ZER

NINETEEN

I wake up thirsty. My Goodness! Who knows having sex with an alien will be this exhausting? I open my eyes to see a bright light, and I look around me, I notice I'm not at home.

Where am I?

I'm lying down on a glass table, with metals and mirrors on top of me. I'm no longer naked but wearing a simple white dress that reaches my knees. I feel uncomfortable between my legs, but other than that I'm good.

"Hello?" I try to call.

The door opens and in come three Tzarian males. One I remember was the old male who installed the identity chip on my first day in Tzar. Two males beside him are strangers to me. The left one is only slightly taller than the hunching doctor and the other one is definitely a warrior.

"Hello, Katherine from Earth, I suppose you still remember me?" The doctor approaches me slowly, or maybe he cants move that fast any more, the two other males are standing close to the door. "Do you know why are you here?" He asks me again.

"No, where is my husband?" I ask him instead.

The three of them are throwing glances. "I'm sorry, what did you say?" the doctor asks again. Why don't they let the poor man stay at home instead of employing him? He looks like he's way past his retirement date.

"I ask you, where is my husband? Where is Zer? The High General. Does he know I'm here?" And I gasp, "Did you kidnap me?" I jump out of bed and walk away from them.

"No, no, we didn't kidnap you, you're brought here after... the incident." He says again.

"What incident?"

"Katherine from Earth—"

"Kate," in cut the shorter Tzarian male.

"Kate, my name is Pir, I'm here to investigate your incident, and we have proofs that you've been sexually assaulted by the High General."

"WHAT?!" I shout at them.

"We ran some test and find his sperm in you, we are well aware that the Pairing Councils has no data of both of you registering for a pairing event." He says again.

"Are you out of your mind?!" Now I'm angry. How dare them to take me from the arms of my husband just for some stupid nonsense? "I demand you to take me back to my husband immediately."

"Has he threatened you? Did he force the pairing event?" The 'detective' keeps asking me.

"First of all," I say in with my fists clenches, "It's called sex. Zer and I had sex just like any other normal coup—pair would do. Second of all, how could you in your right mind think that he force me?! If any I was the one who forces him!"

"This conversation is off the record, Kate, feel free to speak the truth." He keeps denying my words.

"The truth is you are a bunch of stupid males who thinks a female cannot stand up and demand her husband to fulfill her needs!" I shouted at them. "Now I swear to God if in the next hour I don't see my husband I will sue all of your asses for taking me away from the man I chose."

They are reluctant to let me go, Pir touched his wrist on mine and tell me he transferred his contact to my list, should I feel like talking to him about the incident.

Unbelievable.

***

I come out of the hospital only with the white dress as apparently, I brought here only wrapped in a blanket.

Sigh...

The 'detective' takes me in his car to a facility that looks awfully similar to a prison. We walk inside and he fills his data and mine to the guest's log and the door opens for us.