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She didn’t want to leave, Amelia screamed in her head. Ms. Stacey Carter was up to something. Amelia edged around Stacey’s mind, never getting close enough to infiltrate. She figured if the Tan-ge could do it to her, then she would have the same abilities.

Every time she got close, there was a darkness that would lift its head and hiss at her. Stacy was human, that much Amelia was sure of. The darkness, on the other hand, didn’t feel human. She stopped short of saying her mind had been messed with by the Tan-ge. That was something she wasn’t willing to go out on a limb and assume. Something, though, wasn’t right.

“Mina, we haven’t heard from you,” Jenna addressed the other woman in the room.

“It’s a whole new world. I believe it will be safe because of what you said in the commercial and the fact that Bella is pregnant, and her mate seems to worship the ground she walks on.” Mina’s cheeks flushed a bright red and her blue eyes looked at Bella in awe. “I always wanted to be married and have a child.”

Amelia could feel Mina’s emotions and knew the woman was telling the truth. She was hoping to meet and mate with the male she always dreamed about.

“What about the fact that the males are purple and monsters by human standards?” Stacey sneered.

“I never dreamed about marrying the human. I always wanted to marry the beast.”

Amelia nodded her head along with her. She was the type they were looking for to go to Diza. It would be good to have women who knew what they wanted going on the first trip. One who the government hadn’t forced or blackmailed into going. A smile hovered over her lips until she looked at Stacey, who was staring at her.

Amelia hissed at Stacey. She was messing with the wrong one.

Chapter Twenty

“Thanks for coming. I think we have everything we need. We’ll be in touch.” Jenna placed herself between a hissing Amelia and Stacey. She was hoping to stop a fight not get in the middle of one.

“It’s probably for the best. In another minute, I was about to take hissy out,” Stacey said.

“What did you say?” Amelia moved over enough to look at Stacey.

“Oh shit,” Jenna said, pulling Bella up to get her out of the room.

“I said your cousin saved you. I was about to spank that ass.”

“No one except my mate spanks my ass. Bella ask Zylar to examine you, please. You looked peaked. Tell him I’ll be there after I take the trash out. Jenna, go with her. I don’t want to take the chance of either of you being hurt.” This time, she was going to do things the right way and protect those she loved. “Mina, we’ll be calling you.”

“Yes, yes, run along. I have something to say to this one.” Stacey was grinning as she spread her legs, emphasizing her height. She had about four, maybe five inches on Amelia.

“If height told the entire story, only the tall would lead.” Amelia laughed as she watched as Jenna led Bella to the door.

Amelia?” Bella turned to look at her.

Amelia shook her head. She didn’t want to talk in front of Stacey. Bella’s shoulders deflated, and she walked out the door with Mina and Jenna behind her.

Amelia walked in front of the table Bella and Jenna were sitting at. She jumped up and took a seat.

“You met a Tan-ge.” Amelia chewed on her cheek before she shook her head and tried again. “That Tan-ge played around in your head, pitting me against my cousins. Although you don’t seem to be any worse for the encounter.”

“He hit every button going in and coming out,” Stacey said batting her eyes coyly and shaking her hips. “I know about you and the pitiful war you think you have with him. I’m here to tell you he’s mine. Stay away from him.”

Amelia cocked her head and looked at Stacey through slitted eyes. She was hoping changing the way she viewed the woman would give her some insight into who she was. Falling for someone who looked like a monster on the outside was something she could understand. Hell, she was even good with it since it happened to her. It was falling for a monster on the inside that she never understood.

Falling for the beast, she understood. Falling for Hannibal Lecter was out of her realm of comprehension. What about the women in real life because the beast and the other were fantasies? The women who sent fan and love letters to mass murderers in jail. Shit, that meant there was a precedent for human women to do things that made no sense to the rest of the population. That’s the category Stacey fell into.

“He killed a planet full of women, and that wasn’t the first planet he targeted.”

“Lies,” her face crumpled into a sneer. “He told me you would say that. You would paint him and his people with a brush that was blacker than your foul heart.”

What? There was evidence, right? No, it was one alien race’s word against another. The accusations flowed both ways. If the Tan-ge had treated her like she was worthwhile instead of a piece of trash to be used and disposed of, maybe she would feel how Stacey did. Amelia knew she’d come into direct contact with more than one of them and she knew what they were capable of and who they were.

Wait, there was evidence other than the way she’d been used?

“One of them came to earth and killed every man, woman, and child walking the streets of a small town. They want the earth for their own, not the sentiment life of the planet.”

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