CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO
Aisen straightened up as I approached them.
I didn't have clear expectations for how their interaction was going to end, but I didn't imagine any sort of civil conversation, Xavier was simply too angry at the man.
“What's happening here?” I demanded as I got to them.
“He came bearing news, so I had to listen to him after showing him how I felt about his existence, though,” Xavier replied to me.
“What news?”
“Well?” Xavier prompted him, “You can't speak now?”
“Sorry, I'm a bit…” he began with a sigh. He cleaned his mouth of blood and I rolled my eyes but gave him a napkin. “Thank you,” he blurted.
I stood patiently, waiting for him to comport himself.
I began tapping my foot restlessly but then Xavier carried me off the ground and sat down on a couch near the one Aisen was in.
“Just give him a minute baby, I kind of went too far,” he said in my ear.
“He deserves every bit of it. He might look sensible but he's a stupid misogynistic pig dedicating his miserly existence to crushing women,” I snarled, remembering everything.
I thought about how Lily and Aran would feel if they came upon this sight; Xavier and I were sitting with the Drak who had tried to break their spirits.
“We'll get to that part soon, okay?”
“Well whatever he has to say better be important because he's ruining that couch just like he ruins people's lives,” I grumbled, irritated.
The longer I spent in his presence, the higher my level of anger and irritation rose.
After the whole cleaning his nose situation, he coughed and finally spoke up.
“I sincerely apologize for everything I put you through, Tessa, I didn't know better. Our men rejoiced in trampling on women but the moment you left, it was like they all finally grew a backbone and began fighting back in different ways,” he explained, his hand on his now less sculpted stomach. It was as though he'd gotten fat with grief.
“What ways?” I asked, excited at the idea of the women finally doing something to get their rights on that planet.
He signed for the umpteenth time before answering.
“Well, it's not in our nature to force a woman so you can imagine what an army filled with sexually unsatisfied men would look like. Not good, I'll tell you that. They stopped talking to us, praising us, giving us the time of day basically. After two weeks, riots arose across different factions, prompting me to send a message to Koi. I was supposed to come here to get some Ky'rhan women for my men. I was surprised to discover you both now ruled the planet.”
“So if I'm to understand you,” I replied, “you'd rather come to another planet to get more women to oppress than treat your own women right? Why's that so difficult?”
“It's all we know!” He retorted, his voice rising up.
Xy'thern rumbled inside of Xavier, and Aisen recoiled in fear.
“Don't be stupid, that excuse doesn't mean shit,” Xavier snapped at him angrily. “I was also the son of my father, and I have done things in his name, but I always knew not to stray too far from common sense. What you do with your women is not only stupid but terrible for your economy and the planet as a whole. I've been dealing with other emissaries from other planets with this same rotten mentality and I keep telling them how they're not utilizing half of their entire population. Imagine being able to double whatever you produce every year or at least amplify it but no, you want to satisfy that dirty feeling inside of you that wants to triumph over someone you're physically stronger than. Don't tell me that crap about not knowing better, you have a brain for a reason!”
“While this is a great topic and a wonderful load of information I doubt that's reason enough for him to be staining my couch,” I butted in, impatient.
I was dressed impeccably fine and this asshole was destroying the evening before it even started.
“No, it's something else,” Aisen replied, “on our way here, I lost a hundred Draks and ten ships.”
I stood up from Xavier’s lap.
“To what?” I asked, scared.
“It's an entity; it didn't have a form, just a black mass; it didn't make any noise and was floating when we fired at it. Something that was lifeless suddenly became active and attacked us. The rest of us flew away instead of engaging.”
“Let me get this straight, you saw a floating form and decided to attack it?”
“What were we supposed to do? Just let it go? It could have been a threat!”
“You're so dumb it's difficult to decipher how a planet is yours to rule!” Xavier yelled at angrily. “Yes, Drakkonian, when you see an object that's floating in space, except it attacks you directly, avoid it!”
“It could have hurt other people, we were just trying to help!”
“And now you've pissed off some space demon and killed lots of your men,” I snapped at him.
“Not just that baby, he led to here,” Xavier informed me, shaking his head.
“You're joking right?”
“I wish I was. The entity chased him all the way here and is currently hovering in space right now,” Xavier replied, frustrated.
“Well there goes our space date night,” I replied, exasperated.
“I was um, I was kind of hoping you guys could… maybe, um, do something about it?” Aisen said from the couch that would require a whole lot of dry cleaning.
He didn't look like the powerful general his people worshiped anymore.
“No, we're not going to do that,” I snapped at him, irritated at the idea of it. “You brought it here, so we'll send you out of our planet, and you can take it to yours!”
He went on his knees immediately.
“Please, I beg of you. It's the most vicious entity I've ever come across in all my travels and I can't take it back home. It'll feed us all into its black hole. For some reason, he refused to come in here so you must be able to help out. Please,” he begged.
“You knew very well what it was capable of, and you still brought it over here, so no..”
“Baby,” Xavier called to me I'm a tone that contrasted with mine.
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