Alien Hope: A SciFi Alien Romance by Ursa Dax

Author:Ursa Dax [Dax, Ursa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peace Weaver Press Inc.
Published: 2023-05-01T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Kohka

After ensuring that Abby and her child were alright for the moment, I slipped out of the cave with the ruined hides. I thought about trying to wash them, then decided against it. The hides were well and truly soiled, and I didn’t think I could get them clean enough to be worthy of touching the two in the cave.

I’ll bury them.

I didn’t go too far, heartsick at the idea of something happening while I was gone. The stench of Abby’s blood was thick in the air, and it could draw a predator. I will have to be on guard at all times. Especially now that I’ve moved that boulder away from where it was blocking the mouth of the cave...

I would become the boulder that blocked the cave. When I needed to sleep, I’d sleep there. Making my body a barrier between Abby, her baby, and the outside world.

The child is so, so small, I thought, worrying endlessly about the two of them as I found a spot just outside the small clearing to bury the hides. I completed my task quickly, not wanting to be away from them for even a moment longer.

Them.

I did not want to get back only to check on Abby, but on her baby, too.

When she’d told me what was happening in the cave, I’d been in shock. And, I couldn’t deny the vicious cracking of my heart when I’d realized she already had a mate. A mate who wasn’t me. Even if she said that was not the case.

I did not know how I’d react once the child emerged. I’d barely had time to process any of it, I’d been so focused on getting Abby through the pain. I knew that I’d protect the baby with my life, of course, simply because he was hers. Outside of that, though, I had no idea how I’d feel about the child himself, as an entity separate from the mother I had grown to cherish above all else.

But the moment I caught him in my hand; the moment I felt his warm, tiny body against my scales; heard his cry of life; something changed irrevocably inside me. I wasn’t sure if something broke or something mended.

Maybe both.

Whatever it was, it hastened my movements. I did take a moment to clean the dirt off my hands in a small pool of water outside the main clearing, but after that, I returned to the cave.

I stopped short in the mouth of the cave, staring at the vision before me.

Abby looked lovelier than I’d ever seen her. Her smile was like sun in the cave as she looked down at her tiny, sleeping child.

Now that her pain had passed and she no longer seemed to be in any sort of danger, the fact that she was basically nude slammed into me. I hadn’t had the presence of mind to think too much about that fact before. I’d been too worried for her. While I’d been gone, she’d put on a small, loincloth-like garment, but from hips to head she was mostly bare.

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