Page 22 of Jewel of the Alien Bandit
When you put it that way, it wasn’t the most flattering of compliments.
“Scary upon first impression, but a fascinating animal with many wonderful attributes once examined more closely.” I tried to explain.
Her smile grew. “Don’t examine me too closely, you pretty slice of pleasure meat. The danger doesn’t disappear, it only becomes more apparent. Let’s see what Vareo has to say for himself when his pod arrives.”
Now, I was the one confused. How did I arrive at his ship before he did?
She sat down with a flourish, lifting her boots to prop up on one of the handles welded across the deck just in case the gravity simulators failed.
“Take a seat,” she stopped, realizing she didn’t know my name.
With a shiver I grabbed a handle to lower myself onto the cold ledge that doubled as a sliver of a seat. I was keenly aware of how underdressed I was for a ship that didn’t have the latest technology to simulate the moon’s radiation warmth. I’d have to rely on my loh activating to keep my body temperature up.
“Guess they don’t need much clothing down there if all you’ll be doing is fucking.” Her eyes wandered to my gauzy skirts, and I clamped my legs together and gripped the fabric where the slit was to prevent her from seeing just how true those words were. My neck heated with embarrassment that I didn’t normally feel about my body. Was that how offworlders saw us because of our clothing? We kept our fabric light and sparse because we absorb as much of the moon’s radiation as possible. Clothing only got in the way. Suddenly, I felt very exposed in front of her.
“It’s uncomfortable to cover up our loh,” I clipped back while squaring off my shoulders to hide how small she made me feel. In an act of defiance I released my grip on my skirt, letting the slit open up so the loh down my thighs weren’t covered anymore. I leaned forward, forearms on my thighs to add, “And only I choose who will be doing any fucking.”
She grinned at me, her gaze lingering on my hip where the slit ended. the very slit I had adjusted to give Vareo full access to tease my coiled nerves within my core.
Her eyes darkened like she knew what I was thinking.
“I can see why he’d want you. He likes a fight in his cock sport, but because I like you I’ll let you know that I’m going to use you as leverage to get that boot slime to finish his job. Don’t take it personally,” she finished while using the heel of her boot to flip a switch.
Contraptions from behind the wall surged around me before I could think. Retractable metal straps wrapped around myshoulders, my ankles. The straps snapped, slamming my arms into the wall. My head cracked from the force of being sucked back into the seat, disorientating me while my hands were cuffed and latched to the armrests. This was a bounty hold for prisoners.
I groaned, struggling against the bindings but I felt the surge in static building with my movement until it released, shocking my body making me slump.
“Oh, right. If I liked you more I would have warned you that struggling only creates an electrical current that builds up and releases in a rather uncomfortable shock.”
Uncomfortable was putting it mildly, it was downright painful and I felt my body numb where the metal made contact. The glow of my loh flickered and faded until another shock wretched through my muscles making me scream.
“Guess it works with whatever energy those jewels on your body were producing too. Better try your best not to activate those,” she purred, amused by my suffering.
My head lulled against my shoulder as I slumped. My whole body was numb, unable to move. I knew as soon as feeling returned I would be in for a painful awakening.
A suctioning whoosh of air sounded through the transport deck signaling the arrival of another pod.
Vareo…
His voice echoed through the comms, “Open the fucking hatch, Carmen.”
That’s who was holding me captive. At least I could put a name to my tormentor before life as I knew it changed forever.
“Glad you could make it, you sneaky bastard. Thought you could get the payout from the job on your own did you? I’m not letting you out of your pod until we’re at the dropoff and you have no choice but to give the client the jewel or die.”
“Carmen, you psychotic bitch, what are you blabbering about?”
“Don’t play dumb. I’ll be back when you want to take your dick out of your ass and be straight with me.” Carmen bounced up from her seat and sauntered over to me. She pinched my chin between her fingers and whispered, “Enjoy the ride.” Her tongue licked up my cheek, tasting her victory, but I refused to show any emotion, not that it was difficult considering I couldn’t feel my face.
“This won’t hold,” he growled through the comm.
“Don’t take too long,” she antagonized before letting my head lull back with a thunk against the wall and back onto my shoulder.
Seething I vowed I would repay her kindness as soon as I was out of this contraption.
With a swish of her hips, she left the transport deck and the automatic doors closed behind her.
It wasn’t long before pain was shooting down my arms and spine as feeling returned to my limbs. I gritted my teeth, but I was unable to stop the scream that echoed from my throat while not being able to writhe around. The small jerking motion of my muscles built up that buzz within the bindings, and I stilled, hoping for it to dissipate before it ignited once more.
