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“I agreed to this, like you said.”
Just like that?
Sometimes bitches just wanted to get taken care of a little.
“You can stay here for now,” he relented. She was too weak to play with anyway, that much was clear. “Settle in. But you’ll follow a strict eating and exercise regimen. You’ll need your strength.”
“Okay,” she whispered.
“Good girl.” Orion patted her cheek, and this time she didn’t move away.
He headed for the door. He needed some damn sleep after the marathon he'd just been through.
“Orion?” Her voice was so small behind him, so submissive, that it clenched something in his chest.
“Yeah, princess?” He turned, watching her little fingers fiddling with the blanket that was tucked to her chin.
“Do you think I could get an S54 card reader? I… I brought some books with me. It’ll help me sleep.”
He smiled to himself.
So she likes to read then. Wouldn’t have guessed.
“I’ll have one brought.”
“And my door?” She glanced at the doorway, which had already opened on Orion’s approach.
“I'll sort it out.”
She didn’t look entirely convinced, but she didn’t argue.
Good.
Maybe this could work after all. Once he left the cabin, Orion ran a hand down his face, trying to rub away the remnants of all the shit he’d just dealt with.
CHAPTER18
KAIA
She hated to admit it, but Orion was right. Kaia signed up for this clusterfuck of a situation, and that meant playing along. She got the sense that his offer to start her on a new “regimen” or whatever so that she could take his uhyre abuse was meant to be generous.
Generously fucked up.
But after her initial revulsion to Orion’s demands, she realized this was an opportunity. A way for her to stall. The more time she could buy to figure out the practicalities of getting the job done, the sooner she could be out of there and back with Ahton.
Kaia was caught in the middle of two traps that would eventually snap shut on her: Orion’s attempts to stick an heir in her on one hand, and Loran’s plot to gain purchase with the colony on the other. She was trapped in the middle, and she needed all the time she could get to manage the situation.
She still couldn’t sleep, especially not after that conversation and the embarrassing display of projectile vomit. Kaia hunched on the edge of the bed with one knee under her chin, flipping the S54 card she’d grabbed fromAhton’s Takebetween her knuckles.
It was true that it had books on it. That was one of the things it had.
Kaia stiffened when the door hissed open without warning, ready to snap at the girl in the doorway. But the words caught in her throat at the sight of the tablet in the girl’s hands. Kaia practically pounced on her, snatching the thing from her blue-painted fingers.
“Thanks,” Kaia said, checking for an S54 slot—there it was—before curling the tablet in against her chest.
“No probs! I’m Alina.” The girl held out her hand. Kaia stared at it.
“What?”
