Alien Heart: A SciFi Alien Romance (Fated Mates of the Sea Sand Warlords Book 11) by Ursa Dax

Author:Ursa Dax [Dax, Ursa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ursa Dax
Published: 2022-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Varrow

I was in a foul mood for two reasons as dawn drifted over our camp. One, because I’d barely slept, too aroused and on edge with Cam-Eel breathing softly at my side.

And two?

Because I’d learned more about Cam-Eel and her thoughts about getting a mate. Now I knew that I was competing with the faceless fantasy of an unknown man from the sixth tribe.

I felt all the better about not telling her I was her mate. She was dreaming of a man made perfect by her own mind. Which made the reality of me as her mate all the more broken and harsh in comparison.

She deserves every fantasy made reality.

Cam-Eel, too, seemed out of sorts when she awoke, though I was not sure why. All I was sure of was that she kept a greater distance between us now. She was still polite, friendly, even. But she had reined in some of her exuberant warmth.

It... hurt.

But it also proved me right.

See? All the better to know now that she does not and cannot love you.

The words rang hollow. But I kept saying them anyway.

There was little conversation beyond the most basic of practicalities as we rode. For this, I was grateful. I only had her beauty and her scent to distract me from keeping my eyes poised for predators. And I did not allow myself to become distracted. The further into the stone we went, the greater the danger from the ablokoi became.

But we did not encounter one, nor any zeelk. We only encountered leaning fangs of white stone, punching up out of the landscape, lining the valleys we wound through. Gahn Razek and I knew our way through the seemingly endless labyrinth of mountains and valleys, and we led the way with our mates, Kohka and Priya behind us, the other warriors drawing up the rear. At times, we had to stop and wait for the others – in places that became too steep and rocky for the desert irkdu to easily traverse. But otherwise, we encountered few hindrances, and we made good time. By the time we stopped to make camp for the night, we were well past the halfway point. We would have one more day of travelling through the stone, and one night of camping at the edge.

I would be glad to be free of these mountains. The Death Plains had their own dangers – like the pockets of quicksand eager to swallow up unwary warriors. But generally, the plains were safer. It was why our people had made our tents there for so long.

We had a quick meal of gorka and two mountain rakdo that Oxriel caught.

I forced myself to eat, knowing I needed to keep up my strength so that I could protect Cam-Eel. But it was difficult. My guts were hardening into a boulder of anxiety that seemed to grow larger and heavier every moment. Every moment Cam-Eel sat beside me and did not speak to me or smile at me.

When I

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