She sobbed into the sleepdisk covers.
He threw the cane on the sleeping platform. “Now get in that cage and stay there until I return.”
No. She couldn’t let him leave. She pushed herself weakly to her feet and turned, her pants tangling around her legs. “Don’t go,” she croaked. “You can’t leave—please don’t go.”
He threw her a look of disgust and stalked out, the door whooshing closed behind him.
She stood there, tears streaking her face, her a*s on fire, trying to think of something else she might do to keep him from that meeting. But nothing came. Her brain had frozen in fear, stopped cold with the vision of her master—her lover—exploding.
~.~
Zander drew deep breaths as his long, hurried strides carried him back to the ship dock. He’d thought Lamira was smarter than that. What in
