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One of the Changelings eyed a pistol on the ground and looked about ready to try his chances and scoop it up.
“I wouldn’t if I were you,” Maddy said, her pistol right up in his grill.
I wrapped my arm around her and kissed her on the cheek.
“You heard her,” I said. “Trust me, you don’t want to get on her wrong side. You’ve seen her in action. She’s merciless. Especially when she’s on top.”
Maddy glared at me but it melted into cheerful laughter, a sound I promised myself I would endeavor to hear every day for the rest of my life.
It wasn’t only the Yayora’s nightmare that was over, mine was too. And now, with Maddy in my arms and the whole galaxy at our feet, we could go anywhere and make any kind of future we wanted.
I knew with absolute certainty that any future with her was one I was desperate to have.
For once, I would go on an adventure without knowing what the obstacles in our way would be. I looked forward to overcoming them with her, my soul mate, my love.
My Maddy.
SEIZED BY THE ALIEN
1
BIANCA
I cracked his skull so hard I thought I’d killed him. I didn’t know what the penalty was for killing one of these alien creatures but surely they would let me mount a case of self-defense?
As Master’s eyes rolled into the back of his head and he sailed in slow motion toward the bed, I wondered how my life had come to this.
Until just a few minutes ago, I was scrubbing the floor of a filthy alien house somewhere in the galaxy. I leaned with my full body weight on the wire brush to dislodge as much of the dirt as I could. Three weeks now I’d been scrubbing that floor and it still looked like a dog had shat on it.
I’d seen advanced vehicles whizz through the air on anti-gravity thrusters and slept in a cryogenic pod for days or weeks at a time and you were seriously telling me no one on this stir-crazy planet had thought to invent a better cleaning device than a wire brush?
My hands hurt and the skin had long since turned dry and cracked. I’d always been proud of my hands. But that was when I’d been a teacher back on Earth. Not a slave in someone’s shithole house in the armpit of the universe.
Thewwwwww!
“Oh no, not again!” I screamed.
I shuffled back on my ass as far as the restraint around my ankle would allow, held my breath, and pinched my nose.
“What’s going on?” you might ask.
Had someone just dropped a grenade?
Had someone just tossed a smoke bomb in this one-room cockroach-infested shack?
No. Stinky—that was the name I gave the dog-like creature that belonged to Master—had just let one go. I didn’t know what made the animal break wind like that but it sure couldn’t be healthy to make that kind of stench.
Then again, Stinky was as alien to me as the rest of this world I’d been dumped on. For all I knew, these Titans might think he smelled like roses.
The stink infiltrated my blocked nose and made my stomach churn. No matter how long I held my breath, I had to breathe in eventually. I covered my mouth with the crook of my elbow but it did nothing to stop the smell.
Stinky raised his hairless head and cocked his head to the side. His three bulging eyes peered at me questioningly.
“Don’t pretend like you didn’t know what you just did,” I said.
Stinky lowered his head and wagged his twin tails. The picture of innocence.
The smell dissipated and I took a moment to clear my passageways. The stink had a habit of lodging in the throat and repeating on you when you least expected it.
