A Monster's Light (Kadrixan Mates #5)

I fidgeted with the hem of my top as I waited nervously in the stark, white room. Security had patted me down thoroughly, taken any recording devices I had, and shoved them into a locked box behind the counter. The only electronic device I was allowed to keep was my temporary in-ear translator, something required to do my job.

Omnia Pictures, my employer, even had to prove that it didn’t have recording abilities, which was a good thing, both for them and for me. I didn’t want our conversation recorded at all. I had ulterior motives for my trip today.

Behind that heavily armored metal door was a Kadrixan warrior. The demon-looking aliens lived on another continent here on Vokira, the one with the large mountain range. They’d arrived only about five or six years ago, and Nova Vita had started trading with them. The colony would provide women for their yearly rut, and they would give us the ore they mined from the mountains. That treaty had ended about two years ago, just around the time my best friend, Julie, went missing.

She’d disappeared right after successfully fighting off a kidney infection. She’d been MIA for over a week when I got the message that she was finally being released from the hospital and that she’d call me when she got home. But she never did. And she never replied back either.