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Or maybe his extra body would do the job. I’d assume that for now, because I knew I still wanted to keep the extra body secret from Hypatia. I wanted to trust her as a friend—and I still saw her as one—but it was becoming increasingly clear that she was High Command now. I think that part trumped her friendship with me, or it would if I forced her to choose by telling her about Kaav’s second body.
“I see,” I said, knowing I needed to react somehow.
“What you’re asking of me,” Kaav said, facing Hypatia, “I could do, but I feel I must advise against it.”
Chef shook her head. “They were very clear that this is the only way they keep you safe. They’re going to offer you to Thuliak no matter what, even if they don’t get much out of it. Then you’ll use your presence over there—and whatever little bag of spy tricks you have—to bring us more Khetar. I can’t imagine it will be hard to convince some Khetar with those strongbreeding urgesto come on over to the human ship and pick a woman to fuck raw before his scion would have otherwise let him.”
“This is precisely the problem,” Kaav said. “I fear this will dangerously destabilize the Breeding Swarm. If Khetar fromWrathabandon their pack to jump the line, it makes Thuliak look incredibly weak.”
“Isn’t that good?” I asked. “Then he’s weaker compared to theInseminators.”
“He’s First,” Kaav said. “As much as I wish we were First, we’re not, and no matter how much damage we can do to Thuliak, theInseminatorsstill won’t be First. Either Eriok or Tschenkar will take that honor if we hurt Thuliak too much. Trust me, you’d rather bargain with Thuliak than either of those two.”
“Get Thuliak himself to agree to it then. Make it looks like it was his idea,” Chef said.
Kaav’s eye twitched. He looked up like he was confused, but he blinked and had seemed focused again. “Yes. I think that will work.”
“Wait,” I said, grabbing his forearm and tugging on him. As I pulled on him and his golden body rotated in toward me, I saw his cock hanging between his legs. I ran my tongue across my lips. I wanted him again. The urge wasn’t overwhelming yet, but it was growing quickly. “You can’t agree to this. It sounds too dangerous.”
“Chief,” Kaav said, “I don’t know how actively you’ve been avoiding looking at my cock, but if you’ve happened to glance at it in the past few minutes, you’d notice it’s growing. I ask that you allow me to spend some more time with Weapons before you send me back to make a deal with Thuliak.
“We’re going to propose the deal to him now, but we have some prep work to do before we make the call. You probably have some time, but try to be a bit quicker this time around. I need Kaav ready to go once Thuliak expects him.”
It felt absurd. They were talking about sending my Khetar man away from me. I’d been his good little girl, and now he was going to leave me all alone? I wanted to scream at him now, but I decided to wait until we were alone again.
I waited until we were back in the airlock, and when it was sealed, I asked him “Are you sure she can’t hear us this time?”
“I’ve blocked even our BPM data. Nothing is getting out of this airlock now.”
I screamed at him.
He just took hold of me and held me against him, even as I screamed into his chest. He gripped tight against my back. Already, the pull of his perfect body was taking hold of me. I was furious that he went along with High Command’s idiot plan, but I wanted to fuck him too badly to be truly angry.
“How could you not put up more of a fight?”
“Because of him,” Kaav said, nodding toward the airlock.
A silver face appeared against the window. It smirked. It was startling, because even though it was very much not the golden face of Kaav, itwashis face. It was like my brain was wired to recognize that even though the silver face’s jaw was much sharper and less rectangular than the gold face’s. Even through all the other physical differences, the faces moved by the same force. My brain recognized that even if there was no physical clue for it.
That was startling. More startling, of course, was the deeply sexual urge I felt even seeing this sliver of Kaav’s second body through a thick, reinforced airlock window.
I wanted to fuck all of him. Badly.
“Kaav!” Chef’s voice screamed back in through the speaker. “What the hell is on the outside of my ship?”
“He wants us to let him in,” Kaav said, but his voice was dark and suspicious. Why was he talking about his other body as “him?” Before, he’d spoken as if they were two parts of one whole.
Could it be some kind of trick? Was he going to pretend that his second body was another Khetar entirely? It would be a brilliant move! He could use the other body and pretend it was a Khetar from another ship or pack, then he could have the second body jump into negotiations. He could control Chef like a puppet.
This must have been his plan. I felt like patting myself on the back for figuring this out, but I did my best to remain confused, planning only to act like I would if I had no idea of a second body, let alone a second Khetar.
The airlock, which had just sealed and shut, hissed again. When the door opened back up, Chef was standing there. Her hair was frazzled, and her jumpsuit wasn’t zipped all the way up. She must have got word that the second body was spotted while she was in the middle of decontamination.
“Who is it?” Chef asked, looking straight at Kaav.
“He’s calling himselfHive,” Kaav said, and his eyes met mine.
Kaav looked…betrayed? He must have been upset he’d had to reveal his hidden advantage, but playing it off like it was a second Khetar had to be worth cashing in the advantage. I nodded to him, signaling I’d play along with whatever he had his second body do.
