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My body is now covered in light red trails of fang and I smell like sex. Technically I need a shower asap, but I don’t want to wash away his scent. I just want more.
Again, where is he?
I get out of bed, naked, and find my crumpled nightshirt on the floor and put it on again. Damn, it’s cold without the warm layers of covers. Plus, Hale’s hot body kept me nice and warm all night. I pause to use the restroom, then return to pull a blanket off the bed, wrap it around me and make my way fully into the front room.
Out the front window I get a better view of the sun and the sparkling icy wonderland. Both of us could leave now if we wanted. But I don’t want to leave my new alien husband behind.
I find him sitting on the couch dressed in his black pajama pants with his face in his hands. He lifts his head and I let out a gasp of dismay. He looks truly upset. His dark eyes look wet and his features are filled with sadness.
I rush over, worried that he’s in pain and I don’t know why. “Hale, what is wrong? Are you hurt?”
He leans away from me and shakes his head. “You do not have to pretend Sabine. You must hate me. I am in anguish from my behavior last night.”
I stare at him in shock because I can’t even understand this line of reasoning. “Why would I hate you? What did you do wrong?”
“I didn’t allow you proper consent and now I am bonded to you and physically unable to leave. And there is our offspring to consider. I’d call Earth government and have the local military send an expert team to take me down and confine me until the Korn military returns to take me home. But our offspring can’t be raised here on this planet without me to provide Korn rituals for him or her.”
I sit down heavily beside him. “Hale, I don’t understand.”
“My mark is on your neck.”
I place a hand on my neck where he bit me last night and it’s true that I feel something different. I race to the bathroom because I’m super curious to see what this looks like. I flick on the light and see in the mirror two distinct fang marks on my skin. It’s pretty cool.
Hale suddenly stands behind me, his hands on my hips. “These are your permanent mating scars. Only given by one partner in a claiming to the other, usually a male to his breeding female to mark possession. It is a practice with primitive origins that we are still compelled to continue, even in the modern era.”
“This shows to all Korn that we are mates?”
“Yes.”
I blink. “How will everyone know you are mine too?”
“My proximity.” He guides me out of the bathroom and back to the front room. We sit again side by side on the couch. “You are strangely calm about this whole situation. I’ve been the one upset and you’ve been untroubled.”
“Maybe we were meant to get stranded here together overnight?”
“No, I was meant to be alone. Both of us were.”
“What I mean, is maybe you came into your frenzy because your body sensed I was near. When did your frenzy start?”
“When I arrived at a place called Big Sky. My Voltare friends like it there and they know my species enjoys the cold, so he suggested we meet there. He wanted to show me the beauty of this section of the planet Earth.”
I smile. “Hale, I work and live in Big Sky. Maybe that was where you scented me. That must’ve sent you into a blood frenzy. But then you couldn’t find me and luckily I arrived at the same cabin you’d rented.”
He lets out a deep sigh. “I still do not consider you having given full consent. I scented alcohol on your breath.”
“What do you consider full consent? I think there is a disconnect here. I think I’ve given all the consent and our sex last night was wonderful and I want more. But despite everything I’ve said and done, you still think you did something wrong. Give me this human the correct script, Hale. What exactly do I need to say for you to feel that we are mates and this subject is closed?”
“I carried you into my bedroom while you were asleep and took you while you were still slightly changed by the alcohol you ingested. You should be angry at me and wish for me to depart.”
“No, I love you.”
He blinks. “What did you say?”
“I said I love you. And I do. I met you yesterday and felt an immediate kinship. I was almost never afraid of you. We’ve spent almost twenty-four hours now alone together in this cabin, just the two of us. We talked for a long time and spent time getting to know each other. And I appreciate how you waited for me to be ready.”
“I pressured you.”
“You did, a little, but it was more like you were trying to pick me up at a bar. It wasn’t over the top.”
