Total pages in book: 182
Estimated words: 171288 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 856(@200wpm)___ 685(@250wpm)___ 571(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 171288 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 856(@200wpm)___ 685(@250wpm)___ 571(@300wpm)
“Oh, is that what you think? Well, I’ve never had any complaints,” he shot back, still smirking.
“You think you’re some kind of great lover because you can make a woman come on command?” Penny snapped. “Well I’ve got news for you, Romeo—my vibrator can do that. And it gets me off without crushing me into the mattress and scaring me to death at the same time, too!”
For a moment V’rex just sat there and she sensed she’d given him something to think about. No doubt he considered himself a total Casanova just because he had the ability to always give women orgasms on command. Well there was more to good sex than just “coming your brains out” as he’d so rudely put it.
Not that you would know, Penny, whispered a little voice in her head. When was the last time you had sex at all, let alone good sex? Wasn’t it back when you and Garret were together?
She did her best to push the thought away and raised her chin to look the big Hybrid in the eye. It seemed that her words had finally sunk in for him.
“So you didn’t enjoy the orgasm my lust-honey gave you?” he asked at last, sounding bewildered. “But how can you not enjoy pleasure?”
“Because I was scared to death at the time!” Penny told him. “And there was no build up—no foreplay. I mean, not that I wanted foreplay—I mainly just didn’t want to be raped. But still! It was just ‘wham, bam, thank-you, ma’am’ and I was coming so hard I felt like my brain was going to shoot out my ears!”
V’rex looked somewhat repentant.
“Sorry, about that, sweetheart,” he muttered. “But like I said, I had to make it look real and I couldn’t do that without making you come. After all, what kind of male makes love to his female without giving her an orgasm?”
Penny put a hand on her hip.
“Are you kidding me? Lots of men don’t! My last partner never did,” she blurted before she thought about it. “In fact, I don’t think he knew women could orgasm. He…” She trailed off, realizing she was revealing more than she wanted to.
She had avoided even thinking about Garret, let alone talking about him to anyone for ages. After they had broken up, she’d gone on a few disastrous dating-app meet-ups and then decided to hang up her dating hat for good and just throw herself into her work.
And now here she was, in the weirdest “dating” situation she’d ever been in. Well, if you could call a forced marriage by a cult leader to a total stranger who happened to be a space pirate Kindred Hybrid a “dating” situation. But she was pretty damn sure none of the apps she’d been using before she gave it up would have matched her to V’rex.
The big Hybid was way too tall and handsome and muscular to have been matched with a plus-sized girl on the short side with child-bearing hips. He belonged with a supermodel who had a fetish for bad boys—which Penny most definitely was not. They absolutely were not each other’s type at all—but try telling that to Colonel Sanders the cult leader.
She sighed.
But V’rex was still stuck on the information she’d let slip about her ex.
“What a fucking asshole! He never made you come? Not once?” he demanded.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” Penny said quickly. “Anyway, I was warned about you,” she added, hoping to change the subject yet again.
“Warned about me?” He raised an eyebrow. “And who exactly warned you about me, sweetheart?”
“Commander Sylvan of the Kindred Mother Ship,” Penny said, frowning at him. “He said you were bad news and that you’d been harassing Kindred Ships. And he also thought you were responsible for the large up-tick in abductions going on in this quadrant lately.”
His face hardened.
“Well, I think we can both tell that’s not true. Not that I’d ever have anything to do with the flesh trade.” He scowled, as though the idea was repugnant to him. “I think it’s clear who’s really responsible for the abductions around here.” He made a sweeping gesture with one hand, indicating the Compound they were both presently stuck in. “The Glorious fucking Leader.”
“Colonel Sanders and his crazy cult of NeverBreeder Oompa-Loompas,” Penny said grimly.
“What the fuck are Oompa-Loompas?” V’rex asked, frowning.
Penny tried to think how to explain.
“It’s from an Earth vid about a man who owns a giant chocolate factory and he employs these workers who are short and have orange skin. They sing and dance all the time and there are five children taking a tour of the factory but they keep getting into trouble. Like, one falls into the chocolate waterfall and gets sucked up a pipe to be turned into fudge. And another turns into a giant blueberry after she chews the wrong gum and has to be juiced. And every time it happens, the Oompa-Loompas sing songs about how naughty the children are and how they’re getting what they deserve. And then they… Uh, never mind,” she finished abruptly, seeing the quizzical look on his sharp features.