Breaking Bonds: An Alien Romance Adventure

Chapter Six

CHAPTER SIX

Teak couldn't sleep, just laid in his bed and kept his eyes on the door. He was trying to convince himself not to go knock on Maeve's door, but the urge was growing, and he was getting impatient. She needed rest, he knew that, but he wanted to be near her, lay next to her, and hold her while she slept. He needed the physical touch as much as she did. Even if she didn't know it.

His people had always been physical. Touching was a form of love, greeting, anything and everything. It was instilled at an early age and it had been far too long since he'd had someone to himself. Someone to hold at night. When he'd made the decision to leave his planet and serve as liaison for Turnix Beta, he'd given up the hope to find his true match. And he never expected to find it on a slave planet with a woman who had never known a man before. He was in deep shit and there was now no way out of it. He couldn't leave even if he wanted to. Even if he wasn't respectable, even if he hated Maeve and everyone on this ship, he couldn't leave.

Their lives were now on a collision course and they were in a nosedive until they figured their shit out and saved themselves.

Teak rolled his head back until it hit the metal headboard of his bed and he closed his eyes. He needed to take another shower, or he was going to leave this room and end up in Maeve's. Something shook the entire cabin and Teak shot up out of bed. The alarms system began to squeal and the sound pierced Teak's ear drums painfully. "What the hell?"

"This is Captain Roth," The voice over the intercom spoke, "We have incoming. Everyone report to the bridge. Out."

Teak ran to the cabin door, grateful he hadn't undressed for the sleep cycle yet, and it slid open as he approached. He ran to Maeve's door and pounded on it. He wasn't in a panic from the alarms going off, his body was in a desperate attempt to get to her and keep her near him until he figured out if there was a threat or not.

Her door finally slid open and he immediately grabbed her up. Säiph, the protector that he was, growled deep in his barrel chest when Teak touched her, but he didn't give a shit. He needed to touch her. "Calm down, Teak. We need to get to the bridge."

"I know. I want you to stay close to me though. Please." He didn't want to tell her why and risk pushing her away even more. He hoped she accepted his wish for now and listened. She pushed him away, physically and emotionally by the look on her face and he winced, "I'm sorry. I just... I want to make sure you stay safe. I still have a debt to you."

She smiled and looked up at him, "Wouldn't that debt be null if I died though?"

He didn't like the way she said that, like she was accusing him of thinking that way. He would never think to end her life. It wouldn't work anyways, or slaves would just kill masters and they would be free. "You know better than I that it doesn't work that way."

"I was testing you." He rolled his eyes and grabbed her small hand in his and pulled her through the hallway. "Keeli." Maeve said.

Teak knocked on the female's door, but no one answered. "Do you have a way into her room?"

"Yes." She pushed herself past him, "I have a code."

Maeve punched it in, and the cabin door slid open. Keeli sat on her bed, huddled up into a ball and Teak rushed to her to make sure she was okay. "Are you hurt?" He moved her around to check her skin but there were no injuries. He inhaled deeply and caught the scent of her fear. She was petrified. "Keeli?"

She turned her shaking head toward him and looked into his eyes. Maeve was now on the other side of her, stroking Keeli's hair to calm the fearful female while Säiph sniffed at her and rested his face on her foot. "I don't like that sound."