Dark Empathy by Archibald Bradford (best books to read for women .txt) 📗

on the opposite side of the bed, so that all Rebecca saw of her was one arm limp on the mattress.

“Blasters do make a mess.”

She turned back to face Carol.

Several people that she recognized from the machine shop were looming beside her in the front room; she had just let them in. All of them were armed and all wearing unfriendly faces, Gregory foremost amongst them.

Carol took the blaster from one of the men and approached her slowly as she cringed away.

“You think we wouldn’t check up on your story? Or notice a broken lock on a door hardly anyone knows about? You dumb little bunny, you are twenty years too young to put one over on me.”

Becks opened her mouth to say something, anything, but before she had time to construct another lie a violent light lit up Carol’s eyes and she cracked her in the temple with the butt of the weapon.

Chapter 36:Briefed

All Aegis compounds have the same general layout, and every Aegis member has, at least officially, the right to make use of their facilities as need.

So when they arrived at the compound to the north of Fairbright the following morning the girls immediately got settled in the spacious front room while Nameless and Grant sought out the ranking officer to report on their success.

They found the one-armed man on the back porch, the retired station manager standing up as soon as he noticed them.

Grant snapped a perfunctory salute to the older man before reporting on their success.

“Hey Kyle. Case is wrapped up nice and neat for you. Two suspects are in custody with the lawkeeper, with a third stuck with her granddad, she’s a minor. Fair bit of family drama there but-”

The officer raised his hand to stem the tide of information.

“I’m sorry Aegis Semper but it will have to wait, while you were at it I received standing orders to pass on to you. You are to report in to the Bastion immediately, through whatever channels available. In this case that channel is a trio of Undines down at the river. Follow me.”

Grant was more than slightly taken aback by his senior’s abrupt pronouncement: the wool poachers were a problem to be sure, so it wasn’t entirely unusual that their commanding officer wanted a report on their progress, but there was something in the urgency of the man’s tone that gave him pause.

Nameless, not experienced enough to know whether this was normal or not, simply followed Grant’s lead as the three of them left the compound.

Shortly thereafter they found themselves at the edge of a placid stream, where three naked Undines were swimming in lazy circles as they gossiped, giggled and splashed water at each other.

The officer coughed gently and tried to get their attention.

“Girls, if you’re finished playing ar-”

One of the blue-skinned water elementals gasped and pointed at Nameless with one delicately webbed hand.

“Sisters! It’s him! The one who touched the Sacred Current! Oh he is a cutie!”

Her sister behind her placed both hands on her head and pushed her below the surface of the slowly moving water, raising herself up to get a better look at the young man.

“I think you’re right Tali! Nalia and Juni both said he was really short!”

The last Undine scrambled out of the water and stood in all her naked glory before him, one hand on her hip as she nibbled on her pinky finger delicately.

Nameless imagined that it was not unlike being eyeballed by a hungry shark.

“I want to see his ‘oh’ face.”

Her eyes were hooded with desire, and the young man couldn’t help but blush a bit as the other two humans looked at him with raised eyebrows.

“What the hell are they talking about? And what are we, chopped liver?” Grant shook his head in puzzled amusement.

“Long story.” Nameless replied wearily.

He never could understand why everywhere he went monster girls made a fuss over him.

The officer rolled his eyes and waved his arm to get the attention of the distracted Undines.

“Ladies please! Focus. This is important. You need to contact the Bastion at once. Tell them you have a priority one communiqué from outpost two-two seven.”

Grant’s eyes boggled at that.

But the three girls pouted in front of them, still looking longingly at Nameless.

“What’s in it for us?” The first Undine to speak, Tali, asked with arms folded over her perky breasts.

The one that had just dunked her sister glared at the officer pugnaciously.

“Yeah! What do we get out of it?”

“We wanna see his dick!” The last girl proclaimed aggressively while pointing at Nameless’s groin.

Grant buried his face in his palms while the officer tried to talk sense into the stubborn elementals.

“Be reasonable! This is too important to screw around!”

But Tali shook her head firmly.

“If it’s so important than you should have been more polite, brought us a gift or something nice! No, if you want our help, we get to see his boy-parts.”

The one-armed officer’s face twisted in consternation while the young Aegis cadet just stared at the three expectant faces.

With all the time he spent with the Amazons, not to mention his own bond-mates, he had come to expect the blatant sexuality of monster girls.

But that didn’t mean he was overly comfortable with being ambushed with it.

It took all of three seconds for the selfless young man to come to a decision.

“If you touch it, my Gigas will kill you.” He sighed as he undid his pants and reached inside.

The three girls were breathless for a moment, then nodded as one, eyes wide and locked on his groin.

Grant blinked.

“Seriously Nameless you don’t have to- holy fuck!” His trainee had pulled out his cock for the girls’ consideration; “The hell do you need all