Chapter 48: Worth Waiting For*

~ HARTH ~

Harth always wondered what it would be like to finally take her mate.

She kissed a male before, had felt desire clouded with uncertainty. She'd considered males when she was young, and as an adult faced the inevitability of a forced mating at the hands of the humans. But she'd been saved.

Never the female selected for the mating tests.

Yet, as the years had passed, her body abused by the humans for other experiments, she'd slowly begun to despair.

When Sasha had arrived in the human 'sanctuary' promising relief, promising freedom, she'd hardly dared hope.

And then that incredible day when the males had arrived to take them out, showed them to the Gateway and she'd arrived here.

And from the moment she'd stepped foot on Anima soil, her heart almost pulled from her chest, bearing her forward, driving her out, away.

To him, she now realized.