keep his eyes off Jenna’s perfect teats under the fabric of that new blue dress they’d talked her into purchasing. Drokten blue. She’d shown an interest in the clothing, and Hiren as well as Sevith, had both wanted her to have it. It nipped at her waist and exposed much of her shapely legs, and it made him want her in his arms and his tongue in her mouth. Their human female was so soft and fuckable.
“Now is not the time,” Sevith remarked out loud. “You can have her later.”
“The time for what?” Jenna asked.
Sevith met her gaze. “The time to breed you,” he rasped. “We will do that tonight.”
“Oh… you will?” she glanced down, fingering her skirt and brushing off imaginary dust. “Heh. Promises, promises…” she quipped.
Hiren let out a bark of laughter. She wants us to claim her as soon as possible.
Sevith’s lips twitched. She will soon get her wish, he responded.
Jenna looked up again. “Are we sure we’re prepared for this?” their female asked, changing the topic. “I don’t want to go in there unless I know we’re ready.”
“For the fifth time,” Hiren answered in a gentle tone, smiling kindly at her, “I have done my homework, as you humans say. I promise we are more than ready.”
“Drokten may be more prone to war than your people,” Sevith spoke up, “but that does not mean we lack subterfuge. I would have rather had the human officials brought in and interrogated until we got what we wanted, but Hiren’s work got us everything we needed.
“I reached out to our communications officers,” Hiren said with a faint smile that betrayed just a touch of his smugness. “After pulling a few strings, I more than confirmed what you suspected.”
“And just so we’re all on the same page,” Jenna said, “is that what he’s expecting to hear when we walk into this meeting with him?”
“Oh, that,” Hiren said with a dismissive wave. “I received his agenda for the day from one of his aides who has been interested in helping our cause. He is in a meeting, yes, but he is not expecting us.”
Jenna’s eyes widened, but Hiren simply smiled at her.
There was no need to go into all the gory details of how he got this information, but he’d kept eyes and ears in the right places. Hiren was experienced with diplomacy, and he knew what was expected at a place like Drokten Main. He fully anticipated that humans were gathering all the data on the Drokten they could, openly or otherwise. And so, he didn’t think it was unbecoming of him to do some digging on the humans in return.
It hadn’t taken many inquiries with his intelligence officers to start noticing spies. Secretary Wells had been given a striking amount of liberty and authority to oversee the pairing of human women with Drokten mates, and that meant nobody but Wells himself could cover up his digital print. According to Hiren’s informants, Wells got too greedy. He didn’t cover his tracks well enough, and that made it easy to identify no less than six of the agents Jenna claimed he had been recruiting to spy on the Drokten. And that was only one piece of a puzzle that was coming to his desk very swiftly.
Sevith and Jenna had agreed that Hiren ought to do most of the talking, being that he was the most equipped to handle this kind of situation. But if they thought Hiren was going to be gentle, they had another thing coming. This human male had put their Oso and her siblings at risk. He’d also formed a large network of humans who were plotting to break the peace accord between the Drokten and the humans, and Wells and his sycophants wanted all Drokten dead in the process.
The secretary was about to pay for his treachery.
The elevator doors slid open on the thirtieth floor. Secretary Wells was supposed to be holding a meeting that hour. Their triad made its way down the hall. Hiren reached the doors of the correct conference room and flung them open. He and Sevith both marched in as if they were aboard their own ship, nostrils flaring and eyes blazing with bloodlust. All the humans in the room froze, and Hiren held back a smile as he realized they were indeed interrupting something important, just as he’d planned.
Your excitement is palpable, Sevith pointed out.
Quiet, we’ve always wanted to storm into a human meeting like this, he quipped.
A grim smile of satisfaction