Caught Between Two Blue Aliens - Celia Kyle Page 0,19

Sevith growled.

“Yes. Our female does not like these males. I sense her anxiety. A twinge of fear. And disgust.”

“Especially for that one in the front,” Sevith remarked. “She hates the largest one most of all.”

Hiren watched Jenna’s eyes as she forced a smile and waved to the men who seemed to know her.

“Hey, Roy!” she called with feigned enthusiasm.

“There she is,” the male called Roy said in a scratchy, boisterous voice. “Staying outta trouble, kid? Too bad, ’cause we’re here.”

The other males in the group laughed as they sat down in what Hiren recognized to be Jenna’s section. Jenna’s anxiety rose and Hiren’s fangs elongated in response to her emotions.

“Get on over here, girl. We know what we want,” Roy yelled out.

Jenna said something quickly to the table she served before bustling over to Roy’s space. Hiren watched with rapt attention as she took the orders of the men at the table with a forced smile. They were harder to hear now that they spoke at a normal tone so far away, but Hiren sensed everything. Jenna was desperate for an out, and she would be glad when this male and his friends finally left. Why she tolerated this human she clearly disliked, Hiren had no idea.

But when she got to Roy’s order, the male talked so low Jenna had to bend down to hear his words. Hiren watched as the male smirked wickedly and beckoned for her to… sit down with him? They were saying something, and Jenna looked like she was politely declining at first. Then Roy reached out and put his hands on her hips and pulled her down onto his lap as the rest of the table laughed.

Sevith bared his elongated fangs.

Hiren dug his claws into the table.

Jenna fake-laughed, with a pink face, but her thoughts and feelings were clear to both Hiren and Sevith. This was the most uncomfortable she’d been all day, and her instincts were bordering on fight-or-flight mode.

This human is touching our female against her wishes and making her unhappy, Hiren noted.

Their alpha is dead, Sevith remarked. I claim the kill shot.

Hiren grunted in agreement.

They stood in unison, their chairs scraping back at the same time, and the sound of metal grating on linoleum cut through the diner’s noise.

The entire diner grew quiet and all eyes were on Hiren and his Azi as they strode over to Jenna’s location. They’d trained and fought together for the last fifteen Drokten planetary cycles. This would be over in moments.

As they approached, Roy firmed his grip and Jenna was now squirming in the male’s lap, unable to escape.

Their Oso’s eyes turned toward the sound of their footsteps—the only sounds to break the diner’s silence. She looked up at their approach, her mouth dropping open in surprise as her face lost all color.

Hiren took her by the hand, lifting her out of the offensive male’s lap and pulling her into his own protective embrace.

“What the fuck?” the human male snapped, glaring up at them.

Sevith remained silent. Instead, he merely reached down with one muscular arm, grabbed the male by the throat, and lifted him from his seat and into the air until his feet dangled helplessly above the floor.

Six

“Wh-what are you doing?” Jenna snapped breathlessly.

Holy crap, the two aliens she’d ditched last night were standing in the diner. How had Hiren and Sevith even managed to find her? Because there was no way these two Drokten had just now accidentally run into her.

“This human male touched you in a way we deem inappropriate for a female of your value,” Hiren informed her.

“Her value?” Roy sputtered helplessly, his hands tugging against the claw at his throat. “Her value?” He struggled against Sevith’s hold but remained captured. “What about my value. Huh?” he rasped. “I’m a paying customer and I’ll treat the help however I damn well please.”

Sevith, the commander of the Drokten fleet, lowered the male until his tiptoes touched the linoleum, bringing the human’s face closer to his own. He growled, leaning in slowly, closer and closer until less than an inch separated them. “You have no value to me.”

For once, Roy looked truly terrified at someone bigger and badder than himself. And Jenna had to admit this was a nice change of pace. It was great to see Roy, the ultimate bully who’d made her life a living hell for the last year, finally get his comeuppance. But, on the other hand, she suspected she was also moments away from getting fired from the job