Page 56 of Kissed By the Alien
I stop struggling. “You mean it, don’t you?”
“Never doubt my desire for you. And never tell me you are too heavy. It’s insulting for my female to think I cannot lift her.”
“But I’m not exactly small.”
“You are perfect. We were made for one another. I will prove it when I thrust both cocks inside you.”
My mouth opens. He’s crossed innocent flirting.
A finger traces my lips. “Keep tempting me with this lush mouth and we will never leave this room,” he says.
“And that’s bad?”
He chuckles. “You, my sweet Lexi, are a gift from the gods.”
“That’s probably the nicest thing anyone’s said to me on Valentine’s Day. Or ever.”
“I do not understand. The ball was last week.”
“Today’s February fourteenth, Valentine’s Day. They held the ball early due to scheduling conflicts for several higher ups. I’d hoped to give you something special today.” My hand glides down one cock, then the other. “But I guess that will have to wait. I have some information that’s time-sensitive. Just don’t be too upset with me, okay?”
“Explain.”
“I spoke to Moses while I was in the cell. He gave me a message to deliver to one of his people.”
Lutan’s not surprised. Not at all.
The hairs on the back of my neck rise and I get this odd feeling that Lutan put me in those cells with Moses, hoping the guy would tell me information Lutan needs.
“What did he tell you?” Lutan prompts when I stop talking.
My mind goes in fifty directions at once. Has Lutan been using me as a way to get to Moses? I fell for his charm, for his playful spirit and sweet words telling me I’m perfect the way I am. Something I’ve always wanted to hear from a guy.
Lutan reaches for my arm, but I climb off him, avoiding all contact. He stands up, towering over me, horns slowly rising.
“Whatever this message is, you cannot deliver it to his people. It’s too dangerous. You nearly got killed in the hangar. Isn’t that proof that you need to stay out of this investigation?”
It is. But my obstinance isn’t easy to ignore, especially when I’m questioning my relationship with Lutan. Then I wonder if it’s my own trust issues making me doubt him. The fact that everyone uses people on this world.
“Are you using me, Lutan? Did you put me in that cell so I’d get information from Moses for you?”
His eyebrows knit together. “I did not know Hunzu would put Moses in the same set of cells as you. When I left here, the prisoner was in an interrogation room and was supposed to stay there. But if you learned something while you were with him, then it’s our good fortune.”
“Ours?”
This time when he reaches for me, I don’t back away. His hands rub up and down my arms. “I will take you home now.”
I shove all the hurt aside and try to give Lutan the benefit of the doubt. He’s never lied to me. Not once.
“Moses said there’s a shipment arriving today. Noon, Topanga State Park. I don’t have a precise location, but I’m guessing a clearing. It sounded like a ship would be landing. He wanted me to get a message to one of his men. Virtue. I almost laughed at that name, but Moses was dead serious. Sort of like you, Lutan.”
“I’m nothing like that or any male of the Brotherhood.”
“Moses isn’t in the Brotherhood, but he deals with them. A lot of people do if they want specialty items like medicine.”
Compassion flickers across Lutan’s face as he looks at me, and I feel a smile surfacing. How easily his mood affects me…
“The message, Lexi. What did it say?” He clasps his hands behind him, once again a warrior.
