Deceit: BBW Alien Lottery Romance (Chosen by the Karal Book 1) by Harmony Raines Read Free Book Online Page A

it was true, the stim’ would never be her way out.
    The President greeted them, his face beaming at all the attention, knowing his ratings would rise after this spectacle. Elissa took the stim’ from her pocket, wincing as her glove rubbed her sore skin. Dropping it to the floor, she made sure she stood on it and ground it into the tarmac. That done, she smiled and waved at the crowd, not really listening to what was being said, only hoping it would be over soon.
     

Chapter Ten – Marin
    “All systems ready, Shall we leave this forsaken planet and return home?” Okil called form the control deck of the space cruiser.
    Marin was seated next to Elissa, strapped into his seat in the cruiser. He looked at Elissa, seeing her pale face and sensing her unease. But they had to go; he didn’t want to spend another moment longer on the foul Earth than he had to. “Let’s go home, Okil. I can’t wait to wash the dirt off me.”
    “We have clearance from the tower.” Okil flipped the switches to prepare for take-off; the cruiser seemed to hang for a second and then the g-force pushed them back into their seats. He thought that Elissa was going to throw up, but she kept it together. The endless climb went on and on, and then they were powering out of the atmosphere, heading toward the beacons on the far side of the moon, which would open the wormhole to take them home.
    “This part can get a little rough,” he said to Elissa, who sat rigid in her seat.
    “Worse than the take-off?” she asked.
    “It can get a little turbulent. Depends on the cross-galaxy winds.”
    “Cross-galaxy?” Her eyes were huge, and the sense of panic coming from her affected him. It also made Okil and Drak look around at her, their skin tone fluctuating as they registered her mood.
    “Do you want me to give you something to calm you down?”
    “No,” she said, trying to regain her composure by breathing long and deep through her nose and then letting it go through her mouth. “I’ll be OK. I just never expected to do this. I have no idea how your ship works. Until you arrived six months ago, we had no idea space travel like this was even possible.”
    Marin decided to keep her talking, take her mind off the journey. Isn’t that what Earthlings did? Talk. Endless, endless talk. “We were surprised that such an old species had not mastered space travel.”
    “We spent too long fighting each other. Too many resources on protecting our own bits of the Earth to venture out into space.”
    “Your people go to war often?”
    “I think the human race has spent most of their time on Earth fighting in one place or another. They fight over land, ideas, religion, raw materials.”
    “We have never been to war.”
    She smiled. “If you told that to the President, he would probably tell you it’s because you don’t have any women on your planet.”
    “Are the women of Earth the warmongers?”
    She laughed. “No. If women had ruled, there would probably have been no wars. So how does Karal avoid them?”
    He sat back and thought about it. “Probably because of our lack of females. It is what keeps us occupied. When a new generation is born, there are many years spent nurturing them, raising them. When that is done, the elders die, and the females have usually passed on too, so the hunt begins, ready for the next breeding cycle.”
    “Over the centuries you must have found many other humanoid creatures.”
    “Humanoid? You mean like you. We can be compatible with many creatures. Your planet is the closest we’ve come to finding creatures that mirror our own.”
    “Compatible? What do you mean?”
    “Our DNA overrides most of the females’ DNA. So we need a very close match, but they don’t have to be as advanced as your humans are. Sometimes the creatures have smaller brains, perhaps use rocks as tools. We have even rescued those on the edge of extinction before.”
    “The males too?”
    His face was blank, his emotions fully under