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I feel nothing but revulsion.
No – I also feel something more.
A deep yearning for Cam.
Cam would never let Makiah touch me like this. He would never have let me be disrespected, disrobed, defiled. If we had any witnesses, Makiah would be seconds away from a bullet to the head, one of my bodyguards taking him out with a—
I gasp at the thought.
My bodyguards are dead.
No one protects me.
If Makiah is one of the bad men, I am vulnerable. Completely at his mercy. My heart races so fast I feel the room spin, my breath caught in my lungs, throat unable to open.
Soon, white spots form as Makiah rises, his hand on my hip, still perched on the border between transgression and tranquility.
“What do you know of your future, Princess?” he whispers softly, hand moving off me. This is a test, I know.
A test I must pass.
He’s just barely passed his own.
“I know that the true path for the next era of humanity rests in my bones, my blood, my DNA, and that of my future children with my king. We save humanity through our joining.”
“How?”
“How – excuse me?”
“How do you save humanity?”
“By joining.”
“Joining… how?”
Without asking, I bend to get my shirt, but he stops me, hand on my shoulder. I straighten.
“How, Paigelynn? How does joining with a man make you and you alone the only person who can save an entire planet?”
“Not me alone! Me and my husband.”
“Yes. You and your… king. How does fornication save the world?”
“Forni – ”
“Fucking someone.”
“That is a vulgar term for something so sacred!”
“Forgive me.”
He is smiling, though, the smirk self-satisfied and increasingly terrifying. He asked earlier if this was a game, as if I were the one toying with him, but it’s clear that the truth is the opposite.
Now I’m even more convinced of it.
A game with rules that I do not understand, and I suspect they are unwritten and ever-changing.
“You know the prophecy. Generations of natural selection and mutation produced me. My husband, too. We are bound by destiny to join and produce the perfect human. Our progeny will usher in a new era.”
