Ka'Cit's Haven (Riv’s Sanctuary #3)

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”

“Yes…wait, what are you thinking?”

The other glanced toward the door. “No one would know…we could do it before we arrive at Port Six.”

“What if Herza finds out?”

The other shrugged. “She won’t care. As long as we don’t kill it, I think.” He paused. “Just a bit of pleasure.” And then, as if trying to convince himself, he continued. “We deserve it. When was the last time you had some fun?”

The other grunted. “Too long.” His head cocked to the side a little. “He will do.”

The other made a sound in his throat. “I am already engorged.”

Nia’s stomach turned immediately at the words that came from the alien’s mouth.

“Oh, no you’re not,” she murmured, backing up a few more paces till her back hit metal. And they thought she was male too. They didn’t even care.

“He’ll fight.”

“So?”

“Guess it’s not the first time we’ve had to use force…”

The other chuckled. “Won’t be the last either. We deserve it.”

“We deserve it,” the other agreed.

Fuck.

Nia glanced around.

The room was bare.

The cage was bare.

There was nothing she could use to defend herself if they entered the cage.

Her foot hurt as she leaned back against the cell wall and an idea popped into her head.

The pebble.

She could use it somehow.

Throw it at them?

She knew she could hit the alien smack in the eyes, she was sure of her aim, but that would only briefly disable one of them and she’d have the other to deal with. Plus, he would only be blind in one eye. He’d be fine otherwise.

Still, as they advanced, she bent and slipped her hand under her robe and into her shoe.

Her fingers closed around the pebble. The stone was warm from being underneath her foot for so long.

She gripped it and stared at them.

She didn’t know how she was going to get out of this, but she had to find a way.

The aliens glanced at each other before looking back her way and she realized, with a turn of her stomach, that one of them was rustling with the center of his cloak.

His cloak parted and she saw a flash of white in the cracks on his arm, almost like metal was underneath that part of his skin.