us like sharks.”
“I see you’re using sea metaphors
now, Dyos . Obviously, our recent sea-faring
adventures in the ocean world of Meindos have left
quite an impression on you.”
Dyos was
tempted to hit Brale again, but Brale sobered at his expression. “I understand how serious this. We’ve already set
the coordinates to the client’s ship. We’ll drop the merchandise off, get what
we’re owed, and be free of this business.”
Dyos snorted. “You think it’s going to be that easy? I’m not even sure ripping out
that Hadarian transmitter is enough to keep us off
anyone’s radar. Let’s check the pod for any tracking devices just in case.”
Dyos wasn’t exactly sure what he should be looking for. When his fingers brushed
against the plate again, he paused. “ Brale , hand me
some tools.”
Using a screwdriver, he unscrewed
the nails on the plate, unearthing a panel. It just had one button. “Okay.
Let’s rationally figure out—”
Brale slammed his fist into the button, and the pod began hissing with smoke.
“Fuck, Brale .
Why do you always have to press any shiny buttons you come across?”
“Because a little recklessness is
what makes life interesting?”
Dyos pulled himself and his partner back in case the gas was poisonous. After making
sure it wasn’t dangerous, they neared the pod again. Dyos paled. The liquid goo covering the woman vanished, sucked by a vacuum
underneath. Then the glass cover slid open.
Brale and Dyos could do nothing but stare for the first seconds
as tubes detached themselves, disappearing underneath the box. They jumped back
when the woman woke. Her limbs twitched at first, and then she let out one gasp
before jolting upwards.
When she was lying still in the
pod, Dyos could still imagine she was a corpse, an
object they didn’t know what to do about. Now she was awake and moving, he could
no longer think of her an object. He’d never been interested in the females on the
whole, but the more he stared at her, the more his cock grew heavy in his
flight suit.
Devoid of the amber fluid, her skin
was a rich and light honey color, and her hair was wet, dark and long, falling
down her waist. Dyos also found that there was
something exotic and alluring about her face.
Her cheekbones were sharp, slightly
dotted with color, and her eyes were wide and vivid green. Although she wasn’t
tall, her limbs were slender and well formed, her breasts
neither too small nor too big.
When she lifted her gaze at them, Dyos spotted the shiny metal collar on her neck. It bore
the same numbers on the pod.
“Are you two my new masters?” she
asked in husky voice, as if unused to speaking.
“Yes. We certainly are,” was the
first thing Brale said. It seemed Brale had conveniently forgotten his earlier oath they’d set a course for the client
and drop off the merchandise.
The woman seemed to take his words
as truth, because she climbed out of the pod. Dyos was about to pull Brale to a corner and have some
serious words with him, but he stopped cold. There was an odd grace to each of
her movements, even when she knelt in front of them.
She kept her eyes lowered as she
spoke. “What do my new masters desire of me?”
“I have always wanted to have one
of these in my possession,” Brale told Dyos , who only mutely punched him in the shoulder. He was
quite certain Brale didn’t know what exactly she was,
and he wasn’t too sure either.
“Please excuse us for a moment,” Dyos told the woman. He quickly steered Brale out of the cargo hold and back to the corridor leading to the ship’s
residential quarters.
“Why do you utter the first words
that come out of your mouth without bothering to check with your thick head?” Dyos demanded, crossing his arms.
“As I recall, you like my mouth
just fine, Dyos ,” Brale said lazily. “Besides, have we not been having recent discussions in adding a
third bondmate to the mix to spice things up? I know
you desire this female as much