Page 1 of His Human Runaway

Chapter 1

Mica

Cold, misty rain falls on my head, continuing to mess up my hair, causing my tears to start again. I’ve been trudging through an alien jungle for two days now, alone, lost and miserable, in basically the hardest situation I’ve ever been through in my entire life. I don’t know how I’ve made it this far despite the pain in my feet and legs, but somehow, I have.

And how did this happen, where I’ve been abandoned in an alien jungle, considering I’m a twenty-six-year-old human born and raised on New Earth?

It all began when I moved to the planet Tarvos for a higher paying job because I thought I was so smart.

Nope. Not smart.

Instead, accepting that position led to my eventual kidnapping by a group of Hyrrokin mafia and stuck in my present situation—running for my life through the wildlands, searching for civilization again so I can find someone to help me get the evidence burning a hole in my pocket to the proper authorities.

Wet hair sticks to my face and I pant with exhaustion as I stride through the dense foliage, staying off the main road so I won’t be discovered. Waking up next to a giant tree in sticksand dirt, is never good. My back kills me and my neck throbs with a persistent ache that creeps up toward my temples. I didn’t plan for any of this terrain and have no food, water or proper clothing for the weather. And I had to remain hidden overnight underneath a bed of leaves and between large tree roots, because assassins are out there, looking for me, and if I’m caught, I’m certain I’ll be killed.

Because Rokena Brimstone, the leader of this particular mafia clan, knows I recorded a meeting I overheard and they cannot let this evidence get to the peacekeepers on this planet.

I thought the rainy season was over when I escaped from the mansion but apparently there was one more storm left in the weather pattern—just to make my life miserable.

The more steps I take through the drizzle, the more I think about my circumstances. What could I have done differently to avoid this outcome? Not much. There were so many events entirely out of my control.

The corporation I worked for closed their Singapore office on New Earth and I was excited to be recruited and hired off planet by what I thought was a reputable Intergalactic staffing firm. My new position would be on Tarvos, the home planet of the Hyrrokin species. This position sounded like a great jump-off point to my grand plans of one day working for one of the huge intergalactic corporations on a space station, or the planet Salo. My friends and family thought living off planet sounded crazy. But I thought it was a grand adventure, and even though the planet Tarvos and the Hyrrokin species were entirely foreign to me, the employment pay was high and the moving bonus phenomenal. So I signed up.

But I soon learned this wasn’t a real job.

I was hired as an “assistant for the CEO” of some up-and-coming finance corporation. But instead, I arrived on this distant planet, on the other side of the four sectors, to discoverI wasn’t here to work as planned. A group of nefarious Hyrrokin males didn’t want me to work at all. They wanted to pass me around as their semi-consensual, temporary human pleasure mate (meaning they didn’t strictly care if this was what I wanted or not and I was never going to be paid for the job I’d signed up for, or even the “job” I didn’t sign up for.). Basically, I was kidnapped off the transporter disk after I arrived and kept at their remote mansion to be sexually abused until they tired of me.

At first, I was scared to death that these huge, powerful, red-skinned Hyrrokin all look like satanic beings from my darkest nightmares. When I stepped off the transporter disk I almost fainted. They all breathe deadly fire and have claws, fangs and barbed tails. Their smiles are a murderous grimace.

I did my best to get over my initial terror. I was here to do a job, not overreact to the appearance of this new-to-me species. I was the “alien” in this situation. At first, they had me doing actual assistant work in the traditional sense, which I think they found funny, tricking me into playing along with their game. But this façade quickly dissipated, and I learned I was meant to provide an entirely different service.

These males are part of an organized crime syndicate known as the Hyrrokin mafia and have actual businesses as a front for their fraud, which was why I didn’t understand at first that this was all a scam. But the moment I learned I was living with and working for a crime family I wanted off the planet and demanded a ticket back home. Except, there was no way out. They find my lack of consent both sexy and hilarious. I find it criminal.

I was bruised and scratched, locked in my room and threatened often, but nothing further. This was only because Akin Brimstone, the son of the matriarch of their crime family, instantly took a liking to me. He was supposed to share me withhis best friends and cousins, or at least that was the plan until he met me in real life and decided he wanted me for himself.

“Get away from her,” he snarled. “She’s mine.”

He thought I’d be “a stupid human” and was bringing me in as a toy. But after my initial intrusive and embarrassing medical exam in the med lab, the heir learned I was still a virgin and suddenly his entire demeanor changed. He declared me “feisty and fantastically beautiful and the sexiest creature I’ve ever encountered” and “my precious virginal future bound.”

It was all so absurd. He wanted me as his mate and the mother of his offspring? A human on his arm as a status symbol to show off to others. Since I happened to have not had actual sex with penetration yet, I was somehow of value to him?

Ridiculous.

“Not happening, buddy,” I growled with resolve.

They’d decided that my body belonged to them. It’s so strange. Back on New Earth I’m overweight and entirely average. Yes, I often get compliments on my smile and sparkling hazel eyes, but my looks don’t trigger a second glance, therefore I fly entirely under the radar and just go about my normal life without having to worry about harassment. I’m starting to realize maybe I liked that situation? It was cozy and protective. Being ignored by men might be better? Because men can be dangerous.

And (excuse my language) but no fucking way am I marrying that mafia asshole.

I watched the way he handled those closest to him, and it was disgusting. He treated both adversaries and those beneath him with derision, giving everyone at the mansion a mean nickname. He thought nothing of slapping and kicking his staff if they irritated him in the least. The thought of becoming legally bound to this abusive male for life, this odious Hyrrokin as thefather of my offspring, with me and my children stuck under his oppressive thumb, left me nauseous.

He was livid at my repeated denials to proceed with him to the courthouse to exchange legal vows. He considered his proposal a great gift to me. How could I deny the heir? But I did.

I do give him credit though, he didn’t rape me or let anyone else touch me either, mainly because he wanted to save my virginity for our bound ceremony. “Your innocence is mine.”

Disgusting.

I was stuck in that mansion during the entire rainy season while these males disputed Akin’s claim. A harrowing experience that lasted an entire month and included daily destructive thunderstorms raging outside. And nights spent inside my room huddled in a corner holding anything in my hands that might serve as a weapon.

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