Chapter 1
VERA RODANTHEE
I stood there not knowing how to answer his questions. He was a menacing alien warrior, a powerful leader of the Corillion race. He had taken everything from me, but he still had one thing that I wanted, and so I obeyed him. I obeyed him even though it broke me inside.
"It has been a month that we have laid together almost every night, and yet you are not with offspring yet? What is wrong with you? I cannot have a defective human female as my mate. I am the leader of the Seeduon asteroid. It is my responsibility to create Corillion offspring. There must be something wrong with you!” Cyro shouted at me as he paced back-and-forth in my bedroom chamber.
"There is nothing wrong with me! I do not know why I am not producing your offspring. I am a human! You are an alien! Perhaps that is the reason why we cannot produce your seed!” I shouted back at him.
He froze and looked at me with his icy blue eyes. His long blond hair was pulled back into a bun low on his head. Metallic blue scales ran down the right side of his body covering his shoulder down to his hip. He was shirtless, as most of the Corillion alien warriors were at all times. A belt went around their waist where they carried their weapons and was on top of tight, skin-like trousers that were pushed into their clunky boots that were high, up to the knee. This was the standard Corillion way of dress for the alien warriors, and Cyro was no different. His eyes narrowed.
"Are you saying there something wrong with me? That I am not capable of producing offspring? It is not I that is defective. It is you. If you do not pregnant with offspring in a month’s time, then I will kill him!” he shouted.
"No! Do not harm him! You promised me. I agreed to come with you here to this damn asteroid only if you promised not to hurt my husband!" I pleaded with him.
"Yes, but part of that arrangement was that you were going to give me offspring, only then would you and your husband keep your lives. You have not kept your part of the deal. Something must change, Vera, or he will not survive,” he said as he moved toward the door.
"I will try harder. Do not hurt him. Do not harm my husband. When can I speak with him? It has been a month since I spoke to him.”
He stopped in the doorway but did not turn around to look at me. He was quiet for a while and then he said, “When you are pregnant, then you will be able to see him, but not until then. I will visit you tonight here in your bed chamber,” Cyro said before he stepped out of the door and closed it.
I sat down on the bed in my bed chamber. Tears began to flow down my face. I never thought that I would find myself in a situation like this. It was only a month ago that I was at my husband’s side and happy. Now I was the captive of a Corillion leader millions of miles from Earth. There was no way to escape, and my husband was being kept in the prison dungeons.
I was now the wife of Cyro, and I was being forced to give him offspring. I never thought that a photographer like myself would find herself in a situation like this. It had all happened so fast. There was nothing that we could have done to stop it; I only wished that we had decided to go somewhere else, or nowhere at all and stayed at home. It was because my husband Marcus and I decided to take that trip to the desert that we were here now.
"Please come with me, Vera. I need your beautiful photographs to go along with my article,” my husband Marcus said as he walked into the kitchen.
"Your words are lovely. My Photos barely do it justice,” I said, placing a playful kiss on one cheek and then the other, and then on his lips. I always did that. I found it fun and adorable. Marcus seemed to like it too.
"You flatter me. But let's do this assignment together. This magazine pays top dollar and pays expenses. We could get away and have a trip on them. Besides, don't you want to see the desert bloom?”
"Yes, I do want to go. I am just giving you a hard time. Of course I want to do this assignment with you. That's the whole reason I married you, after all,” I said teasing him.
"Of course you did. I knew it. You were using me for my connections to editors. You are too good for me anyway,” he said playfully as he picked me up and set me on the counter. Then we kissed. Our deep, passionate kisses turned into a hot sexual encounter. The next day we were off to the desert where Marcus would be writing a story about the spring desert bloom. I would be taking the photographs that would go with the article.
This was how I met my husband to begin with. We were both on assignment covering the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. We met in a small bar and hit it off almost like magic. Ever since then, we had worked a lot together, almost half of our assignments we were able to work together, where I would take the photographs and he would write the story. It was a perfect combination and the best life I could ask for.
But then it all changed that day in the desert. We were in the middle of an isolated section of Nevada when we were abducted. Of course working in journalism and news we knew about the Corillion alien race and how they were abducting human females from Earth for the past 20 years or so, but you never think it's going to happen to you. I never thought it would happen to me because I always thought that happened to females that were alone, not accompanied by their husband. But I was wrong.
In the desert, it all happened so quickly, and we were put to sleep as soon as we were taken. So when I woke up, I was already on Seeduon, the asteroid millions of miles away from Earth. There on Seeduon sat a grand fortress built of the same stone as the asteroid. The fortress covered a quarter of the asteroid that moved slowly through the darkness of space. Corillion alien warriors were the only ones occupying the asteroid, until my husband and I were brought to it.
Now I was forced to be the wife of the Corillion leader known as Cyro Seeduon. He had put my husband in a dungeon cell in his massive fortress, but I did not know where. Then I was given a choice: mate and become the wife of Cyro and give him offspring, or don't and my husband would be killed. I loved Marcus with all my heart, and I could not be the cause of his death, so I went along.
That was a month ago, and I had not become pregnant by the Corillion leader. I longed to see my husband. I never got the chance to say goodbye because when we were abducted, we were put to sleep. We were separated so quickly and I was filled with hope that if I did this one thing for Cyro, they would eventually let us go together back to Earth.
I wanted to be back on Earth with my husband like before. It was the only shred of hope that I held onto. It was the only thing that got me through these long nights of Cyro visiting me in my chamber at night. I would lay there and let him do what he needed to do, and then he would leave. This was not a marriage. He was using me.
I was at least grateful that I had my own room far from his. Though he professed that he was madly in love with me, I think he was mistaking love for possession and obsession, because this was not love.
So it had been a month since my husband and I were taken, and Cyro was very unsatisfied by the fact that I had not become pregnant. My only solace was that I would get to see my husband again, and I hoped that it would be soon.
I had no friends in the sprawling fortress of Seeduon. There were no other human females. I knew that there were some on a few of the other asteroids and planetary bodies in the Corillion galaxy, but none of them were on this one. I had no one to speak to, and it was very lonely and frightening. I wanted someone to confide in. I felt very alone.
But there was one Corillion who always seemed to catch my eye. I noticed him because he was always staring at me. He would always give me this look as though he was carrying a secret that he wanted to tell me. That intrigued me. He was mysterious.
He had long black hair down to his shoulders and big brown eyes that looked kind, very different from the other alien warriors. He had the same massive physical form as the other Corillions: he was 8-feet tall with broad, muscular shoulders, toned abs, and thick arms. He was a fierce-looking warrior with the metallic blue scales down his right side, and a scar ran along his right arm; I knew that he had probably seen battles. He was a true warrior, but his interest in me was distracting.
It was distracting to me even now, as I sat at Cyro’s side on the platform in the throne room. I sat there as Cyro listened to one alien warrior after another plead their case about different things that I found boring, such as who was the rightful owner of a small land vehicle or small space pod. It was Cyro’s job to keep the peace between the brawny alien warriors. It was then that I looked over to the right and saw the same alien warrior that I had been seeing for a month, with the long black hair, staring at me. He was trying to tell me something with his eyes, but I did not know what. It was distracting. I thought it was very strange for him to be staring at me so.
"Truo!” Cyro shouted. It startled me. I quickly stopped staring at the tall and dark alien warrior. To my surprise, that same alien warrior stepped forward in front of Cyro.
"Yes, my leader, Cyro," the alien warrior said.
I was startled that Cyro was calling this alien warrior forward, this alien warrior named Truo. Had he caught him staring at me?
"Truo, you are second here. You are my second in command, and I expect great things from you. Tell me what is the next of your plans,” Cyro said. I looked at the alien warrior in shock. This alien warrior named Truo was the second leader after Cyro. He was a very high-ranking alien warrior here on Seeduon.
"Yes, Great Leader Cyro. I have a great plan to go to Earth to gather human females for the high-ranking alien warriors here on Seeduon. Now that you have acquired your wife, we are next to acquire ours. It is the way of the Corillion. Take care of your leader first, and then the alien warriors underneath him may begin to mate. That is my next plan; with your permission, we would like to leave in twenty days time."
"I approve of this plan. Bring as many human females as you can find. You may begin the preparations for this mission. Truo, approach," he said calling him even closer. Truo bowed his head and then climbed the stairs toward us. He stood directly in front of Cyro and I. His masculine scent caught my attention. He lowered his head as Cyro motioned for him to lean in as though he was going to tell him a secret. Then he whispered to Truo, “Make sure that you find a human female for me as well. I am not certain, but I might have a need for two human females. This one is disappointing,” he whispered.
Truo moved his gaze toward me. I was shaking with rage, but I restrained myself. How dare he say such a thing about me when I was right next to him! I felt a bit of embarrassment as the warrior Truo looked at me. I was so angry. I was nothing but a possession to this Corillion Cyro. But I had hope. In my anger, I reasoned that if Cyro found another, then he would let my husband and I go. It was something to hope for.
"Yes, my leader. As you request,” Truo said quietly.
"You are dismissed. Next,” Cyro said.
Before Truo walked out of the hall, he turned and gave me a look. I didn't know what he was thinking or what was going on, but he was hiding something, and I needed to know what.
Later, as I was walking back to my bedroom chamber in the narrow maze-like gray stone halls that were dimly lit, I would meet this mysterious alien warrior stranger again.
My arm was suddenly yanked and I was pulled into a small alcove in the hall. A strong large hand was put on top of my mouth, suppressing any sound that would come out in a panic. My eyes grew wide as I stared up into the face of the mysterious stranger Truo.
"Shhh... don't scream. I come as a friend. Promise not to scream,” he said as he began to take the pressure off of my mouth. I nodded my head yes. He took his hands off of me and put them in the air as though surrendering.
"What the hell are you doing? You frightened me,” I whispered to him in anger.
"I am sorry. That is not what I meant to do. I merely wanted to speak to you in secret. I do not want to frighten or hurt you; that is the last thing I could ever want for you. It is the reason why I am here right now, risking a lot,” he whispered to me. His body was so close to mine that I could feel the heat radiating off his bare chest. I had not been this close to anyone except for Cyro for a month. It was startling to me.
"What is it? Why are you here? Does this have to do with my husband?" I asked, suddenly feeling hopeful and excited. Then there was a loud rustling in the hall! Someone was coming.
"I must go. It is not safe for either of us right here. Can you meet me tonight, in the underground passage?” he whispered as he looked down the hall waiting for someone to come out and catch us.
"The underground passage? I don't know what that is,” I said to him confused.
"When you come out of your bedroom chamber, go right down the hall, then left then right again, and there will be a narrow spiral staircase in an indent in the stone wall, just like the one we stand in now. Follow that staircase down until you cannot go down any longer. I will be waiting for you there. Meet me there at midnight,” he said, and then he walked away quickly and was gone.
I was confused as I stood there in the alcove with wide eyes. My breathing was rapid, and I was excited and exhilarated over the strange encounter. Not only because it was with the mysterious alien warrior that had been staring at me, but because he might have news of my husband.
I finally unfroze and moved fast to my bedroom chamber and closed the door behind me. I leaned against the door, breathing heavily. I didn't know why the encounter left me so breathless. There was so much about it that was so mysterious. The stranger that had been staring at me for a month had finally attempted contact with me. I did not know why.
He was asking me to meet in secret at midnight in a place that I didn't even know existed. It sounded dangerous, but I needed to know what he knew. But it was more than that, it was his proximity of his body to mine that had my heart racing, and that made me feel very guilty. My husband was locked up in a cell, and I was feeling attracted to the very race of alien that had done that to him. It was wrong. It was very wrong. Still, I had felt some amount of desire and arousal when he was close to me. I could not deny that. Now, I would have to find a way to meet with him, and that would be a very dangerous thing to do for everyone.