Epilogue
Six Years Later
“Are you ready?” Vair asked, squeezing my hand, and I nodded as I took a deep breath and did a quick self-check.
Was I about to throw up? No.
Faint? Unlikely.
Squeal like a teenager meeting her rock star idol? Quite possibly.
It couldn’t be helped, though. In a minute, we were about to enter a virtual meeting with the Krinar-human couple whose tumultuous love story had recently riveted the population of two planets.
Korum and Mia.
The most powerful K on the Council and the human girl he’d married.
“They’ll love you,” Vair assured me. “Your manuscript blew them away, and they know there’s no one who’d do a better job with their story.”
I gulped, trying to settle my wayward pulse—which insisted on hammering like a woodpecker in my throat.
I could do this. I could absolutely, definitely do this. So what if they were higher profile than any celebrities? Or that Korum had been the driving force behind the Ks’ invasion of Earth?
Vair believed in me—enough to use all the goodwill his research had generated with the Krinar Council to get me this meeting—and I was no longer a newbie journalist. Over the past six years, I’d interviewed other highly placed Krinar, as well as human government officials and members of the Resistance. My articles, short stories, and exposés were widely acknowledged to be well researched and insightful, and my first nonfiction novel—the unusual love story of Emily Ross and her cheren, Zaron—was about to be published.
I was a freaking pro, and I had no reason to be nervous.
Other than the fact that this was the biggest journalistic coup ever.
Okay, then. “Let’s do this,” I said firmly, and as Vair grinned at me, the world turned into a blur.
Fighting dizziness, I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I was no longer in Vair’s New York City penthouse.
“Amy Myers and Vair, I presume?” a tall, intimidatingly gorgeous Krinar with peculiar golden eyes said, staring at me from across a long, floating table.
My nerves settled as I felt myself slide into my journalistic persona. With a practiced glance, I took in the petite human girl at his side and the ivory-colored sunlit room we were virtually sitting in.
A room in Korum’s house on Krina.
“That’s right,” I answered smoothly, inclining my head at the couple in a gesture of respect. I knew better than to attempt a handshake with a male K. Vair would be tempted to kill him on the spot. “And you must be Korum and Mia?”
“That’s us,” the girl said, beaming at me. Her eyes were startlingly blue against the backdrop of her dark, wildly curly hair, and her smile was utterly radiant in her delicately featured face. “We’re so pleased to meet you, Amy. And Vair, of course.”
A heavy arm slid around my waist, and I looked up to see Vair incline his head as he drawled, “A pleasure, to be sure.”
I barely stopped myself from rolling my eyes. Ks and their ridiculous possessiveness. Korum was holding Mia anchored to his side as if she might otherwise run away, so of course Vair had to stake a similar claim on me. Never mind that this was supposed to be a serious interview, or that both Ks rationally knew that neither had an interest in the other’s charl. Or that we were all here virtually, and our actual bodies were on different planets.
Their territorial instincts didn’t give two hoots about rationality or reason.
“So, Korum,” I said, focusing on the task at hand, “how about we start at the very beginning? How did you and Mia first meet?”
He looked at her, and I saw his starkly beautiful features soften. Not a lot, but just enough to convey what anyone who’d watched a recording of their lavish wedding already knew.
He’d blast apart entire galaxies for her.
“Do you want to do the honors, my sweet?” he asked softly, and she smiled up at him, her small face glowing.
“If you insist.” Still smiling, she turned to me. “It’s kind of a long story. I’m not sure it’ll all fit into one book.”
“If it doesn’t, then I’ll make it into two or three books,” I assured her. “Whatever is needed.”
And as the human girl launched into her story, I jotted down, “The air was crisp and clear as Mia walked briskly down a winding path in Central Park…”
The End
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