Book 4
Blurb:
She forgot when evil came after you it didn’t care about your desire to be safe. It was easy to be in the wrong place at the right time. Now she was paying the price.
They said they wanted her blood, but they really wanted her life.
Julian was getting away from it all. Sometimes there was such a thing as too much family. He dare not say that to his. When you were an alien on an alien planet you were expected to stick close together.
The Earth has been his home for hundreds of years, it no longer felt alien. He struck out on his own and did the last thing his family expected of him—short-order cook for a hole in the wall restaurant—a hole in the wall he loved.
He might have spent the next ten years there if Aliya hadn’t stumbled in starving and looking for a hero. He was no one’s hero, but Aliya could make him believe when she looked at him.
He was fine with letting the Earth battle their own monsters until those monsters came for Aliya. Now he would move not only the Earth but the heavens to keep her safe.
Adult content 18 and older
Excerpt:
That was the life she lived constantly on the run. There was no way she was bringing Julian with the soft lips and his eerie green eyes into the hell she lived through.
“You have a right to protect me, I can’t even argue with you. So, I won’t. I also won’t leave you. Wherever you go, wherever you run, I’ll be right there by your side.”
“That’s not how this works.” Her voice that should have been loud and boisterous was soft, calm, gentle. The last time someone cared was her parents. There had been others, both male and female that tried to get close to her. They wanted her to believe they cared. Insincerity came with its own smell an aura that you couldn’t deny. The stink of it was usually polluting her nose long before the actual snake showed itself.
She picked up none of that from Julian. He was different, an enigma she wanted to get to know and understand. Would his eyes flash before he kissed her? Were his lips as soft as they looked? Was his body so hard she’d hurt herself or was his skin like the finest silk? There were so many more questions her now horny body wanted to ask, but she didn’t have time for this.
She took the last bite of her meatloaf and mashed potatoes. It was a lot better than she thought it would be.
“I have to go to the bathroom, um the woman’s room.” Why anyone would want to claim a public bathroom as the woman’s room was beyond her.
“I’ll be waiting for you.”
She gave him her best smile and wished she could have stolen a kiss. She really did have to go but made short work of it. Once her hands were washed, she waited for a large family to be headed out and blended in with them. This was one of the times being vertically challenged would help her. Her hands were hot and sweaty. She had already run them against her pants three times, and she wasn’t at the hummer yet.
When she got there, she expected to see Julian leaning against the bumper, legs crossed, eyes twinkling. There was no Julian, her stomach dropped. She was doing this, stealing his car and leaving him behind. Bile tried to come up bringing with it her delicious lunch. She stamped her foot on the ground in an effort to gain control over her body.
Leaving him hurt. She didn’t know why it just did. Seeing him bleeding out and dying would hurt worse. She had to protect him. It took her several tries to mount the step that would get her into the hummer. Don’t steal hummers, she told herself as she changed the seat to make it easier to drive.
Tears poured down her face as she drove off. “Stupid,” she sniffed. “You had to save his life, and he’s so stubborn. How else were you going to leave him behind? He’ll be okay, he’ll catch a ride to wherever he lives, and he’ll be safe, safe, safe.” The word kept echoing in her head. It was the one thing she would never be.
“Or maybe he’ll just climb into the backseat of his vehicle.”
She screamed jerking the wheel. His quick reflexes kept them on the road without hitting anyone. There was an angry procession of cars that hit their horns, but they ignored them in favor of continuing their journey.
“How?”
“I laid the keys out for you to pocket. I planned to wait before I revealed myself but the tears…”
She nodded and carefully pulled over to the side of the road. There was a distinct possibility that she would have gone back for him. Never had she felt like her heart was being ripped apart except for the night she lost her parents. No pain should ever be that great. To suffer like that again even for a minute had done something to her. Everything inside of her body had rearranged. She was different now; she didn’t know how she just knew.
“Since you are here, you can drive this monstrosity you call a car.” She crawled over to the passenger side as he came from the back to rearrange the driver seat.
“Don’t ever do that to me again,” she demanded with a huff. Her eyes closed as she pulled his heavy coat over her getting warm.
“What?”
“Make me think I’m all alone.”
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