Saved: A Sci-Fi Alien Invasion Romance (Garrison Earth Book 4) by V. K. Ludwig

Author:V. K. Ludwig [Ludwig, V. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

Adeas

I woke to something astringent burning my nasal cavity, but it had nothing on that bite blazing down my throat. Where am I?

A blink.

Another, slower blink.

White sheets wrapped cool around my body, reflecting the bright light from above. Someone fumbled with my wrist. A freezing sensation tickled the top of my hand and deep into my vein. I flinched and turned my head, my pupils catching on the drip-drip-drip of the saline solution hanging from a hook next to me. I was at the infirmary?

A swallow.

It got stuck around my esophagus, immediate panic tensing my muscles. Something constricted my throat, and I swung my hands onto my face.

“Don’t pull the feeding tube.” I’d heard that voice before. “Relax your entire throat, Adeas.”

Seemingly endless, the tube dislodged and retreated. It tickled along my esophagus and seared my nostril, tears running down my face. I suppressed the urge to sneeze, which only increased the pain stabbing behind my temples.

Another swallow, this one tainted with iron.

“What… wha —” My voice broke off, entirely hoarse.

“What happened?” Bright light shone into my eyes. Left. Right. A sip of water was offered. “An engineer found you inside a maintenance bay at the cargo dock, drenched and unresponsive. Good thing he did because you were close to respiratory arrest.”

Fog permeated my thoughts.

The last thing I remembered was… a sphere of souldust rolling from my hand. And then, nothing. No wait! A picture pushed through the fog: furious fingers wrapped around Sophie’s arms. My stomach convulsed, the retch it triggered scraping along my already inflamed throat.

“Bowl’s right there,” Titean said, helping me clasp my fingers around the cool metal.

Nothing came out but grunts.

“Ask him about her.” That voice, I’d never heard before.

Titean sat down beside me on my recovery pod, the regenerative lights warming me from underneath. “Adeas… who is Sophie?”

I let out a groan. “Sophie.”

“That’s right, brother. Can you tell us who she is?” A pause, and then, “Where she is?”

Who was us?

“We should just have taken his DNA sample,” a second, unfamiliar voice grumbled deep.

Three people in this room. Only one familiar. What was going on here?

“I couldn’t allow you to overstep his rights, Captain Balgiz,” Titean said. “Law states he needs to give his consent for us to extract his DNA and run it through the databank. And even then, it might not come back with the result you’re hoping for.”

“Bullshit,” the Captain snarled, swinging two massive arms in front of his chest, back leaning against the wall of a recovery room. “Sophie’s clearly a human name. She’s the only one we haven’t tracked down yet. The only reason why we’re holding back. By the heat of Heliar, I’m going to arrest his sorry ass if this sgu’dal passes out again. ”

“Don’t call him that.” A healer, who wasn’t Titean, stepped up to my bed, his eyes leeched into specks of green and blue. “Now that he’s finally awake, how about you show him her hologram?”

With a grunt, the warrior pushed himself off the wall, gaze pinning me down as he stepped over.

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