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Chapter 7

Kear

What a poor fucking excuse of a man!

Maya had the misfortune to have absolute scum for a boyfriend. The coward couldn’t wait for a few more months to break up with her face-to-face. He had to do it to her over interstellar communication, while she was pregnant, away from home and her usual support system.

Kear knew next to nothing about intimate relationships. He prided himself on successfully avoiding them all his life. It saved him so much angst and inevitable heartache, allowing him to focus all his energy on his work.

His sex life consisted solely of regular visits to a massage spa to use the pods for relief once a week. The machines took care of his physical needs, leaving his emotions intact. But even he realized how heartless a move that was on Maya’s boyfriend’s part.

Now, Kear and his team had a real situation on their hands.

Alcus Hecear was going to be here in the morning. The man had lots of experience in handling the matters of the heart. He’d help Maya straighten out her emotions. That’d be a good start.

But Kear would have to take it from there. He had to find a way to keep Maya happy. No more cupcakes. But maybe he could let her have another ice milk?

She’d mentioned something about “hanging out more often.” Maybe he could take her somewhere outside of the hospital building? As an exception to the rules.

Summer was here. All outdoor parks were now open. Or he could take her shopping and buy her some pajamas, since it was his fault she didn’t have any. First, of course, he’d have to buy her something to wear other than the hospital robe so she could leave here in the first place.

He rubbed his forehead. He’d thought that he’d been keeping his subject safe, that he had accounted for all harmful factors. Now, he had to rethink and adjust his strategy. It took some thought, time, and effort, but it could be done.

At least now, he could get back to bed and sleep for a few hours before his alarm went off.

He was about to turn off the screen with the letter from the asshole boyfriend when his tablet dinged with a new message. It was another letter arriving from the human guy’s account.

Irritation flared in Kear’s chest. What did he want from Maya? Hadn’t he done enough? Couldn’t he leave her alone now?

Maybe the idiot had thought it through and reconsidered?

That’d be good. After all, who in their own mind would want to break up with Maya? She was so...um... Granted, Kear didn’t know much about her as a person. But she didn’t deserve what her boyfriend did to her. It took a special kind of asshole to make a woman cry like that.

If the boyfriend wanted to reconcile, however, that would make Maya happy. And if she was happy, Kear was ready to forgive her boyfriend, too.

He hit the read-aloud button so his translator would be able to convey the meaning of the letter to him.

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