Chapter Five
Evex Ein
The human female Imuna was unlike any sexual experience I had had so far. This was different, and I didn't know why. Everything seemed to be the same; everything went where it needed to go. But it was the way she looked at me with those green eyes. It was something inside of her, the struggle within her. She was fighting her desire. She was sad and vulnerable and then lustful. I didn't know what she would do next.
I left her before she woke. I wasn't the sexual partner that would sleep next to the female after sex. That was not something that I did unless I fell asleep by mistake. Sex to me was a necessary exercise, just like bathing. It wasn't meant to be a bonding exercise between humans and Itions. It was only a release. So once I attained that release and the hunt was over, she fell asleep, and I left her. I went back to my quarters. I slept in my own bed.
The following morning I had my morning meal in my headquarters. I saw to my duties as the leader of the clan Alva. I went about my routine. Nothing was different. The mothership was stationed between Earth and Jupiter. This was where we made entrance to our trade route, and the weapons we had stationed near the Earth moon covered that entire path. We needed those weapons; it was mostly to deter anyone from attacking our merchant ships and cargo. They didn't need to fire, but just knowing that they were there stopped any pirates from trying to overcome our ships. This was what the Earth Council wanted us to get rid of, but it was non-negotiable.
“Leader Ein, the human female has requested an audience with you,” Lieutenant Draxel reported to me on the flight deck.
“Thank you, Lieutenant Draxel.”
I did not know what the human could possibly want, but I didn't have time to deal with it at the moment. In truth, I did get excited about seeing her, but even more excited that she was requesting to see me. Maybe going around with me the night before had turned her into the wanton human female that I desired.
Two hours later, I was finally able to make my way to her living quarters. I walked in to find her fully dressed: a disappointment. She was sitting on a bench in the sitting area with a cup in her hand. She turned to me and shot fire at me with those green eyes. I could already tell she was ready for battle. It was a disappointment considering I thought we were going to go another round. She put the cup down and stood up.
“You requested to see me?”
“Yes, I have many questions,” she said.
“When do you not? You always have questions, even when I don't answer the first question, Imuna,” I said standing in front of her. She did not move an inch the closer I came. She stiffened.
“When can I expect to be returned to Earth? I deserve to know,” she said in a tone that sounded like a demand.
“What makes you think I was going to return you at all?”
Her eyes grew wide. “I demand that you take me home. I want to go home. I don't want to stay up here in space! I can't live on this ship. I can't be locked in this apartment just to be your sex slave whenever you want to visit,” she said.
“Why would I take you home? If I returned you to Earth, you would kill yourself.”
She looked at me with shock, tilting her head back to look up at me. She began to tremble.
“I will not. You caught me in a moment of weakness. But that moment has passed. You don't know anything about me! I was on that terrace ready to jump in order to get rid of the pain of heartache. I am in love. That is not something I can expect a ruthless alien like you ever to understand! My husband was taken from me. He was on a mission, and his ship exploded on re-entry into Earth. I am in mourning. I grieve him deeply. That is why I was up there. I was thinking of him. Life without him didn't seem worth living. But as I said, it was a moment that passed. I want to go home. I don't expect you to know the grief that I know because you have never been in love with anyone but yourself!” she shouted.
My eyes filled with anger. Her words hit me hard, like I had been shot with a blaster gun. She knew much about me without knowing me for very long. It was true; I had never known love, but love was for fools and the weak. I was neither. But I did not like hearing it from her. She made it sound like it was something to pity about me. No one pitied me.
She began to cry a solemn cry; she made no noise, but tears fell down her cheeks. I realize that if I kept her on board this ship, this is what I would be dealing with. She did not know that her husband's death was not an accident. She did not know that I was the cause of his death. She knew nothing. But seeing her cry over her husband every day would remind me that I was the source of her pain, of her weakness. I didn't want to deal with that on a daily basis even if bedding her was an incredible experience.
“You want to return to Earth? Then that is what you shall have, human! But I doubt that after a few days alone on Earth you won't be back on that terrace ready to jump. You are weak. You're vulnerable. At least here you would experience a life different than what you have known, a life that brings you great pain. I want to hear nothing more of it,” I shouted. I walked away from her toward the door.
“What does that mean? Are you taking me back? When will I go? Answer me, Evex!”
I turned to her, boiling with rage, more because I was going to give up this human female and I wasn't ready for it. But I took out that rage on her. “Do not call me by my first name, human. You will address me as Leader Ein!” I growled the words to her. She stepped back, scared. Good; let her be scared of me.
I walked out of her living quarters closing the door behind me. I stomped on to the control room to find Lieutenant Draxel.
“Lieutenant Draxel! A word in private!”
He nodded and followed me out into the hallway where I let him into a room. It was a small room with solid walls, meant for private conversations. He closed the door behind him as he entered.
“You will keep this between us. You will take the human female on a small shielded transport. You will take her back to her home; you will tell no one. This is to be done in secret. You are not to be seen not by anyone here, or on Earth. Use the invisible shields. Make the arrangements and then let me know when you have a window for departure. I want it done within the next few hours. As soon as possible do you understand?”
“I do, Leader Ein. In secret.”
“Exactly. Now go and make the arrangements and keep me posted.”
“Yes, Leader Ein,” he saluted me and left the room. I stayed in the room. I closed the door. Now with the sound shields in place, there was only one thing I could do: I let out a long and loud scream of anger. What was this human doing to me?