Redeeming the Alien Bounty Hunter by Elin Wyn

Author:Elin Wyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ClockWalk

I woke up, very much surprised I wasn’t dead.

A bright light shined in my eyes. I blinked, raising my hand to push it away. The limb felt like it weighed a thousand pounds.

“You are an idiot,” said the voice. A fairly familiar voice, although I couldn’t quite pinpoint who it was. And my eyes weren’t quite focusing.

The voice continued, young and brash and full of arrogance. “You need to root to heal yourself.”

Yndon. Of course.

I closed my aching eyes in relief. “How’d you find me?”

“Landri is much more trusting than I am,” the other Mtoain said. “He said we could trust you playing the spy. That we should wait out your period of silence. I knew you had either turned on us, or you were in trouble.”

“It was the latter,” I said.

“So, I see,” Yndon growled. “But none of this changes the fact you’re badly injured. You suffered from oxygen deprivation and need time to heal. I have injected you with nanites that’ll assist with repairing the damage, but it’d be much faster for you to root. I have soil available —”

“No,” I said.

Yndon spoke with the tone of someone who’d said this before. From my vague memories of my previous delirium — voices yelling at me from the dark — I suspected this might not be the first time we had this conversation. However, it was the first time I’d remained lucid.

With effort, I sat up and looked around.

I was aboard a small ship, in an even smaller medical bay. Yndon stood nearby, some sort of medical device in hand. He scowled at me. “You’ve refused before,” he said, confirming my suspicions. “But you won’t tell me why. You’ve only repeated the same word.”

“Which was?” A headache drilled from the front of my forehead through the back of my skull. I ignored it, swinging my legs down onto the flooring. However, I didn’t quite trust myself enough to stand.

“Amy,” Yndon said.

Hearing her voice from out of his lips was a nasty start.

I shot a glare at my rescuer.

The younger Mtoain merely grinned at me. “That sounds like a human name to me.”

Then he pointed downward. I was still clothed in the uniform I’d worn aboard Estor’s ship, but Yusuf had undone the front of the jumpsuit, no doubt to attach medical devices to my torso. My amre glowed — faint, but it was still there. No doubt, the glow had dimmed due to my overall health and not to the distance I now found myself separated from my mate. It’d only stopped glowing when death occurred, or I finally made her mine.

I glared at the other Mtoain, feeling protective. “What do you know of the amre?”

Yndon was younger than myself by a fair few years.

For once, he didn’t look dismissive, though he still looked very smug. “Because I have a human mate, too. They are… rather delightful, aren’t they?”

“She’s not my mate,” I corrected, though I reeled a little from this revelation. Perhaps our species, as rare as they are within the galaxy, were unusually compatible.

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