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He reached down with a huge white hand and smoothed a strand of her hair behind her ear. “Yes?” he rumbled.
“How did T’Antor know about Ron and Daisy?” she asked. “He met me in the lobby at the right time and said my name and told me he’d worked with Ron. How did he know all of that?”
Heriot shrugged. “It is an easy enough trick. He scraped information from their tablets and crafted a story to tell you. He needed an unmated female, easily accessible, to force mate during his trip to the castle grounds.”
Force mate? Unmated female? Why did he keep using weird words for things? English definitely wasn’t his first language. “T’Antor had me with him because he’d planned on raping me, here, on the tour?”
Heriot’s eyes darkened to a magenta with silver threads. A growl rumbled in his throat. “Yes,” he answered. “He planned on this rape, as you call it.”
A wave of nausea ran through her stomach. Wow, she’d barely dodged that bullet.
“Why are you here chasing him? Was I right, are you a cop or something from another country, here to bring him back?”
He crooked an eyebrow. “No, I am not law enforcement. As I said before, I am here to kill Fucyu T’Antor. He is my target.”
She sucked in a breath. “Kill him?”
“I’m an assassin,” he repeated.
She narrowed her eyes at him. “An assassin?” He’d said this before and was still sticking with that explanation. Although, strangely, she found herself starting to find it believable, no matter how outrageous.
His hands went to her arms, and he pulled her in close, staring into her eyes, his expression so serious.
“What?” she asked.
“I need to tell you something important, and you won’t believe me at first, but I need you to accept this as truth.”
Oh shit. Although, he’d just told her his mission in life was to kill Fucyu T’Antor and she hadn’t batted an eye and hadn’t run away. So, she assumed whatever else he had to tell her she could handle equally well. “Okay,” she answered. “I’ll do my best.”
“Follow me,” he said. And then he was leading her off the terrace, back on their prior path and down the slope of the gardens, to the very edge of the estate, where the gardens ended, and the rolling hills of the central coast began.
He stopped and looked around, making sure they had privacy. He took a deep breath and stepped close. “I’m not of your species,” he said. “I am from the planet R’Etor. I have a contract to eliminate Fucyu T’Antor.”
She stood there for a moment, processing this ridiculous statement. Just staring at the man who had said this to her. The man she’d just kissed!
WTF?
Then she placed her hands against his chest and pushed back. “You’re telling me you’re an alien?” she spat out.
“Yes.”
Her jaw clenched. Okay, this was really too much. There’d been so much that was weird about Heriot, but his kindness and obvious desire for her and his luscious face and body had blinded her to the facts. But now…oh hell, no. “I just found out my two friends are in the hospital. And now you’re playing this mean joke on me? I don’t have time for your games right now. I need to stop kissing you, cut this tour short and go find out what hospital they sent my friends to and see how they’re doing. I need to tell the police what happened, that T’Antor followed me on this tour andweneed to tell them that T’Antor is here, on the hilltop. And I thought…I thought you were…” Maybe he was a man she could grow close to. Even in the short time she’d known him. And now she was crushed, because he was lying to her.
“You thought I was what?”
“I thought I could trust you, but I can’t. Because, come on, you’re telling me you and T’Antor are aliens?” A nervous laugh escaped from her lips, because,come on. She wanted to shout at the sky in frustration. It was all so ludicrous.
“I am not human,” he repeated.
She looked around, wondering if this whole thing was being secretly recorded and later she’d find herself going viral on social media as millions of people laughed at her: “Girl Thinks Her Boyfriend Is an Alien!”
“What the hell?” she cried. “You’re not an alien. Sorry, but this is bullshit.”
“I do not tell lies.”
“Heriot, you’re telling me a lie right now. Literally right this second!”
“I am R’Etor,” he snarled.
