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I looked over at my mate.
Her cheeks were flushed, her mouth parted.
It was time to leave.
[ 14 ]
JESSICA
“Oh, damn, that is hot,” I murmured under my breath, my eyes locked with Aeson as he stared at me from across the room. There was a heat between my legs burning me up and I squeezed my legs together. The way he handled the whole group of soldiers had started out being absolutely terrifying. He was so strong and fast. If the eight foot tall, muscle-bound supersoldiers couldn’t take him, then how would I have any chance if he decided to turn on me? Then he had stopped that one from hitting me, giving me the cheekiest fucking grin I’d ever seen before going back to the fight.
From that moment on, I was on fire.
“You know these guys are going to fixate on Atisari hand to hand fighting tactics for months now,” Lorelei sighed. “With proper weapons, it would be a different story but no, that's not what they are going to worry about. They are not going to settle with losing a brawl. The fighting planetside was so tame for them that they are going to go absolutely nuts over this.”
Her words distracted me from eyefucking my husband as he moved towards me.
I hadn’t seen her in years and she popped back into my life with a request to house some hot, rich, single, foreign guy who she was willing to fully vouch for - but he turned out to be an alien who swept my friend off her feet and into running an alien marriage agency.
Oh, and then it turned out she was an empress of said alien species and decided to literally conquer the world.
“Lorelei.” I put my hands on my hips and turned on her. “What the fuck?”
“What?” she asked, her eyes wide as she looked at me. She jiggled her shoulders a little, like one of those freakin dancing cat elf aliens. “What’s wrong?”
“There is no more candy in the gas stations,” I said. “And the only gas stations that are still running are in wealthy neighborhoods. Do you know how many people are riding bikes now a days? I saw someone riding a horse. A horse.”
“Yeah, well, CO2 emissions are lower than during that whole pandemic where everyone worked from home instead of commuting.” She shrugged. “So why don’t you sue me? Or get a horse.”
“I can’t travel 200 miles on a horse.” I rolled my eyes at her.
“First off, yes, you can,” she replied. “You just can’t do it in a couple hours. It would take at least a couple of days unless you're a sadomasochist who likes to murder animals or you are really good at training that horse for endurance. Second, I’ve got a whole vehicle production facility set up for electric hover cars and we’re training local human workers on it. It will be an employee owned company once it's all running smoothly.”
“Lorelei, you are so full of yourself I can’t even stand it,” I replied, exhaling my jealousy and the weight of the peanut gallery back on Earth that was entirely focused on her. She had every person on the planet paying attention to everything she did and she didn’t give a shit. She did what she wanted.
What she wanted was to change the world for the better.
I love hated her for it so much.
“Full of awesomeness you mean.” She flicked her hair and gave me another shoulder wiggle. “Bitch please, you can’t even leave this spacecraft if I don’t let you.”
“My wife,” Aeson hissed as he reached us.
I grinned at Lorelei.
“You want to try and stop us?” I challenged, waving my hand at the squadron of soldiers picking themselves off the floor.
She laughed.
Then she pointed her finger at Aeson’s chest.
“Next time you’re on board, I expect a rematch.” She raised her voice so the whole room could hear. “You little kitties better wipe the floor with him next time!”
“Yes, your majesty,” Kevrar called out. “We will not fail you.”
“Let’s go.” I turned and walked out the door. I could feel the heat radiating off of Aeson as he followed me.
“Jessica,” Lorelei called out.
