The Alien’s Surrender: Outcasts of Corin by Maven Ella

Author:Maven, Ella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

Vinz

Talking in excited tones, the females descended the cliff stairs. Lukent walked toward me, and my world seemed to shift on its axis. The last time I’d left the Lone Howl camp, Axton had taken Tasha to Granit, and Lukent was out on a hunting mission.

Tasha was supposed to stay in Granit with the other human females and likely find a proper Drixonian warrior as a mate. She wasn’t supposed to be here.

And Lukent most certainly wasn’t supposed to have flecking loks on his wrists. My vision tunneled down, and I couldn’t take my eyes off the gold bands. Tasha wore a long-sleeved shirt so I hadn’t seen her wrists, but I would bet a stick of yuza that she bore matching ones.

“Vinz,” Lukent said in his calm deep voice.

But to me, he sounded like he could have been on another planet. “Why—?” I heard myself say. My dry throat clicked. “Why do you have loks?”

“Brother,” he said, softer this time, and I finally lifted my eyes to his. I hated what I saw in his purple eyes. Concern, caution, and a little bit of pity.

I had to snap out of this. Pity? No flecking way would Lukent pity me. “What’s going on?”

“Sit.”

“I’m fine standing.”

Lukent sighed. “Don’t be stubborn. Sit.”

I looked to Kutzal and Axton to back me up on this madness. Why was no one losing their minds over Lukent’s loks. But they were already seated with their legs stretched out. Axton looked half asleep already.

“I feel like I’m in another dimension,” I murmured as I sat down heavily.

Lukent sat down, his body turned toward mine. “Brother.”

“I heard you the first time,” I spat. He only called me brother when he was about to say shet I didn’t like.

“Tasha and I are mates.”

I stared at the fire. This wasn’t supposed to happen to us. Any of us. Not the sons of naught. I didn’t give a fleck about me, but I couldn’t stand to see Lukent suffer. He was the best of all of us. “How did this happen?”

“It just did.”

I ground my teeth together. “We can tell Daz she died, and you can cover your wrists whenever we have to meet him. We can keep this a secret—”

“He knows.”

I whirled to Lukent and punched him in the shoulder. He winced. “He knows? How? How could you be so stupid?” Lukent was smiling, the stupid flecker. “Quit smiling.”

“It’s okay, Vinz. Daz is okay with it.”

“He’s okay with a son of naught taking one of his precious flecking females?”

Lukent’s brows lowered, and his fist clenched. “She’s not his female. The only female who belongs to him is his mate.”

“Whatever,” I muttered.

I rubbed my wrists and glanced at the cliff stairs. “Are the females okay?”

“What’s wrong with your wrists?” Kutzal asked.

Dropping my hands between my bent knees, I answered nonchalantly. “I was shackled and they’re a little raw.” I cleared my throat. “Amber’s are the same.”

I couldn’t tell them about our loks. Lukent never belonged as a son of naught anyway. He was the most honorable and honest among us.

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