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VICKY
We filed out of the observation room and into the adjacent waiting area. We’d just presented ourselves to some fancy-pants rich Titan.
Half the girls fell into chairs and fanned themselves with their hands. They whispered giddily about being his “chosen.”
Funny, I thought. He didn’t look all that to me. Sure, he was gorgeous and with a body that made you sit up and beg for more, and his eyes were smoky and sexy, the type that loved peering at you from between your legs while his tongue got to work on you…
I caught myself. I was acting even worse than the other girls!
It was surprising how quickly I got used to being in a room crammed with alien creatures from all four corners of the galaxy. Some were very weird looking. Some had heads with writhing tentacles instead of hair. Others had eyes in the palms of their hands and walked with their arms outstretched.
I was part of a freak show and I was the one considered the weirdo.
“Well, that was uneventful,” Okhet said.
Okhet was a species called Pixarians. Their homeworld was just a few stars across from Earth. In galaxy terms, it meant she was my next-door neighbor. She looked like a human but had green skin and dark freckles over her nose.
“What do you mean it was uneventful?” I said.
I had opted not to be gawped at like a piece of meat and “chosen” by a client. I decided I would play it safe and work as a maid instead. At least there was no chance of me being sold into slavery to these rich dudes for God knew what purpose.
I entered the observation room to empty the bins and collect trash. The whole time, my attention had been focused on the door at the back of the room. Even as invisible as I was to the client, I knew Shrisa would snatch me up in an instant if I made a mad dash for the exit.
Okhet and the others had smiled at the client and turned their bodies to show off their most attractive attributes. For some, it was their eyes, others, their body shape, or their blemishless writhing tentacles.
“Usually, the client comes and inspects us,” Okhet said.
“Inspects you how?” I said.
“They walk among us, talk to us.”
“Touch you?”
“Usually. Yes.”
The thought alone made me feel sick to my stomach.
“How can you stand it?” I said.
“Stand what?”
“Being treated like a piece of meat.”
“It’s part of the process. If you want to date a Titan, it’s not like we have much choice. They only come to our solar systems for business and don’t stay long. Even if they did, it’s rare to date one. You have to come out to their colonies if you want a real chance of snagging one.”
The things we do for love, I thought wryly.
Every species in the galaxy was looking for the same thing. Love. And they were willing to degrade themselves to get it.
“He was a real dish though,” Okhet said. “Don’t you think?”
I never even looked his way when I first entered the room. I was too focused on that door, but it was hard to miss him after he waved his hand. Just looking at him made my throat dry.
He was a Titan and if he was an average specimen of the kind of creatures these Titans were, I could see why other species might flock to find their very own. He was broad across the shoulders and narrow at the waist. He had a square chin and eyes that were hooded and hidden.
I could have stared at him all day.
