Lairn burst into the Tor transport storage cabin dragging a small thrashing female. I paused and raised an eyebrow at him and his quarry. Lairn's dark eyes were shining as he thrust the small female forward and gleefully exclaimed in Krashi, "look what I've found."
The female looked human and stopped her floundering once I captured her gaze. My glowing, synthetic, violet eyes could have that affect even on my own species. I surveyed her form slowly. She was breathing hard. Lairn had her arms neatly captured behind her back. She was a nicely curved human female specimen. Her thin tunic looked to be both too large on her and yet, showed nearly all of her shapely legs. Lairn easily maneuvered the girl and began to drag up the tunic while the human stood pulled tightly against him. Her sweet little whimpers went straight to my groin.
Fucking Lairn. This was supposed to be a simple mission. We already had the nanoconnectors we came for, but I couldn't take my eyes from what Lairn slowly revealed. The human female wore some sort of scant triangle undergarment. The human tan-pink skin of her belly looked achingly soft and smooth. I got a whiff of her spiced female scent mixed with a metallic twist of her fear. She was delicious. I growled.
"We don't have time for this, lieutenant," I barked at him, and Lairn's hand froze in its exploration, but his smirk let me know he knew exactly how I was reacting to the little female. I knit my brows together as Lairn stroked the curve of the human's beautiful hip and gave me pleading little-brother eyes.
I let out a string of Krashi expletives. "Fine, we can take her with us, but you are responsible for her. Do you understand? Cleaning it. Feeding it. And if she becomes too much trouble..." I didn't finish with words but gave Lairn a hard glare. Lairn's face went from a grin of triumph to a more serious expression. "Yes, Kane, I understand."
Though we were speaking Krashi and not the universal compre, the human seemed to sense we'd come to some sort of an agreement and began again to uselessly thrash in Lairn's arms. It was of course to no avail. Krashi are far stronger, larger and faster than human males, let alone a lone, soft human female.
It was when the little thing began to yell surprisingly loudly that I grunted and threw the sedative clip at Lairn. He caught it and administered it to her quickly. Lairn lifted his prize easily as she slumped in his arms. He gave me a rueful expression as he followed me to the teleport stand.
I began to breathe easier once we were back on our ship and warping to Krashi space. What was a little human woman doing on a Tor transport this far from Terran space? This was the first human I'd ever seen up close, and I could see why they sold so dearly on the underground alien market. She was mouth-watering. I scowled thinking of what Lairn might be doing with his new toy as I was stuck navigating us home.
Eva woke groggily on a soft surface to the sound of lilting, but masculine humming. Her eyes blinked open and she saw the alien who had grabbed her was walking in from a doorway and dragging a drying cloth through its short dark hair. Eva pinched her eyes shut. It hadn't been a dream. Shit!
She heard what she thought was a chuckle. "I know you are awake, little human," the deep voice of the alien teased. It was an accent she hadn't heard before in universal compre.
Eva opened her eyes and scowled up only to gasp as she noticed the decidedly male alien was completely naked and standing beside the bed. Through her surging panic, she had to acknowledge that whatever species he was, he was striking. He was muscular and tall with a strange silvery sheen to his pale skin. His eyes were such a dark violet-blue they looked almost black.
