Cat Eyes: Acrux [Book 2]

Cat Eyes Ursa

Flirting goes wrong...

Max's POV

"I'll put it out soon," I warned, referring to the bonfire.

...And then I looked at her again.

Big, light blue eyes, huge pupils like a cat's, blonde hair. Such a beauty... But I didn't consider myself a furry.

I couldn't stop looking at her, even though she was staring at me too, but angrily, like a very upset kitty. Her attitude made me want to know how far I could go.

I grew up hearing about them, having a class on her species at school to study their characteristics, the year of first contact, and so on. However, there was much we didn't know.

We were in the woods, almost in the middle of nowhere. My human friend Marien went to lie down.

I was left alone. The evolved girl inspected my truck. She had a glimmer of curiosity, and I was sure she had never seen anything like it in her entire life.

I left the small bonfire to go towards her, who immediately turned to look at me when she heard me and gave me that angry cat look again.

"So, your name is Ursa. Such a strange name," I said. She just raised an eyebrow. I put one hand on the truck to be closer to her, thinking about the constellation she was named after. The big polar bear. "You're not a bear; you're a kitten."

She frowned.

"And what about you? Max. Don't humans call their dogs that?"

"Baby, I'd bark for you," I purred. She blinked, still with anger, and I pressed my lips together, reacting. What the hell did I just say? She took a step to the side. "I have better pickup lines, I swear!" I excused myself hurriedly as she walked away.

I snorted and wanted to hit my head against my truck. I looked at her again.

"Okay," I approached again since she was not far away. "I'm sorry. Were you curious about my truck? It's a phenomenal machine, huh?" I shrugged a shoulder briefly, smiling sideways. "I can give you a ride any day you like and show you its functions."

Although I had used a tempting tone of voice and looked straight into her eyes, her expression did not change.

Oh. That didn't used to be like that. This was getting interesting.

The evolved people were no longer a mystery to us, but she was to me. I wanted to know why she was sad when I first saw her a few months ago. On the other hand, I just wanted to tease her and see how much she understood about us.

"It's not a big deal. If we dedicated the time, we could build similar things. You boast a lot, but now your species is in decline."

I gave a very short, silent laugh. It was known those pussycats had very great pride as a species.

"Right, but who has created all the technology? We, the humans."

"And who can survive without it? We are inheriting the planet, little human. And stop thinking that only because you accompany your human friend do you have the right to talk to me. I just want to find Sirius."

That bothered me somehow.

"Yeah, whatever. Look, let's do something." I approached her, leaning slightly. She did not retreat a step, and of course, she did not stop looking at me with disdain. "After finishing this, we can see which species is better, baby."

"Why do you call her baby?" asked one of the two evolved boys accompanying her, interrupting us.

They were twins with different-colored eyes—one green and one light blue. I snorted as he began to give his brother theories about the word.

"Babies are the small children."

"Those annoying, whiny, and smelly things?"

"Ursa, Max called you smelly and whiny."

I got worried.

"Wait...!"

"Is that so," she grunted, crossing her arms.

"Let's show him no one sucks more than human children."

"We accept the challenge," the other said, looking at me.

"What? Not you, it was just her and me!" but they weren't paying attention to me.

They continued talking, and Ursa looked at me from behind them, even more upset.

She grimaced, twisting those red lips, and haughtily looked away. The brothers turned to look at me, asking when they could prove their superiority.

I rolled my eyes. I used to do it when I dealt with the evolved men I worked with. Sometimes, I did it so much that I thought my eyes would stay like that.

"Ugh. I won't take you guys out for a ride in my truck!" I threatened.

Maybe Ursa could smell my disdain for her species despite everything. Why I didn't like them? Well...

Evolved humans, also known as EH, were still despicable beings in the eyes of many. They were humans like us but dangerous, living in towns tucked between mountains and trees.

We tried to be nice to them for a while, but they refused all help. They were like environmentalist hippies.

They were also supposed to be civilized, and I even worked with some of them despite little to no contact between our societies. I had also gotten used to their presence and strange habits, but resentment was not easy to eliminate.

With canine teeth a little longer than ours, a better sense of smell and hearing, speed, and even better immunity, they surpassed us in many ways. Except in number, happily.

The worst thing was that the protective societies, no longer having so many animals to 'protect', had turned to look at them and wanted to prevent them from being killed.

It didn't take long to issue a law preventing them from being hurt. Of course, being human, they were not exempt from going to war, and there, we were going to be able to get rid of them with all our arsenals, which we were good at.

At first, I didn't care much what the government wanted to do with them; I just wanted revenge. However, I didn't count on finding my counterpart between chaos and those creatures—a beautiful coincidence I didn't deserve.

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