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The lights blinked and the dials and switches remained exactly as they were. I guess it was some sort of virus or tracking program. The Changelings didn’t mention destroying anything, only spying.
And that was it. My mission was complete.
I could go home. So could my friends.
We were getting out of there!
I hopped on the spot and clapped my hands.
Then the hairs stood up on the back of my neck. It always happened when I felt eyes on me.
Someone was watching me.
But not from the doorway…
From the opposite wall.
I turned and expected to see someone standing at the window, peering in at me from outside. But it wasn’t someone outside. It was the portrait I’d accidentally knocked to the floor.
It was of a woman. She had long raven hair and a small face, with red lips and a pretty smile. Her eyes were green and sexy with smoke.
If it hadn’t been painted, I would have thought it was a mirror.
She looked like me.
Sure, there were a few differences—I would have killed to have her nose—but there was no doubt in my mind who this woman was and the impact she’d recently had on my life.
She was both the reason Kal was attracted to me and why he was afraid to get closer.
It was his wife. The one Emana said had died.
I felt embarrassed, ashamed of myself for betraying his trust. He was a lord but he was also a Titan with regular thoughts and emotions.
He deserved better than for me to take advantage of him and learn his deepest secrets. Especially when it was his departed wife he was struggling to get over.
The Changelings must have known I looked like her.
“She looks just like her,” was what they said that day they sprung me from my pod.
It was the reason they had bought me in the first place.
Because I looked like his wife and I could get closer to him than anyone else.
And if his wife were looking in, staring at me right now the way she was from this portrait, what would she think?
I turned away from her unblinking gaze. I couldn’t bear for her eyes to be on me, judging me.
I shook my head and erected a wall to block the worst of the guilt. I was there to do a job and return home. That was all.
What happened on this planet had nothing to do with me. I was a human from Earth. Until just a few days ago, I didn’t know there was intelligent life out there, never mind that they mourned the loss of their lovers.
I hung the portrait on the wall and backed away from it.
I needed to get out of there. I needed to get to my room. Then I could take stock and prepare to leave this place, leave Kal, his dead wife, and never think about them ever again—
I bumped into something. It sent my heart rate soaring.
It was just a desk, I told myself. It’s nothing.
