Return to Eden by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: alien romance, sci fi romance, alien hero, futuristic romane
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing

Chapter Six

Anya decided that they’d reached an industrial park after surveying the area thoroughly.

It was almost more bizarre than anything she’d seen since the alien landing/invasion!

There were patches of asphalt. Some even still bore the paint stripe that indicated it had been a parking lot. Ditto the buildings and everything else that had once made up the industrial area. Nothing looked corroded, as if time was the culprit for the missing pieces, and yet it still looked rather like a ghost town, something that had stood long, long ago and had been worn away by time and the weather until there were only pieces left here and there.

There were parking lots around each of what she could see had once been massive metal buildings, but no sign of cars or of people, no sign of bodies either—thankfully!

Was everyone in hiding, she wondered? Or had the alien things …?

She shook that thought. There were bound to be casualties, but there had also been plenty of time to take cover. Even the people on the interstate like she had been and away from home had fled to safety. They were just smart enough to hide.

It took them over an hour to traverse the industrial complex. By the time they had the sun was hovering near the horizon and Anya was thinking uneasily about shelter for the night before it got too dark to look for a place.

“We need to find a place to spend the night,” she said, pointing to the sun’s position.

Aidan studied her when she spoke and dutifully looked when she pointed out that they were looking at sunset very soon and then shook his head.

“We’re close now. We should be able to find the ship before dark.”

Anya glared at him. She was exhausted—weak with fatigue, lack of food and water. She wasn’t in any shape to run for her life and she wasn’t in the mood to try sign language! “Look, fucktard! It’s almost dark! There’s no telling what will come out to eat once the sun sets!”

Aidan glanced at his wrist thingy and then glared at her. “Ah-na fckd ard! No Aidan! Ned ship! Go!”

Uneasiness slithered through Anya despite her anger—for several reasons. First off, it seemed pretty clear that Aidan had figured out enough of her language to know when she was being insulting. And she didn’t think it was really safe to insult him if he was aware of being insulted, seeing as how he was a really big and potentially very dangerous alien! Secondly, it seemed to her that he was suggesting that he intended to carry her away on his ship. And while she wasn’t especially happy about the way things were going on Earth at the moment, she damned well wasn’t going off to alien land with chewbacka!

Ok, so he wasn’t hairy enough to fit that particular name, but she still wasn’t going off with him!

She set her jaw stubbornly. “I’m not getting on any damned ship!” she snarled at him through gritted teeth.

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