Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 65094 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65094 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
“I see the doubt on your face and I understand why you feel contempt toward the superious.”
Somehow, I doubt that but I keep my thoughts to myself.
“You don’t believe me.” He states.
I turn my head away from him unable to meet his gaze.
“We have gotten off to a bad start, you and I.”
I’m not sure what he means by that so I don’t respond.
Draken rolls off the bed. “I’m going to make use of your bathing room and use the shower before I take my leave.”
There’s something in his tone that gives me pause. Is it sadness? No that couldn’t be. What does he have to be sad about? But I couldn’t have imagined it. I muster up the courage to take a look at him but all I see is his retreating back.
“Draken!” I call out to him unsure of why I did it.
He looks over his shoulder and nods. “You should get some rest. I won’t be long and then I’ll leave you to your privacy.”
Again I hear that sadness and something strikes me deeply. Maybe I do have a prejudice against the superious. After all, since my family had been captured on the compound, I’d face nothing but one miserable experience after another.
I can’t say my experience upon arriving here was that great but Draken was nothing like I’d expected. He was supposed to be the unreasonable beast who killed at willed. I had more than expected to be treated about the same as I had in my last assignment but under his care, I can’t really say things have been that bad.
And the most unexpected part is the way my body responds to his. I find myself missing his touch.
And now, even though I don’t feel I’ve done anything wrong, my words have somehow hurt him. I want to make it right.
Maybe I’m going crazy but I slide out of bed and head to the bathing room.
I see the Sector Leader in the far corner behind the glass wall of the shower. He has one hand braced against the wall, as the water rains over his head and cascades down his perfect body.
Taking a deep breath, I walk toward the shower and pull back the glass just enough to ease my way inside.
I wrap my arms around his waist and rest my head on his back.
Chapter
Seventeen
DRAKEN
After hearing Jamie’s story, I understand her hostility towards the superious. I think if I were in her place I too would feel resentment. I’ve lived among them all my life. I am one. But what she doesn’t realize, is that superious are not good to each other either.
In my goal to become a good leader for my sector I’ve studied the history of how the superious, wrested control of Earth from the homo sapiens, although it was more like we reclaimed what had been ours to begin with.
The lesser evolved humans had made such a mess of the planet with their environmental disasters, wars, genocides and divisiveness on who they decided to worship, it had been on the brink of collapse.
The superious had come to power and put together a system they deemed fair for its own citizens and the homo sapiens as well. It’s how the Registry came to be. But somewhere along the line, corruption had crept into this system as well.
No one knew this as well as I did. In our society, as a superious you either had great wealth or great strength to be important in our society. What no one talked about were the superious who had neither. They were seen as no better than the homo sapiens with lower paying positions, usually those in service.
My mother had been a member of the secretary unit in the fortress when my uncle was Sector Leader. An attractive superious female, she’d caught the eye of the Sector Leader’s younger brother and an affair commenced.
I don’t know what my mother’s motive had been to start a relationship with my father, but apparently she pushed to marry my father even though he was betrothed to someone my uncle had deemed a more suitable match.
My father had rebelled and ended up challenging my uncle according to the story I’d been told. The challenge resulted in my father’s death and my mother’s banishment from the fortress.
By then my mother had been pregnant with me but my uncle didn’t give a fuck.
Those early years, we struggled, living among the homo sapiens in old buildings that were on the cusp of collapse. We had no one, because my mother was disowned by her parents for disgracing them with the Sector Leader’s brother.
We lived hand to mouth. In my tenth year, my mother, still an attractive woman gained the attention of a wealthy businessman who said he would take care of her. As long as she abandoned me.