The Alion King(4)
“Another planet. A shifter planet.”
Bella’s eyes widened. “Like an alien planet? Are these alien shifters?”
“If you must call it that, though it would technically be a shifter planet. The world is called Nova Aurora. My ancestors came here. They established a shifter colony and started to blend in with the humans. They mated and created the new breed of shifters you’ve come to know.”
“I don’t understand.”
“The shifters from Aurora are bigger, rougher, tougher, and a lot angrier than the ones on Earth.”
She gripped the sides of her sofa seat in her grasp. “This king you’re going to help mate. What is he?”#p#分页标题#e#
“A lion.”
“An alien lion? Like an Alion?” She laughed at her own joke. The shit nerves did to her.
Gerri frowned. “A what?”
“An a-lee-on. Get it? A lion that’s an alien. An Alion.”
Gerri’s lips curved up in a grin. “I supposed. He’s a shifter. They all are.”
She gulped, trying to wrap her mind around what Gerri was telling her. A shifter planet. The concept wasn’t difficult to grasp; it was the fact she’d never heard of it before. “Does our government know?”
Gerri shrugged. “They know something. Not enough. Fortunately for the shifter nation, humans are not as advanced. King Alyx has tried to keep them at bay. Earth doesn’t know how to reach what they call aliens. Aurora, in their minds, would be full of alien life, even though Aurora is older than Earth and we came here to bring humans knowledge. The government only knows of ships showing up here in the past.”
She gasped. “Ships? Spaceships?”
“Yes. But for my trips to Aurora, I don’t use spaceships. Spaceships are archaic.”
She frowned. “Then how do you get there?”
“I open a wormhole.” Gerri scrunched her nose. “Before you ask, I have a machine that bends time and allows me to travel from our galaxy to Nova Aurora. It’s like walking through time and space, just taking a few steps and being on their side.”
Excitement bubbled in her veins. She had never heard of anything like that. “This all sounds surreal. So are they shifters or aliens?”
“Shifters. And they are a lot older than humans.”
“But if they came before humans, how did humans come about?” she asked, completely confused.
“Humans are, in a rare form, descendants from Aurora. Not fully. Aurorans came here and bred with humans. They created shifters. The shifters we know today. Not all breeding ended up in shifters. Some just advanced the human species. Smarter humans.”
She gaped at Gerri. “Holy crap!”
“I’m sure it seems unreal to someone who isn’t used to it, but my question is, do you want to go on a short trip?” Gerri grinned.
“Hell yes!” She’d never really gone anywhere, because she was always so busy working. Her goal in life was to travel the world. Screw that. Now she could change it to the galaxy.
THREE
Alyx Treyvaal slammed his fist on his thick, wooden desk, which had been passed down his family for a few thousand years. The sound reverberated around his chambers, but he didn’t give a shit. He was losing time, time to have been with a mate, all because of his stupid, picky lion. He should have been mated with at least five kids by now. Instead, he was hosting mindless dinners and parties, like this was some kind of fucking storybook romance.
“What do you mean she said she’d think about it?” he growled at Karel. The lack of humanity in his voice didn’t faze his security chief. Karel raised a brow and shrugged.
“You already knew that was a possibility. You’ve been rejecting her help for years, and you expect her to just ignore that and come to your aid?”
“Yes!” He gripped the wood on his desk, grateful tevali trees were stronger than even him. “I am the king!”
Karel shook his head and glanced toward the ceiling. “Will you never learn? Gerri Wilder is not your average matchmaker. She has a gift. She knows things, much like your mother knows things. And because she knows who belongs with whom, she can decide if she wants to help or not. You should not have insulted her the last time she offered to help.”#p#分页标题#e#
Alyx glowered at his friend. “She said I was being a spoiled brat.”
“She was right!” Karel sighed, sliding his fingers through his short, white hair. “You’ve completely ignored all common sense and allowed your pride to dictate your actions.”
“I could have found my own mate!” he snapped.