Zandian Pet (Zandian Masters 7)

Mierna thumped her cane on the floor. “She requires no inspection. You can see for yourself she’s in excellent health.” The tiny Venusian drew herself up tall. “And you’re already acquainted with her skill.”

Neo whipped out a gun and put it to Mierna’s head. “Open. The. Cage.”

The entire team tensed, but no one dared move, not with the laser gun so close to Mierna’s head.

Primary team, get out of there. Extraction team is ready to evacuate. Rok’s urgent communication came through her earpiece.

“Open cage,” Mierna said tightly.

Lily slowly lifted her hand to her hair then to the ceiling of the cage, where the trigger for the sleeping gas had been hidden. Using the guise of stretching her cramped body, she pushed it.

Nothing happened. Veck. Why didn’t the gas work?

Neo kept his gun trained on Mierna but gestured to one of his guards. “Pull out the Zandian. Leave the human.”

Lily tried to trigger the gas again.

“I’m coming, I’m coming.” Mina kicked off the guard’s hands and tumbled out of the cage then bounced to her feet, still playing cute. She heard the snick of the cage door closing behind her.

She wiggled her body between Neo and Mierna and threaded her arms around the Aurelian’s neck. She licked a line up Neo’s jaw. “You’re going to buy me, aren’t you, Neo?”

The male’s face hardened, and he didn’t take his eyes off the rest of her team, but he clamped a hand over her shoulder and shoved her to her knees.

She knew exactly what he wanted, and didn’t hesitate to comply. Humiliation had always been part of the pet game, which she’d learned to play a long time ago. If he wanted to have his cock sucked while he held a gun on Mierna, she’d do it.

The gas hadn’t worked, but they had other distractions in play. Erick would set off a bomb somewhere, and she’d knock the gun out of Neo’s hand. Or bite off his cock. Or do whatever she had to do to get out of there with her friends’ lives intact.

She pulled Neo’s flaccid cock from his pants and fit it easily in her mouth, sucking and warming it with her tongue.

In the past she’d been able to disassociate from sex. No, that wasn’t it. She had no positive association with it, so there’d been no need to disassociate. It was just one of the asinine ridiculous things Dorhock expected of his pets.

Now that she’d been with Erick, now that she knew true pleasure, understood the measure of sex—how gratifying it could be, how intimate, how incredibly bonding, she couldn’t stand having her mouth on another being’s cock.

And the fact that it was a small, soft cock made it even more disgusting to her.

But her job was to distract. To diffuse the situation until the gun left Mierna’s head and her team could act. So she cupped Neo’s four balls, and rolled her tongue along the underside of his pathetic malehood.

To make matters worse, Erick’s voice came through on the comms unit. Primary team, it’s too quiet. What’s going on in there?

“Get rid of them,” Neo snapped.

In a mind-boggling blur of simultaneous action, Mina slammed her wrist up against Neo’s, sending his gun flying to the floor. He backhanded her, and she flew to the floor as his guards pulled out laser guns and shot at Depri, Guardo, Tal, and Mierna.

Depri fell, but rolled, taking a wound to the shoulder. Guardo attacked the guard closest to him. Mierna, Depri, and Tal scattered to take cover. Tal flipped the cage, with Lily still inside, to its side, using the floor to shield them from the laser fire.

Lily opened the compartment in the false floor and pulled out her own laser weapon, aiming and firing at Neo, but she missed.

Mina had scrambled to her feet, her cheek throbbing, and she ran for the cage, launching herself at it and using it to knock over two guards.

What the veck is going on in there? Rok’s voice rose with urgency.

“Small problem,” Lily muttered.

A shock stick struck Mina’s back, and her body jerked and dropped to the floor, immobile, staring up at Neo’s cold face. He picked her up by the armpits and dragged her toward the exit, barking a command for a guard to help him. One swooped in and grabbed her ankles.

No, she tried to scream, but her larynx was paralyzed, and her body didn’t obey her commands. Laser fire flashed through the room, Guardo still fought in hand-to-hand combat. Miera lifted her cane and fired at the guard holding Mina’s feet, and he crumpled to the ground. It didn’t stop Neo from dragging her from the room and down a corridor into what must be his chamber.

To his comms unit, he said, “All units to reception. The Zandian has been taken. Kill the rest.”