Aliens' Sacrifice: A Reverse Harem Sci-Fi Romance by Cady Austin

Author:Cady Austin [Austin, Cady]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

7

We walked. All day.

They weren’t kidding about us needing to break at the hottest point of the day. We left the forest by midday, stepping into a vast plain with tall grasses and the occasional massive tree spreading its shade over the land. There were wind-worn rock formations, the haze of a mountain in the distance. We walked toward the mountain and stopped in the shade under one of these giant trees. The heat made us uncomfortable and we kept our conversation short and to the point as we rested or otherwise tried to escape the heat.

Terono spread himself out at the base of the tree in the grass, throwing his arm over his face. I stretched out a short distance away from Arctok and Kron, debating if it would be bad manners to strip down to my underwear. It was worse than any LA heatwave.

“Do we have to have a fire?” Terono groaned an hour later as the first licks of flame in our shady area turned the barely bearable heat on its head. I turned toward them, wrinkling my nose at the extra heat as it reached me.

“Only if you can eat raw meat,” Kron snapped back. He wiped the sweat off his brow and leaned back from the orange flames reaching for the sky. “Since you have the energy to complain, you can go catch dinner.”

“In this heat?” Terono huffed and stretched his legs out, a no way in Hell if I ever saw one.

Tired of even watching the two, I looked back to the great canopy overhead. Crumpled grass underneath my back poked at me. Light danced through the holes between the leaves and somewhere nearby, an insect buzzed. My eyelashes grew heavy with more sleep.

A cold nose touched my arm.

I jerked and the little creature startled, jumping back a couple paces. But it didn’t go far, its pointed nose twitching at me and beady eyes assessing me warily. For a critter that was a mix of an arctic fox and a mole, it was surprisingly expressive.

“Oh!” I exclaimed and offered my hand out to it. It cautiously sniffed my palm to decide if I was trustworthy. Finally, it did, and it leaned its long face into my hand. My heart instantly melted. “You’re a cute thing, aren’t you?”

“What’s that, princess?”

Female. Princess. I rolled my eyes. When would Terono learn how to say my name?

“This little thing just came up to me and wanted to be petted. Just like a puppy!” I crooned with delight as the creature purred and wiggled onto my chest. So soft! It had fur like a long-haired kitten.

“It’s a hawni.”

Kron’s tone made me stop scratching behind the creature’s ears. I glanced over at them and my mouth went dry. “Oh god. Uh oh. It’s dangerous. It’s venomous, right? It’s going to burrow into my chest and kill me, isn’t it?”

Kron shared a look with Arctok who was staring with his lips parted. “Where do you get these things?”

“Uh, every space movie ever,” I said.

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