Princess for the Alien Commander: A Scifi Alien Romance by Tammy Walsh

Author:Tammy Walsh [Walsh, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

I awoke sometime in the early evening with the sunlight already blotted out by massing clouds and kauah singing outside along the bank of a narrow winding stream.

It took me a moment to recall where I was.

I’d been hopping from one bed to another lately—not in that sense!

When I recalled I was in Ikmale’s castle, I was overcome with relief.

Anything had to be better than being stuck under the king’s bootheel.

“Easy there,” a soft voice said from the farthest corner.

The shadow moved, vibrating toward me.

I shimmied to one side of the bed to call out and yell for help but a thin and spindly shape stepped into the golden light cast by the streetlamps outside.

“It’s only me.”

Her voice was as much a salve on my emotions as the cream had been on my wounds during my bath.

“Camila?”

Relief flooded my system and I leaned forward to embrace her.

She squeezed me, careful not to press too firmly on my bruises.

I wouldn’t have cared if she had, I was so happy.

“I didn’t think I would see you again!” I said, tears streaming unbidden down my cheeks. “I left you a note. I didn’t know if you would see it or not. We went to your room. We thought… I thought—”

“I found it,” Camila said, smiling warmly. “You must know me pretty well to put the note there. It was the first place I looked.”

I grinned and wiped the tears from my eyes.

“And the king? He didn’t punish you?”

“He may have if I was still in the palace. When the bells rang out into the night, I knew one of only two things could have happened: Either the king had been slain—and I can assure you, I kept my fingers crossed in case that had happened!—or you and your new husband had managed to escape. When I heard the king bellowing loudly, not in pain as I had hoped, but his usual screeches of sheer anger, I knew you must have escaped.

“I ran to my room and gathered up my things. I decided to pray for good luck before hitting the road and discovered your note. I got out of the palace before the king thought to question me and managed to slip out of the city before they went into full lockdown. I hitched a ride on a kauah food cart and gave them all the money I had left. Thankfully, your new husband recognized who I was and allowed me into your room.”

“Could he have stopped you if he didn’t?” I said around a grin full of teeth.

“Are you kidding? Him and his guards wouldn’t have stood a chance!”

Camila flexed her non-existent muscles above her head.

I hugged Camila even closer before pulling back and kissing her on the cheeks.

“I made a deal with Ikmale. I used a secret passageway to escape the palace in exchange he said he would let us stay at his castle for as long as we need.”

“For as long as we need?” Camila said, momentarily thrown. “Why would

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