Theirs to Forever: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Alien Overlords Book 5) by Taylor Vaughn & Theodora Taylor & Eve Vaughn

Author:Taylor Vaughn & Theodora Taylor & Eve Vaughn [Vaughn, Taylor & Taylor, Theodora & Vaughn, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

L’GON

When I wake again, I am the only one lying upon my mat.

Elle has left, as she always does before sunrise, to tend to L’Eondris, and apparently, I have slept so late that L’Than has already gone to his room to complete his morn personal hygiene regimen.

A bad feeling hollows out the space between my hearts at the sight of the empty mat. A feeling I suspect might bear the label of loneliness, even though I will see them both soon at first meal.

Alone. This is how I used to wake up before my agreement to the Three-Berry Compact. And this is how I will once again wake up after Elle leaves for New Terrhan.

An ache appears above my hearts at the thought of that. Sudden, but not new.

How often did I find myself rubbing that ache, especially during the solars when both Elle and L’Than were being held in that spacelab prison?

What will happen when Elle returns to New Terrhan and L’Than to the residence he commissioned?

No, I will not poke at it! Today is the Council Meeting, and there is no time to indulge the mad thoughts spurred by Ceremonial Mind Rot. Squashing that thought like a rotten gu’gi melon under my foot, I push back the sheets to attend to my own hygiene.

I am not nearly as vain as L’Than when it comes to my appearance. But after my gamma shower, I command the wall in my facilities so I can check my appearance in the special set of robes I am wearing for the occasion.

I have foregone my normal white tunic for a floor-length black robe with matching pants. They have golden borders along the hems. It is woven from the elusive mo’lo worm and shivers like a prism in the light.

I had them made especially for this day—several solars ago, after Kel D’Rek officially appointed me to the position of Mal L’Gon under his reign.

I knew even then that I would one day be making this speech. I just had no idea how long it would take. Or that the solution to the Xalthurian fertility crisis would come from someone other than me.

I think of Elle in the clinic’s bed, still refusing to take full credit for her corn idea, despite the Leader she made the promise to being many solars dead.

The words she murmured into my chest last eve blow like wind through my mind. I never break my promises. Ever.

I have already spoken with L’Than about ensuring Elle receives the remuneration she deserves for her bioengineered corn when she returns to New Terrhan. Still, my stomach tightens, and my appetite for beholding myself in the mirror disappears.

Perhaps you should endeavor to become more civil toward your birth vessel, Brother. She has had a difficult life. Much more difficult than yours.

The tentative advice my sister gave me shortly after acquiring what I thought was only a mere translator echoes through my head.

L’Nel! She does not yet know about the breakthrough we have made.

I bid

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