It's like, sexual attraction on steroids."
I said, "Yes, something like that. It's both the drive to mate and a deep connection between two people. The stronger the bond, the more it develops, the more we can feel of the other person."
I was suddenly struck with realization. My mother and father had been bonded a long time, she would have felt, practically been in the same room with him as he ruined all those families, tortured and murdered them.
My whole life I feared and hated the bond because of what I'd seen what it had done to my mother. But it wasn't the bond itself that made her give up on anything but being a shadow. It was my father and what he was doing that drove her mad.
Sam said, "So that's why I was able to bring you out of their mind poison. Our connection."
I nodded at him. "Yes, I could hear you in my mind telling me it wasn't real."
"So what does she want us to do?"
I swallowed past the hard knot in my throat. "To consummate the bond?"
"Does that mean..." He trailed off in thought.
"Yes, it means to have sexual intercourse." I was trying to be clinical, to pretend that it wouldn't be so effortless, so easy to fall backwards into the bed with him. I stood up suddenly. "I would really rather not have to be forced into having sex with anyone. And we've been locked in a box for a week. I have not felt less sexy, ever."
He laughed and moved across the room from me. He banged on the walls and started shouting, "Hey, if you want us to fuck for data, you need to give us a real meal and maybe let us shower." He looked over at me. "Might as well get some grub out of this and you aren't the only one who would literally kill for a shower right now."
I smiled. Resisting him was going to be miserable, but the last thing I wanted to do was to help the Reivers in any way. I said,
Her exoskeleton parted, revealing cold dead eyes that surveyed each of us.
"No takers? I am unsurprised. You should know, most of the rest of the crew submitted by the end of the first day."
The chairs flipped back, laying us flat and stretching us out. Dr. Blattodea stood over me. "Oh yes, little Thea, I knew your father. He's the reason I know so very much about the life bond. It's a pity he died before he could share in my success."
I blinked back tears, I had no idea what to say.
"But this will really be a crowning moment for me, and it will hopefully bring about the last piece of the puzzle I need. It really is fitting it's you. And so humorous that it will be with a human! Your father would be appalled. I enjoy that."
She forced a gag into my mouth. "You will consummate your bond with your young man. I would prefer not to drug you, to have an untainted observation. Remember, you will be fully bonded, so if you don't allow me clean data, I will quite enjoy using your bond to torture both of you until you beg for death."
With that, my cage started moving, leaving the room and humming down the hallway. I had no sense of what was happening around me, until I entered another room. The cage turned back into a chair, twisting me with it. I was directly across from Sam, who stared at me accusingly.
Chapter Eleven
I looked around the room, avoiding his eyes. It was Spartan, but clean. A plump and welcoming bed was the only furniture. The chairs abruptly dumped us both on the floor and merged back into the walls.
Sam stood first and just towered over me. He finally reached a hand out to me and helped me to my feet. A wave of exhaustion crashed over me and I staggered. Sam guided me to the bed and I sat, sinking my head into my hands.
I said, "I suppose you'd like an explanation?"
He sat next to me, his voice softer than I expected. "It would be nice. But knowing there is something between us, I'm not surprised." He took one of my hands in his.
"You've heard of the Pogona ?"
"It's like, sexual attraction on steroids."
I said, "Yes, something like that. It's both the drive to mate and a deep connection between two people. The stronger the bond, the more it develops, the more we can feel of the other person."
I was suddenly struck with realization. My mother and father had been bonded a long time, she would have felt, practically been in the same room with him as he ruined all those families, tortured and murdered them.
My whole life I feared and hated the bond because of what I'd seen what it had done to my mother. But it wasn't the bond itself that made her give up on anything but being a shadow. It was my father and what he was doing that drove her mad.
Sam said, "So that's why I was able to bring you out of their mind poison. Our connection."
I nodded at him. "Yes, I could hear you in my mind telling me it wasn't real."
"So what does she want us to do?"
I swallowed past the hard knot in my throat. "To consummate the bond?"
"Does that mean..." He trailed off in thought.
"Yes, it means to have sexual intercourse." I was trying to be clinical, to pretend that it wouldn't be so effortless, so easy to fall backwards into the bed with him. I stood up suddenly. "I would really rather not have to be forced into having sex with anyone. And we've been locked in a box for a week. I have not felt less sexy, ever."
He laughed and moved across the room from me. He banged on the walls and started shouting, "Hey, if you want us to fuck for data, you need to give us a real meal and maybe let us shower." He looked over at me. "Might as well get some grub out of this and you aren't the only one who would literally kill for a shower right now."
I smiled. Resisting him was going to be miserable, but the last thing I wanted to do was to help the Reivers in any way. I said,
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