Assassin's Mate: A Xeno Sapiens Novel (Genetically Altered Humans Book 9)

by Rena Marks

  “No.”

  “This could go one of two ways,” Zee warned. “Either she’s going to be furious at not knowing—or it’s not going to be a big deal. You’ll find that your problem of not being a whole person is just that—your problem. She may accept you as you are.”

  “Or she might be more pissed,” Happy said. “Knowing the rest of my selves—I can’t be the only one with the idea.”

  “I take it back,” Zee said. “She’s gonna be pissed.”

  “Now, now,” Everly clucked. “Angela wasn’t so pissed considering you almost killed me and Thane.”

  “That was different,” Zee countered. “Technically, I was dreaming.”

  Happy cocked his head. “So I should pretend to be dreaming?”

  “No,” Angela laughed. “Just break her in gently. Let her know the truth, but explain to her the differences between you all, and how you’re the same person—yet different. She’ll be curious.”

  “And if she decides she doesn’t want any part of us?”

  Zee answered. “Then you remember she may change her mind. And you hold out for that hope.”

  Angela slipped her hand into his. “She will change her mind, because a Xeno Sapien is God’s gift to mankind.”

  “And womankind,” Everly added.

  “Just as science is,” Angela said, as she kissed Zee.

  “But don’t tell her science is,” Thane said. “She’s not going to take that too favorably.”

  Happy nodded, his expression slightly troubled. “I told her I’d tell her everything about today’s beach party. I’d describe all the babies in detail, and all the couples. I bring pictures, too, so she’ll feel like she knows everyone. Someday, when she’s released from the decontaminate unit, she’ll want to feel comfortable among everyone.”

  “She’s not returning to the outside world, then?” Angela asked.

  He looked a bit guilty. “No. She can’t, though we haven’t told her. We can’t have the outside world know about Pax’s breakthrough. While people would appreciate the creation of bio skin, they won’t appreciate it coming from a Xeno Sapien. They’ll consider it a curse, or a threat. She would be a target. As far as the outside world is concerned, she died within days of the attack from an infection.”

  “You have to tell her.”

  “Pax will do that. And it’ll be up to the rest of us to pick up the pieces.”

  “Don’t let Pax take the fall too often,” Angela said. “She needs to know, you’re all Pax.”

  “You’re right,” he sighed. “I guess I’ll be off to share my visit with her. I’ll take her a plate of barbecue and let her eat while I tell her about all these beautiful babies.” He gave Annie one last tickle across her tiny abdomen, laughing when her scrawny legs kicked out excitedly.

  “Stay away from the steak,” Everly murmured.

  Happy gave her a grin as he handed the infant off to Angela, and waved as he brushed sand from his shorts as he went over the grill to make a plate. He made a burger and held the plate up for their thumbs up before loading it with potato salad, fruit, and corn on the cob.

  “I hope it goes well,” Angela said.

  “It will,” Zee said. “She’s lucky. If she craves the quiet, studious type, she’s got that. If she prefers someone more outgoing and friendly, she’s got that. If she prefers the nerdy scientist, she’s got that.”

  “She might just crave a person to tell her the truth. To be honest with her.”

  “And thanks to us, she just got that.” Zee smiled.

  “Yeah,” Thane agreed. “As far as matchmakers go, we’re not bad.”

  “I agree. And we have gorgeous, sexy mates. We make adorable offspring. We’re about perfect,” he said, tapping his fist to Thane’s.

  “I have to agree,” Everly said, kissing Thane.

  “You are perfect,” Angela whispered, turning her head to Zee. His eyes glowed before she kissed her gorgeous mate. In her lap, Annie giggled as her parents kissed.

  Xeno Sapiens

  Catch up with the first novel in the series! The original Xeno Sapiens story.

  Futuristic earth finds alien DNA and creates a new species of hybrids in hidden labs. It’s up to two small females to teach these beings they’re worthy, and beautiful, and loved…and to save them from mankind.

  My name is Dr. Robyn Saraven. Earth has changed greatly in recent years, the governments of the world merging into one united front, the Global Government. Disease, starvation, and prejudice have been eradicated from our existence, and it appears our growth as spiritual beings is finally on track.

  But the discovery of alien DNA pairs a prestigious research facility with our government to create new beings. Suddenly our spiritual growth is halted when mankind plays God. Like old Earth, our modern-day world has to deal with prejudice, corruption, and greed.

  Or was it always there, lurking beneath the surface?

  Book 1—Xeno Sapiens

  Book 2—Earth-Ground

  Book 3—Siren

  Book 4—Beast’s Beauty

  Book 5—Almost Human

  Book 6—Forbidden Touches

  Book 7—Coveting Ava

  Book 8—For Everly

  Book 9—Assassin’s Mate

  Alien Stolen

  Rena Marks

  Our world is different from anything we’ve ever known. Years ago, aliens came to live among us. They claim to be the good guys, and yet every day, humans go missing—never to be heard from again.

  Sian and her family resist the leadership of the new regime, along with dozens of other factions across the world. However, without electricity, they’re at a loss as to how to communicate with each other to band together for strength in numbers. For that reason, they fight alone. When her father and best friend are captured by the military, she pretends to be a pleasure worker to infiltrate the base. Unbeknownst to her, a pleasure worker has been summoned to service a new breed of alien—one with a known weakness. Sex drains his strength.

  None of the militia realizes that when a Nisibian comes across his mate, he doesn’t lose his power…but instead transfers it to her.

  Drunk on the power of being a female Rambo, Sian decides to steal the massive alien for herself. This much power at her fingertips could tip the scales in the resistance fight for humans.

  Abducted

  Book 1 in the Blue Barbarian series.

  Alien abductions are real.

  I was the third female awakened aboard the spacecraft that specialized in kidnapping females. Their mission? To sell us to other galaxies.

  Human female Numbers One and Two didn’t make it, but I was lucky. I was able to comprehend the instruction from Drakar, a caged abductee from the planet Blaedonia. I live only because of his warning to me not to fight the aliens who have me on the table. Together, we formulate a plan for escape for both us and the ten other unawakened Earthlings.

  Lucky for Drakar, the spaceship crash-lands back on his planet. Unlucky for the Earthlings, we’ll never be able to travel back home.

  We’ll have to learn to adapt.

  Book 1—Abducted

  Book 2—Stranded

  Book 3—Taken

  Book 4—Captive

  Book 5—Stolen

  Book 6—Betrayed

  Space Babies

  Book 1 of the Purple People Series

  Rena Marks

  An antiquated ship, rotating through the galaxy of a deserted planet, bears immediate investigation.

  Helian Six boards the abandoned vessel to find the long-lost inhabitants in a state of stasis. But the systems are failing, and half a dozen have woken up. The planet below shows long dead bodies, poisoned by the scum of space, a species known as Gorgians.

  Strangely, the few who have awakened are much smaller than their planetary predecessors. And not very intelligent. Determined to believe the cute, tiny beings are not pets, the crew of Helian Six decide to train the small warriors to defend the planet. They become the laughingst
ock of patrol, however, after they commit and realize it will take twenty-two cycles to “rear” the inhabitants.

  So they do what any intelligent males would do. Kidnap teachers. And if the females can’t manage to avert their eyes from their buff physiques, well, score!

  Artificial Intelligence

  Rena Marks

  The Sirian galaxy has blown itself up during a war that mimicked that of the destruction of her own planet, Terra. No stranger to slavery, Arian has escaped from the planet Zeta where she’s been raised to breed royalty.

  The Artificial Intelligence is a collective unit from the Sirian Planet B. They’d warned the leaders that a civil war would destroy the galaxy to no avail. In order to escape being destroyed along with the rest, they inserted their intelligence into the computer system.

  Imagine Arian’s surprise when she encounters a huge piece of chipped planet, which her computer claims to have ancient Sirian artifacts buried in its hollowed core.

  Nothing can possibly be alive. The contamination gases from the nuclear war have destroyed everything in sight. But Arian is a scavenger, and these are ancient artifacts…

  Unfortunately, her hacked computer never tells her the artifacts are actually metal skeletons whose bodies need to be grown into dangerously hot men.

  Stargazer Series

  In 1692, a starship carrying volunteers arrived on planet Earth near a small town called Salem, Massachusetts. The long journey across many light years caused the female inhabitants aboard drastic memory loss. It was already known when they would arrive on Earth, they would have no memories of who and what they really were. They would be as helpless as newborn lambs.

  The goal was to breed with Earthlings, to prevent their own race from dying out. If it was successful, years later more Stargazers would be sent to co-exist with the humans on Planet Earth.

  But alas—the females were slaughtered.

  Book 1—The Hunter

  Dante and Kele

  Book 2 —The Enforcer

  Diamond and Felicia

  Book 3 —The Defender

  Hayze and Cassio

  Book 4 —The Protector

  Neo and Jessie

  Book 5 —The Guardian

  Vesta and Bay

  Book 6 —The Destroyer

  Jace and Mia

  The Hunter

  Prologue:

  The atmosphere in the grand council meeting was tense, grim even. In the center of the room, laser lights of green and blue flashed, drawing attention to the enlarged hologram of the speaker. Around the hologram stood dozens of females. They were dressed in odd clothing, obviously not from this world. The fabric looked coarse, and the garments were crudely designed. They consisted of shapeless cumbersome gowns. Some of the women even wore strange head coverings.

  And then the voice boomed.

  “We are gathered here to review the report on the future of our race. I am Nepa, and I am your general speaker.”

  He paused, allowing the audience time to adjust to the beginning of his speech. The pause wasn't necessary, however, as the entire planet was riveted to this life-altering event.

  “As you are all aware, we have spent decades on one ongoing problem. Our females are slowly becoming infertile. At this point, there is a huge imbalance on our planet, with males outnumbering females six to one. With all of our advanced technology, we cannot figure out why. The dilemma of the council consists of reaching out to inhabitable planets to decide if we can co-exist with other species. To interbreed. It is a dilemma because those planets are not as technologically advanced as we are, most are not even aware other space inhabitants exist. Their ignorance may cause fear. What we can offer to those planets is a solution to their own in-breeding, and to share knowledge of future ramifications. As we have discovered, eventually the gene pool narrows so dramatically that every culture faces the same problem we have, the phasing out of a species. We offer this benefit to smaller planets, the knowledge of our experience without having to find out the hard way, as we did.

  “However, we are not making contact with other planets at this point. Instead, our scouts will be sent out to see if conditions are favorable.

  “Naturally, that is a concern. At this point, our females are precious and few. It hurts every one of us to ship them off to a strange new planet to adapt. We are grateful for the brave volunteers.”

  Huge clapping ensued. The hologram vision bowed his head, signaling acknowledgment of the applause. When the clapping ended, he raised his head to speak again.

  “We cannot send males at this time. Radiation from the youth of certain stars have rendered males infertile. The feminine reproductive system is encased within the body, protecting it from radiation. We have tried everything possible to mimic the results with males, to no avail. And we are out of time. If we do not split our planet at this time, we face the very grim reality of our population dying out. However, we continue to work on the problem and are confident that males will be able to travel without the threat of sterilization in the next decade. In the meantime, we wish a positive farewell to the cherished females of our planet.

  “You each will arrive in various—but nearby—locations on a planet called Earth. We chose Earth because of their limited communications and technology. It is completely necessary that our scouts do not interfere with the education of their planet, instead allowing them to self-educate naturally. For this, our scouts have each agreed to be placed in stasis.”

  Hushed whispers swept through the audience.

  “I know,” continued the hologram. “Being placed in stasis for an undetermined amount of time will cause permanent brain damage—namely, complete amnesia. You will enter a planet without communication from your own race. You will be 'reborn' in a sense, on planet Earth, dressed in the clothing similar to what other Earthlings wear. You will be ejected from your stasis capsules, and the ship will implode. Your capsules will dissolve, nourishing your bodies, until you awaken. But once you are awake, you will have no knowledge of who or what you are. You will adapt to the planet and learn to live as a human. It will not be easy. Does anyone wish to resign her volunteerism?”

  The room was hushed. Of all the females around the hologram, no one stepped up.

  “All right. You are aware of the dangers. One condition of your new life, which all of you already know, is permission granting us examination of you and of any offspring you may bear. Your memories will be wiped clean of each future abduction. However, I'm sure it will be a terrifying experience as you will be as immature as an actual Earthling, who have not even experienced space travel yet.

  “Ladies, please step into your stasis capsule. Good luck to every one of you.”

  Bubbles floated gently around the hologram, circling around the image. Each oddly dressed female stepped forward and entered the shiny, invisible bubble-like capsule. Once inside, they lay horizontally, seeming to float in air as the capsule expanded around them. Immediately, the inner air collapsed and they fell unconscious.

  The hologram was solemn. “God be with you.”

  Present day:

  The Hunter entered the great room of the Communicator. The man who was normally projected as a hologram sat alone, staring out the grand windows that made up an entire wall of his office.

  The Communicator spoke without turning around. “Did you set up the portal?”

  “I did.”

  There was a brief moment of silence while The Hunter came and stood at the wall of windows also. Together they watched their stars. The community down below. The hovering dots of light that signaled their airborne travel system.

  “What did you find?” The Communicator's voice was a whisper. “I know your moods, and this somber attitude cannot be good.”

  “Most of the travelers were slaughtered.”

  “What?” The Communicator turned his head sharply.

  But The Hunter still stared out the window.

  “They called our females witches. While they were able to
blend in with the clothing we assigned, it was suspicious that so many had amnesia and did not have any previous memories. Panic shifted into frenzy and it grew from there.”

  “But witches? That is good, is it not? Why would they have been slaughtered?”

  “Apparently, on Earth witches do not have the same revered status they do here. There, they were feared. They were believed to be devil worshipers. Instead of being healers, they were said to cast witchcraft.”

  The Communicator's mouth fell open. “They still believe the devil exists?”

  “The religion of the people where they landed did. A lot of others around the planet believe the same thing. It may have been better if we had sent them a bit earlier, because the more primitive people who had lived in that location prior gave thanks to the environment. They worshiped the land, the air. They did not believe in the devil. We could have changed Earth's history by sending our females a bit earlier. However, luck of the draw chose one hundred and fifty years ago, when Salem, Massachusetts was already dominated by Puritans. Mass hysteria ensued.”

  “We are not to change history,” The Communicator murmured softly. Automatically, almost. But his next words belied his horror. “How many were slaughtered?”

  “Ninety-five. However, history has changed the figure to reflect a lot less. Human history tends to smooth over vile acts. The primitives that had lived in the land earlier? They are now called Native Americans. Today they celebrate a holiday as a treaty between the two populations of humans, when in fact they slaughtered the entire community to confiscate their land.”

  “The remaining few of ours who survived?”

  “They have bred,” The Hunter said. “We do have a handful of descendants on the planet.”

  “One small success,” whispered The Communicator. “The descendants are healthy?”