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TSCHENKAR
Iwaited in the corridor as Eve said goodbye to Thuliak. She’d see that cocky bastard again soon enough, but the two of them were acting like it was a final goodbye.
Thuliak’s tongue was down her throat, and her hand was on his cock.
She was being productive all right.
I coughed, and Eve looked at me with red cheeks, while Thuliak favored me with his hardest, coldest stare.
I clapped my hands together. “Come on, now! I want to show you my ship. We’ll be in touch, scion.”
I grabbed Eve’s hand and tugged her away from Thuliak. He stared me down like I was taking his entire life away. It was a pained enough look that I actually felt sympathy for him. Sighing, I slammed my hand onto her shoulder.
I took all theextremelyprotective emotions I felt toward our little human, and I projected them—wordlessly—through the Hivemind and into Thuliak’s head.
As he began to understand the extent to which I’d protect her, some—but not all—of the tension melted off of him, and he nodded to me before stepping back into the shuttle. When the door melted closed, I was finally alone with her.
“Now,” I said, taking her hand, “let’s give you the grand tour.”
I was planning on fucking her in the first room I showed her, but before we even got out of the main corridor, the tour got cut short.
My bridge crew called me in through a fucking loudspeaker in the corridor. Why hadn’t those nagging cockblockers just pinged me through the Hivemind?
I grumbled and grabbed Eve by the hand. “Change of plans, the tour is going to start out on the bridge. We’ve got a situation.”
My grip on her hand was too tight. I eased off, though my mental image of a human sailor clutching the rail against a storm got more and more vivid in my head. I could almost imagine my cock was as small as a human’s as my balls shriveled up into my body—like I assumed a human male’s probably did—when I saw the huge bloody tidal wave growing in front of my shitty little water boat.
I entered the bridge with Eve in tow. She was wearing some old-fashioned outfit, one that made her tits look fucking delicious, and when I saw all my packmates leering at her big tits and plunging cleavage, they started looking even more delicious to me. My mate could draw a whole pack’s eyes, and knowing she wasminefelt all the better when I saw all those other eyes leering at her.
I grabbed her by the waist, pulling her into me so that her breasts pressed up against my abs. I wanted every fucker on the bridge to see that she belong to their scion. Technically she was also Thuliak’s, but as far as these cunts were concerned, she was mine and mine alone, and none of them needed to even consider that they’d ever lay a hand on her.
“Where’s the update?” I hissed.
I was waiting for the updated situation to get sent into my brain, but it wasn’t happening.
“Scion,” one of the higher-ranking bridge crew said, “the Hivemind…it’s…”
“It’swhat?” I growled. “Spit it out.”
Eve glared at me. Apparently, she didn’t approve of ruling with a firm hand. She’d just have to get used to my firm hand. No woman would tell me how to rule my pack or captain my ship.
“There’s no good word for it,” he said, “it’s…glitchingout?”
Eve looked at me with a smug grin.
“It’sdown, sir!” Someone shouted.
Eve’s grin grew.
“The fuck it is!” I roared.
But whenever I tried to interface with the Hive Mind, ask it questions, or communicate from brain to brain with my bridge crew, nothing happened.
Without being able to feel their thoughts and emotions through the Hivemind, I was forced to look around and try to read what they were thinking through their facial expressions—just like a human would have to do. If I was reading their faces right, it looked grim. We’d been the biological part of a much greater intelligence. We were the tip of the Hivemind’s iceberg. Not anymore though. Now the water below the surface was dark as intergalactic dust, and we were floating on the icy surface with nothing below us. We were on our own.
“It will come back,” I said, forcing confidence into my voice. But it was just like a real iceberg. If something that was so big and massive below us was still there and just glitching out, I felt like I could feel the difference. All I felt below us was emptiness. My balls were too big to suck up into my body, but I was staring down the tidal wave now. My fingertips dug deep into the palms of my hands.
