Chapter 4
Phe’s pov
I have to tell her and then maybe if I did she might accept me.
I haven’t told anyone about it, but I think my mother has an idea.
Especially after she found out I licked Amber.
I need to tell her if only to clear up the mess with the licking so she doesn’t think I am some kind of monster freak.
“I want to explain what I did earlier…”
She looks at me confused and asks, “What do you mean?” She pauses as though thinking and her eyes widen slightly before going back to how they were before. “You mean…Hmm, the licking thing?” She asks shyly.
I nod, “Yes… The licking thing,” I begin but stop as soon as I see my younger sister Kora enter the room. “I’ll tell you later,” I tell her and she nods her head silently.
“Found them,” Kora chimes happily placing a box of the devices she wants Amber to help fix.
I take a step back and proceed to watch the two speak and work together.
Amber’s pov
He was just about to tell me something when Kora came in with the USB drives.
After that Phe walked over to the wall behind us, remaining silent as me and his sister looked at the damage.
“You and Phe seem to be getting on better?” She asks me laying out the contents of the box on the table.
“Yeah. I guess,” I shrug my shoulders unsure what to say.
“So about these,” I pick up one of the least damaged of the lot. “Have you got any tools I can use to tried and fix them?”
She presses a button on a control panel to the left of her and in an instant a large closet type storage room opened just a few feet in front of us.
“Wow,” I say out loud.
“One moment it looked like a normal wall and the next…” I trail off.
“I’m glad you like,” She giggles walking past me into the room and then stopping. “Are any of these any use to you?” She asks pointing to a wall of objects.
I walk over to where she is standing and look at the tools.
Most of the tools are really strange looking, a few similar looking to the tools I am used too.
But somehow, I manage to find the right type of tools for the job.
We carry everything to the work surface and place them down.
“Have you got a machine I can try and try to read them?” I ask not looking up from the table. I try to explain what I need.
“I forgot about that…” She pauses for a moment. “I have” She turns and began to leave the room, but pauses at the doorway. “I’ll be right back,” She turns to Phe who I had forgotten is even with us as he was so quiet. “Be nice,” She warns before leaving us alone for the second time in as many minutes.
“So what was you going to tell me before?” I ask hating the silence in the room.
I hear footsteps behind me. “Since the first time I found you up to now I have not left your side. Do you know why?”
I turn away from my work to look at him. He is standing just inches from, making me nervous but strangely not uncomfortable.
I shake my head, “No… I thought you were going to tell me about what happened earlier?” I ask confused, but also surprised by his confession “Did your father want someone to guard me or something?” I ask as a second thought.
“It has everything to do with the incident earlier and no, he never asked me to guard you. It isn’t needed, this ship is equipped with barriers in almost every room on it. So, if we needed to have you held safely then there would be no need for guards,” He explains.
“Really?”
“Yes. So you see…” He trails off.
“I guess. But then why?”
“First before I tell you I have to explain some things. Please let me finish what I have to say before you say anything. I promise I’ll answer any questions you have later.” I nod but say nothing, now giving him my full attention.
“Come and sit over here,” He indicates to a couple of seats off to one side of the room.
I do as he asked, with him closely following. Taking a seat and him beside me.
“My race – unlike many races – can only reproduce with one special person… Their genetic mate,” He pauses mid sentence and looks at me for about half a minute before continuing.
“That person we know by strong feelings we get towards them, scent and lastly taste…”
‘Taste? What the hell?’ I think.
Then as though a light switch was pressed… It clicks.
I look at him wide eyed. “You mean when you licked me?” I speak slowly not really believing what I am asking.
Looking at me with an unreadable expression. “Yes, Amber. You are my mate.”
To say I was shocked would be an understatement.
Never in a million years did I ever think I would end up in space. Let alone on a ship with aliens and now I find out I am a mate of one of them.
“What does this mean?” He looks confused by my question.
I sigh and rephrase my question. “I mean, what will happen now? What is meant to happen between the two of us?” I try to asked clearly but was never very good at speaking to others.
I saw a slight twitch in the corner of his beautiful lips.
‘At least he’s hot,’ I thought finding myself drawn to him the more I look at him.
“When I verified you are my mate, which was when I licked you and tasted you…”
I can’t help but think dirty thoughts when said that.
‘His two tongues working… No no no Amber! Now is not the time!’ I scold myself.
“Hmm, yes,” My words come out more husky than intended.
He gives me an unsure look but continued. “After that if you were of my species you would accept me and we would join.” He rubs the back of his neck. “But you are not. You will have to decide whether you want to accept me or not.” He looked down depressed. “And if you do we will have to complete the joining.”
He looked back at me with a small smile, “Any questions?”
‘God, he’s hot,’ He really was and he wasn’t even trying.
“Yes, I have lots. But firstly what is ‘joining’ and are you sure our species are compatible for it?” I have an idea what it is, but want to confirm my suspicions.
I expected him to be nervous or shy or something when he answered but no…
He stepped closer until our bodies were barely touching.
I gulped and he look at me with a heat gaze.
“The joining is when I put this…” He takes my hand and places it on his hard crotch, “Into this…” He moved my hand with his still on top over my core.
I bit my lip to stop a moan escaping my mouth.
“And as for being compatible,” He moved his hand under mine and felt my core through my clothes.
He smirked, “I think there is no problem there,”
I somehow muffled a moan so he didn’t hear it.
He took a step back and frowned again, “But only if you accept me.”
“If I didn’t would you get another mate?” I ask not really thinking of rejecting him at the moment, I was just curious.
He looked depressed again. “There would be no other. There is only ever one.”
I frowned, “Can’t you join with non mates? I mean my species can,” I said the last part quieter than the rest.
“No, we are unable to join with anyone other than our mates,” He looked at me sadly, but I don’t think it was because he couldn’t join with random women. “Does this mean you have joined with someone else?” I could hear the heartbreak in his words.
“Not my personally. I am still a virgin. That means I have never joined, but most adults of my kind have joined with more than one person in their lifetime. But I wanted to wait for a special person,” I smile softly at him.
Phe’s body seems to relax from a tension I didn’t notice before and he gave me a heart breaking smile. “Then I am glad and hope you will give me a chance,” He takes my hand and licks the back of it and inhales deeply before pulling away with a sheepish smile. “Sorry. I just had to one last time. I will give you time now to think about it,” I nodded and he returned the spot he was stood in before his sister left.
I was surprised, but not disgusted by what he did. In fact I actually found it kind of sweet, cute.
Turning back to the desk full of USB’s I tried to concentrate on fixing them, but my mind kept wandering.
Only a couple of minutes Koya returned empty handed, but behind her a man I had yet to meet with a mass of electronics.
Koya grinned, “You wanted something to make a reader…”
I got so involved in the making of the reader and fixing the USBs that I forgot that where I was, despite having these strange tools to do it. I heard some speaking from behind me and it got my attention.
“You really know what you’re doing,” Koya more told than asked sounding some what surprised.
“Thanks,” I chuckled slightly.
“She doesn’t mean it as an insult. It is just the planet didn’t seem that advanced, yet you can do this,” The unknown man who brought the things in with Kora spoke.
“Sorry. I forgot to introduce you. This is Ty. He is my mate,” Kora then turned to Ty. “Ty, this is Amber…” She paused. “I think that’s how you say it.”
“Yes. That was right,” I tell her.
“Nice to meet you, Ty,” I smile to him.
“I have never met an alien in person before,” Koya looked at him. “Shhh.”
“It’s okay. I’ve never met any before today either.”
“How did you end up in that stasis unit?” He asked ignore Koya’s disapproving looks.
“I don’t know. That’s what I’m hoping to find out on one of these,” I hold up the USB memory stick.
I turn back to my work and check it over.
“I think I am done…” I look over the the machine and sticks. “Yep. I just need to connect it to the rest of your system and we’ve ready.”
“I can help with that,” Koya rushed over and began plugging in my creation into a panel she had opened near the console.
She turned it on and waited for the software to integrate with their main system.
Once it was on I placed the first of several USB memory sticks and with the help of Koya – Mostly because I had no idea how to read their language – opened the files. After breaking the encryption again with the help of Koya, we slowly searched through each one. One contained information about the experiment I was doing and all the results they collected. The second and third and fourth more research and other unimportant things I would go over later. The fifth and sixth were corrupted, but I told them I would try and fix them later, but I don’t hold out much hope.
Finally the last one. My eyes grew wider, “That’s more like it,” I said almost bouncing on the balls of my feet.
“What is it?” I turned to see all three looking at me unreadable expressions.
“Videos.” Blank looks. “You’ll see.” I turned back to the screen and clicked on the first one.
