Chapter Seven
THE YOUNGER ONE, RESA, was sitting on Penny’s bed when Krayter opened the bathroom door. He was glad he’d put his clothes back on, given the way she stared at him.
She looked at him like he was a strange specimen in a museum. Or a zoo. Krayter fought the urge to flash his claws at her. She was only a child. No matter the species, kids lacked discipline. He should know—his parents had taken it upon themselves to repopulate the Detyen race and he had a dozen siblings spread out over several star systems.
No, not a dozen anymore. Eleven. The wound was too fresh. And each time he remembered it, it burned raw again. His sister, Karwan, was gone forever.
“Are you going to hurt us?” Resa asked baldly, with no sense of the pain roiling inside him. She sat cross-legged on her sist
