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Later, when she collected her clothes off the mess floor, she was too floaty to worry about Krul Mason’s warhs and she tasted it on her lips, too He led her by the hand to his quarters He pro her with sex was his ai

Chapter Eleven

Mason swatted another fly off his nose He hated the sweltering heat and the swar to his scans, humidity was up to about ninety percent and the teh for a man acclimatized to an ice planet

Jade had warned him sticky heat was horrible—he was drenched in sweat and all he could think about was snow falling She’d never seen snow He would like to rectify that situation one day

“Drink plenty,” she’d advised Fortunately for her, Malimor was different to Kathamu—mostly dry heat and no rainforests—so she’d little further advice to give him other than watch his back

He followed the track, which was only just visible, and used a stick to beat aside any vegetation It had been a few hours since he landed the Steadfast in an area of cleared jungle, probably once a village, but the occupants had moved on

He scanned the route ahead with aa lizard le and it was so da insects blended into a continuous cacophony

In the distance, the undergrowth cleared and the path greider He encountered a network of paths and fresh footprints—barefoot hu so obvious

The jungle thinned out and he squinted in the bright sunlight—another village and this one were occupied The huts were on stilts to keep out ver women scooped up the infants and hurtled indoors as Mason approached

“Hello,” he called out “I mean you no harm”

The women and children had vanished, but the bare-chested men, whose stature was considerably shorter than Mason’s, stood ar a line The nearestof vines around his head, stepped forward

Unfortunately, Mason didn’t understand a word of their language He tried to iht look like, but histheir weapons Mason could easily pick theun, but for what purpose? He needed friends, not more enemies

Backing away, he disappeared into the undergrowth and continued his trek toward the river It had to be close by because the villagers would need a source of water

Annoyed with his inability to co out of his water bottle He’d drunk more than he anticipated and had little left The river was beco essential

Jade would have coped better with the heat and the humidity Before he’d left Titan, he asked her to coat his pale skin in sun protection crea to herself with a s to deny her, his cock had hardened She’d gone on to perfor his cu him a brief respite