Surreptitious Alliance: Marked by My Alien Slave
45

Rain

pov.

I watch from the back of my mind as Luca leads us down hallways I try to remember if we ever need to escape from here, not that it would help at this point. Knowing what I know now about who I'm sleeping under the same roof as, doesn't give me much comfort in the prospect of running. Benjamin will just mess with my mind again and neither, Luca, Agness or Isa will say a damn thing about it. Anger is still flowing through my veins, keeping me stuck in my wolf side, not that I mind very much at this point. Remi can protect us much better than I can when I replace myself blinded by rage.

We'll need to shift back soon. I can't comfort our mate. We don't have a link yet. I huff in reply, causing Luca to give me a nervous glance over his shoulder. Morgan runs her fingers through my fur, helping me calm down a little as we made a couple more turns and Luca stops in the middle of a hallway that looks just like the rest, accept these doors have numbers on them.

"River, you're in room number nine. Morgan, you and Rain go in ten. You can use the tablet to call room service if you want anything for tonight, otherwise I'll come and replace you in the morning for breakfast." River gives me a small wave before disappearing into her room and Morgan opens the door for us, disappearing inside. I growl in Luca's direction before following behind her and then pushing the door closed with my head before stepping inside. The space is large, complete with a king-sized bed that stands across from a huge wall that's made entirely of glass, giving us a full view of the woods outside. Judging by the weird shapes and colors of them I'd recon we're somewhere on Gloss. The rest of the room contains a large desk and a seating area as well as a corner kitchen unit that has a small kitchen table meant to seat four people. I sit down in the center of it all, trying to calm myself down enough to shift. Do you need some help? I nod, knowing if I tried to do this on my own, I'd be stuck as a wolf for longer than I should be. Remi shifts me back and I don't miss the relieved look on Morgan's face.

"I thought I'd have to cuddle with a wolf tonight, not that I would have minded." She sounds about as tired as I feel after this day of bullshit lies.

"I don't think Remi would have minded either, but he can't communicate with you, so it frustrates him." I welcome it when she wraps her arms around me, even if I'm naked as the day I was born. "If this was a perfect world, I could have marked you when I found you." I sigh, hiding my face in her neck, breathing in her sweet scent.

"You mean bite me?" She asks and I nod. "You already did though. Remember, we had a whole conversation about it." She reminds me and I laugh.

"I didn't mark you. I healed you. There's a difference in the bite." She pulls away, looking at me with wide, confused eyes. "When I healed you, I pumped my venom into you. When I mark you, I inject my DNA into you. It bonds you with me, creates a link that connects us."

"Connects us how?" I hesitate, wondering if this is the right time to have this conversation but it's notably less insane than the conversations we've been having all day. From replaceing out about her father, Ragna showing up out of the blue and then my parents, this is a conversation I can have without breaking my head over the logistics of it.

"Well, we'll be able to talk though a link in our minds. Like, hear each other's thoughts and we'd be able to feel each other's feelings. Usually both parties would have to mark each other but with us... I have no idea how that's going to work." Knowing Morgan isn't fully human only solves half our problems. Figuring what she's mixed with is a whole other secret we haven't unraveled yet.

"You'll be able to hear my thoughts?" She looks a bit unsettled by the idea and Remi laughs in the back of my mind. Since my first heat with Morgan, he's been a lot more awake inside me, a lot more vocal and downright annoying. "You can bock me, don't worry. We'll cross the bridge when we get there. Right now... I think we need some food and a shower." The day has been long and even if it's not even seven in the evening, as the clock hanging over the door so helpfully tells me, I need food, a hot bath and to sleep. "I'll go get the water running." I kiss the side of her head before stepping out of her hold and heading to the two doors on the far side of the room. Opening one reveals a closet with clothes and the other a bathroom. When I see the giant tub, I abandon the idea of a shower and plug the drain before opening the taps.

"How are you holding up?" I look over where Morgan is leaned against the doorway and shrug my shoulders. "Rain, you just found out your parents are alive. I think it must be as shocking as replaceing out you have a third parent, or, even more so." She walks inside, taking a seat on the edge of the filing bathtub while I drop a blue bath bomb in, I replace in a basket on the counter.

"I'm angry." There isn't much else I feel except that. Silence falls over us as we watch the bath fill, and I throw in another bath bomb.

"I don't know how to fix this." Surprise fills me at her admittance.

"Why do you want to fix this?" It's not her fault. Nothing about any of this is her fault and I'm standing here, looking at her at a loss of why she feels like she needs to fix what she didn't break.

"I just want you to be okay, Rain." When she looks up at me there's tears in her eyes, tears that break my heart. "I didn't know why I wanted you so bad. From the moment I saw you I've been acting irrationally and now I can't help but think in another world this might have come easy." She motions between the two of us. "I might know what to do to help you now. You're not a computer I can save from viruses, and I have no idea how to build a connection that doesn't feel superficial." I walk over to her and kneel down in front of her.

"There is nothing superficial between us." There has never been, we've been filled with emotion since our first encounter. Rage, annoyance, impatience... lust.

"You're angry though. How do I make that go away?" Salty drops run down her cheeks, and I wipe them away, each of them a stab to my heart.

"You can't." I admit and she gasps like I hurt her. "You didn't break me." She blinks, understanding and pain shining in her dark orbs. "Let's take a bath." I mutter, helping her undress and then we sink into the warm water together. The water isn't going to magically wash away everything that's gone wrong today and having Morgan by my side won't automatically fix all my problems but both sure does help in keeping me calm enough not to go in search of Benjamin and kill the vampire for everything he's done to ruin my life.