Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides Box Set Collection 1 by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

“A…vampire?” Delaney bit her lip hard.

Ivan suspected she was holding back a scream. He wondered if he should have withheld the truth from her or chosen another word. Revenant, perhaps. When his universal translator had first suggested vampire, he’d accessed a more in-depth reference through the IDA’s local database and been rather appalled himself.

Vlad the Impaler. Dracula. Twilight? Not to mention…imaginary.

But the translation was functionally accurate, if not for the imaginary part, and as he’d told Delaney, his kind did not lie.

And he would not lie to her.

“A vampire,” he said softly.

Her blood-flushed lip quivered, and he tensed, thinking he’d have to stop her before she ran off into the woods in a blind panic. He wouldn’t let her hurt herself, not even to get away from him. He would not—or so he assured himself—be chasing her just because of the sanguinated sensuality of that plumped, reddened flesh.

She squinted her wide-set blue-gray eyes a little, as if she could scarcely stand to look at him. “A…space vampire?”

When she made a small, choked noise, he narrowed his eyes back at her. That did not sound like a cry of alarm. It sounded like…a laugh.

“I am not currently in orbit,” he said stiffly.

“Oh, well then.” She shook her head with solemn exactness. “Wouldn’t want to confuse the matter.”

But she did. She confused him. From the instant she had tracked down the allegedly clandestine IDA-approved landing zone and burst onto the Sinner’s Prayer with the captain’s chosen mate in tow, he had been distracted. By her. Her hot, rushing blood. The energy in her lithe, strong body.

And the wildness he sensed seething behind the bronze serenity of her gaze.

He’d told her he didn’t imbibe disruptive substances. And she was very definitely disruptive.

But he had not fed in so long…

He jerked himself upright roughly when he realized he was looming over her.

She canted her head to one side to study him, although he knew the failing light was not in her favor. “A space vampire,” she mused again. “That explains…so much.”

“What?” Proximity to her life force prickled along his astral matrix, although in the low light, he doubted she could see the changes. Just as well. If she understood the hunting marks of an interstellar apex predator, she would no longer be laughing.

She took another step up the stairs, then another, not so much retreating as putting herself as his eye level, peering at him as if he was one of the odd little insectoid replicas she tied to the end of her string and tossed in the water. “That’s why you’re so…” She waved her hand vaguely. “Black and white. And moody. And sort of undead.”

“I am not moody,” he corrected, although the itch of his astral matrix added an edge to his voice. “Vrykoly are not weakened by the subjective psychological fluctuations and compulsive physiological arousal of ‘moods’.”

“Emotions aren’t weak,” she said. Then she curled those lips inward, her gaze troubled. “Better if they were. Maybe it’s easier to be undead.”

“Vrykoly are not undead either.

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