Chapter Two – The Master
Hux is so childish sometimes Viera thought to herself.
"Because he is one," said a voice, dark and heavy as it was being filtered through the ominous mask.
It was Kylo Ren.
"You know I don't like it when you read my thoughts," she said plainly, continuing to walk down the corridor. He followed.
"Well how else can I get anything out of you?" he mused.
Viera's relationship with Kylo Ren was in a word … complicated. He knew who she was, and she him. He was the son of a smuggler and the Resistance general; and that general's brother had killed her Grandfather as well as so many others. In a way they shared similar hatred for the Resistance and Luke Skywalker. The rest … well, even she couldn't explain.
"Getting jealous again, is he?" Ren chuckled, his long strides shortening so that he could match in step with her.
"Of course he is. He wants to be on Snoke's good side," Viera said defensively as the doors opened into her quarters.
"And yours," he added.
"This has nothing to do with me," she said as they reached her private observation deck.
Ren chuckled again as he took off his mask, the faint hissing from around the apparatus could be heard as he revealed his true face. His face was kind, nothing like the mask that hid his face to everyone else.
"It has everything to do with you," he said, irritated, as he set the mask down on the side table.
Viera did not say another word before she felt his lips on hers, rough and passionate. She returned the kiss as she rested her arms on his broad shoulders, feeling the course fabric of his hood under her fingers
It did not take long before the two were naked and entwined in one another's embrace on her bed, their clothing creating a trail from the observation deck where they began.
"Why do you continue this charade wit Hux?" Ren asked simply, his fingers tracing down her slender figure.
She didn't exactly know herself. She had known the General for far longer than Kylo, and her attraction to him was not the same was what she felt for the Knight of Ren.
"I suppose; it was that high school sweethearts' kind of thing. It was a secret affair, and it still is. We didn't want to compromise our stations," she explained.
"Do you love him?"
"…Why are we talking about this right now?"
"Because I want that piece of mind. To know that you are all mine. That this … this passion is real,"
Clarification. Viera wasn't sure how to answer. Being between these two men kept her in a conflicted state. Couldn't she just have them both?
Before she could even answer, her comlink gave a chirp, "Admiral, General Hux wishes an audience with you," stated the officer on the other end.
Ren groaned under his breath, quickly getting up to gather his clothing and dress.
"Uh, yes. Thank you. Let him know I will meet him at conference room 247 in ten minutes," the officer than responded back and disconnected the call.
"You're going to have to make a choice, Viera. And be sure that it is the right one," Kylo said before he put on his mask and departed from her chambers.
She let out a sigh. Why did this have to happen to her?
