Page 7 of Jaider’s Desire

“Sit,” I said, pointing to a large table.

“What is this about?” she asked.

“I want you to tell me everything about your friend. The one missing,” I told her.

“Emma? Why? Have you found her?” she asked, rattling off a series of questions again.

“No, we haven’t even looked for her, but the Captain wants a full report. He wants to know her name, what she looks like…any information you can provide about her, or your talks with her,” I said as I pulled out a glass writer and began to take notes. “What is her full name?”

“Emma Bradford,” she answered immediately.

“Where on Earth did she live?”

“She lived in Houston, Texas, but she was visiting a place called San Francisco. That’s where she was taken by you ruthless aliens,” she sneered. I looked at her with a flat stare, and she just grinned mockingly at me. I rolled my eyes and kept going.

The interview went on for about an hour. I got the description of the human female, and everything else Molly knew about her. It wasn’t much since they only met each other on the ship, but I think I had enough information to file a report.

“That will be all. I will return you to the living quarters,” I said.

“That’s it? What about my questions?” she asked, standing up and walking towards me. She stopped directly in front of me, and tilted her head all the way back so she could look up at my face. She was very small and curvy, and her large brown eyes looked at me with fire in them.

“What about your questions?” I asked back, taking a step toward her, and putting only a couple of inches between us. She couldn’t intimidate me even if she tried.

“Why am I here? Why did you take me and the others? When can I go back to Earth?” she asked rapidly, and I sighed.

“You can never return to Earth. You were taken for a reason, and that reason is to mate with us Revians. There, your questions have been answered. Now come on,” I said, grabbing her arm as I led her out the door.

“You can’t just use me for breeding! I’m not an animal,” she seethed, pulling her arm out of my grasp. She was a strong little thing, much more than I thought, as she proceeded to stand in front of me, pressing her finger into my chest to make her point.

“I can use you for whatever I want,” I snarled. “You are a captive here. Have you not figured that out yet?” I scoffed, shaking my head. “Of course not. You humans are too stupid to figure out the obvious, aren’t you?” I said, mocking her and moving forward, allowing her finger to press deeper into my flesh.

“You know nothing about me, you asshole!” she shouted.

“I will do whatever I want with you,” I whispered.

“And what is it you want to do to her?” I heard Karah’s voice say. I turned to see her walking up behind me from across the courtyard, and judging by the look on her face, she looked pretty annoyed. She stood beside me and looked Molly up and down. “Go ahead, Jaider. Continue what you were telling this human. What is it that you want to do to her?” I clenched my jaw as a vein in my cheek ticked, my frustration growing over the challenge in Karah’s voice.

“I want to take her back to her living quarters and never see her again,” I stated, grabbing Molly by the arm once more and pulling her forward. I dragged her across the courtyard and back to the guard in front of her building, pushing her into his arms. “Put her back inside with the others,” I said sharply.

He nodded his head at me and unlocked the door. As I turned to go back, I saw Karah standing across the way. Her arms crossed over her chest, and her face looking troubled. As I tried to walk away, she confronted me, putting her hands on my shoulders and squeezing them lightly.

“What do you want, Karah?”

“You always make it known publicly that you will never betray us Revian females for humans, but it looked like you were in a heated, or should I say passionate argument with that human female.” she said.

“That human is far too defiant for her own good. It is nothing,” I told her. “My father asked me to get a report from her, and I was questioning her, that is all. Now I must return to him and give him the report. “Don’t worry about that human. She is nothing.”

“I will find out the truth,” she said, before walking away.

I made the report and turned it over to my father, and then finished with the rest of my duties.

***

It was only after dinner when I ran into Karah again sitting with a few other Revian females, enjoying an after-dinner drink of Leepa, a strong beverage.

“There you are, Commander. I’ve been waiting for you,” she said, slurring her words slightly as she stood up, trying to throw her long arms around my neck.

“I’m glad you came looking for me Jaider. You always say you want a strong Revian female, and I’m the only one constantly here for you, so I say let us get out of here, yes?” she said, giggling and trying to place a kiss on me.