Mate Abduction (Alien Abduction #9) - Eve Langlais Page 0,39
guy. No one’s going to take me.”
Leave it to Thyos to laugh. “Rest easy. I have no need of your female, Kulin. I have one of my own.” He’d gotten closer as he spoke, close enough he could slap Clarabelle’s butt.
She squeaked and tossed him a dirty look. “How many times do I have to tell you I don’t belong to you?” It was better than throwing herself at him and demanding he say it again.
“Are you going to argue with me still?”
“Sex doesn’t make us married, buddy. We had this discussion already.”
Too late, she realized how it sounded by how wide Betty’s eyes grew.
Undaunted, Thyos offered a lazy grin. “And we shall discuss it again.”
She hissed for his ears only, “Don’t make me kill you.”
“Don’t renege on our deal,” was his soft reply.
“If you want me to stay, I need an excuse for my friend.”
“How about the truth? That you are mine.” An answer that she might have repudiated, except he chose to grab hold of her and toss her over his brawny shoulder.
It was unexpected and out of character. She hollered, “Put me down, you thug.” She then cast an annoyed glance and plea at her friend. “Betty, help me.”
Help her fight the insane attraction she had for Thyos. Help her escape before it was too late.
Her friend angled her head around the big purple dude and smirked. “Help you? That wouldn’t be the Zonian way. Seems to me, you’ve accomplished part of your mission. You’ve found a male to breed.”
“But he wants to keep me.” Even more astonishing, she wanted to stay.
“You know what Pantariste would say.”
In that moment Clarabelle could hear her teacher. The mightiest and wiliest prevail.
Or those with patience. She had only a few more days. Mere days left to enjoy the pleasure. Hopefully long enough to sate the strange desire she had for him before she left and completed her quest.
If she could leave. It was that fear that had her saying, “Hey, I thought you came to save me?”
“Yeah, but as you just told me, you don’t need any help.”
Her purple companion chuckled. “Now where have I heard that before?”
“Did I miss a mighty battle?” Thyos asked, playing nonchalant as he eyed the bloody field while ignoring the fact Clarabelle hung down his back. With a knife.
She could kill him if she wanted.
The Kulin warrior stiffly replied, “Just a misunderstanding. The one in charge of the guard post thought he could touch what was mine. I showed him the error of his ways.”
“Nice.”
Men. Clarabelle couldn’t believe they would bond over being psychotically jealous. Then again, given how she’d felt when Betty eyeballed her man, she understood better now.
Wait, when did he become my man?
“Are we going to have a problem?” Betty’s guardian asked.
“I never did like the pompous idiot. He only got the position because of his father.” She could almost picture the curl of Thyos’s lip by his tone.
“So we are free to leave?”
“I have no fight with you, although that could change if you plan to take the female I’ve claimed.”
“You do not own me,” she muttered low enough for only him to hear.
“I have my hands full keeping my own out of trouble,” declared the purple dude.
Betty, trouble? She almost laughed.
But what sobered her more quickly was the realization Betty was leaving without attempting to take Clarabelle with her. “What? You mean you came all this way and aren’t going to rescue me?”
“Sorry, but this hero is taken,” Betty replied, hugging the purple guy around the waist, making it clear she’d staked a claim.
She had no problem with the guy not being human. Was it only Clarabelle being too picky?
“It is time you accepted your fate, freckled one,” Thyos declared. “Say goodbye to your friend.”
“No. You can’t do this,” Clarabelle railed. “I refuse to let you abduct me, you giant barbarian. I’m on a mission, dammit. You need to let me go so I can get back to the Zonian world and let them know I didn’t find any suitable males for breeding.” Forget the bargain. She should leave. Now. With Betty, before it was too late.
Thyos ignored her. “If you would, Kulin warrior and his mate, could you kindly relay a message to the Zonian home world that, despite their tendency to cause havoc and their contrary nature, my city would gladly welcome any human females who are in search of husbands. We find ourselves short of females at the moment due to a pandemic several galactic revolutions