Taking Karissa was better than what I had remembered. I couldn't believe that I had denied myself the pleasure of being inside of her for so long. By Corillion right, she was mine: I owned her. But that didn't mean that I trusted her. Yes, I had given into her temptation. How could I not when she put it right in front of me like that? And when I was inside of her, it was the most joy that I have ever felt; it was overwhelming. It was as though it was meant to be.
I turned in bed and looked at her sleeping. Her hair was all around her face. She was a sleeping beauty, and I wanted to stay here forever, but the fact that I had indulged my wants with her did not mean that all was forgiven. It did not mean that I could trust her. It did not mean that she had not abandoned me and those dungeons. I really didn't know who she was. For all I knew, this could be part of some plan that she was trying to hatch, getting me into bed this way. I hated the paranoia that I was feeling, but I couldn't help it after she had betrayed me the way she did on her lunar base. If it wasn't for that then I would not have been thinking these thoughts. I knew that when she woke up she would want to talk. She would want to convince me of something, and I was not going to allow her to do that. So I quietly moved out of bed and got dressed. Then I left.
I had to get far from her. So I spent the day on patrol going around the buildings of the city and checking in on the status of the systems that kept the city running. I worked myself, frantically trying to keep my mind off of her. But every now and then flashes of what we had done earlier would come to me. I would catch her scent on me, and it would make me think of her, being with her and inside of her. I would have to snap out of it.
I leaped into a sudden panic. I picked up the radio receiver and shouted into it, “Yes! What about her?”
"It has been reported that she is in the port. She has locked herself inside a small long-range ship. It is said that she means to depart," the radio operator said.
"Do not let her. Do not hurt her. But do whatever is necessary to ground that ship! I am on my way,” I said as I slammed on the gas and pushed the vehicle as fast as it could go, making my way to the port.
How the hell did she get out? How did she know where the port was? Why was she trying to leave me? I thought to myself as I drove as fast as I could. But I already knew the answer to all of these questions. She got out because she was a trained operative and eventually knew how to get herself out of any situation. She knew where the port was because we had landed there and she had paid very close attention when we moved from the port to my house; she soaked in information easily. And she was leaving me because I had treated her badly. She had finally got my attention, and we shared a special night together, and yet I was a completely disrespectful to her afterward. I had left without a word and walked out, leaving her in bed alone. All of this was why she was leaving me. She was a strong and defiant woman, and I knew exactly what she was thinking.
"Master key?” I asked the warrior. He tossed me a key that was the master key that opened all the doors of any ship in our fleet in case of emergencies, like now. I opened the door and moved inside to find Karissa buckled into her seat. All of the switches were in the necessary position for take off. I was the one that had taught her how to fly a ship like this. So she knew exactly what she was doing. She could've been far gone by now if my warriors had not opened up the ship from the back and cut off the power.
"What do you care? You have made it very clear that you care nothing for me! You only have me here as a prisoner so that I may bear your children. Well, I have news for you, buddy. I have a choice. I can choose not to live this way. I can run away. I have done it many times before, and I can do it again. I don't want to live like this! I don't want to live like this with you or anyone! You should know that about me by now! So why do you not just let me leave!” she shouted her eyes filled with tears.
I sighed a heavy sigh; she was right. I sat down next to her. “I am sorry for how I have treated you, Karissa. I did not plan on it to be this way. When I found out you were carrying my offspring, I was filled with joy, and I was excited and hopeful that you would want to willingly spend time with me and be mine. Have a family together. But then I remembered what happened on the lunar base, and I know that I cannot trust you. You are a traitor,” I said to her.
She stopped crying and turned to me with hate in her eyes. “What the hell are you talking about, you idiot?! What happened on the lunar base"?
"You know what happened. You are the one that allowed it to happen. It was probably your plan. That is what I cannot forget. That is what I cannot forgive. That is why I do not trust you. I don't know who you really are. And now I'm stuck with you because you carry my offspring,” I said. As soon as I said it, I regretted it. It didn't come out the way I meant it to.
"How dare you speak to me like that. Is that how you really feel about me? You think you are stuck with me?” she said to me.
"If that is how you feel, then why don't you just let me go? I will not stay here and be treated this way," she said to me.
"It is not that I feel stuck with you. It is that I don't trust you. How could you allow that to happen to me on the lunar base?” I shouted at her.
"They tortured me. You knew that they were torturing me. You left. As soon as they captured me, you left to Earth and left me behind. Why did you return to the moon base anyway? Did you know that there would be a battle? Is that why you were returned?” I shouted at her.
"I did not leave the base! Where did you get that nonsense from? I was on the base the entire time. I had no idea that you were being tortured. It is against our laws to torture anyone, whether it is human or alien, when they are prisoners. Whoever did that to you went against the law. I would have no way of knowing that they were doing that to you!” she shouted at me.
"Your Commander Cook is the one that did it to me. He is the one that told me you left for Earth as soon as you could. He said that you set me up to be caught!” I shouted at her.
Her mouth fell open in shock. “And you believed him? I did not leave for Earth. I was there studying everyone's moves and the guards’ routine. I was putting a plan in order to help you get out of there. I would have gone to the Earth Council but Commander Cook accused me of being a double agent. He told my superior that they thought I was working with the Corillion. They thought that was the only reason I was able to get back so easily. So you see, you weren't the only one dealing with false information. They were using it against us. Don't you see that? That is exactly what they do to prisoners in order to break them. They put lies all over them and make them feel like they're really alone. It worked on you. But I would hope you would have more faith in me than that!” she shouted back at me.
I was silent. I felt like a fool. What she said made sense. More than that, it made sense with who she was. I didn't think that she would abandon me or leave to Earth so quickly. The fact that she was biding her time and trying to create a plan with all the resources and information she could gather was exactly something that she would do. “I was not aware of your rule of no torture,” I said to her.
"Why would you be? I wouldn't expect you to know that. But I would expect you to have a little faith in me. I saved your life by mating with you, not just for kicks. It was because I actually had grown fond of you and cared about you. I know I wasn't obvious about it, but it's true.”
"I did know it. The fact that you let me touch you when you had killed someone that had tried to touch you let me know that you did care for me. You're right: I should've had more faith in you. But after suffering for over a week in torture, being told lies while being beaten was enough to break me. I should've been stronger than that. I am ashamed that I am so weak. I am usually not this weak, but I am usually not in love. I love you, Karissa,” I said.
"And I love you, Kai. I have been in love with you for sometime. I don't know when it happened exactly, but I know now that I love you. I carry your child. I want you to be at my side. I do not want to be locked up like some prisoner. I do not deserve to be treated like that. No one deserves to be treated like that, and I expect more from you,” she said to me.
"You will not be locked up. In truth, I was hiding you away from myself. I couldn't feel like I trusted you but yet I couldn't stay away from you. I locked you up to keep myself from being with you. But I did lock you up in comfortable rooms,” I said jokingly.
"Oh, comfortable is it? I'd like to see you locked up in there for a week and let me run your empire,” she said with a smile.
"There is my spunky human female. I apologize, and I will apologize forever. I love you. I will never lock you up I promise you that, and I am ashamed that I did so in the first place. Please remain with me here. Please be my forever mate and let us be a family together with our child. Can you live with me after all I have done?” I asked her. She was silent for a long time.