Pretty Human by Kayleigh Sky

Author:Kayleigh Sky [Sky, Kayleigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Pride Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The sky cleared, and the sea became the pale green again that pulled people from all over to see it. It rolled thunderously, leisurely, against the shore with the same indifference of Earth’s oceans and the galaxy’s stars. The sea was laced with white and darker green, glassy and luminous, not real, almost like a memory of seas dead long ago. Jem imagined that if he touched it, it would turn to smoke and blow away, but it lapped up under his feet, cold and heavy, pulling at the amber sand.

He curled his toes and filled his lungs with damp, salty air.

The encroaching trees dripped and steamed. Wood smoke drifted in the air. A scintillatingly bright sun shone down one day, streaking the fat cumulus clouds with pink and salmon shadows.

Ellis took him to Kessimii Observatory on top of Domma Mountain. The observatory was a roundish building with a row of tiny narrow windows high on its stone walls. The stones were smooth and polished, edges rounded, blunted by the wind, grayish green. The floor inside was the surface of the mountain ground down flat.

“This observatory is over ten thousand years old.”

Jem peered through the window slits at the sky, imagining stars and shipping routes and worm holes, patterns familiar, patterns he saw in daydreams where strange stars floated in ghostly clouds of green.

He looked at Ellis, took his hand.

Outside, they could see over the canopy of trees, a rolling carpet of greens and grays, shot with purple, blurring into the sandy smudge that marked the edge of the plains.

They walked, swam in the salty sea water. Ate at the lodge. Watched the vid in front of the fire. Ellis translated for him. They watched a game show. Commercials. The news. Then Jem heard, “Gulinnia…” and said, “I don’t want to listen to this. This is our time.”

“The Accord is good news.”

Jem straddled him and hooked his wrists behind Ellis’ neck. “You aren’t paying attention to me.”

“We can’t have that.”

“No,” Jem agreed. His gaze took in the clearness of Ellis’ expression, and he thought of the color of the sea, the strange, intangible look of it, the clouds of Olinda, his life on this planet where he was supposed to have died. He didn’t know if he’d been pulled or driven to this place. Called or condemned. Condemned with Ellis.

He bent down, feeling the softness of Ellis’ lips, the sweet and spicy taste of him, knowing that he’d betray him.

His love.

His sweet Xol.

Because in the end, he betrayed everyone.

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