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Phate turned a knob and pressed a few buttons then handed it to her. Tasha accepted the item and glanced at the screen. It was full of green numbers, or were they words or pictures? She didn’t know what any of it meant.
“That’s the message from the rescue ship,” Phate said.
“I can’t read your language.”
Phate leaned over and pressed a series of other buttons. A planet showed, she recognized it as Earth. Then Phate swiped left and she saw the other planets in the solar system and after Pluto, Phate kept swiping and swiping past other planets, so many planets.
“Wh-what is this?”
“These are all the planets in this sector.” Then he finally stopped at a planet that looked almost like Earth. “This is Thelli. Our planet.”
“Where you’re from?”
“Correct.”
Instead of having to be embarrassed that Nisha, Kien and Solgre knew she’d been played, she was even more embarrassed an entire, fucking, alien planet would know.
Her skin prickled with heat. Anger she’d never felt before raged within her chest. “This. Us. Our night together. It was part of an experiment and now you’re going to tell your people about how easy it was to fuck a stupid human woman.”
She gripped her doorframe ready to slam it in their faces.
“That’s not true!” Phate protested.
“It really is,” Kien added dryly.
“They’ll want that information,” Solgre said with a nod.
“Oh my God!” Tasha screamed, stepping back to give herself room to slam the door.
Phate held his hands to his friends. “Tasha, you weren’t a part of some experiment. Dating the other women was, but not you. Never you. What I feel for you is real. Being with you was real. It wasn’t a game or a lie.”
She glared at him through the slits of her eyes that were now watering. “That doesn’t matter, Phate. You’re some alien and you’ll be leaving.”
Phate took a step toward her and surprisingly she didn’t step back. Her pulse pounded and not because he professed to being an alien another world. “That’s true. I don’t want to spend what little time I have left here apart from you. I want to experience this world and all it has to offer with you by my side.”
“We have a mission, Phate,” Solgre said, pointing a finger in his direction. “You’ll spend the rest of your time here seeing to that and collecting data for the others.”
Phate turned toward Solgre and squared his shoulders. “I quit.”
Solgre sputtered. “Y-you can’t quit!”
Phate raised a defiant chin. “I can and I did.”
“Wait was that an option?” Kien asked. “Because if it is, I want to quit too. I want to travel and see this world before we leave. I’m tired of the endless dates.”
“It looks like you were having fun from where I’m sitting!” Nisha yelled from inside the apartment.
“Great Ancients!” Solgre said, rounding on Phate. “How many people are you planning on telling? Is the goal to have us sliced up on television for these humans’ viewing pleasure?”
“If only,” Nisha grumbled as she made her way to stand next to Tasha.
Nisha was dressed in her oversized pajamas and had a brightly colored bonnet protecting her hair.
Solgre pointed at them both. “You must keep this a secret. Our lives are in jeopardy.”
Nisha raised her chin in the air. “I can’t stand Kien but that doesn’t mean I want to be watching his autopsy on the dark web.”
“How gracious of you,” Kien grumbled.
