Karak Contact_An Alien Shifter Sci-Fi Romance by Ruby Ryan

Author:Ruby Ryan [Ryan, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

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I made my own stop by the General Store for liquid courage, drove two miles out of town, and then pulled over to the shoulder. I unscrewed the bottle and drank half the wine before coming up for air, considered how I felt for a few more seconds, and then finished the rest. I burped up the smell of red wine the rest of the way home, but felt marginally more brave.

The trees were dark and ominous behind my headlights as I turned left onto my property. I drove slowly, trying to drag out what would come next, wondering if Eric--Arix, damnit--would even be there.

Not only was he still there, but he was waiting on the porch, shivering in his coat in a rocking chair. I turned off the truck and stared at his shape without moving.

He doesn't look so scary. He looked handsome, the same way he'd looked earlier with his face between my legs.

Yeah, the wine was definitely helping.

I made myself hop out of the truck and stride up to him like I wasn't afraid at all. "What the hell are you doing outside?"

"Waiting for you," he said. Out loud, as opposed to inside my head. Which was a distinction that felt strange to acknowledge.

"You've got idiot rednecks looking for you and you think the best course of action is to prop yourself up where they can spot you? Intelligent life my ass."

I walked past him inside, and felt him follow.

"That sounded like a joke."

I closed the door behind him, making sure to keep a safe distance. It still didn't feel real. Like I'd imagined everything I'd seen before. But the smell of expelled gunpowder still hung in the air, and I noticed the three discharged shotgun shells on the floor up against the wall.

I walked away from Eric--Arix, goddamnit, he's not who you think!--and went behind the couch. As silly as it seemed, having a physical object between us gave me an injection of courage.

"Show me what you are," I commanded. "I need to see it again."

His lips curled in a sexy half-smile. "You're not going to shoot me this time, are you?"

"That's precisely why I'm standing over here, while my shotgun is over there." I nodded toward the door.

He stared at me intently, borderline uncomfortable. And then his body shimmered like heat waves coming off a desert road, and the jigsaw puzzle that was his body fell apart, then coalesced around itself like a tornado of atoms. The colors shifted, faded, were lanced away until everything was only white, as luminous as any other light in my cabin. The particles clumped together until they were solid bars of light, the same shape I'd seen a few hours ago.

This is an alien, my mind screamed. There's an alien in my cabin.

"Okay, that's enough." I closed my eyes against his form, both because it was too bright and too queer to accept. "Turn back. Please turn back."

I was begging him then, my voice practically giving out. The lump in my throat expanded as I waited, and I gripped the couch for stability.

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