My Horny Alien
Author
Laila Callaway
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Chapters
29
When Lily's uncle works for the military and gifts her an alien that they have captured, she knows that she can't stand by and do nothing. She has to help him escape.
There's just one problem.
The alien identifies Lily as his mate and he wants her to return to his planet with him.
With his all-black eyes, horns, fangs and claws, he and his kind are very different to humans, but he wants Lily. Time to bring a whole new meaning to the word 'horny'...
Chapter 1: The Beast They Gave Me
LILY
“Lily? Come out here.”
I hear my uncle’s voice calling through my open window, and I scowl. I’m right in the middle of a painting. I’m wearing a paint-splattered white T-shirt and pajama shorts.
I can’t help what I’m wearing when inspiration strikes—I usually just grab my things and start without giving much thought to my clothes.
“I’ll be out in a minute!” I call back.
If my uncle is calling, it’s no doubt because he wants me to meet someone. I put my brushes in a cup of water and quickly wash my hands. I swap my T-shirt for a clean cropped one and change my shorts into actual denim ones.
As I’m walking out of my bedroom, I pull out the hair tie keeping my hair in a bun and let the long, dark tresses fall down my back. I comb my fingers through them to make myself look somewhat presentable as I shove my feet in flip-flops and head outside.
I walk across to the main house, heading toward the patio, knowing that it’s most likely where my uncle is. He loves doing business at the large outdoor table—it’s right next to the pool, and he can perve on all his politician friends’ wives.
I plaster a fake smile on my face as I reach the patio, but it drops as soon as I see who is gathered there. My uncle, the Secretary of State for Defense, is standing next to the Ministry of Defense Permanent Secretary, the Shadow Secretary, and two other people I recognize to be part of the Defense Secretariat team.
If they’re all here and wanting me to join them, something big is going on. I swallow hard and approach them hesitantly.
“Hey…what’s going on?”
Uncle Ron is all pink in the face, clearly worked up about something. “We have a surprise for you. A raid was carried out this morning when we detected a portal in the national park.”
My stomach drops. A portal. This is the new normal for our world now, and you’d think, after a year, I would have gotten used to it.
Just over a year ago, the first portal known to man opened in Japan. It led to another world, another planet, another galaxy entirely separate from ours. One portal and everything as we knew it detonated and fell apart.
It turns out humans really aren’t the only higher species in the universe. Over the course of a few months, with more portals opening across the globe, we learned of the Jalix. To us, they are most similar to vampires due to their reliance on blood to survive, although they are very different from the monsters we write about in fantasies and fairy tales.
Jalexus, the name of the planet they inhabit, is only accessible through portals. Humans have not yet discovered how to create portals, but some of the Jalix have the ability, and that’s how they come to our world.
It became clear after a few months that they were taking humans. The government set about capturing Jalix to learn about their planet. They are taking humans to be their life partners—their mates—as our fertility is higher than theirs. They are trying to use our species to increase their numbers.
To most of the country, Jalix are something you hear about on the news and never meet. But to me, with my uncle and guardian being the Defense Secretary, I hear about them far too often.
“What surprise?” I ask cautiously.
“Bring him out,” Uncle Ron orders a few army guards.
I gasp as a full-size Jalix is carried out of a reinforced prison van and shoved to his knees before us. I have never seen one in person before—I’ve only seen pictures and videos online. It is terrifying to see one in person.
Jalix are around six to seven feet tall on average. This male is enormous despite being on his knees. Their bodies are built much larger than ours and packed with muscle—they have very little body fat, probably due to the fact that their only food source is blood. They have two sharp fangs like vampires but do not have any aversion to sunlight.
Their hair is usually dark and kept long. This Jalix has his hair braided back, although some strands have come loose in the struggle. Their skin is the deepest golden, like at golden hour during a striking sunset. They have small pointed black horns that sit just back from their foreheads, nestled in their hair. The tips of their ears are pointed.
They have no nipples; their chests smooth and free of hair. The black designs that weave across their chests indicate their rank, family, and clan. All Jalix live in clans across their world, although I have heard that there is bad blood between clans and they rarely socialize with one another.
Due to the warm temperature of their planet, they wear nothing but loincloths, and this Jalix is no different. A simple leather-looking skirt protects his modesty between his legs. His body is covered in dried blood from the fight—their blood is dark blue in color, but his wounds have already healed.
Around his abnormally thick neck is a bulky silver band, like a collar.
“Uncle…what is the meaning of this?” I murmur, sounding horrified to my own ears.
The Jalix raises its head at my voice, its eyes meeting mine. They have very human-like faces, with noses and mouths and cheek structure similar to ours. Their jaws are sharper, though, and their eyes have no irises, just black pupils. I am struck by how handsome this Jalix is.
“This Jalix is to be the first protector of its kind,” Ron says proudly. “The collar around its neck has been specially designed for this purpose, and we have been chosen to trial it.”
“I don’t understand,” I mumble, not taking my eyes off the Jalix, who is still staring at me.
“The collar will pass an electric current through the alien, shocking it if it tries to harm so much as a hair on your head, or any other humans. We are to monitor it for two weeks, then, once we have confirmed that they are good protectors, we can capture more of their kind, collar them, and use them for the army. They will be the newest soldiers in our arsenal.”
My mouth drops open in horror. They wish to enslave these aliens and use them for warfare? “That is sick,” I blurt. “It’s barbaric! How could you agree to this?”
I’m met with disapproving murmurs from the government officials, but I ignore them. My uncle frowns at me.
“This is why you are not involved in politics, Lily. You are simply to go about your usual daily routine, but you are to report back on anything you find out about the Jalix. He is your new bodyguard.”
I tear my eyes away from my sick uncle and turn back to the alien, shackled and collared at our feet. His eyes are narrowed on my uncle, although they relax a fraction when they turn back to me.
“And if I refuse?”
“You live in my home, under my roof,” Ron snaps. “You don’t have a choice in the matter.”
“Does he…” I hesitate. “Does he speak English?”
“Every Jalix they sent here speaks English and Mandarin fluently,” Ron says matter-of-factly. “They have eidetic memories and learned the most-spoken languages when they first infiltrated Earth.”
I did not know this. This information is clearly kept from the general public. I look down at the alien that can understand every word that we say and resolve to apologize the moment I am alone with him.
“He will stay in the guest house with you. They need only a few hours’ sleep, so he will make a good guard. For the first few days, I will have patrols guard your house to ensure you are safe. You have the alarm on your phone to use should you need it.” My uncle frowns at me, his expression solemn. “They are the future of Britain, Lily. We are the first country to successfully tame one of these beasts.”
From where I’m standing, it looks like we are the beasts.
“Uncle? A word alone,” I hiss.
He scowls and follows me to the side of the house, out of view of everyone else.
“What the fuck? This is sick; it’s torture,” I shout at him. “What about his rights?”
“What rights? He’s an animal, Lily.”
“No, he’s a sentient creature! You cannot treat the Jalix like this; we have so much to learn from them. From what I hear, they are a peaceful species.”
“What you hear comes from misinformed press; they are savages. They use swords to cut down each other during clan fights. That Jalix back there? He’s a warrior; he is trained to cause damage. We need to harness those skills to use them against our enemies.”
“You are disgusting. How can you justify using someone’s life like that? If my parents were alive, they would be ashamed to—”
“They’re gone, Lily,” he says coldly. “This is nothing to do with you. Do as I say or I will have you arrested for directly disobeying a government order.”
That makes me snap my mouth shut. I have known for years that my uncle is a terrible person. He would have me arrested without blinking an eye. He only lets me live here to keep his conscience clear. He thinks my parents won’t haunt him if he “looks after” their only daughter.
