Mated to a Monster by Diana Sheridan

Author:Diana Sheridan [Sheridan, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: 1056
ISBN: 9781940756431
Goodreads: 22172072
Publisher: Dark Hollows
Published: 2014-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

As Evan snuggled within Moob’s embrace, he reflected on his short time here on the island. These creatures, though closer to humans than to animals, were an unknown, undiscovered species. If he was rescued—or, thinking more positively, when he was rescued—he would surely want to tell others of his discovery. For that matter, his rescuers might encounter Moob or one of his fellow tribe members when the boat arrived to pick him up.

Evan had misgivings about all this. Surely world civilization had advanced enough that Moob or his fellow whatever-they-were would not be put on display in the manner of the freak shows of the past, but wouldn’t the world try to civilize them, educate them, Americanize them?

From what Evan had seen so far, it appeared that Moob and his kind lived a quiet, peaceful, harmonious life, which was more than he could say about the so-called “civilized” world. Here there seemed to be no infighting, no acrimony, no petty jealousies—and apparently no stealing, either. The village’s huts, although they had rudimentary curtains of palm fronds or other leaves blocking the doorways, had no proper doors let alone locks, yet no one seemed to be concerned about his or her neighbors stealing from them.

Judging by his earlier experience, sex was not a private matter, and he had also had occasion to observe one of Moob’s fellow tribe members taking a dump in the jungle just behind the huts, unabashed when Evan came upon him. So obviously bodily functions were not a private matter either.

It was all so different from Evan’s civilized life up till now—but did that make it any less good than what Evan was accustomed to? And wouldn’t it be a shame for the civilized world to intrude and spoil the villagers’ ways?

Evan’s thoughts circled around and centered on Moob himself. The creature was ugly, even monstrous, by the standards of Evan’s world, but was it fair to judge Moob and his kind by the outside world’s values? Evan remembered how carefully Moob had scooped him up off the beach, how tenderly he had carried him back to his village, how caring he had been overall. He hadn’t rejected Evan because Evan was different from him and his kind. Neither had he placed Evan in a cage to observe him the way the world’s scientists likely would with some new species. The only thing he had done was stake a claim on Evan when the villagers tried to advance toward him—and that was clearly because Moob wanted Evan for his mate.

Just then, Evan heard the unmistakable droning of an approaching plane. Rescue! Salvation! Were they looking for him or simply passing through the airspace overhead by coincidence? Either way, would they see his SOS message on the beach?

Jumping up from his comfortably relaxed pose in Moob’s embrace, he tried to send Moob a mental message that there was a plane approaching and he was going to run down to the beach and try to signal it. But it was apparently a concept beyond Moob’s comprehension.

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