Caged by the Alien: A Scifi Alien Romance (Fated Mates of the Titan Empire Book 2) by Tammy Walsh

Author:Tammy Walsh [Walsh, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Save the few random sounds and images I recalled as I passed in and out of consciousness, I remembered nothing more about that night. But it instilled a desire in me. To find Chax and make sure he was okay.

Shink!

The door slid open, revealing a small figure. I caught the briefest glimpse of light behind her. Yayora welded a shuttlecraft in the middle distance. They shouted to one another as a worker dropped a metal tool.

The door slid shut, blocking them out. I was left with the female Yayora. She carried a tray laden with food.

“You’re awake,” she said.

Her smile was warm and genuine. She was the same Yayora I saw outside, the one who ran to my side to help me and Chax.

“You must be hungry,” she said, placing the tray beside me on the bed. “I didn’t know what you like to eat, so I brought a little of everything.”

None of it looked appetizing. They were lumps of jelly. It didn’t help they were brightly colored.

“Thanks,” I said.

An uneasy silence passed between us the way it always did between strangers.

“I’m Stari,” she said.

“Maddy,” I said.

The uneasiness returned with a vengeance.

“What happened out there?” I said. “I mean, I know what happened. Just… what happened?”

“You were waylaid by Iron Hoof,” Stari said. “He knew where you would be and at what time. After you injured him before, all he had to do was wait for you to turn up.”

“How could he know where we’d be? I mean, no one else knew where the shuttlecraft was.”

Stari’s eyes shifted to one side. It told me everything I needed to know and the blood drained from my face.

“He knew?” I said. “How?”

“The Changelings told him.”

“How is that supposed to be fair?”

“It’s not. None of this is meant to be fair. If it was, there’s a chance you might escape.”

“But when we reached the shuttlecraft, we were going to take off.”

“The shuttlecraft wasn’t real,” Stari said patiently.

“It was real,” I said. “I saw it.”

“You saw what they wanted you to see. It was a prop, an empty shell. It was no more capable of flying than I am. I’m sorry, but trying to reach the shuttlecraft was always doomed to fail.”

It took a while for me to process what she was saying. It was all fake? How could that be?

“We were in a reality TV show,” I said. “They gave us a mission. To reach the shuttlecraft before it exploded.”

Stari took a seat beside me.

“There have been other contestants,” she said. “Many others. Some were even more successful than you. They reached the shuttlecraft and flicked the switches to fly away, only it wouldn’t take off. It couldn’t take off. The Changelings in the control room blew it up anyway.”

It was a lot to take in.

“No,” I said. “The trackers had to do it.”

“The Changelings in the Control Room blew the ship up and then edited a tracker into the shot later to make it look like they were the ones who did it.

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