Page 8 of Ruled By Their Desires

He shook his head.

Jesus!...

That’s why they’d kept them for over a month. Made sure no contraceptive was in place.

They were trying to…… breed.

She shuddered and shot off the sofa pacing, needing to move. It was why they’d made him rape Sarah.

“They knew you were fertile. How did they know that? Are….. are they experimenting?” She glanced over and he gave her a nod. “Why go to all that trouble? They could have done it in a lab, implanted a fertilised egg. They have the tech for that.”

“Doesn’t work like that. Our seed dies if any unnatural use is made of it.”

“Shit!..... Well I guess that’s something.” She looked at him. “No offence.”

He smirked. “None taken.”

She nodded. “Okay, so if they’re sterile why try with me and Kate at all?”

“They weren’t trying to get you pregnant, they wanted you compliant, so you’d do whatever they told you to do. Likely send you back here to carry out their orders. They’d have kept breaking you down until….” Yeah, she got that. Desperate to do anything not to go through anymore.

Would she have cracked?.....

It was likely. She threw back her Rye. “Fuck!”

“And you with Sarah, right time wrong place?” she whispered. She had to ask. Thinking about the two of them together weirdly hurt on several levels. “That was in part to get her pregnant right and to humiliate her and her father?” he gave another nod. She nodded back shaking a little. “So they know you and the SC’s are fertile. They want to repopulate the world; how do they know the half human babies would be better than full human? They could still want them dead, could still reject them, want the world back as it once was. Unless they plan to change them…. from…. birth,” she mumbled. That seemed crazy. She shook her head trying to work through it all. “That’s crazy insane and so fucked-up on so many levels it kinda makes sense if you wanted a world that was all about them.” She paced thinking it out. “They must have others like you or are looking for them. You were an opportunistic find?” he nodded.

“I walked into it.”

She kept pacing. “Why would you do that?” She shook her head. “Never mind. Then they have others like you or are looking. You got that covered?” she asked glancing over to him. He gave a nod. “And their looking for fertile women.” She walked it out. “DNA manipulation. Invitro? It’s possible.” She stopped; her eyes widened feeling sick. “Jesus. That’s sick.”

He watched her working through it all. She was upset, more than upset. She should be. What they were planning could be the end of the human race as they knew it. Looking at her facing that scared him but he’d be a liar if he didn’t want those same results without the mad science. Just straight up fucking, being with someone that mattered. As it should be. If they were going to win this, human and SC babies were their future. If anything had told him they were better together, the last 20 odd years had. She just didn’t get that yet.

“They will be coming Moon. You need to be ready. I need that meeting.” He put another phone on the table next to him. “Smash the one you used tonight. It could be tracked. This one can’t. There’s a video conference link on it with a time stamp. It took a lot of juice to set up. Get me the meeting if you can. I don’t care how you do it but make it happen. We are running out of time and get Sarah moved.”

He finished his drink and made for the door. She intercepted him and put her hand on his arm to stop him. “Do you have children? Your people?”

He seemed to take in her features as he stared back at her. She had that sense of knowing him again. “No. Not yet.”

“Then you’re looking to do the same.” She dropped her hand and went to take a step back. He grabbed her neck lightning fast pulling her back in to him.

“Not the same Moon, never like that. But we want a future, something to live for. We want to live our lives and have been working to achieve that for a very long time since becoming sentient once more. We were brought back for all the wrong reasons and have to make it work for all the right. We can make ourselves sterile, until we want to procreate. We’ve known that for a while and I proved that at a cost to Sarah, but they can’t make themselves fertile when they’re not. That gives us an advantage. You know we live with humans in peace and want that everywhere.”

She had that weird feeling she got when things were off kilter. His familiarity hit her again. It wasn’t just his voice. It was him. His scent. The whole package. His eyes in particular captivated her. They reminded her of Marcus’s but he was so much more and although felt familiar, she didn’t recognise him.

“What were you doing the night they captured you?”

He pulled her in closer, she didn’t stop him, his face almost touching hers now. A thumb stroked down her cheek as the intimacy made her clit pulse. Few men made her feel like this.

“I was looking for you little bit. Your father asked and I answered. He says hi.” It was like he’d struck her. The hard firm kiss unexpected. She opened a little and his tongue touched hers. But damn so good….. She snapped out of it pulling her face away from his hand and stepped back, the inflection in his voice far too intimate, far too familiar for her taste and that kiss, unnerved her.

It made her think of……. but it couldn’t be…….

It was a knee jerk reaction, and she knew it and couldn’t stop from saying it. She wanted him as off balance as she felt. He looked far too smug.

“Sarah couldn’t give you her permission to touch her and still you fucked her.” She sneered at him. “Classy move. This, whatever you think this is, is nothing.” And ripped free of his hand taking several steps back.

She knew he’d let her go, and that was okay it was what she wanted. “Get me the fucking meeting.” He opened the door and was gone.

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