Time inched along. After laying there feeling sorry for myself for what seemed like hours, I finally picked up the tablet that Corran had given me and started to search through it. “Some” was not an accurate description for the amount of movies and books Corran had uploaded. There were literally millions of movies and books on here. I could read and watch movies every day for the rest of my life and still not even come close to making a dent in the content. It must be nice to be practically immortal like the Vepar, they could actually take advantage of everything that life offered.
Tired of the pity party I was throwing myself, I finally settled on Sweet Home Alabama, a movie guaranteed to make me feel better. There was nothing like a little Patrick Dempsey to soothe the soul.
It was impossible to get comfortable on the cot so I ended up just sitting on it and leaning against the wall. It seemed a bit inhumane that they didn’t provide pillows for the prisoners. I’m sure most of the prisoners here were lifers.
Of course I glanced over to my cellmate across the aisle who was currently flicking pieces of what looked like ash off his burned body...maybe the least of my concerns were pillows.
I clicked start on the movie, but there was something offsetting about trying to watch a romantic comedy with all of the terrifying noises that surrounded me. The cells were definitely not soundproof. I jumped when a scream that sounded more dinosaur-like than intelligent creature sounded from my next door neighbor.
Please hurry back to me, I thought to myself, wondering how the guys were faring in front of the Council.
My stomach gurgled just then. I wondered what they fed the prisoners. Hopefully it was something humans could eat. Thane and Corran probably should have mentioned something about that.
I tried to concentrate on the movie but my mind was just too full. Full of them, full of what had happened, full of my fear for the future.
I had to get out of here. I had to get off this planet. And I had to get away from them.
There had to be a place where they couldn’t find me.
I thought about my recent bloodlust and felt a momentary flash of panic. That was a problem I would have to deal with before I escaped. Hopefully Corran would give me some sort of solution sooner rather than later. I didn’t want to return to Earth as some kind of vampire.
Maybe I could somehow take some of their blood with me to hold me over?
As soon as I had that thought I felt sick. Just a little bit ago I was a normal girl, poor...but normal. Now I was thinking about blood.
They really had ruined me.
I was lost in my musings so I didn’t hear the footsteps walking down the hall until there was someone staring at me through my cell glass.
I almost peed myself when I heard the throaty peal of laughter come out of her.
It was my first sighting of what had to be a Vepar female. And just by looking at her, I knew she would bring me nothing but trouble.
She was stunning, so gorgeous that I didn’t think I had ever seen another female so beautiful before. Deep, auburn hair tumbled to her waist. A perfect, petite nose, doe-like emerald eyes, and bow-shaped lips made up her face. Her skin was a perfect creamy color that looked like it had been airbrushed. Her waist tapped in, and her boobs were big. Essentially she was everything I was not. Not even the two small ivory horns sticking out of her head could detract from her beauty. Not when they had silver threads curled around them in a decorative manner.
She stared at me, a small smirk stretching on her face.
It broke me to admit. But this was the kind of girl that fit with the guys. I couldn’t believe that Thane, Derrial, and Corran could actually deign to sleep with humans when they had females walking around who looked like that. They must really want to procreate.
I remembered some of the details of the plan I had seen in the guys’ basement lab. From what I'd seen, I would just be an incubator for an embryo made up of all Vepar DNA.
Something burned inside of me at the thought of Thane, Derrial, and Corran’s DNA being combined with this beautiful creature. I felt dark just thinking about it.
I wasn’t sure what to say to her. From what I had been told, Vepar women held an even greater distaste for humans than their male counterparts did. And a male counterpart had already tried to kill me.
What was this one going to try and do to me?
“Hello little human,” she said in a voice that literally sounded like music to my ears. I had never heard a voice so melodic before.
I remained silent, watching her carefully.
“I just had to see what all the fuss was about. What would make my mates leave Veon. I can’t say that I’m impressed.”
I tried to understand what she was saying. Mates? Please don’t be talking about the guys…
“I’m sure you know all about me. But I must say, I know very little about you,” she said, her gaze shrewd and cold.
I wasn’t sure what the right move was here. I had a million questions, but I was deeply afraid of the danger that was emanating from this Vepar. There was a cruel glint in her eyes that terrified me. All I could pray was that she wasn’t able to open this cell. I didn’t think I would survive, and I knew that the Vepar women were close to as strong as the males. And we all know how well I’d fared against them...
“I’m sorry, I’m afraid that there’s been a mistake. Who are you?” I finally asked, feeling like I was antagonizing her more by not saying anything.
Obviously I should have stayed silent. The smirk she had been sporting transformed into a look of unadulterated rage.
“Don’t lie,” she seethed. My eyes widened as she hit the glass crazily.
I guess the old adage that the craziest things came in the prettiest packages was correct.
I tried to sink into the wall behind me, my eyes flickering into the hallway behind her, hoping that someone would appear soon to help me.
“I’m going to make sure that your time here is an absolute nightmare. No one touches what’s mine,” she spat the threat, finally stalking away.
I couldn’t relax until the sound of her footsteps disappeared.
What did she mean about someone touching what was hers? And the whole mates’ thing? As much as I wanted to tell myself it wasn’t about my three Vepar, who else could she be talking about? And my stomach dropped through me… what else hadn’t the men told me?
I shouldn’t care though. If she had been talking about Thane, Derrial, and Corran, than that was a good thing that they had someone like her to take their interest away. Right…?
It didn’t bode well though as far as the fertility experiments went. If they didn’t care about me than there didn’t seem to be anything that would stop them from using me in them.
It was all such a clusterfuck.
I turned on the movie again, desperate to quiet my mind and calm my shaking.
Thirty minutes passed and more footsteps headed down the hall. I climbed to my feet and moved to the front of my cell, not wanting to be surprised again. There was a Vepar male in a grey outfit similar to the one that Corran had changed into, pushing a cart down the hallway. He stopped in front of every cell and somehow passed a bowl full of something that was steaming to the prisoner waiting behind the glass.
I was in awe of the Vepar technology. My stomach was growling.
The Vepar handed food to the prisoner in the cell to my right and rolled his cart towards me. I waited anxiously by the glass, afraid that I was going to drop the bowl during the handoff.
Apparently I didn’t need to worry, because he didn’t even look at me as he passed right by my cell before stopping in front of the prisoner to my left.
I stared at him, not understanding what had just happened. Maybe I couldn’t eat the food as a human? So, I banged on the glass, trying to get his attention. But it was like he didn’t hear me.
Several prisoners laughed at me around me, and I realized that it wasn’t that he hadn’t heard me, it was that he was ignoring me.
Just another way to torture the unwelcome human apparently.