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for work,” Talia answered. “What the hell
happened?”
    “Jeremy lost all of his money. He owed a huge
debt. I offered to absorb his debt with another, and at that he put
Emily in the pot thinking he would win,” Zor answered.
    “She’s going to be pissed,” Talia answered.
She looked down at her watch. “My hour is almost up. I have to get
back to work. Take it easy with her when you tell her. She’s not
going to handle it well.”
    Zor knew she was right, Emily already reacted
once and she was pissed the first time, it wasn’t going to be much
better the second time. He knew she was going to be furious beyond
what he had seen before. He dreaded telling her. He thought of all
the ways he could tell her, but either way it all came back to the
truth. He couldn’t stand watching the woman he was developing
feelings for beaten constantly. He couldn’t tell her that though.
What if she didn’t feel the same? He took a deep breath knowing
he had to face her soon.
    Emily was pushed back out on the same bed
they pushed her in on. Zor smiled, relieved the bruises were
already disappearing. She smiled at him excited that he was there
to support her, but still upset that he argued with her though.
    “Is she ready to go home?” Zor asked the
nurse.
    “She has to be released into someone’s care,”
the nurse answered.
    “I’ll take her,” Zor said relieved that he
didn’t have to tell her so soon. He signed the paper for her
release and picked her up carrying her to his quarters.
    “Zor, I can walk. I feel fine,” she said,
holding onto his neck tightly, wondering why he was taking her back
to his quarters.
    “I will carry you,” he told her firmly. “What
do you remember from this afternoon?” he asked.
    “Not much. I remember getting dressed for
work, then Jeremy came home,” she answered. “After that I was
waking up in the infirmary.”
    “You don’t remember anything Jeremy said to
you before I put him in the holding cell for assaulting you? Or
even before he assaulted you?” he questioned looking down at her,
trying to control his urge to kiss her.
    “Zor, what’s going on? You’re asking me a
bunch of strange questions.” She knew deep down something was
wrong.
    “We will talk about it when we get to my
quarters, sweetheart, don’t worry about it right now,” he said,
still searching for the words to tell her. He knew he was in a lot
of trouble as soon as he got there. “Would you like to stop at the
bar and get a drink before we go home?” he questioned.
    “No, if I go to the bar it’ll be to work,”
she answered, wondering why he was stalling on talking to her.
    She knew something was off by the way he was
acting. Truth was she would love to go see her coworkers and tell
them she was all right but she wanted to know what Zor was hiding.
She thought long and hard on what happened before she woke up in
the hospital. She started to remember that Jeremy told her to pack
her bags.
    “That bastard lost me in a bet!” she
yelled.

Chapter Six

     
    “What are you doing, Emily?” Zor asked,
watching as she frantically started grabbing all of her clothes and
threw them all in a suitcase. She had made him set her on her feet
and then she had stormed to her and Jeremy’s room. Now she was
loading up her suitcase.
    “Fucking Jeremy lost me in a bet. Please,
Zor, you have to help me get off the ship before the alien comes
and takes me,” she pleaded with him as she started to
hyperventilate.
    “Emily, calm down,” Zor said with a
half-smile. “Let’s take your stuff to my quarters.”
    He took her suitcase and she followed him
wondering why she waited until she got to his quarters. He set her
suitcase on his bed.
    “Zor, what are you doing? I have to get off
the ship,” she questioned. “I don’t even know who would take
someone in a gamble, but I don’t want to find out,” she added,
grabbing for her suitcase.
    “Emily, it was me,” Zor said, trying to get
her to calm