Alien Fae Mate

by Misty Kayn

  “I want to mate,” I said. “I don’t want to settle for less. I’ll always want it, so I don’t see a point in settling.”

  “We’ll get through today, and it’ll be over. Come on in.”

  And that was the problem. I didn’t want to get through today. I wanted today to be the best day of my life. “All right.”

  “One hour.”

  “Sure thing.”

  I could never tell him no. I’d tried.

  Fifteen

  At sundown, Apple and I finished a movie, a tragic romance in which the couple didn’t end up together. We sobbed. Each and every time we’d watched it.

  “We should watch cartoons next,” she said and fluffed up our pillow.

  “The Road Runner,” I said. “Beep, beep.”

  “Yeah.” She sighed. “Morbid and depressing, coyote never gets the bird. Dies every time.”

  “Never learns.”

  Headlights brushed over the movie credits on the screen. Neither of us moved. “Cross is having a party again,” Apple said. “You think we should start charging for our parking spaces?”

  “Mm-hm.” My eyes were closing. “Income.”

  Apple nudged my side.

  “Mmm.”

  “Wake up.”

  “I’ll sleep on the couch.”

  “Wake up.”

  “No.”

  “There’re spaceships in the front yard.”

  I snapped my eyes open. “What?”

  Apple was already at the window, and I hurried after her.

  Twenty satellite ships hovered in the sky. From under their bellies, multiple small lights shone on our entire neighborhood. Small doors glided open, and fae, one by one, jumped to the ground. It was about a four-hundred-foot fall.

  “It’s raining fae,” Apple said.

  “Hallelujah,” I whispered. “At sundown.”

  “There’s your man.” She tapped the glass.

  Titan stood on his balcony. The very same balcony of his suite. How was this possible? He lived on a huge ship. I tilted my head, paying attention to the architecture. Oh! His suite was a small ship that fit into the mother ship, sort of like a drawer fit in the dresser with all the other drawers. From the outside, the mother ship looked like one piece, but in fact, it was a complex structure of many smaller ships. “It’s brilliant,” I said.

  “What is?”

  “His ship.”

  “You are the only human who is looking at his ship,” Apple said. “And you think I’m weird.”

  Titan ripped his shirt to reveal his chest. The people at the party next door whistled. Phone cameras flashed.

  He jumped on the balcony’s railing and ripped his pants off. He threw them, and they fluttered to the ground. Arms spread out, he crouched and bellowed, “Raaaainnnn!”

  When he thumped his chest, my girly bits fluttered.

  “Now that’s a mating call,” Apple said. “He’s like a rooster fluffing up his feathers. I think I need a fae man.” Her eyes scouted the ground, and she pointed. “That one. That one’s gonna make my pains go away. Let’s go.” She tugged my hand, and we stepped outside, where Dohan approached, eyeing my sister. “Hi there,” he said.

  “He’s here for me,” I whispered.

  Dohan stopped ogling Apple long enough to say, “You’re the nicest and prettiest girl he knows, and the only girl who knows how to handle him. He loves you.”

  “You don’t know that.”

  “Of course I know that. What I didn’t know is that you have a sister.”

  Above, the news choppers came, flashing their cameras. Titan would have some explaining to do. I doubted he’d asked for clearance, and with so many fae males in black robes, they looked like they were invading.

  A dark, cold cloud appeared over our neighborhood. The neighbors went silent, whispering of fae powers. An army of wraiths peeled away from the ships’ shadows and floated above Titan.

  The fae males chanted.

  The wraiths arranged in a formation to make an arrow.

  Their robes fluttering on an invisible wind, they descended.

  “What are those things?” Apple asked.

  “Witnesses,” I said. “To our mating. I’m going to become a fae.” I didn’t hesitate. I walked to the street, removing my clothes as I went. I shed everything, and before the world, I bared my body. And soul, if the mating didn’t take. I loved him, and love transcended death. It always would.

  Wraiths circled around me and wrapped their bodies around mine. I shivered. They were so cold. They lifted me and carried me across and above to drop me on the balcony beside Titan. He turned, and his eyes measured me from the tips of my toes to the top of my head. He smiled and ran a hand through my curls. “Cute,” he said. “It suits you.” He pressed his hard body against mine and walked me back until my ass hit the rail. ”You left me.”

  “I love chips,” I told him. “When I eat chips, I don’t eat a handful, I eat the entire bag. You offered me a handful.”

  “I’m crazy about you. I’m crazy enough to do this. You ready?”

  “Been ready for some time. Here?”

  “Right here.”

  “The news choppers have cameras.”

  “Good. We’ll watch ourselves later.”

  “Um, so will the whole world,” I said.

  “Then let’s put on a good show.” A wraith screeched my name. Titan eyed the thing and ground his jaw. “I’m terrified,” he admitted.

  The wraith who’d called out rushed down. Titan wrapped his arms around me and turned. It hit his back, went through him, then me. I gasped, my teeth chattering on impact. It felt like an iceberg hit my heart. Titan closed his mouth over mine as the second wraith ran through our bodies. When the cold hits shook my body, Titan lifted me, and when the third wraith hit me, Titan plunged his tongue inside my mouth. His hands on my ass tightened, his claws dug into my flesh, and I screamed into his mouth.

  He impaled me on his cock.

  My spine bent backward, and the wraiths attacked with force. Their bodies rushed through mine while Titan lifted me up and down on his cock. My pussy stretched in pleasure while I absorbed the pain. I held on to his shoulders at first, but then my hands gave out. He lowered me onto the railing. He pounded into me, my tits bouncing until he bit one nipple and held it between his teeth. A growl escaped his chest. I gripped his hair, unsure if I wanted to yank it away or press him closer. Wraiths wheezed at us, maybe with their version of a growl. They circled above us, their bodies covered in worn black robes and their skeletal faces hollow. Behind them, choppers spun and cameras flashed. I was becoming dizzy, my heart beating a mile a minute.

  My nipple hurt as he sucked and bit. His cock stretched me, and I was close, heat pooling in my belly. I gripped his biceps, and my blunt nails raked his skin. In response, he peeled back his lips and snarled. The wraiths circled faster, their chants grew louder, until I was coming and so was Titan. Inside me, his cock grew, and he pounded so fast, my whole body rattled. His eyes locked with mine. At my lips, he said, “Don’t be afraid. You’re mine.” He was trying to comfort me. He’d warned me about the mating. Titan threw his head back, his neck muscles straining, and with one deep thrust, I felt his release surge inside me, “Take her!” he shouted and wrapped his arms around me. His chest heaved. “Take her,” he whispered at the crook of my neck.

  The wraiths rushed down as one.

  My lungs froze, and I gasped. On instinct, I hitched my breaths, my heart slowing. Titan placed a hand over my heart. It stopped beating. I exhaled and closed my eyes.

  Darkness fell.

  Inside the black vacuum, I couldn’t see a thing. Alone in pitch-black, I tried not to panic when the air grew thick and hard to breathe. I wasn’t even sure if I needed to breathe but worked my lungs anyway. I touched a palm to my chest. Behind my palm, it was quiet. I had died. If I had a beating heart, it would beat out of my chest right about now. “Hello?”

  A low-pitched screech echoed over the s
pace.

  “Oh man,” I said into the void. I’d been warned, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t afraid.

  A screech echoed again.

  As if on cue, my eyes started itching, and I rubbed them with the back of my hand. My vision blurred and my head swam. I was dizzy. I wanted to sit down, but there was nowhere to rest. I floated in a…space vacuum of some sort. Another screech. The dead fae army was here, but I couldn’t see them. The itching became painful. I pressed the pads of my palms against my eyes. God, it hurt so bad, I wanted to scratch my eyes out. Another screech. Closer and much louder. I scratched my eyes. I couldn’t help it. “Stop it!” I screamed at the screeching voice.

  The pain went away, and I blinked to clear the blur.

  I saw them. Everywhere. An army of thousands of wraiths surrounded me. They hovered above the ground, humming. I wiggled my toes and realized I was floating just like them. It was pitch-black all around us and yet I saw them. I could see in the dark! My hands flew to my ears, and under my fingertips, the smooth, curved tops reformed into pointy tips. My vision sharpened. This was it. In death, I’d become a fae.

  One of the wraiths floated to me and paused to hover so close that its robe tickled my knees. It extended its skeletal hand, and I took it, thinking it’d take me back to Titan, but it didn’t. It simply stared at my flesh.

  Wait a second. Was I stuck here?

  Even though I was sure Titan was mine and I was his, panic rose in my chest.

  “Titan!”

  Nothing.

  “Titan!”

  “Rain.” My left ear twitched at the low whisper of my name, and my head snapped in that direction. I’d heard him. I took off, running through the bodies toward Titan’s voice.

  Sixteen

  My eyes snapped open.

  Above me, the dark cloud lifted and disappeared, allowing the moonlit sky and the choppers’ lights to pierce through. I squinted at the bright lights, my vision sharper than before. Titan’s hands were wrapped around me, his mouth at my neck. He kept whispering my name. I didn’t think he knew I was back. He’d been holding a cold, dead body. I lifted my arms and threw them around him.

  “Hey,” I said.

  He lifted his head, and our black eyes locked. His blinked, mine smiled.

  “Fuck,” he said and picked me up to move me away from the railing. First, he inspected my body. It looked the same except for my eyes and ears. Titan nodded in approval. Under my palms, he allowed his shoulders to slump. He’d worried about me. “I’m happy that’s over,” he said. “Lost a hundred years of my life. How do you feel?”

  I patted his shoulder, because sexy monsters needed comfort too. “I’ve never felt more alive. I see miles away, I hear the cars on the bridge, and I feel…snaga, I believe. I think I could run around this entire city and not tire. We, the fae, are alive.”

  A smile spread over his lips. “And mated. I am mated,” he said. I believed Titan spoke more to himself than to me, and so I said nothing in turn. He hated the mating season, had thought it would never happen for him, had thought he’d never mate while all other males came and went to and from Earth. And now that he saw me alive and well, he needed a minute to come to terms with his new life.

  He looked around at the world that had watched every second of our coupling. Just when I thought he’d profess eternal love for me and I to him so that we could lock lips in a sweet kiss, Titan said, “We need to say hello downstairs, and then we’re going on vacation. I’ll take you around your planet a bit, then we’ll head to Great Britain, get some great rain, and I’ll buy you some knickers. You with me, little?”

  “Yes, Titan.” I said.

  He pecked my lips and tucked a stray hair behind my pointy ear. Not waiting for my reply, he leapt on the railing, and extended his hand behind him. I took it and leapt up, light as a feather.

  Below, the fae and the humans crowded in the streets. Cameras flashed everywhere, recording our naked bodies forever. Above, the news choppers circled, more crossing above the San Francisco Bridge. I waved at the TV reporter who’d, only three days ago, announced the mating season. I hoped she found her happily ever after, because I’d sure found mine. Next to Titan, I felt as if I owned the universe. “I’m on top of the world,” I said.

  Titan crouched and roared. It was a sound somewhere between an eagle’s screech and a dragon roar, not that dragons existed. Or maybe they did and we just didn’t know about them. The fae roared back, returning his call while the humans cheered and hooted. When the crowds grew silent, I felt I had to do the same, so I too crouched and roared. It was a sound a chicken made when chased by a toddler. Below, people stood and stared.

  “Fae females can’t roar,” I concluded.

  Wild-eyed, Titan looked a bit stupefied, but then he pinched his lips and snorted in an attempt to hide laughter.

  “Whatever,” I said. So mature.

  “No, baby, it’s fine. We’ll practice.” He hopped off and took me with him.

  As we walked back to our quarters, I said, “Do I have a title, something cool like Titania?”

  “Rain,” he said.

  “Just Rain?”

  “It feeds nature, doesn’t it? Without it, nothing survives.”

  “Not even the Titan of the Dark Fae?” I asked.

  “Not even me, and that’s our truth.”

  About the Author

  Hello! Thank you for reading Alien Fae Mate. I’m a misfit lucky enough to share a home with Husband and small children who enjoy my brand of crazy. I specialize in writing novellas about brave women and creating unique worlds with scary monsters who must have their mates. Besides writing, I love humor, kink, romance with dark themes, and happy endings. I’d love to write about Apple and Dohan. Their story will be free via my Newsletter.

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