Caught Between Two Blue Aliens - Celia Kyle Page 0,47
barked. “You’ve clearly upset the Drokten and our guest. I left you in here to watch over the girl and to make her comfortable. Yet the commander thinks you’ve upset her. Explain yourself!”
Sevith was surprised to hear Wells snapping at his aide instead of the two Drokten who caused so much damage to the building. This was unusual.
“I was just telling Miss Perry that her pay for the night she worked at Drokten Main was delayed!” the aide gasped, still struggling against Sevith’s iron grip in vain. “With this ordeal still in the works, it—cough—might be another week for the paperwork to process! Ask her!”
Sevith reached with his mind to connect with his Oso and felt something more interesting still.
Jenna was about to lie to him—to them. Interesting.
He wasn’t sure how he knew, but it was obvious the words about to leave her lips were not reality.
“He’s telling the truth,” Jenna said after a moment’s hesitation. “Mr. Espinosa said payroll would be tied up until they can clear me and release my pay. It was upsetting to me because I was hoping to get paid earlier and I have bills to cover.”
His Oso would not meet his gaze, her eyes firmly on the marble-tiled ground instead of him. What was wrong with her? Sevith opened his mouth to call out the lie, only to snap his teeth together when Hiren’s voice entered his mind.
No, his Bahn thundered. Don’t say anything. Yes, she’s lying to us, but let it go for now.
Sevith glared at him. Why?
True, he’d promised not to use their mind link and speak with Hiren without Jenna’s knowledge, but this was an emergency situation—for the safety of their Oso.
We can sort out her lies on the Avash, Hiren explained. We have to back her up for now, or this situation will worsen.
“… Fine,” Sevith said out loud after a moment and slowly lowered the aide until his feet touched the ground once more. “I will accept my female’s statement. But do not again cause her even a moment’s distress.”
The human rubbed his neck and skulked back to his place at Wells’ side, looking at Sevith as if he were a wild animal. In truth, when it came to their Oso, Sevith would act like the most feral of beasts to protect her.
“I apologize,” Wells said in a smooth tone, “not all of our staff have been properly trained in cross-cultural decorum. “Shall we… ah… see if another meeting room is available?”
Thirteen
Hiren opened the door to the conference room while Sevith scooped Jenna into his arms as if she were light as a feather.
“Ooh,” Jenna gasped, still completely unused to the way these two marched through life with the confidence of battle-hardened super soldiers.
She sensed the raw, brute strength of Sevith’s inhuman body as he carried her out of the room and down the hall. It was so effortless for him. The bulging muscles of his blue arms barely tensed.
She couldn’t help the grin that spread across her face as the two Drokten completely ignored the secretary and left him in their wake. This whole crazy situation was like something straight out of a superhero action movie.
“I can’t believe what you did back there,” she said, wrapping her arms around Sevith’s corded neck.
“Believe it,” he gritted.
A snort escaped her lips.
Two impossibly huge Drokten warriors hurtling through a wall of glass? Unbelievable. She’d screamed with fright and then managed to calm down only when Hiren tenderly pulled her into his massive arms and checked on her safety.
So sweet. Sevith had use his unholy strength to yet again wipe the floor with some asshole daring to treat her like crap. These two were an odd combination of brute force and gentle compassion.
And then all the horrible shit that went down back in that room prior to Sevith’s grand entrance flooded into her mind and she bit her lip.
These two males were now so very concerned about her and her safety, but how would they react if they found out her fellow humans were blackmailing her, and she was contemplating betraying the Drokten in order to protect her brother and sister? If these two had lost their minds over sensing her tense conversation with the secretary’s aide… She shuddered to think how angry they’d be if she was truly forced to betray them. Would they still protect a “mate” who was leaking secrets to their adversaries? How would they react to that sort of news?