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“What? With the Bonding Fruit cream still on your nipples?” He shook his head. “I wouldn’t advise that. The pleasure it causes will be unremitting—that means it won’t stop, no matter what you do,” he added.
“I know what ‘unremitting’ means!” Lexi snapped, buttoning her blouse over her sensitive breasts. “I have a Masters degree, you know!”
She rose from her chair and folded her bra under her arm. She was getting out of here—away from the strange and extremely rude Kindred scientist!
“Wait—where are you going?” Dr. Brandt demanded as she headed for the door.
“Away from you.” Lexi shot him a scathing look.
“But what about our mission?” he demanded. “What about going to Bio-Terius Centra so we can get you infected with Bacillus Aurum?”
“I never agreed to any of that!” Lexi snapped. “By the way, you can send the six thousand dollars that I earned by letting you fiddle with my breasts to my bank account.”
But as she marched out the office door and into the waiting room, a wave of weakness overcame her. Her legs were suddenly unsteady and she felt herself falling.
Strong arms caught her and she was scooped up and cradled to Dr. Brandt’s muscular chest.
“You need to be careful, Alexandra,” he rumbled. “Producing such a large amount of nectar in such a short time has made you weak. You can’t?—”
But Lexi never got to hear what she couldn’t do because her head was spinning and at that moment everything went dark.
3
BRANDT
Brandt frowned anxiously at the limp figure in his arms. She was so tiny…so fragile. And yet she had quite a fiery temper when she was roused. He had never had such a little creature get so angry at him before. It was like being hissed at by a kitten he decided—which was the Earth animal that Alexandra most reminded him of.
A beautiful kitten with luscious full curves, whispered a little voice in his head. Brandt tried to push it away. He truly had no interest in the little human female other than as his test subject and a way to bring the Bacillus Aurum back to the Mother Ship so he could study and experiment with it.
He tried not to look at her large breasts and big, tight nipples which were poking at the thin white fabric of her blouse. He needed to get her back to her friend’s suite—she was probably another Earth female who had mated with a Kindred warrior, he thought. He would just have to explain that Alexandra had weakened herself by too much nectar production and that she needed to be kept in bed and fed calorie rich foods for the next day or so to recover.
But what about the Bonding Fruit cream still on her nipples? Brandt tried not to look at them longingly. They were so ripe and juicy—he would like nothing better than to suck them clean for her. Maybe he should have told her that the cream was hard to remove before putting it on her, but he’d never dreamed that she would refuse the wand!
A sudden thought occurred to him—maybe he should remove the cream now, while she was still unconscious. Then he could return her to her friend for recovery.
But what then? whispered the little voice in his head. She’s very offended. What if she refuses to go to Bio-Terius Centra and get infected with the Bacillus Aurum? What if she refuses to help you with your cause?
That was a terrible thought. Brandt had interviewed thousands of human females at this point and none of them had even made it past the blood tests. Alexandra was the only one who had not only passed the blood test part of his trials, but had also proved herself capable of nectar production. What if she refused to help him and he never kept his vow to Melanie and found a cure for the disease that had taken her from him so swiftly and brutally?
As always, when he thought of his lost mate, a deep swell of sadness filled him. It had been over ten years now since he had watched her slip away. She’d been so young—too young to be taken by the disease that snatched her from him. They had only been mated for a year—less than a year—when he lost her.
Brandt had blamed himself, though many doctors had told him he shouldn’t. He felt he should have sensed something was wrong with his mate. Her scent had changed, but he hadn’t known that the strange, slightly sour odor he was smelling was the scent of the cancer working on her, eating her up from the inside-out.
After his spouse’s death, Brandt had dedicated his life to stamping out the disease that had taken her. The Kindred already had cures for many kinds of cancer, but breast cancer was difficult—especially if it was caught too late.
Besides, Brandt didn’t just want to cure it—he wanted to make a vaccine that could be given to every female on the planet to stop it from ever occurring again. He wanted to eradicate the filthy disease once and for all so that no one ever had to feel the deep, aching despair he had felt every day since his beautiful wife had died.
But you didn’t feel it when you were talking to Alexandra, did you? whispered the little voice in his head. She excited you…engaged you in a way no one has since Melanie!
He pushed the thought away. He had taken a vow to never again call another bride and he intended to keep it. But the question remained—what was he going to do with the curvy little human in his arms?
I can’t take her back to her friend—can’t risk letting her get away, Brandt thought to himself. He looked down at her pretty face and noticed the fine line between her eyebrows—that spoke of stubbornness and fierce determination. He couldn’t let her go her own way because she might never come back to him and his entire cause would be lost.
Staring at the little female in his arms, his resolve hardened.
No, he decided, he wouldn’t give her a choice. He would take Alexandra to Bio-Terius Centra with him right now—this minute. His cause was too important to leave in the hands of an irate human.
He wasn’t going to reason and he wasn’t going to beg—one way or another, she was going to help him in his quest to eradicate the disease that had taken his mate from him.
