Contagion (Gennekt, #2)

by Amanda Milo

My people are a peaceful race, completely unprepared for alien invasion.

hehe humans are the aliens in this scenario

I have them, and the first time I attempted to force a smile at one of them, they shouted loudly to the others, warning them that I had bared my fangs.

🤣

The mist is exploded human. HOW UNSANITARY!

hanger.

hangar

“Of course you’re not all right; they didn’t leave you with so much as a sanitation wipe dispenser, you poor thing.”

“Ohadi? Gnimoy and Liuqet?

Idaho? Wyoming? Tequila?

“Get a grip!” she almost snaps. “It’s mosquitoes, all right? You’re gonna be fine. They probably can’t touch you since you don’t have soft skin.”

he really thought they were black spots because he's going to faint 🤣

The birds here explode from the trees when you scream; it’s very upsetting and quite the negative loop.

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This is good, because Aurora heartily disapproves of all hysterical episodes, even involuntary ones.

🤣

My body was not designed to have a draconian human squeeze its parts into submission.

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Humans have very strange feet, and hers are shown off in all their oddness by something she calls a sandal.

She steps over a petrified downed tree, and I’m in the presence of mind to steady her through our connected hands while she does it. The shy glance she sends up to me in return does something odd to the rhythm beating in my thoracic cavity.

awww

Despite her rough treatment of me—including when she barked at me with raging fierceness to stop screaming during my last panic attack.

"barked at me with raging fierceness" 🤣🤣🤣

“I’ve never been so female-handled in all my life,”

female handled 🤣

“You poor alien plebeian.”

plebeian! 🤣

when she doesn’t immediately scamper out of the creature’s possible attack radius, I catch her arm and haul her behind me—why I do this, I cannot explain. If a person has no sense of danger, is it really my responsibility to act as their shield and bear the attack meant for them? Heavens NO. This has been my rationale my entire life, and it’s served me fine. So what am I doing?

his instincts are guiding him towards being a gentleman to her. huh

I feel the remnants of her touch like a phantom warmth for a long, long time after.

“Simmi! Do you see that?” My cardiac rhythm kicks up. “Where? What is it? Does it have teeth?” She smacks my arm. “Quit freaking out. It’s an apple tree!”

🤣

Strange pleasure socks me harder than Aurora’s playful swipe when she reaches up, and rubs at the spot where she struck me. For a moment, nothing hurts on me, anywhere.

😏

“Yeah, ‘drown.’” She widens her eyes at me. “If you fish me out of the water because it looks like I’m sleeping, that’s bad.”

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“BAD HUMAN! BAD!”

Aurora’s idea of cajoling has suddenly begun to involve her lips tapped to mine. Aurora’s idea of cajoling is abstrusely effective.

“If we’re lost out here for much longer, and our situation becomes the direst of circumstances, you have my permission to eat me after I perish.” “Shut up, Simmi,” Aurora says on a laugh. “But only after I perish,” I stress. “Simmi!” She’s cackling into her hand.

“If my translation device is right, and referring to me as princess means you think I’m a self-important, temperamental person with superior tastes and a peculiar difficulty to be pleased; then you’re correct, and I take no offense.”

Against all reason: I like Aurora. She is not orderly. She is anything but quiet. She’s technically an antithesis to everything I prefer.

I’m wearing mate marks. To put it plainly, they signify that Aurora is mine. I’ve as good as staked my claim that I’ll protect her. And there’s no supposing about it: I’ve successfully proven just this.

“It’s Simurrdhr, but he’d rather everybody just called him Murrdhr.”

“You are a vision, already risen and shining and beautiful,”

“Do you want me? Do you want to have sex with me?” “If I didn’t,” I tell her, my hands coming to her hips, “I would have run screaming from the room when an alien rolled on top of me.”

“I was under the impression your groin tunnel was… well, accessible at your groin.”

groin tunnel! 🤣

What! ‘Okay,’ what? Why did the sight of her gazing up at me get my blind agreement to whatever she wants me for?