The Alien's Fate: A Sci-fi Alien Romance by Ella Blake

Author:Ella Blake [Blake, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Axlos

I didn’t trust anyone anymore, except for those I had known for a very long time. I went about my duties while Arria recuperated. The neural reparative cap Tipaloo had put on her was rapidly decreasing the swelling. She would be up and about very soon, thankfully. Even after four days of rest, she was getting antsy. She wanted to be back in her lab working. I briefly debated moving the entire room’s worth of equipment into my room, but Hoc talked me out of it.

“The new supply shipment has come in,” Drave informed me as I stood at my post on the main deck.

“Good,” I said.

“And Minister Bazer has once again requested that Arria Davis be returned to Heveia.”

“Tell Minister Bazer to shove his request up his clenched ass,” I snarled. “She stays here.”

Drave, without missing a beat, said, “Is that the exact wording you wish me to use?”

“By all means, use your discretion,” I said. “But inform him that Arria is no longer his responsibility. She’s mine.”

That was the second time I had used a variation of that phrase in the past few days.

She was mine. I’d always thought of her that way, but it was beginning to feel as though she was beginning to trust me and have feelings in return. Something had changed between the two of us. She was more open. She allowed me to touch her. Every spare moment I had, I was at her side. She did not complain when I held her hand or brushed tendrils of blond hair from her face. She met my gaze more often. We were beginning to have conversations, when in the past, it was just stilted greetings and brief exchanges. I was not so foolish as to believe that she returned my feelings wholeheartedly. Not yet, anyway. But I wasn’t imagining that she no longer saw the villain of her past when she looked at me. She was beginning to like me.

Every time she smiled at me, it was like a weight lifted off me, just for a little while. I worried I had gone too far by declaring myself a mere four days ago. I had prepared an apology, complete with the truth—fear for her had sparked an overly possessive mood in me, causing me to speak without thinking. All of those things were true. But an apology had not been necessary. She had not brought me to task over it.

“Good news. We are being joined by two Mitran battle cruisers while their forces redeploy,” Harp said, turning in her seat. “They are increasing their defenses for us. That will buy us some breathing room.”

I nodded. “It will.” It didn’t hurt that the Mitrans had been receiving their shipments of vistran energy crystals on time, allowing them to deploy more ships.

Some said we were buying the Mitrans’ fighting forces by supplying them with the precious energy crystals that were the cause of this war, but if that was the case, it was well worth the price.

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