Ajos: The Restitution - A Sci-fi Alien Romance, Book 1 by A.G. Wilde

Author:A.G. Wilde [Wilde, A.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

14

They’d been walking for at least two hours or more. Still, they found no evidence of the source of the signal.

It was like air.

They knew it was there; it interacted with their instruments; but they couldn’t see it.

Ajos touched the last vial of metcer cells in his pocket.

Only one left to last him through the night.

It was getting dark now, and he had no idea how far away from the ship they were.

“V’Alen, do you read?” He activated his communicator, his eyes on Keh-reh-nah.

She hadn’t complained, but it was obvious she was tired.

She’d used the branch she’d picked up as a sort of walking aid, and she hadn’t been afraid to get her hands dirty as she climbed over huge roots and boulders within the terrain.

But even he was feeling the strain in his back.

It was time to rest.

“I am here, Commander.”

“Status?”

“I will be working on the hyperdrive all night. I have many repairs left. Any word on the source of the signal?”

Ajos let out a breath. “None.”

“We could keep going…” Kerena said. Her breaths were coming faster now, as she turned to look back at him.

She was tired, but probably ignoring it because she didn’t want to seem like a burden. She came off like the type of person to do that.

“No, we will have to take a break,” he replied to her. “V’Alen, we have stopped for a rest. If I do not contact you before the middle of the dark cycle…”

“I understand,” V’Alen said, and the comms clicked off.

Keh-reh-nah’s eyes were slightly wide. “You think we’re in danger?”

She glanced around. “Do you think those bad guys survived the crash?”

“No,” he said, “it is just a precaution. We scanned the surroundings before we landed. We picked up no lifeforms.”

Her shoulders sank a little. “Good.”

“We should rest,” he repeated.

She looked around before pointing behind him.

There was a section where the vines that crawled over the ground created a sort of flat surface that would do well for that purpose.

Ajos jerked his head in confirmation.

As he took a seat, Keh-reh-nah sat beside him and her skin brushed against his—pale softness that he wasn’t supposed to rub himself against.

His throat moved as he clenched his teeth at the thought.

“Do you think we’ll find it before it gets dark?” Her voice was soft and in the stillness of the forest around them, it sounded almost intimate, even though her words weren’t.

“I do not. We will have to head back and try again in tomorrow’s light.”

She turned to him then. “But what if we come out again only to make it back to this spot? It would be better if we spent the night out here and continued as soon as the sun rose.”

Ajos studied her.

She wasn’t afraid of doing such a thing?

She was alone in the middle of an unknown world with an unknown male by her side.

He frowned a little as he studied her.

Maybe he’d been right about her being too trusting.

Memory of how she’d almost stayed with Iceon returned and he had to stifle the urge to growl.

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