Alien Mask: A SciFi Alien Romance by Ursa Dax

Author:Ursa Dax [Dax, Ursa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ursa Dax
Published: 2022-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Priya

My head snapped to the side, my eyes scanning the darkness madly.

“Priya!”

There it was again! I hadn’t imagined it.

That sounds like...

“Oxriel!?” I cried.

“Stay there! We are coming!”

He said, “we.” Not, “I.”

They’re alive.... They’re alive!

I was so overwhelmed by grateful relief that I almost missed Lerokan’s mad dash out of the water. In an instant, he’d swept up his bow and knocked and arrow, aiming it down into the darkness of the valley.

I ran over to him, getting in front of him, between him and the edge of the cliff. The point of his arrow, for the tiniest second, was a hair’s breadth away from my forehead.

His sight stars exploded.

“Have you lost your wits?” he exclaimed, dropping his bow and arrow to grasp my shoulders. He spun me around until I was behind him, closer to the pool and far from the edge. “Never get in front of an arrow! Or that close to the edge!” He turned, bent, and retrieved his bow and arrow, getting ready to fire once more.

“Have I lost my wits? What about you? You are acting insane! Those are my friends! The ones I’ve been wanting to get back to this entire time!”

Lerokan let out a tight breath but did not lower his bow and arrow.

“I swear, Lerokan, if you hurt one of them...” I said.

They’d been through so much. The journey here. Winning the battle. Surviving the storm while potentially injured. And they’d still kept pushing, kept searching, for me.

I wrapped my arms around Lerokan’s extended arm, the one holding the bow straight out ahead of him. I lifted my feet right off the ground, grunting and hanging off of his arm, hoping that my weight would be enough to make his elbow buckle.

Spoiler alert. It wasn’t.

“Would you stop distracting me,” Lerokan hissed, jiggling his arm to try to dislodge me. “I will not shoot first.”

First...

Shit.

What if one of the other guys thought Lerokan was a bad guy? If they thought he was one of Gahn Thaleo’s men who’d attacked them on the plains, they’d probably try to kill him on sight.

The sound of scraping claws and skittering pebbles told me the other men were scaling the side of the cliff to get to us. And fast.

“Guys! Oxriel, Dalk! Vaxilkai, Bariok!” I screamed. I couldn’t see them, but I imagined they probably all had blades between their fangs, ready to hurl them right at Lerokan’s head the moment they leaped up onto this stone platform. “Don’t fight! Don’t hurt him! He has a bow and arrow, don’t draw your blades!”

"Is giving away a tactical advantage common among your kind?” Lerokan said flatly, giving his arm another good shake. This time, I was forced to put my feet down on the ground.

“We don’t need a tactical advantage! They’re not going to hurt either one of us!”

Lerokan’s grip on his bow never wavered.

“I trust you, loud little Priya,” he said quietly. “But I do not yet trust these men.”

I guess it’s up to me to play diplomat here.

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