Bonded to the Alien Warrior: A SciFi Alien Romance (Fated Star Mates Book 1) by Kyla Quinn

Author:Kyla Quinn [Quinn, Kyla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emu House Publishing
Published: 2021-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

LAUREN

My eyes snap open and I stifle a scream at the blue, horned man leaning over me. Then my scrambled mind catches up to events in the last few days—abducted by aliens and sedated.

Apart from I'm not bound to a chair this time, but lying on my side, cheek pressed into ground that’s covered in sharp stone. I'm aching like somebody punched me, then tried to tear my limbs off, all accompanied by the worst headache I can remember.

But the atmosphere feels different too—not cool, crisp air-con like the facility, but warm air with movement that carries the scent of dry earth. There's another stronger smell that’s acrid, like something unnatural burning.

"Lauren?" The alien’s puckered brow smooths as he breaks into that frighteningly toothy smile.

"Jex," I croak out and attempt to sit. "What's happening?"

He gently pushes me back down. "Are you broken? Your bones are thin, and you are torn.”

I’ve grazes along my side where my shirt tore and I wince when Jex touches my sore cheek. I shake my head, which sends a screaming pain through, but I know I haven’t broken a bone. I broke my ankle in an ice-skating accident when I fell on the rink as a child, and I’ve no pain anywhere to match how excruciating that was.

Jabbing my elbows into the rough ground, I attempt to push myself upwards. Jex supports me, all but hauling me onto his knee. With one palm against the side of my head, I survey my surroundings.

I'm on the ground a hundred meters or so away from the ship.

Or what's left of it, because the metal is crumpled from the impact with the ground and large jagged white and silver parts are strewn around us. A hole in the ship shows the edge of the crushed cabin that’s half the size that it was, and when I turn my shocked head around, I see another section of the craft a few meters behind.

When we flew as a family, my dad always sat at the back of a plane, telling me if it crashed that the back would be thrown clear. I’d laugh at him, but now I’m unsure if he’s right or if Vraxen spaceships are constructed to do this.

Donna, Trinity, and Aimee huddle inside the small space with their clothes and faces covered by red dirt. The seats we were strapped in are at different locations around us.

"Omigod," I breathe out. "We crashed."

Jex's brow tugs down again. "That is obvious, is it not?"

"Yes. No. I know I'm just..." I tense in his arms. "The guard and doctors. Are they around?"

"Inside there." He points at the crumpled mess where dark smoke rises. "Or what's left of them. I haven’t looked. Kalec died before we crashed."

My chest constricts as I notice black splashes on Jex's arm. He catches my look. "I didn’t kill him, although I planned to."

"Who did?"

He shakes his head. "The other med. The reason is complicated, and I have a bigger problem now." Releasing me, he stands, and I'm mesmerized as his thick tail swishes from side to side as he scans our environment.

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