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“I won’t tell, Drift. I promise. Secrets are sacred to me.” I had a secret of my own, and I knew how heavy that burden was.

“Thank you.” He clapped me on the back. “One day, I may tell you who it is.”

I smiled. “No matter who it is, I am happy for you.” And I meant it.

CHAPTER 9

Sarah

Best. Hallucination. Ever. I cannot believe how good that sexfest was.

I knew it wasn’t real. No man or alien could ever put it down like that. But I didn’t care.If this is what my hallucinations have become, so be it.I was happily at their mercy. It was strange though—I had been taking my meds consistently, so why was this hallucination so strong? Whatever the cause, this one had been the wildest ride of my life.

Sandwiched between Deacon’s tree-trunk thighs and leaning back against his chest, I was surrounded by his heat and had never felt more delicious. Sure, I was sore, and I knew I’d be sore for days to come, but I didn’t care.Maybe hallucination sex soreness doesn’t translate into the real world, and I won’t be sore when I come to?I wasn’t sure—I had never had rough alien sex during one before.

Deacon played with my hair and periodically kissed the top of my head. I hadn’t expected him to be so affectionate, but I liked it. Still, part of me wished Jac was in the bed with us. He understood me in ways that Deacon never would. I liked the way he touched me, too. It was as if he knew my body, as if he knewme.

Deacon said, “You smell like dessert.”

I grinned and asked, “What do you eat for dessert around here?”

“Nothing too strange—usually sweet bean paste cakes or fruit.”

I could live with that. “Sweet bean paste cakes? That sounds Vietnamese or something.”

“Ladrians have been scouting to Earth for many generations, so we’ve taken to many of your foods and grow them on Orhon. Well, we try. Our soil and rain patterns differ greatly from yours. Additionally, most of us cannot digest a strictly human diet, so we make modifications.”

“Like what?”

“We ferment most of our foods. Aside from water with herbs, most of our diet is things like aliubock, banwine, meeser, rannat, nothing too scary for humans. I’ve been told aliubock is similar to your kimchi. Meeser is like a salad. Rannat…I’m not sure what it might be like.”

Kimchi and salad? Okay, at least it’s food.“What is rannat made of?”

“As I understand the process, cinas are milked—and they’re small, so it takes a lot of them—and that milk is fermented with spores. Then that mixture is dried and becomes a paste.”

I gulped. “Maybe I’ll stick with the aliubock and the meeser.”

“Rannat is one of our best sources for protein. You will learn to like it.”

“We’ll see, pushy guy,” I teased. “How is it that Jac knows so much about humans?”

“He has been a scout since we were young.”

I wasn’t sure how he would take the next question. “What I meant to ask was, how does he know so much about pleasuring them?”

He chuckled. “He has always been popular when he travels to Earth. He has seduced many of your kind.”

That would explain it. Practice makes perfect, and he was as close to perfect as it gets.Still, I didn’t like hearing that he was a manwhore. It bothered me for no good reason.

“Ladrians are pretty relaxed when it comes to sex, aren’t you?” I asked, glancing up at him.

“We do not have the same issues surrounding sex that humans do, if that’s what you mean.”

“Why is that?”

“Why would we?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know. I guess it seems natural to me to be prudish about sex, but I suppose that’s because of how I was raised. What is your culture around sex?”

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