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“They want children because they’re worth more to the slavers. You can bend them to your will, make them serve you until the day they die. Adults are set in their ways. There’s still a chance they might escape or win their freedom.”
“Huh.”
“What?”
“It’s nice to see you have some standards. Slavery’s bad enough, but child slavery? That would have made me regret coming to your bed tonight.”
I chuckled and wrapped my arms around her. “You wouldn’t have much chance of escaping my bed now.”
I lifted her onto my lap. She laughed and kissed me.
“So what’s the ultimate goal?” she said.
I busied myself with kissing her at the base of her neck.
“Ultimate goal for what?” I said.
“You’re a smuggler. You don’t plan on doing this forever, do you?”
I pulled back and looked at her. How much of myself did I want to share with her? She seemed genuinely interested.
“Fifty thousand credits. That’s my target. Once I have that much, I can quit smuggling. I can buy a spread on Arcturon Prime, the most fertile land in the galaxy.”
“Farming? You?”
She threw her head back and laughed in her singsong voice that tingled up my spine.
“What’s so funny?” I said.
“Look at you!” she said. “You have the muscles and temperament to be a gladiator. You were born to fight. What are you going to fight in the fields? Corn?”
“I’ll fight the wind and the rain, and bad crops when they happen. I’ll never have to ride another ship, never have to worry about anything except bringing in my crops.”
Alice continued to shake her head in disbelief.
“Just because I was born to be something doesn’t mean I have to follow the trail fate chose me for,” I said.
She ran a thumb along my chin. “No, I suppose not. I’m just surprised. Happily surprised.”
“And to buy a good farm on Arcturon Prime costs fifty thousand credits.”
“How much do you have now?” Alice said.
“Not fifty thousand.”
“Are you close?”
“I’m on my way.”
She kissed me on the lips and peered deep in my eyes. She made me begin to stir and grow hard again.
“I’d like to see your farm one day,” she said.
“Until then, let me show you something else…” I growled and leaned forward—
A knock came at the door.
I leaped to my feet and placed Alice down gently. She grabbed the blanket and wrapped it around herself.
