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  Alien Insertion

  The Tuorin Legacy, Book 4

  Immortal Angel

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Alien Insertion

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  Published by Fallen Press, Ltd.

  Copyright © 2016

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  Other works by Immortal Angel

  Angel Warrior: The Complete Series

  Angel Warrior

  Angel Betrayed

  Angel Awakened

  Angel Captured

  Angel Forever

  Alien Rogue Warrior: Box Set (Serials 1-5)

  To Kiss A Warrior

  To Touch A Warrior

  To Protect A Warrior

  To Trust A Warrior

  To Love A Warrior

  Alien Rogue Warrior: Box Set (Serials 6-10)

  To Challenge A Warrior

  To Obey A Warrior

  To Forgive A Warrior

  To Wound A Warrior

  To Save A Warrior

  Alien Invasion: The Complete Series

  Alien Invasion

  Alien Intercourse

  Alien Infiltration

  Alien Insertion

  Alien Exile

  For Robert

  I couldn’t do this without you…and I wouldn’t want to.

  Thank you.

  I wish for you every dream you can dream..and I believe with you all things are possible.

  Immortal Angel

  P.S. – You are already beautiful.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  About the Author

  Preview of To Kiss A Warrior

  1

  Ande’ie

  I watch as Juordin presses the button again, obviously in disbelief.

  How much time do we have to get away from the explosion before it’s too late?

  For a second I want to ask him, but then I decide I probably wouldn’t like the answer.

  My body is shaking, whether from the aftermath of the fight, or from the realization we might be minutes away from death. I’m not sure which. “What can I do?”

  Casin and Corin enter the command room behind us.

  “Why aren’t we moving?” Casin asks.

  “Casin, take the controls. Corin, Ande, with me!” Juordin commands, jumping up and sprinting for the door. We follow him down the hall to the cargo bay, and he opens a door in the floor I’ve never seen before. He jumps onto a ladder there, descending from sight. I follow suit, Corin right behind me.

  I jump off the ladder into a long, well-lit space, and I realize this is where the humming comes from. Juordin is running down a metal walkway in the center of the tunnel, next to a long, round tube. As I sprint behind him, I realize the tube is broken into sections, each section having a glass panel with blinking lights. When I reach the far end, I see Juordin inspecting a huge crack in the round metal tube.

  Corin curses when he sees it. “Shit. We’re fucked.”

  “You think?” Juordin asks him, running to the end of the space and opening a door. Corin and I are close behind. There are boxes, buckets, and cases of unknown materials filling the shelves and the floor.

  “Look for the resining agent,” Juordin orders, and Corin steps into the cramped space beside him.

  Juordin hands me a large, smooth container. “Be careful, it’s heavy.”

  He’s not wrong. He grabs an even larger container and an empty bucket. “Take these back to where the case is cracked.”

  I walk back slowly, taking care not to drop the container.

  “You can set it down,” Juordin says, placing his own container on the metal walkway. He hurries back to the small closet of materials and comes back with a strange device. There are three long tubes going up into it.

  Juordin opens the two containers and puts a hose into each of them, then Corin places a third, smaller container next to the others. Juordin makes an adjustment on the device, then puts the third tube into the smaller container. He hands me the device and takes off his shirt, rolling it and stuffing it into the crack.

  “I need you to point this at the crack while Corin and I hold up part of the case. When you squeeze this trigger, liquid will spray out, but it will harden into metal in seconds.” He gives me the lever, and he and Corin walk around to the other side. I hear Juordin count—three, two, one—and the case visibly moves upward, the crack getting smaller.

  “Spray now,” he orders loudly. “Start inside the crack, then give a good coating over the crack and the outside edges. Don’t stop until the crack is completely gone.”

  I’m not sure what I expected when I start spraying, but the smooth, silvery liquid that hardens into a metal shell was not it. The liquid comes out much more slowly than I had imagined, the layer very thin. This is going to take forever.

  After several minutes, I can hear Juordin and Corin groaning with effort. By the time I’m done, several more minutes have passed. I can’t believe the bomb on the cat ship hasn’t exploded yet.

  “Come here.” Juordin hits a button on a small panel of buttons on the wall. “Punch it.”

  The engine starts, the humming much louder from here. Juordin and Corin come around the engine, and we all watch to see if it will hold as Casin pilots us away from the Ardak mother ship. After a few minutes, Juordin nods at Casin and motions toward the ladder at the far end of the engine room.

  We run back down the long walkway, but before we can reach it, we’re hit with something and the entire ship starts to shake.

  The two men exchange a glance. “Shock wave?” Juordin asks above the shaking.

  “I just hope we got far enough—”

  But before he can finish his thought, the ship starts to tip and a roaring fills my ears. I look for something to grasp on to, but there’s nothing in reach.

  Juordin and Corin both throw their arms around me. The three of us fall to the floor near the ladder as Juordin reaches for the bottom of it.

  His fingers don’t quite make it.

  The universe is spinning, tipping on its axis, and we start to slide backward toward the center of the room.

  The force of the shaking is enormous. My teeth are chattering. It feels as if my bones are shaking apart. I try to hold on to the warriors, as they hold on to me.

  The ship can’t handle this.

  We’re going to tear apart.

  But at least we took those bastards out with us.

  I’m terrified out of my mind, but as I clutch on to Juordin one thought is stronger than all the rest. At least I’m going to die with my mate. The shaking dies down for a moment and we go to our hands and knees. I hear myself groaning as if from far away. We crawl toward the ladder. Every movement is arduous, difficult. I can’t get my muscles to obey me. Left arm, right arm. Left foot, right foot. Moving but inches at a time.

  Through sheer force of will, I arrive at the base of the ladder. The door to the floor above is still open, far above me.

  But we’re hit with another wa
ve, this one harder and louder. The shaking intensifies and I realize I’m screaming, but there’s no sound. Just a terrible roar that pervades everything.

  I try to reach for Juordin, but I can’t control my movements. I collapse on the floor, shaking with the ship.

  I hear a terrible crack, and a blue light emerges from behind me.

  But I can’t worry about it, because I can’t do anything about it.

  The shaking is never ending.

  Even my mind is shaking apart.

  When the blackness finally comes, I welcome it.

  2

  Juordin

  I open my eyes in disbelief.

  We’re alive? How is it even possible?

  I try to rise, but every movement hurts. A lot. I’m used to some pain with the toxin, but not at this level.

  Corin is beside me, Ande has slid a bit farther away. I crawl to him and shake him on the way to her.

  He rouses, eyes wide. “What the hell was all that?”

  “I think it was a shock wave from the cat ship. They must have had a massive source of power on board.”

  “This is why I like to keep my feet on the ground.” He tries to sit up. “I feel like I was in a fight with a dozen Fighting Spetars. The ones with double tusks. You hurting that bad?”

  I shake Ande gently. “I don’t know.”

  She doesn’t move, so I shake her harder. “Ande! Ande, wake up!”

  I pick her up in my arms, even though the movement makes my muscles scream in protest. Watching her closely, I see the rise and fall of her chest. At least she’s still alive.

  “Please, just open your eyes!” My voice holds an edge of hysteria, but she still doesn’t respond.

  Turning to Corin, I meet his worried gaze. “She isn’t waking.”

  “Did she hit her head or something?”

  My fingers push through her thick hair and run along her scalp. “I don’t think so.”

  “Fuck!” The panic in his voice has me looking up sharply. “Did you notice the blue light during the shock wave?”

  My heart stops. There’s only one thing that could mean. The engine seals had cracked. We’re all going to die. Slowly and painfully. But soon.

  I groan but get up despite the pain, lifting Ande with me and hauling her over my shoulder. “Healing bunk.”

  He nods, leading the way and climbing the ladder before me. When he reaches the top, he turns, kneels down, and grabs Ande’s arms. He hauls her up while I push, both of us groaning with the effort.

  He helps me pick her up this time, and I don’t even protest. The pain in my body is excruciating, my muscles protesting every movement.

  We rush down the hall and he raises the glass so I can lay Ande on the bunk.

  After the glass closes over her, I lean over it, panting. But all I can see is her pale face. Even though I can’t see the radiation slowly destroying her body, I know it’s there. Killing her. As insidiously as the toxin.

  My heart twists. If she hadn’t come with me, she’d be safe somewhere. She was supposed to outlive us all, and now she might be the first to go. I can’t lose her.

  I swallow around the lump in my throat. She can’t die. I won’t let her.

  Corin’s hand comes down on my shoulder.

  “You know this will take all the juice we have. And she still may not make it. Some organ damage is irreversible.”

  I still. Of course I know logically that most people exposed to radiation experience terrible sickness and loss of bodily control before finally dying. But my little warrioress can survive this. She’s defied all other odds.

  Don’t think about it, I command myself. My men still need me. I can’t afford to give in to my fears.

  Glancing at Corin, I see him studying Ande in the oddest way.

  That’s when it hits me. Putting her in the only healing bunk didn’t just doom me, but him, as well. It’s a testament of Corin’s loyalty to me that he didn’t protest my use of the bunk. The two of us are going to die a lot sooner now that we’ve been hit by the radiation. Maybe immediately.

  “Corin…” I start, not sure what to say.

  “Save it, Juordie.” He waves me away. “I would have done the same.”

  But this isn’t his mate. It’s mine. I can never repay his loyalty.

  “At least we don’t have to wonder when it will be,” he says, forcing a smile.

  “Yeah.” The room starts to spin.

  Just then, Casin comes in.

  “Who’s piloting…the ship?” I ask, struggling to catch my breath.

  “We’re in orbit.” He rubs a hand nervously through his blond hair. “And you’ll never guess where.”

  “Where?” Corin and I ask at the same time.

  He takes a deep breath. “Around Ardakat. The cat planet.”

  My mouth drops open. This can’t really be happening. No one has this bad of luck.

  “What are the chances?” Corin says, his voice laced with disbelief.

  “About three billion to one,” Casin says, crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall. “From what I’ve gathered, that shock wave literally blew us through the wormhole and through space on the other side in the opposite direction of home.” His lips quirk up at the corners. “By all rights, we should be dead. But I don’t know which is worse. If those bastards realize we’re here…”

  I can’t even answer. I press a button on the wall and a sleeping bunk comes out. I really wish it was a healing bunk, but it’s not. I climb onto it unsteadily, shaking.

  “What happened to you guys?”

  I catch a glimpse of Corin doing the same on another bunk across the room.

  “Engine broke. Blue light. Irradiated.”

  “But the healing bunk…” Casin’s eyes go to Ande inside the bunk. “Fuck.”

  “I believe that’s been said before.” I try to smile, but it comes out as a grimace. “The cat planet.” I chuckle weakly, looking at Ande underneath the glass beside me. “She’s going to love that.”

  3

  Ande’ie

  “Ande’ie?” Someone shakes me. “Princess Ande’ie?”

  My eyes snap open, squinting against the flashing red-and-white lights that pierce the semidarkness of the ship. At least there are no sirens.

  “Whew, you’re still with us.” The man sighs in relief.

  For a moment, I don’t recognize him. Then I vaguely remember he’s one of the warriors. He’s tall and broad, with long, wavy brown hair. He’s the only one of the Tuorian soldiers I’ve seen with a bushy brown beard. I search my brain for his name. Therin. “What happened?”

  “The Ardak ship exploded, and the shock wave blew us through the wormhole. Good riddance to those cats.”

  “How long was I asleep?”

  “About a day,” Therin replies.

  “A day?! Where’s Juordin?” I sit up, sliding my legs off the bunk.

  That’s when I realize he’s standing between me and the bed next to me.

  “Who’s on that bed?” I recognize the leather pants. Juordin.

  He eyes me closely. “How do you feel?”

  “I want to see him.”

  He sighs and scrubs a hand down his face, moving out of the way so I can hop down from the bunk. Juordin lies there, gray and still.

  I gasp. “What happened to him?” I touch his face, but he doesn’t move. He’s still and cold. I want to curl up next to him. To warm him.

  “The engine broke. The three of you were irradiated.”

  He gestures and I notice Corin on another bed across the room.

  “What do you mean…irradiated?”

  He obviously doesn’t want to answer. “Radiation is…very bad. Usually it comes from the sun, and you can cook with it.”

  “So they were…” I swallow. “…Cooked?”

  He grimaces, tugging on his beard. “Kind of.

  “We can put them on the healing bunk!” I tug at Juordin’s arm, my fear growing when he doesn’t respond.

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nbsp; He pulls my hand away. “I fear it’s too late for that, Princess.”

  “What do you mean? Help me,” I demand, my anger rising.

  Therin puts his hands up in surrender. “I wish we could. But it would be pointless.”

  “Why? Are they…already dead?” I glance furtively at Juordin’s gray pallor.

  “No, but they soon will be. And the healing bunk is out of power. We had to run it for almost twenty hours straight to heal you.”

  Aghast, I shake him. For a moment, I can’t speak. “Why—why did you do that?”

  “Do I look like I’m in charge?” He gives me a sympathetic look, reaches out, then drops his hand. “Anyway, it’s what they wanted. You still have a chance. We’re all going to die from the toxin, anyway.”

  I break away from him and examine Juordin.

  This can’t be the end. It can’t be.

  “Where are we?” I demand.

  He gives a weak smile. “Believe it or not, we’re hidden in a forest on the cat planet. We ended up close after the shock wave, and the structural integrity of the ship was shot so we had to land somewhere. Casin, Lorin, and Ferin have gone to the nearest settlement, hoping to kill some cats and bring back whatever intel they can.”

  My heart begins to pound. “You said we’re on the cat planet.”

  “Yes.”

  “Where’s Solim?”

  “In his quarters.”

  I brush past him out the door, turn left, and sprint down the hall to Solim’s quarters, feeling as though Juordin’s life depends on every step.

  When I get there, he doesn’t even look up. He’s humming, stirring liquid in a small pot on a burner.

  “What is that?” I ask, smelling the air. It smells like…flowers.”

  He looks up and his face breaks into a wide grin. “Verpillion tea.”

  “What?” I ask. He’s making tea at a time like this?

  “Have you checked around outside for the cure?”

  He lifts a finger and points to a table across the room, where some white flowers lie.