Chapter 21

For a day she had despaired, a despair so engulfing that she had wanted to do nothing but slip into sleep and disappear into the darkness. But Amelia was a survivor, and she had been surviving for longer than the invasion. By the end of the second day, the echoing self-pitying grief that preoccupied her mind, had returned to puzzling out how best to survive in the situation that she found herself. During their time in the rooftop garden of her new prison, Arken Rikash had deigned to converse with her, and more than one or two sentences. Thanks to his verbosity, she understood more about the man who owned her, his role in the invasion, and the power structure of his people. Arken Rikash wasn t just important - he was the most important invader. He wasn t just in a position of power over this invasion force - he was in a position of unparalleled power. She also understood the reason for the invasion. Her womb was not just a weapon, it was also a source of hope to a