Alien Romance: Her Alien Beast: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Alien Romance, Alien Invasion Romance, BBW) (Space Beasts Book 1) (6 page)

Evening descended over the Vision Land as they made their way back to the Mystic Folk citadel, and with it came the first growls of a storm.  The purpled clouded skies lowered and there was a sharp tang in the air.  Excitement pulsed through Simone as Jedediah brought them to the balcony.

No word had passed between her and Storm Kar for a long time now.  He had been scratched and grazed in the struggle with the Tragger and had fallen into a gloomy silence.  She had sat away from him, lost in her own thoughts, preparing herself for what was to come next.

As he had done every evening since she’d arrived here, Storm Kar walked with her to the quarters that had been especially prepared for her stay on his planet, which were just off from the dining chamber, though she’d missed the room during her initial exploration.  As they headed toward the door of the well-appointed room with its scented candles and large fur covered bed, Simone’s heart raced faster.

“I shall see you tomorrow,” he said as she opened the door and finally stopped to face him.  “Again, I am deeply sorry for what happened today.”

She stared up at him, seeing past the scars and feral twist of his face to the courageous soul within.  When she remained silent, he lowered his eyes and looked completely crestfallen.  “If you wish to return to Earth, I understand,” he said, each word sounding like it had forced from his throat.  “I exposed you to terrible danger today and that is unforgivable.  I don’t deserve your love after today.”

She brought her finger up to his lips.  “No more talking,” she whispered, taking control.

His eyes flared with sparks of red fire.  “Simone?”

She reached up and pressed her mouth against his, holding him in a long, lingering kiss.  Storm Kar stayed stock-still and she felt him trembling beneath her touch.  She brought her hands up and put them around his neck and a shudder went through her as he finally slipped his hands around her waist.  The kiss deepened as they both gave way to a wild insistence. 

Holding him tight, she let him hook his arms under her legs and carry her into the room, slamming the door shut with his foot.  Parting from the kiss, he lay her down gently onto the bed.  She smiled up at him and lifted up her dress invitingly. 

With eyes that looked like smouldering orbs, he clambered on top of her and began trailing kisses along her neck.  She sighed with pleasure as her body responded to his touch.  Very slowly, he began undressing her, kissing her bare skin as he pulled her clothes away.  Soon, she was naked before him and he kissed her naval and lower belly before his eager tongue slipped between her legs.

Simone arched her back and let out a throaty moan as he found her sweet spot.  She stroked his long hair and undid his ponytail so that it fell free.  It tickled her as it draped across her thighs.

“Yes!” she gasped.  “Oh yes!”

His eager tongue brought her to climax quickly and she bathed in an orgasmic afterglow.  When he came up to kiss her again, she pushed him onto his back and began peeling off his clothes. 

It was his turn to moan with pleasure as she kissed and nipped his sculpted body.  With a ravenous lust, she moved down between his legs and took him in her mouth, making him shudder with intense pleasure.

As they enjoyed each other, the thunder rumbled outside, and she heard the sudden downpour of rain on the transparent membrane that served as a window for the room.  The wild unleashing of the elements heightened her desire and she ached for him to be inside her.

Still savoring his taste, she eased her head away from his crotch and straddled him.  Reaching down, she kissed him long and slowly, and they clasped their hands together, fingers intertwined.

“I want you so badly,” he whispered throatily when the kiss ended.  “You are my universe, my goddess.”

She felt his iron hard shaft pressing into her, and still sitting on top of him, she positioned herself so he could enter her.  She groaned as he filled her, and clawed at his hard chest.  Fondling her buttocks, he thrust up into her, making her cry out.

Remembering the wishes of the Phoenix People, she made love to him vigorously, desperate to savor his body and the splendour of sex.  She climaxed again as she looked into his burning eyes and he squeezed her breasts just as he released himself deep inside her.

Outside, the rain pelted hard, and exhausted and sated, Simone eased off Storm Kar and let him cradle her in his arms as she drifted off into deep, satisfied sleep.

* * *

“When we first met, you said that your destined mate was dead,” Storm Kar said as he trailed lazy circles along her back.  “What did you mean by that?”

It had been a couple of hours since they had first surrendered to each other, and the rain was still pouring outside.  They lay under the warm furs of the bed with him spooning her.  She held his strong arm across her chest and gently kissed his knuckles.

“Let me ask you a question,” she countered, “How did you know to find me at the Nature Reserve on Earth?”

“I didn’t,” Storm Kar replied.  “The Great Spirits showed me that this place was important to you, and somewhere you visited once a year.  Its relevance to you is unknown to me though.”

“I used to go there with someone very special to me,” Simone said, closing her eyes.  “It was the only man I ever really loved.  I thought we were destined to be together for the rest of our lives, but I was wrong.”

“What happened?”

“He died,” Simone said numbly.  “Four years ago, killed in an accident.  My whole world ended with him.  I told you that I was an outsider on my planet that I had never connected with anyone.  That all changed when I met him.  He made me feel special and understood what made me tick.  I can honestly say that there was no doubt in my mind that he was my soul mate.  When he died, a part of me died with him.  I didn’t want to be alive anymore and I’ve just drifted along since then.”

She felt him shift behind her and sensed a change in his whole bearing.  “I understand,” he said in a gruff voice.  “Your heart has been taken already.  I had no right to force my attentions on you.  I let my own loneliness blind me to your inner pain.  After what has happened today, I will not force you to stay on my world longer than you want.”

“You’re not mad?” Simone asked hesitantly.

“Mad?” he chuckled.  “We have made love.  It was the most wonderful experience of my entire life.  If you leave me now, I will always have that memory for all time.  I thank you for that.”

“That’s the thing though,” Simone said, opening her eyes.  “I’m not sure I want to leave now and it’s exactly because of what happened today.”

“I don’t understand,” Storm Kar said.

“When that creature attacked us, the, what did you call it, the Tragger, I was so scared.”

“That is to be expected,” he replied.  “Traggers are savage beasts that inhabit the fringes of the Mystic Folk territory.  I dread to think what would have happened if I hadn’t got to you in time.”

“I wasn’t frightened of the Tragger,” Simone said.  “I was frightened of you.”

She felt him sit up.  “What?”

“When you fought that beast, you were so ferocious, so powerful, it scared me,” Simone went on.  “It scared me that someone else could care about me that much to risk their life like that.  I thought Dean would be the only man who could love me so intensely and now I realize you do to, and that terrifies me.”

“I want only to look after you,” Storm Kar said. 

She turned and faced him.  “Until today, I wouldn’t have believed that, but everything has changed.  I realized how much I’ve missed out on by holding onto Dean’s memory.  I want to move on, and live again.”

He reached down and stroked her face.  “With me?” he asked, hopeful.

“Perhaps,” she said carefully.  “I don’t regret what we’ve done, but I don’t know if we can take it further.  I don’t want to lose you like I did Dean.  I couldn’t stand that.”

He settled down and hugged her tightly.  “I’ll never leave you,” he whispered in her ear.  “I understand you need time.  Whatever you decide, I will always love you.”

She held him to her and pressed her face into his shoulder.  At that moment, she just wanted to be in his arms.  As she listened to the rain that was still falling outside, she had no idea whether she would feel the same in the cold light of day.

Chapter 7: An Act Of Sacrifice

The rains did not abate the next day.  They continued for most of the week and Storm Kar had to oversee the repair and maintenance of the flood defences to protect the crops of the Mystic Folk. 

During this period, he and Simone slipped into something of a blissful domestic routine.  While he was away in the daytime, she would help out with chores and at Grazing Elk Woman’s request, she began teaching the children about Earth and its customs. 

Now that the Mystic Folk believed that she had become Storm Kar’s mate, they were very friendly and embracing, and each night when Storm Kar returned from his duties, they made love and enjoyed each other’s company.  He had softened his stern exterior and seemed genuinely happy spending time with her.  He said he loved her and she believed him.

The question was: did Simone love him?  She certainly enjoyed being with him and had found she connected to him on an emotional level, but she could not be truly certain she loved him, not in the way she loved Dean.  Storm Kar said that he didn’t care, that just being with her was enough for him, but she felt that she was being unfair to him. 

She wanted to give all of herself to him the way he had pledged himself to her, but doing that felt like a betrayal to her first true love.  She feared that by accepting Storm Kar, she was erasing the memory of Dean forever.

As the time drew closer for her to make her decision on whether she stayed or returned to Earth, her mind roiled with confusion.  She now loved the Vision Land, but Earth was her home, where her life was, much as it was, to turn away from it would be a massive step.

One evening though, something happened to make her mind up without question.  Storm Kar had not returned from his duties at the usual time, and feeling restless, Simone decided to go look for him. 

She headed to the lower chambers beneath the citadel to where Storm Kar kept his laboratory.  She rarely came here as he preferred to keep his work private and Simone respected that.  As she entered the large room with its exotic looking equipment and mountains of ancient books and parchments, she couldn’t see him but spotted Pevas at a workbench mixing potions.

“Hey, Pevas,” she said brightly to the triad.

The three Phoenix Men turned in unison and bowed their beaks in greeting.  “Good evening Simone,” they said as one.  “It is nice to see you again.  You are looking most healthy and fecund.  Clearly regular copulation with Storm Kar suits you.”

“Um, yeah I guess so,” she replied, feeling embarrassed.  “Talking of Storm Kar, I was wondering where he’d got to.”

“There was an emergency on the southern perimeter,” the birdmen trilled.  “The floods have caused several Woodren to become uprooted and Storm Kar is repairing them as we speak.  He may be several hours yet.” 

“Oh, okay,” Simone replied a little disappointed.  “I’ll go and grab some food then.  Do you want anything?”

“We are content as we are,” Pevas replied. 

“Okay, well see you around,” she said and headed back to the door.

“Wait,” the triad called after her, their joint voices flirting with uncertainty.

Simone paused and turned back to them.  “Everything okay, fellas?”

For the first time since she’d join Pevas, the three birdmen looked at each other instead of looking out in the same direction.  They started muttering in a strange fluting language that Simone could not understand, and they were not talking in unison.  This went on for a little while, before the triad turned to face her.

“We were unsure whether to tell you this, Simone,” they said uncertainly, “but nobody else will.  Especially not Grazing Elk Woman or Storm Kar himself, and we feel you have the right to know.”

Simone frowned at them.  “Tell me what?” she asked in a suspicious tone.

The birdmen looked flustered and the one on the left began plucking feathers from his wing.  Simone gave them a hard look.  “Tell me what Pevas?” she pressed.  “What do I need to know about Storm Kar?”

Pevas bowed his collective heads.  “Simone, how much has Storm Kar told you about why he looks the way he does?”

Simone was taken aback by the question.  “How he looks?  I don’t know really, he doesn’t say much about it.  I just assumed he’d been born like that.”

The triad shook their heads and then stretched their wings.  A ball of flame appeared several feet in the air in front of them.  Simone watched as the ball began to take the shape of a face.

“This is how Storm Kar looked originally,” Pevas said.

Simone stared at the handsome, boyish face with its high cheekbones and deep, thoughtful eyes of onyx.  “This is Storm Kar?  But he looks so different.  What happened to him?”

“Storm Kar longed for the perfect soul mate, but could find no one suitable amongst the Mystic Folk.  Then, the Great Spirits sent him the vision of you and he knew you were the one,” Pevas explained as the image faded away. 

“Unfortunately you were on Earth so he had to devise a means to get to your world and find you.”

“I know that,” interrupted Simone.  “He built the portal that brought me here.”

Pevas shook his head. 

“That was the second attempt.  The first method he tried was to build a star craft to get him to your planet.  We helped him construct such a vehicle and he did get to Earth. 

Unfortunately he searched your world in vain, unable to find you.  He had believed the Great Spirits would simply guide him to you, but it was not as easy as that.  Dejected, he made the return trip to the Vision Land so that he could gather more information. 

As he neared our world though, the ship was caught in a Doom Storm, a cloud of negative energy that possesses malevolent powers.  It damaged the ship beyond repair, and transformed him into how he looks now, ruining his face and giving him the power of his fire eyes.  We tried to find a way to reverse the process but it was of no use.  He would have given up looking for you as well, but his need to meet you was too great, so we began work on the portal that would locate you.”

Simone tried to take all of this in.  “I thought he was always like that,” she said numbly.  “He said he was an outsider to his own people.”

“Not because of his looks,” Pevas said sadly.  “He always felt out of place, that is why he was so desperate to find a destined mate who truly understood him.  He feared he would spend the rest of his life alone.”

“So he came to Earth and ended up becoming disfigured,” Simone said bleakly.  Guilt rose up to choke her throat.  “It’s my fault he’s like he is.  Why didn’t he tell me?”

“He doesn’t care about what happened to him.  All that matters was he got the chance to find you.”

“I care though!” Simone yelled.  Her eyes misted up with tears.  “He ruined himself for me!  How the hell can I live with myself after this?”

“All is not lost,” Pevas said quickly.  “We did not reveal this knowledge simply to torment you.  There was a more noble purpose.”

“What are you talking about?”

“The Great Spirits that talked to Storm Kar also whisper to us,” the triad went on. 

“We received a vision telling us that Storm Kar’s salvation would come from the woman he loves.  There is a way to reverse the terrible damage inflicted by the Doom Storm.”

Simone’s eyes widened with hope.  “There is, how?”

“To the north of the Mystic Folk territory is the Mammoth Tusk Mountain,” Pevas said. 

“Within it stands a shrine and within the shrine is the Plant of All-Healing.  By simply touching it allows someone think of anyone who is in need to cure them of their malady.  By wishing Storm Kar to be normal again, you could restore his face.”

“Well that’s great,” Simone said eagerly.  “Let’s go, get this plant.”

“It is not as simple as that,” Pevas replied.  “To touch the Plant means instant death.  It will turn anyone who dares into ashes.”

“Then you’re saying there is no hope,” Simone replied.  “Storm Kar will be like that for the rest of his life, and it’s my fault.”

“The Great Spirits told us this might not happen,” Pevas said.  “We do not know how but they hinted there was a chance you could survive, though we are not sure how it is possible.  We only know that you could also die if we are wrong.”

“I’ve got to try it,” Simone said firmly.  “I owe Storm Kar that much.”

“You owe me nothing!” Storm Kar’s deep voice suddenly rang out across the chamber.

Simone spun round to find him standing in the doorway, his red eyes blazing with fury.  He marched towards them and both Pevas and Simone recoiled.

“What are you doing telling her about the Plant?” Storm Kar snapped at the birdmen. 

“You know its certain death to touch it!”

“Forgive us, but we only want you to both be happy,” Pevas said meekly.  “The Great Spirits called to us, we had to pass on what they say.  We just want to help.”

“We don’t need your help or that of the Great Spirits!” Storm Kar retorted.  “Do not interfere!”

“Don’t yell at Pevas!” Simone butted in, regaining her confidence again.  “They’re right, if there’s a chance to heal you, we’ve got to try it.”

“Not if it means you die!” Storm Kar snapped.  “If you die then all of this would be for nothing, and I couldn’t bear that.”

“But it’s my fault that you became scarred!” she protested.  “I can’t bear the thought that there is no way to reverse that.  This is all my fault!”

Storm Kar held her tightly in his arms.  “None of this is your fault.  I made the choice to go to Earth.  I understood the risks.  It was worth it to have you by my side.  Even if you decide to go back to your world, our time together was worth every sacrifice.”

Simone thought of Storm Kar alone and her heart bled.  She didn’t want to leave him now, and she didn’t care about his appearance.  It was what was underneath that counted, but she had done this to him and she was determined to put it right.

* * *