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But it wasn’t going to help her much against the two large males dragging her.
I wanted to reach out and snap their flimsy necks but that would invite the entire Changeling defense force down on me. There were far too many guards armed with their impulse rods for me to fight them all.
“Why hasn’t this female been neuralized?” Rogers said.
“We keep trying, sir,” one of the Changeling soldiers said. “But she keeps squeezing her eyes shut.”
Clever girl.
One guard raised the bright light to her face but her eyes were jammed shut. He loosened his grip on her arm.
Big mistake.
Alice punched him in the face and scratched at the second guard.
They both growled and their eyes flashed yellow.
“Get her on board,” Rogers barked. “She won’t struggle so much when she’s locked up in her pod.”
That only made Alice struggle harder. “No! You can’t do this to me! No!”
My heart ached to see her go through this again. No one deserved to be abducted twice in one week.
“Do you have enough pods for this shipment?” Rogers said.
“Yes.”
I itched to get on board, to get free of Earth and release Alice from her pod as soon as possible.
Rogers lifted a file and scanned some notes. “According to our files, her DNA matches that of a female you were meant to deliver yesterday. What is the reason for the failure?”
“I told you I had a disagreement with my crew,” I said with a shrug. “They wanted to open her pod and use her for themselves. I refused.”
Rogers pursed his lips. “Are you sure you can handle her this time?”
“Without my crew on board, yes.”
“I’m not sure it’s a good idea to allow you to fly without a crew in place.”
“Then what do you suggest?” I said.
“Take my soldiers with you,” Rogers said. “They’ll be your crew for the journey out.”
There was nothing I would hate more. “No. I will get a crew on the way.”
“You’ll be late for delivery.”
“I can assure you, I won’t be,” I said with ground teeth.
Rogers leaned in close. “You’re taking my soldiers. This is not a negotiation. Unless you want to lose transport rights with us?”
Boy, I wanted to smash his face in. A single blow would do it…
“Fine,” I said.
I would just have to figure out a sneakier way to wake her during the journey.
Rogers marched aboard my ship. I followed behind like a whipped dog. It was my ship, not theirs. The Changelings had already stored the other human females in their pods.
