Obsolete (Terran Times Second Wave Book 24) Read Online Free

personal space.
    He was no longer naked, but somehow, the long skirt he wore draped and tucked to let his legs move freely was a little worse. It drew all of her attention to his abs and carried it up to his shoulders.
    “Hello. Are you lost?” It was a ridiculous question given that he had found her small room in the lowest ranking of the station quarters.
    His smile was slow, and she took in the gold-green glow of his skin, the leopard-like pine-green spots and the waves of rich emerald hair that cascaded down his back.
    He spoke softly, and she heard the words translated as he said them. “I am happy to have found you. I have something that I must give you.”
    She leaned back when he approached, but her legs were against the bed and she had nowhere to go. He reached out and lifted her up to him, kissing her thoroughly without warning.
    Olena gasped as an electric shock ran from his tongue to hers. She moaned as it spread through the rest of her body in a wave of pleasurable fire.
    The light behind her eyes took over, and when he pulled back, it took her a while before her lids were willing to open. His midnight eyes were smiling at her. No pupil, no whites, just solid black. It should have been disturbing, but her instinct was to curl back to him and continue the kiss.
    He smiled, and his strange language rippled over her. “I wish I had had time to ease you into your situation, but I am confident you will come to accept it in time.”
    “What? Who are you?”
    He grinned, showing sharp teeth that had somehow escaped her notice. “Brin Tai Wekk, former Avatar of Lomit. The world is gone, but I live on with all the powers granted to me. I required a companion, and you were a very suitable match. You are now bound to me.”
    Olena scowled. “I don’t understand.”
    He looked around. “Is there somewhere else we may speak? I am afraid that the bed is not the best way to tease me right now.”
    She tried to jerk back, but he was still holding her. “I am not teasing. This is my room. My only room. I am not trying to seduce you. I don’t even know who you are?”
    He set her on her feet. “I am the man who has slept eons waiting for you. Finally, you came, and now, I am here to answer your call.”
    She grimaced. “Horseshit.”
    He paused and laughed. “You prefer honesty?”
    “It usually helps me deal with things.”
    “I was waiting for a mind I could share my burden with so that I would not immolate within hours of my rising. There is a world waiting for me, but I must have a companion or death and destruction will follow in my wake.”
    Her tone was whiny, and she knew it, but she said, “But I just got here.”
    His lips twitched, and he started to laugh. “I will need to gain access to the com centre to call us a ride.”
    “Us?”
    “I am taking you with me.”
    “You can’t.” She reared back. Technically, she had no rights, no freedoms, no ability to choose where she lived. She wasn’t assigned to the Alliance where she could be guaranteed recognition. She wasn’t even in actual Imperium space. She was nowhere that she could get help.
    “I can and I will. You will get used to the idea when the power begins to bloom in you. You will need a planet beneath your feet.”
    She put her hand to her abdomen and was brought to the awareness that her robe had opened sometime after his arrival. She jerked it closed, and he sighed in disappointment.
    “Come with me. I need to make that call.” He beckoned her to enter his personal space and stand next to him.
    “I need to get dressed. Please wait outside.”
    He shook his head. “No. I will soon know all of you and you all of me. There is no time for false modesty.”
    She scowled and grabbed her work suit, slipping it up under her robe before she turned her back to him and dropped the one luxury item she had brought with her from Earth. The sleeves fought her, but she managed to get them over her shoulders and the closure done up before she