Alien General's Baby (Scifi Alien Romance) (Zoran Warriors Book 1) Read Free

“Fine, I’ll take this bullet for you. Now that we’re on the subject: How was the Zoran general?”
    “Big,” I answer.
    “In what way?”
    “Every way.”
    “Ooh. Was he angry at you?”
    “I don’t think so. He looked at me kinda strange-like, like he was studying me or something. I didn’t stick around too long after that.”
    “He likes you,” Kelly piped up. “I bet he’s got a big old alien crush on you.”
    “He does not,” I snapped. “I don’t even know his name. Besides, what would a Zoran general want with me ? I bet he’s got countless Zoran women on call. Let’s get back to work.”
    “Yes ma’am,” Kelly answers.
    I soon forget my embarrassing encounter, filing it away in the back of my mind, where it can stay until it pops up to keep me up at night in a few years’ time. Instead I try to engross myself in my work. I enter a flow state, forgetting everything around me, which is why I don’t notice the soldiers packing all of my equipment into boxes until one tries to take the microscope I’m looking through.
    “What the—?!” I yell, utterly surprised, and yank it back out of the soldier’s hands. “I’m using that! This is my lab! What is the meaning of all this?!”
    “Commander Tobias’s orders,” the man says unapologetically.
    “Where are you taking all this?!”
    “The Zoran ship.”
    The air is sucked from my lungs. Why on Earth would that happen… unless… No, it couldn’t be…
    Kelly sits on her desk, chewing bubblegum as she attentively watches the broad-shouldered soldiers hastily pack everything into boxes.
    “Why didn’t you stop them?” I ask her.
    She shrugs. “Not a bad sight, is it? Do you think they’ll carry me as well if I ask them?”
    I roll my eyes. “I’m going straight to Tobias to sort this out. The nerve of that man!”
    I storm out of my lab, blazing a way through the space station, straight to Tobias’s office. Well, as much as a woman can blaze through a space station wobbling on her high heels.
    “What the hell is the meaning of all this?!” I yell as I burst through his door, ignoring his panicked secretary.
    I freeze in my tracks when I see Tobias is not alone — the two Zorans I saw earlier, the big gray one and the smaller green one, are sitting across him, their large bodies barely fitting into their respective human-sized chairs.
    All eyes turn to me. “Jillian,” commander Tobias says. “It’s good you’re here, I was just about to send for you. I’d like you to meet General Vinz and Senator Dimtri. Please take a seat.”
    My eyes travel over the Zoran’s hulking frames. Tobias appears comically small in comparison. General Vinz’s clear blue eyes study me intensely, and it sends a shiver down my spine. Senator Dimtri’s stare creeps me out; it’s as if he were picturing what it would be like to devour me.
    I cross my arms over my chest. “I’m fine here, thank you,” I say. This is close enough to those barbarians, thank you very much.
    “Alright,” Tobias responds with raised eyebrows. “As you know, we can learn much from the Zoran, they are among the most technologically developed races in the known universe, and—”
    “Spit it out, Tobias,” I demand. I’m normally not this feisty, but when you mess with my equipment, you’re messing with me . “Why are your men taking my equipment?”
    “The Federation’s equipment,” Tobias corrects me. “I’ll get right to the point then. We’ve reached a deal with the Zoran. In exchange for access to human goods, they will allow one of our top researchers to accompany them back to their home world, Exon Prime. An intergalactic scholarly exchange, if you will. And, I think you are the perfect candidate for the job. Congratulations!”
    My stomach flips upside down, and for a second I struggle to breathe. Me? Travel to some far-away alien homeworld, aboard their ship? Is this a bad joke?
    “Th-there has to be some mistake,” I stammer. “Surely there