Owned by the Alien: A Scifi Alien Romance (Fated Mates of the Titan Empire Book 1) by Tammy Walsh

Author:Tammy Walsh [Walsh, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

Nighteko’s fever was back with a vengeance. He’d exhausted himself and the sickness was ready to take advantage.

I made him as comfortable as I could. The sun was warm and already doing a good job of drying our clothes. I gathered up firewood from the fringes of the jungle. I peered into the darkness and the thick vines and trees. Strange and alien sounds whooped and whistled and cawed.

A world of danger. An alien world.

Darkness descended quickly. I was glad I’d thought to gather up the firewood. Setting it ablaze, on the other hand, turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. It always looked so easy in the movies and documentaries I’d seen. I rubbed the sticks together for two hours but it was no good.

Not a single lousy spark.

The sun set and brought a chill in the air. I couldn’t wait any longer. I was cold and starving. I leaned over Nighteko to wake him.

He rolled over and muttered something about his father, about him going somewhere and leaving him behind…

Whatever happened to him in his youth, it couldn’t have been anything good.

I decided not to wake him. After all, I wouldn’t die from not eating for a few hours.

My stomach growled and Nighteko’s eyes shot open. He started awake and reached back for something. He was looking for his blade—the one buried in the wooden frame of his bed. When he didn’t find it, he was awake enough to realize he wasn’t in his quarters anymore.

His head flopped back on the soft sand. “I thought I woke up from a nightmare. But it happened, didn’t it? The Challenge, the escape pod, and the swim?”

“It did,” I said.

Nighteko got to his feet and stretched.

“You beat Horn Tusk,” I said. “The crew should be happy you’re their captain.”

“They preferred to team up with Changelings than be my crew,” Nighteko said. “Not much of a victory.”

“That’s what those creatures were? Changelings?” I’d never seen anything like them my entire life. Except maybe in the X-Men movies. I watched as they morphed from one alien species to another. It gave me goosebumps.

Nighteko took a seat beside me and peered in the direction of the gentle waves. “We got a distress signal and thought it was Vestoil we were saving. It turned out to be Changelings pretending to be Vestroil. Stryder had planned everything—from poisoning me with the Absor to teaming up with the Changelings. I never suspected he was capable of something like that. He was the most loyal member of my crew. Shows you what I know.”

“Your crew organized for them to join us?” I said.

“The Changelings were their Plan B.” He shook his head. “But of all the creatures to ask for aid, the Changelings should be at the bottom of the list. They’re more likely to stab you in the back than help you.”

He spat the word ‘Changeling.’ I sensed there was some dark history between him and those creatures. I didn’t press him on it.

“I’m sorry about your ship,” I said.

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