Total pages in book: 85
Estimated words: 82030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 410(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 273(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82030 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 410(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 273(@300wpm)
Lexi thought about stripping or trying to be a cam girl, but she didn’t see how she could make that work. She had a pretty face with long brown hair and green eyes, but she was definitely plus sized. She had extremely large, sloping breasts, full hips, and a behind that was much too big to fit the normal standards of beauty. In fact, all of her was too big—even her fingers and toes were chubby.
Plus, she was shy about showing her bare body to men she didn’t know—she felt self-conscious, like they would be constantly judging her and thinking that she needed to lose weight. Also, her career as a teacher would be over if anyone found out she was camming or stripping—and it seemed like someone always found out.
But what else was left for her to do? It was at this point that she called her best friend Natalie. She didn’t expect her friend to loan her the money—Natalie didn’t have an extra twenty thousand lying around either. She just needed a shoulder to cry on and she missed her best friend. Ever since Natalie had been called as the bride of a Blood Kindred and moved up to the Mother Ship, Lexi hardly ever saw her anymore.
To her surprise, though, her best friend had an idea. She told Lexi about a job she’d heard about—a dangerous but high-paying job working for a Kindred scientist named Dr. Brandt.
“He’s interviewed lots of women for the position, but it seems like he can’t find one he likes,” she had told Lexi. “I don’t know what your chances are, but if you come to interview with him, at least you and I can spend the day together on the Mother Ship. There’s so much I want to show you up here!”
Lexi had agreed to come for the interview. It was the start of Spring Break at her school, so she had a little time to spare. After showing her around the Mother Ship, Natalie had taken her to the interview and left her there with a kiss on the cheek and a “good luck, bestie.”
Lexi had knocked on the silver door with 3-D letters floating over it that read simply, “Dr. Brandt.”
When the door slid open, she got her first look at her prospective employer. She’d been awed by the big Beast Kindred who looked down at her coolly from his great height. Natalie had told her that Beast Kindred were supposed to have fiery tempers, but Dr. Brandt seemed the exact opposite of hot-tempered to Lexi. He had nodded her inside, noted her name on a digital clipboard, and asked her to roll up the sleeve of her blouse for some blood tests.
“Er, can you tell me what this job is about? I mean, what does it entail?” Lexi had asked him as he stuck her expertly and removed two vials of blood.
“You’ll be given the details of the assignment if and only if you qualify for the position,” he had rumbled in a deep voice. “Which is highly doubtful—so far none of the human females I have tested have the capacity for production which I need in a test subject.”
“A test subject?” Lexi had exclaimed. “What kind of tests are you running?”
Dr. Brandt had simply given her a look.
“Please remain here in the waiting room,” he told her. “I’ll be able to ascertain very shortly if you’re an acceptable candidate or not.”
Lexi sat and fidgeted for what seemed like an hour but was probably closer to twenty minutes. She was already thinking that she wasn’t going to get the job. After all, if every other applicant had already failed to qualify, what were the odds that she would be the one person the huge Beast Kindred was looking for?
“Slim to none,” those are the odds, she had muttered to herself. She had just decided that there was no way she was getting the job and she ought to just leave and spend a little more time with Natalie before she had to go back to Earth, when the inner door of Dr. Brandt’s office opened and he came out again.
This time instead of being cool and composed, he had an excited look on his face. His golden eyes, when he stared at her, were intense.
“Ms. Tatum—I can hardly believe it after testing so many candidates, all of whom failed miserably—but you have passed the first of the trials! I think you might actually be suited to be a test subject!”
“But…what are you testing?” Lexi asked uncertainly. The big Beast Kindred’s look of intensity was almost scary. Before, it was as though he was staring right through her, barely even seeing her—now he was focused on her with a laser-like interest that made her feel almost naked.
“Come in and I’ll explain everything. Come in!” He motioned for her to follow him through the back door to his office, so Lexi did, though she still felt uncertain about the whole thing.