The Alien's Truth: Alien Warrior Mates II, #9

By Grace Kensington

The threat of the Covra gone, the Denynso are trying to help the Light Ones pick up the pieces and move forward. As Lynx spends more time with Rain he realizes that as deeply as he loves her, he doesn't really know much about her. Together they decide that it is time that they all talk about what happened and try to understand how this situation came to be.

As they are gathering in the meeting hall with everyone else now in the settlement, two of their number are missing. No longer deeply involved in a research project, Ivy has had the chance to explore the settlement and during her time alone she has discovered Maxim, the most beautiful of the beautiful men who came from the other kingdom. While the others gather together for a meeting, Ivy and Maxim roam to the outer reaches of the settlement and then out onto the plains of Uoria.

What happens in both places will change everything and within just days they will all know far more about each other, and learn that the threats they thought were gone may be just beginning.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Grace Kensington
• Release date: May 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393532033

Book preview

1

H as it changed much?

Lynx felt Rain intertwine her fingers with his and heard her give a sigh that sounded somewhere between contemplation and resignation. She looked out over the settlement from their vantage point at the top of the hill, her bright blue eyes scanning the streets and buildings newly alive again after more than a century of forced slumber. Those eyes were one of the greatest delights that Lynx had discovered since Rain had awoken. Though he had seen them briefly reflected in the mirror during his visits in the moments that led to the Covra locking her along with the rest of the Light Ones in the settlement, those fleeting glimpses didn't even begin to compare to how they looked when she was gazing directly at him.

It has and it hasn't, Rain said, turning to look at him. "It's strange because it doesn't seem at all like it has been so long, but at the same time everywhere I look I can see the years. Does that make sense? I feel like I just went to sleep that day and then woke up the next morning. Like maybe my nap went on too long and I ended up sleeping through the night and then woke up in the morning just like I would have, but instead of waking up the next morning I woke up a hundred years later. The buildings look older. The plants look bigger.

Strangely, though, things don't look as different as I would think that they would look after a century passed. I don't know. You have this concept of a hundred years being so long and that everything will just disintegrate in that long if you weren't around. But I opened my eyes and found out that the world had just gone right on without me. It survived. Everything went on without us as if we were never here. I noticed vines climbing up the back of one of the buildings yesterday. They had started to creep into one of the windows. It's like the planet is just moving on, trying to take back over and go forward."

Lynx gave Rain's hand a gentle pull to draw her up against him so that he could wrap his arms around her. She curled into his chest, tucking herself as closely against him as she could and wrapping her arms around his waist as he rested his chin on the top of her head and gazed out around the settlement just as she had. He tried to imagine what it would have looked like when they first arrived, whenever that was. What did the roads look like? The buildings? The arch leading into the settlement? In all of the time that the warriors had spent in the settlement among the Light Ones trying to figure out how to save them from the Covra and unlock them, Lynx hadn't really thought much about the settlement itself. He had been so focused on freeing his mate that he had pushed aside the lingering questions about why they were there and what the settlement meant for the rest of Uoria and the relationship between the Denynso and the people of Earth.

Though when he first discovered that Rain and all of the other Light Ones within the settlement were actually humans who had come from Earth Lynx had wondered why they were there and how they got there, especially considering Creia, who the Denynso respected and honored as their knowledgeable and powerful king, didn't know that they had been there for more than a century, he had quickly turned his attention back to her and to all of his efforts to kill off the gruesome creatures that locked her and bring her back to life.

Now that she was free and they were gradually rebuilding their lives, all of these thoughts began to creep back into his mind, making him feel uneasy. The Denynso warriors had embarked on their journey around the planet with the intention of finding out about what other species might inhabit Uoria and determining if those species posed any threat to the Denynso, their compound, or the mates who had joined them in the last year. They had anticipated encountering creatures they had never seen and potentially engaging in battle in order to exhibit their dominance and show why they were considered the most fearsome and skilled warriors of the entire galaxy in order to dissuade those creatures from getting near their compound. They had not,