Page 23 of Sevan

Chapter Twelve

“Yeah, back at you, lady,” Jordan bit out, glaring at Nina as she stormed off in the other direction. Her tight little ass sashayed even though she struck him as a woman who would never do it on purpose. Naturally sexy and everything his cock could hope to dive into, the woman could bring him to his knees if she tried hard enough.

Christian laughed and Jordan snarled. “What’s so funny?”

“I have not seen Nina take a real interest in a member of the opposite sex ever.”

“She’s into women?” The thought, while exciting, worried Jordan. He’d already made a fool out of himself by opening his mouth and inserting his foot when he’d suggested that someone with breasts was hardly qualified to lead an army, but the idea of Nina not even giving him a second thought because he had a penis scared him even more.

Christian laughed again. It seemed to be what he’d done most since they’d gone to assure themselves that the children were safe. “Jordan, she more than likes men. The problem is Nina views them as disposable. She can bed one and move on to the next. She has unlimited access to the unmated males and they adore her.”

He swallowed hard at the implication that Nina fucked her entire army. “She hasn’t, um…?”

Christian pulled a box of tools down from the cargo bay container and arched a sandy-blond brow. “If you are asking if Nina has pleasured the entire legion of men under her command, the answer is no. Even she needs to pace herself.” The smirk on his face told Jordan he was kidding, but that didn’t stop the jealous streak that threatened to consume him.

“Have you been with her?”

“No.”

Jordan kept a close eye on Christian, hoping to get to know him better. There was something about the man that screamed powerful, yet he hadn’t tried to use that on any of them yet. “Have you been with Lorelei?”

Christian stilled, and Jordan knew the answer to his question. Christian had indeed been intimate with Lorelei. It would kill his brother to know that but if Jordan had to guess, Sevan already knew, and didn’t like it one bit.

“Lorelei and I have a unique relationship. It is difficult to explain to an outsider. Our customs and ways, while similar to that of humans, are not the same.”

“Meaning you’ve not only fucked her, you’ve done it many times.”

“She is to be my wife, as decided by the elders, and that is all I am willing to offer on the matter at the moment. Let us see to your ship. So far, the reports coming in from our FST department are bleak.”

“Yeah, one of my lieutenant commanders gave me the abridged version of your Fleet Support Team’s analysis. Our own system dialogistic matches and I have to agree it’s not looking so good.” As Jordan looked out at Alpha Brig Three, he shook his head and sighed. “The air compression chambers in all space-pod docks have completely gone haywire. Our navigational system appears to be offline but we can’t tell for sure, due to our data analysis log’s issues with staying active.”

“Do you often pilot a vessel that should be in a salvage station?” Christian asked, his lip curling into a half smile.

If the man didn’t fill the doorway and look as though he made a habit of breaking others in two, Jordan would have punched him just for the hell of it. It wasn’t like he was a small guy in any way, shape or form, but Christian had him beat.

“No, I don’t make a habit of that. The Alpha Brig Three is only four years old, and that makes her a baby in the eyes of ship life. She’s also top-of-the-line and has passed all of her inspections with flying colors. It was weird. We were on our way to Margaidia and passed through a stream of stellar remains. Our fuel tank spontaneously cracked, leaking fuel, so we cut the engines, unsure if a spark would ignite a massive explosion or not.”

“Stellar remains? Where? We’ve had no supernovas in our region of the galaxy for thousands of years,” Christian said, confirming what Jordan already believed.

“What would you say if I told you that it didn’t feel right? The entire event felt different, like something was interfering with us, something big and…”

“Mystical?” Christian nodded. “It would explain much. It was written long ago that when the time came for the rise against evil, that great warriors would fall from the sky and old ones we’d lost along the way would return. I did not believe this legend. Perhaps I was wrong.”

“Warriors would fall from the sky?” Jordan wasn’t sure he liked the sound of that.

Christian nodded. “Yes. Long before the others came to be, it was said that demons would populate us and that warriors would soon follow. Well, the demon part was accurate. But they have all but overrun our planet in the last one hundred and fifty years. Not all are demons and evil. In fact, it is the select minority that terrifies so many villages into states of panic, leaving them prejudiced against any who contain the blood of the others. I find that rather ironic due to the fact that Shamenians and natives of Sargaidia have always possessed skills and gifts greater than humans.”

“The others? Care to elaborate?”

“Don’t bother going into detail with the likes of him. You will waste your breath and he will retain but a tiny bit of it all.”

The sound of Nina’s voice, while alluring and cock-hardening, made Jordan see red. “Woman, stop treating me as though a human is the lowest life form in the universe.”

“Stop treating me as though a woman should be barefoot and in the kitchen and we will no longer buck horns, Vasil.”

“It’s Jordan and you know it.”

Nina smiled and blinked her eyes innocently. “Right you are, and my name is Nina, not woman.”

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