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“Please, can someone just turn on the lights?” another voice asked.
“Bling? Is that you?” the Killian asked.
“And Judge. Hi, everyone. So nice to be kidnapped with all of you.”
Judge was an Akark, a species of lizard aliens. That was about all I knew. Well, that and his obsession for cumming all over walls, windows, and doors.
Goddess, I wished I didn’t know that.
I followed the sounds of all of their voices and slowly made my way across the room with my hands up in case I crashed into anything or anyone. Since I never touched any walls, wherever we were must’ve been fairly large, especially since our voices echoed a little.
“So we have me, Maxx, Bling, and Judge,” the Killian said. “Is anyone else in here?”
“Nera,” I answered.
“Nera?” Bling asked. “Where? Why hasn’t she said anything?”
“She can’t hear you unless she can see your lips moving,” the Killian jumped in.
“Oh,” Bling said softly.
“And how do you know that, Killian?” I growled out.
“It didn’t take a genius to figure out. You always turn toward her when you speak. Always, whether you’re talking directly to her or not. And she didn’t react to things I said when I wasn’t facing her.”
My scales bristled. Was he paying as much attention to the other contestants as he was Nera and me?
Somehow, I knew the answer was yes. The fuxxing bastard didn’t miss much.
“You’re almost here,” he said. “I can hear your teeth grinding to the point of cracking. Careful of the table behind me.”
Too late, my hip nudged into it, squeaking it across the floor.
The others gasped.
“What was that?” Bling hissed.
The Killian chuckled. “His clumsy Highness ran into the table I just warned him about.”
I brushed off the jab, deciding instead to focus on the situation at hand. “Did you search the table?”
“That’s what I was doing until everyone else woke up.”
“And did you find anything?” I prompted.
A pause, then, “No.”
I narrowed my eyes at him in the dark, instantly sensing the lie. “What aren’t you telling me?”
“Later,” he muttered, for my ears only.
There was so much I already didn’t like about this. But sure, yes, let’s go ahead and add more shit to the pile with untold secrets.
As I hissed a frustrated breath through my teeth, my fingers brushed something on the table. Something hard and plastic—and with a switch.
I flicked it and drowned the Killian’s green face with light.
Wincing, he threw up his hand to block it. “Do you mind?”
