Fighting Lory (English Edition) (Lords Of Arr'Carthian 2) Read Free

 
    “Even if you get out of this hut, you still need to get through the gate, and that’s guarded. You don’t stand a chance,” declared the old woman.
    “When we were brought here there were only two men stationed there,” interjected Charly.
    “There may be only two guards, but there are at least another six sitting in the hut next to the gate,” explained Ayakala. “Anyway, where would you go? Outside Betzlawk there’s nothing but desert for miles and miles. Even if, by some miracle, you were able to get to one of the other towns, you wouldn’t be made welcome there. But it’s suicide, anyway, going out into the desert. It’s even hotter there than it is here and there’s no water for miles and miles. You’ll be hunted down. They’ll find you sooner or later in the town and there’s no way into or out of the spaceport without being checked, and what’s more you can’t book a journey without money. So it’s better to hope that you’ll find a good master who treats you well. Believe me.”
    “I’d rather die than let myself be owned by some damn alien,” Lory snarled angrily.  
    “She’s right,” said Amber. “We’re never going to get home again anyway. It’s hopeless. Who knows how far from earth we are, and where are we going to find someone who’ll take us back?”  
    “I can think about that when I get out of here,” Lory insisted. “Anything is better than being bought by a damn alien and bearing its little monsters.”
    The very thought of being sold to one of the various aliens that she had seen here on the streets of Betzlawk made her blood boil. Most of them did not look even vaguely human. Besides, she would definitely not give herself to a man that she did not want. And Lory was choosy where her sexual partners were concerned. They had to have style and moral fibre. And of course they had to deal with the fact that she knew her own mind and stuck up for her rights. No! She would most certainly not be anyone’s sex slave. Not as long as she still had a spark of life in her, and right now she had a good deal. She would get out of here, whatever the cost.

    ***

    Hours passed by and no one came. The conversation amongst the women had long since stopped. Lory had not taken part anyway. She was walking up and down like a tiger in a cage, thinking about her situation. She simply could not sit still, knowing that they were planning to sell her to some monster.  
    “Can’t you just sit down now?” said Keela, irritated. “You’re making me completely dizzy, walking round in circles.”
    “I don’t understand you lot,” Lory blurted out angrily. “How can you sit here, totally calmly, waiting till someone flogs you to the highest-bidding slimy or hairy alien? I certainly do not intend to give up without a fight.”
    “Perhaps it’ll be easier to escape once we’ve been bought,” interrupted Keela. “If we appear to be weak and helpless, maybe the one that buys us will be less watchful and when the right moment …”
    “If, if, if!” Lory interrupted Keela. “If you wait for someone to serve you the return ticket to earth on a golden platter, you’ll never get it.”
    Lory was not one of those people who waited for everything to possibly work out. She was used to taking things in her own hands. She would rather die trying to escape than allow others to order her around.  
    “Someone’s coming,” warned Amber urgently.
    The women fell silent and they could indeed hear footsteps approaching the hut. The door was unlocked and two men appeared with a woman carrying a tray of food. The men were largely humanoid, if one overlooked their green skin and the small, wart-like pockmarks on their foreheads and temples. They were large and powerfully built, but they were not carrying weapons. That was good. Lory did not doubt that she could deal with them both. She studied the situation and prepared herself to attack at the right moment.
    Once the woman had put the tray in