Saturn: Solar Mates, Book 0.5 by Mia Harlan & Hanleigh Bradley

Author:Mia Harlan & Hanleigh Bradley [Harlan, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver Springs Library

Chapter Seven

Slash

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We’re sitting on the ground of the observatory, and I’m a little disgruntled. “I didn’t even get a chance to tell her I’m an alien, not a cursed troll.”

“Wait. What? You’re an alien?” Ajax asks, his jaw dropping. Then he shakes his head as if to clear it. “Actually, that makes a lot of sense.”

“Yeah.” Draikh smirks at me. “I never really believed that story about the witch.”

“Yeah, I—” My shoulders straighten when I hear the door creak open.

Who could possibly be coming to the observatory right now? It’s a stupid question, really, seeing as how you can only observe the stars at night. But I’d imagined this to be a safe place where we could find some solace.

And that safe place is being invaded.

But my breath catches when I spot the person standing in the doorway. Her hair tumbles down her back, and her eyes are wide, most likely with fear. Saturn stares right at me.

I really hate the fact my mate is scared of me. Scared of all of us.

“Saturn,” I whisper.

The guys clamber about, getting to their feet, and I hear their sighs of relief, but I don’t take my eyes off Saturn even for the second it would take to glance at them. Not when she might run again.

“I-I didn’t know you’d be here,” she tells us in a hurry, and I’m almost certain she’s going to leave.

“Please don’t go,” I say, taking a step towards her.

She backs away from me.

I hate it. That one little movement. I want her to come closer, not pull away. I want to take her in my arms and tell her that I’ll love her forever. I want to make love to her. But I can’t do any of that because my beautiful—unfortunately human—mate is terrified of me.

“We just want to talk,” Ajax says.

Talk. I can’t think of anything worse. I’m not good at talking. Mostly because I’m so used to having to keep secrets from everyone. Even my friends. But not with Saturn. She’s my mate. My family. There doesn’t have to be any secrets between us.

I can tell her everything. Who I am. Where I’m from. Everything. And now that Ajax and Draikh are part of our family unit, I can tell them everything, too.

“We’re sorry we scared you,” Draikh tells her.

She steps farther into the room, the door closing with a bang behind her. The sound makes her jump, and I want to rush towards her and wrap her in my arms. I feel like I should be protecting her from everything that scares her.

Except it’s me she’s scared of.

“I went back,” she murmurs quietly.

“Went back?” I ask.

“To the concert. But you were already gone. I do want to talk. This is…” She waves her arm vaguely in the air, clearly at a loss for words.

I sit back down on the floor, trying to make myself seem less intimidating. It doesn’t really work. But the other guys do the same, and soon Saturn is sitting down only a few feet away from us.

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