Page 19 of Her Alien Hero
“Are you sure?” My voice came out huskier than usual. My attention riveted to his mouth and teeth on the skin right above my pulsing need.
“Yes. Do you not feel it, too, every time our eyes meet, our skin touches?”
“I do, all the way to my bones.” A fleeting thought of Jeremy rushed through my mind. Would he be happy for me, or disappointed?
It doesn’t matter. I’m alive and he’s not. If I don’t live my life, then I might as well be dead, too.
And that was just it. Ihadbecome lifeless these past two years. Going through the motions, reliving the past, barely leaving the cabin. Years of life loomed ahead of me, and I wasn’t so old I couldn’t fall in love again and start a family.
Voren slid his tongue over that most sensitive spot on my flesh and my brain exploded.
I grabbed his horns and urged him closer, losing myself in the present and in his attention.
This is living.I arched my back and rode the cresting wave into sheer joy.
Chapter 5
Acouple of days later, Voren and I emerged from his bedroom and walked the short distance to the ship’s bridge.
I couldn’t wipe the smile from my face. His dedication and lovemaking had been out of this world. Though gruff on the outside, his fierce heart enveloped me in a love unlike anything I’d ever experienced before.
“There you are,” said Brax, giving his brother a secret grin, then he looked at me. “You are looking exceptionally well compared to a couple of days ago.”
“Yeah.” I cleared my throat, glancing at Larralian, who sat at a control station tapping on the screen.
She arched an eyebrow and stared pointedly at my stomach. “I see you don’t waste any time, Voren.”
Wait. Is she saying I’m pregnant?No way. How would she be able to tell?
“It’s in the glow of your skin, Lilly. An in-utero Volderen gives the mother special…” Brax rubbed his jaw as if thinking. “Special abilities.”
Vor released my hand and stepped toward his Brax. “You are sure the DNA harvest did not harm Lilly or the baby?”
The DNA extraction had been a relatively simple process. Larralian had taken hair, saliva, blood, and dead skin samples from me. She’d then made me lie on an empty medical table in the med bay with the sleeping patients, hooking us up with tethers similar to electrodes. After a few minutes, she’d nodded and said I was a perfect match for the splice.
“I am sure, brother. The repair serum has been administered. They will be reintegrated by our people on theAtlantis, their identities secret, their future rewritten.” Baraxen tapped a tiny disc on his temple. The blank wall in front of us faded away, and Earth loomed in its place.
So many questions popped into my brain aboutAtlantisand more Volderens on earth, but they flew out as I stared at the viewscreen. “Wow,” I breathed. My home. Or at least, it used to be my home. Would I miss my cabin, my things? It would be too risky to return, not after knowing what my government knew.
No. I may not have a physical home, but I have something better. I have a family and people who care about me. I have a future if I’m brave enough to take that step with my mate.
“Larralian, get ready to transport them on my mark.”
She responded to him in their native language.
Tearing my eyes from the viewscreen, I swiveled to see how the Volderen transporter worked.
May you all find a new purpose, a new passion, in your new lives. Hopefully you’ll adjust to all the changes between 1947 and now.
A silver light encased each body and then blinked out of existence, leaving only five empty beds.
I couldn’t even begin to imagine the shock they’d feel when they awoke in a new millennium, their loved ones dead and gone.It won’t be easy.
The Volderens had remained here all those decades, searching for a way to heal humans, even after being tortured and exploited by humanity. How could I not choose to stay, to love them like family?
Brax had called me a savior, but he had it wrong. They’d savedme.
“Time to fuel up. Everyone sit down strap in. Lilly will get her first up-close view of Mars.”
