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Aries.” Talia looked disgusted with her, and, frankly, Freya couldn’t blame her. Why hadn’t she just used some semblance of self-control before diving into drinking something on an alien spaceship? She needed to have her head examined.
    “Aries. He’s damn well not my lord, so please spare me the damn title when it comes to him. He’s my kidnapper. He’s a monster! He has broken so many Earth laws that I don’t have enough fingers to keep track of them all.” She licked her lips. “On further reflection, you can scratch all the stuff I said about not getting drunk easy. Holy Cow. That Gaian water is damn tasty.”
    “It’s not water. It’s vodka. And you never were one for liking the spirits.”
    “Spirits? Where?” She laughed. Come to think of it, she did feel very giddy.
    “Oh, shitcake, Freya. You’re going to really regret drinking that tomorrow. You should learn to ask about something when you’re on an alien ship far away from home before you drink it.”
    “Well, don’t worry, I won’t mistake that stuff for water again. Do the Gaians even drink water?”
    “Of course. They are essentially humans just like we are … why wouldn’t they?
    We all need to drink water to survive, and yes, they do bathe in it as well. That’s water over there on that side table.”
    Focusing her vision, she looked over to where Talia pointed.
    “Ah. I see. And the Gaelic looking writing on the side?”
    “It says, water. Mathias has started to teach me how to read and write in their language without using the translator … I can even deactivate the translator and say a few words myself. I’m quite proud of how far I’ve come in such a small amount of time.”
    “Good for you.” She clapped her hands. “Bang up job you’ve done … have you gotten yourself pregnant yet?” Talia looked uneasy. Freya shook her head, her world spun around her. “Oh, hell. You have. You copulated with him and got pregnant. Sweet.”
    “Actually, I’m overjoyed. You know I never thought I’d find a man that was right Doorway to the Stars by Marly Mathews 24
    for me, and I always have secretly yearned for a family. Like you, all of my family was killed in the war.”
    “I have my uncle.”
    “Good for you. I have no one, except Mathias and the child I carry. You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don’t see you exactly suffering. Aries took you, yes. You should however feel a certain amount of honor. Haven’t you ever wanted to be wanted?
    Well, he wants you. He will cherish and love you forever. What more could you ask for?
    My aunt had five husbands. The first two died, and the last three left her. They told her that she got boring to them, and they needed a little more spice in their lives. I can assure you of one thing, the Gaian men do not have short attention spans, and they don’t get bored. Mathias and I are still feeling the thrill of our first encounter.”
    She stuck her fingers in her ears and whistled. “I really don’t want to hear about anything that did and didn’t go on between you and that man.” She was acting like a juvenile child, and she knew it. But the unsavory position she’d found herself in was grating on her last nerve. The bravado she’d shown to Macy earlier really was coming back to bite her in the ass.
    “He’s my husband. We have taken our vows. For all intents and purposes, I am his wife. I will be his wife until one of us dies. I am also now a fully-fledged citizen of the Gaian Empire. I will have the same right and privileges that all Gaians have. That’s more than you can say for what we had back on Earth. You and I could only get jobs as Doorway to the Stars tourists, mainly because we didn’t want to take the shitty jobs that we were approved for as the defeated. You know that we were slandered by a lot of people, and you know that many looked down upon us, ridiculing us behind our back.
    Many employers wouldn’t touch us with a two-foot pole because we had