Mated to the Fire Alpha: Elemental Aliens Book 1 ~ A Sci-fi space alien romance by Venus Rose

Author:Venus Rose [Rose, Venus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wandering Words Media
Published: 2023-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Attacked

The first thing that hits me when I wake up is the pressure. And the second thing is a burning in my lungs. My eyes snap open. I try to gasp, but fabric fills my mouth. I can’t see anything through the pillow pressed over my face, smothering me.

It’s fear, first—the realization that I’m going to die if something doesn’t change. And that it needs to change fast. The way my nose throbs beneath the press of hands on the other side of the pillow; the weight on my hips; someone is straddling me.

The form is too light to be Reswick.

Survival kicks in second.

I might be little more than a pretty, ornamental concubine at present, but I was something greater than that. I was the captain of a space-exploration team. My arms go from flailing uselessly in terrified protest to grabbing. Fingers tangle in hair, and I pull so hard to the left, with such sudden force, that the weight on my hips starts to slide.

My body follows suit. One heel digs hard into the mattress. My back arches, body flexing as a whole unit when I roll my attacker. There’s a thump as they slide off of the bed and hit the floor. The pillow is knocked free. I gasp for air, my whole face blushes gold and a deep, unsettling shade of emerald as I try to pull enough air into my lungs.

“Smoldering bitch,” snarls a too-familiar voice.

“Miri?” The word comes out as a gasp.

I tilt my head to look, watching in almost captivated horror as the concubine I had considered a friend rises up before me. Her hands slam against the mattress, fingers twisting in the dark fabric. Her lips curl back into a snarl that shows off all of her teeth. “You burnt-out piece of coal!”

Lurching off the bed, I move so that the mattress is firmly between us. “What are you doing!?”

“Getting rid of something that shouldn’t even be here in the first place,” Miri snaps. “You should have gone straight to the dungeons, like the rest of the trespassers.” She starts making her way around the foot of the bed. “You shouldn’t have been pulled into his bed as—as—”

Miri cuts herself off with a frustrated sound. I shift further backward, but I’m at a disadvantage. The bedside table catches my hip. The wall, solid behind it. There’s nowhere for me to go. Not from here, at least. My heart is in my throat. There’s a part of me that still hasn’t fully woken up, and still hasn’t fully figured out what’s going on.

She hits the end of the bed on my side. There’s nothing in her expression but this pure, unending hatred. The kind of anger that floods the system and stops the brain. From the folds of her sarong, she pulls out a knife. The black metal of the blade glints in the flickering candle glow of the room.

“Miri,” I tell her, holding my hands up in an attempt to show that I don’t want to fight her.

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