The Space Empress He Craved

Chapter 96

POV: Lyra

Sasha's doubtful voice rang through Livia's communication device, "You sure she didn't know who you were? You were interfacing with her ex-match for cosmos' sake!"

Like Livia needed reminding. And for the third time Sasha was asking, Livia was running low on patience as she said, "It didn't look like she knew. She looked lost but she was also trying to figure it out."

Livia sighed before checking through her viewing portal to see if anyone was outside her dwelling. She then uttered in a worried tone, "Nothing would happen to me, right? I mean, Greg only said he'll come for me if I tried to hurt her. I didn't do anything. It was a coincidence! An unfortunate coincidence!"

Sasha scoffed, "Darling, are you processing yourself right now? You're saying you're afraid of the Kaelari?"

Livia sighed. It was as if her closest associate wasn't listening to a word she'd been saying, "Sasha, I'm more afraid of the Duke. You know he has those underground connections! I don't! I'm practically defenseless against him! And I can't tell my progenitors. They don't know about my… experience with him so they'd ask how I came about knowing that he had such connections."

"Hmph. Useless void-spawn [offspring] of a Duke. A disappointment. A traitor." Sasha then got to the part which she really wanted to discuss, "Is the Emperor disgusted by the Kaelari yet? Did his optical sensors wander somewhere else because he was bored of her?"

Livia snapped, "Sasha! We haven't solved my problem yet! Focus!"

Sasha was taken aback but said, "Liv, you said it yourself. He won't come for you as long as you leave the Kaelari alone. Since that was what you did, he won't act on his threat. The only reason he'll come to see you would probably be for… something else."

Livia knew she meant physical interfacing, and she got excited as she exclaimed, "You think he'll come back?"

"Don't get too excited, darling. Until the Kaelari is out of the picture, our males can't see us yet. They're still blinded by that irksome thing. Now," Sasha slumped into her expensive rest furniture in her chamber as she asked, "If we're done with your problem, let's get to mine. Did the Emperor seem bored with the Kaelari?"

Livia hesitated before saying, "I don't think you want to know, Sash."

Sasha stubbornly insisted, "If I didn't, I wouldn't have asked, Liv."

Livia sighed. She already knew how this was going to go but she didn't want to lose a being whom she could communicate about these things so she said, "The Emperor is still looking at her like she's beautiful or something. And his sensors only wandered to me for a few seconds when he noticed the Kaelari was looking right at me."

Sasha pressed, "That's impossible. He must have looked somewhere else."

"If he did, I didn't see it."

There was a moment of silence as Sasha breathed heavily in jealousy as she hissed, "The Lyrokans will never accept her as Empress. Sooner or later, she'd have to go. Our species is superior to theirs. There's no way in the void we'll accept a Kaelari."

Livia remained silent until Sasha prompted her to respond. Livia tried to be as delicate as possible when she said, "I don't know about that, Sash. The murmurs and chatters about her in the facility were…kinda good. There was even a youngling who liked her so much that she gave her a creation. I couldn't see it though so I can't tell if it was any good but the Kaelari seemed happy with it."

"NO! THEY CAN'T LOVE HER LIKE THAT! SHE'S NOT THE EMPRESS!"

"She mentioned that when the small youngling asked."

"She did?" Sasha wondered if the filthy Kaelari finally came to her senses and would leave the Emperor, making her job of breaking them up so much easier.

"Yeah. I mean, everyone knows there's technically no Empress yet."

Sasha smirked and concluded, "And a Kaelari like that will never be one."

"Uh, no. You're misunderstanding, Sash. The beings around me were saying that the Kaelari was just being humble when she said she wasn't our Empress. It looked more like she denied the title because she's not officially crowned yet."

"YET?! THE AUDACITY OF THAT THING! HOW DARE SHE DEMAND TO BE CR—"

"Sash, calm down. She didn't demand it. She just said she wasn't the Empress."

"Oh, so you're defending her now, too?"

"Female, you asked me the story. Do you want me to lie about what I saw or tell you the truth?"

Sasha took a breath to calm herself before speaking in a voice still laced with jealousy and anger, "So, after she said she isn't the Empress, then what? Did everyone agree?"

"Most of them didn't believe her. Some of the others looked disappointed for a little while…"

"What do you mean 'for a little while'?"

"Well… after the Kaelari told the youngling that she wasn't the Empress, the Emperor immediately assured the youngling that… she will be one. The Kaelari will be made Empress one day. And the small youngling seemed happy about it."

"WHAT?! HE CAN'T DO THAT!!"

Livia rolled her optical sensors at her associate's reaction, "He's the Emperor, Sasha. Whoever he matches gets the crown. Everyone knows that." Livia really couldn't see what Sasha and her Kylton genetic relative, Kelissa, saw in that male.

"NO!" Sasha shouted at maximum volume and there was an annoyed knock on her chamber portal before her sibling's irritated voice rang through it, "Sasha, keep it down! The whole sector can hear you screaming!"

She rolled her orbs at the closed portal and continued speaking to Livia, "We need a plan, and we need it fast!"

"Whatever it is, keep me as anonymous as possible. I want the Duke to hurt me but not in the way he meant when he broke into my dwelling." Livia's device vibrated, and she pulled it away from her auditory sensor to see that she had another incoming communication so she took the opportunity to end her conversation with Sasha, "Hey, Sash. I got to take this other transmission. Talk to you next cycle, okay?" She disconnected even before Sasha could respond.

After activating the answer function, Livia addressed the caller, "Hey, heiress, what's up?"