Auxem: The Complete Collection: A Science Fiction Alien Romance by Lisa Lace

Author:Lisa Lace [Lace, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2018-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

GWEN

We sat at a table on the side of the dance floor. The lights were dim, and the room had an ethereal quality to it. The dancers seemed to float across the floor as the candles on the tables flickered.

It felt like a dream, except Anders wasn’t talking to me.

As the evening passed, Anders ignored me in the politist way possible. He didn’t ask me to dance again and barely spoke. I had never seen him like this before. He chatted with Lyzette and Mikael until they left and then we sat quietly again. I felt irritated, but I didn’t know how to talk to him. Should I apologize again? What would fix things between us?

“Hey, Anders.” I was determined to start a conversation with him.

“Shh.” He didn’t stop staring at the door. I followed his gaze and couldn’t believe what I saw.

The pirates had tracked us down.

“Come with me.” Anders grabbed my hand and led me to the middle of the dance floor. Everyone was dancing with a partner now, so we could turn and conceal our faces.

Anders put his hand on my waist. Without asking if I knew the dance, he began to move perfectly in time with the music and carried me along. It was easy to follow him, and somehow I got lost in the melody and movement. For a second I forgot killers were looking for us. I only saw a prince who held me in his arms and glided me across the dance floor.

Why was I fighting him?

Soon we reached the other side of the room. Anders pulled me away from the crowd and out onto a terrace. After going down a few steps, we were on the palace grounds.

“I don’t know how anyone could live here. I’d get lost.” I muttered to myself. I was surprised to get an answer.

“They don’t anymore. Their family has a private house outside of town. They don’t like a lot of fanfare.”

That sounded like something I would do. We were more alike than I had realized. Maybe Anders was right when he said royals were just like other people. I felt like I was on the verge of a breakthrough. But I didn’t have the opportunity for self-reflection when pirates were knocking at the door.

Anders pulled me into the shadows of a tree with long drooping branches that almost reached the ground. He wrapped his arms around me, holding me close. I put my hands against his chest, feeling his heart pound.

“I’m sorry.” I looked up into his handsome face. “It’s just that, if I let myself remember that you’re really a prince, I’d know that you couldn’t possibly care about a commoner like me.”

His eyes had been tracking the movements of the pirates. They were a man and a woman dressed in formal wear like everyone else, but they were recognizable to me. It was Dorron and Oona, the two invaders from the docking bay. Anders turned his attention to me. He looked startled.

“Do you really think that about yourself?” He looked frustrated.

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