Claimed by the Prince: A SciFi Alien Romance by Elena Starr

Author:Elena Starr [Starr, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jameth

I should have checked its body. Should have made sure my tail penetrated the crel layer of its skin; the part that, when struck, sends its own venom to its heart that stops it beating. It seems all I managed to do was get through to the melioa instead, knocking it out temporarily until its venom was processed by its system. How could I be such a fool? Especially since this isn’t my first time dealing with a parohl.

Strangely, it dodges me, lunging instead for Wren. It’s uncharacteristic. I swing out with my tail, wincing. I’m sensitive from having it inside my mate.

My tail usually feels almost nothing when tensed. But it feels more than it would if I hadn’t just had it inside someone.

This parohl seems to have tougher skin than average, and a stupid thought comes to me that it could be a peparohl, a long-extinct gentically modified mutation that can be trained, is tougher than average, and is harder to kill.

But that’s impossible.

“Jameth!” Wren chokes out while cowering behind a tree that the parohl is so desperately trying to get around. “Watch out for its tail!”

I/at the skin of the body, but it’s wriggling so much I can’t get in deep. I call, “Try to get back to the vehicle we were traveling on! I’ll try to take it deeper into the woods—try to kill it—”

I don’t know why I think she’ll listen to me. She didn’t run last time, and I don’t hear her footsteps now.

I don’t hear much of anything but the blood rushing in my ears with every slash of my tail through the parohl’s hard flesh. I wish it wasn’t so large and dark so I could see where my tail penetrated each time, getting through to the same place again and again.

With a groan, I blast it with my watch, but that does nothing but bounce off. As the parohl opens its jaws, I send a blast directly into the soft flesh inside its mouth. The parohl emits a scream and falls backwards, writhing in agony.

While it’s down, I blast it again every time it’s mouth opens while I hack away with my tail at the closest part of it.

Layer by layer, I get through its skin until I get to the crel. Blood pumps from it, and its venom is sent straight to its heart.

With a deep breath, I turn to the tree Wren is hiding behind and say, “Okay. Now it’s actually dead.”

She runs into my open arms.

I’ve encountered a lot of sticky situations in my life, and I’ve never been this afraid. I’ve never had something I want to protect more than myself, and having it now is petrifying.

I swallow. It seems I’ve lost my ability to speak.

“Come on,” she says. “Let’s find our clothes and get out of here. I’m sure the people in the second capital are expecting you.”

I nod, some of the fog in my mind clearing.

I’m not sure I’m in the right state of mind to speak once I’m dressed and back on the airrider.

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