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“We could have been taken for experimentation or sold to the sex houses,” he said. “At least this way we have a chance of escape.”
“I… I can’t do this,” I said, backing away from the door. “I want to go home. This can’t be happening.”
“Hey,” Chax said, wrapping his arms around me and kissing me gently. “The only way out of here is if we work together. We have to reach that shuttlecraft they showed us. Then we can go home.”
“But there are people out there looking for us,” I said. “These trackers. Why are they trying to hunt us down?”
“To make the show more interesting,” Chax said. “That’s their purpose. Ours is to find that shuttlecraft and get away from here. We can do it. We’ve got almost twenty-four hours to reach it. And look.”
He picked up a little device. It showed a rough map of the area and a blinking light some distance away.
“We just need to get to this blinking light,” he said. “That’s where the shuttlecraft is. Then we can get out of here. Come on. I need your help.”
He was right. There was no way we were getting out of there if we didn’t work together. The only other option was to refuse to play along with the Changeling’s stupid game. I doubted that would end well.
I nodded.
“Okay,” I said.
He wrapped a comforting arm around me.
“Good girl,” he said. “Let’s put these things on and get out of here.”
He picked up the suit and unzipped the back.
I was about to open my nightgown when I noticed him looking at me.
“What?” he said.
“Turn around,” I said.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen you naked before.”
“It’s not the same.”
He tickled my cheek with a gloved finger.
“Let me see you one more time,” he said. “Just in case.”
“In case what?” I said. “In case we don’t make it out of here alive?”
“We will make it out of here,” he said. “It was my ham-fisted excuse for wanting to see you naked. Throw a guy a bone.”
Despite myself, I smiled. I even managed a chuckle.
“Men are all the same,” I said. “No matter what species they are, they can only think of one thing.”
“Not one thing,” he said, dragging his eyes over my body. “Several different things.”
I slapped him on the arm and began to undress. I kept my eyes on him as I did. I let the nightgown slip to the floor. I stood with my hands on my hips.
He growled in the back of his throat.
“Happy now?” I said.
“There’s only one way for me to be happy with you naked like this,” he said, his eyes roving around my outline.
“Shame we don’t have time for that,” I said, reaching for my suit.
