Seducing The Sacred Alien (SciFi Alien Ménage Romance) Read Free

wall near where it had slid open to let the man inside. He rushed toward the glass cube and thrust the silver bar forward. It slid effortlessly through the glass and the end bloomed like a metal flower with several curved petals that overlapped just enough to create a cup that caught the silver flakes as they fell.
    He waited a few seconds until the cup filled halfway with the metallic liquid, and then withdrew the bar, leaving the glass intact and solid as it left. Jordan pounded on the glass again, moving his hands to different places as if looking for an area that would open. The young man turned and crossed to one of the empty picture frames on the wall. Reaching into the cup at the end of the bar, he scooped some of the liquid into his hand and spread it across the wall within the iridescent glass confines.
    River gasped as the silver liquid became like paint, creating a moving image as he swept it across the white wall. It looked like a section of a city with tall, cylindrical buildings positioned close together along narrow roads congested with tiny, fast-moving vehicles. The young man scrutinized it closely, moving his head back and forth quickly as he examined every detail of the image.
    When he seemed to have learned what he wanted, he swept his hand back over the wall in the opposite direction, reducing the image back to the silver liquid, which he poured from his palm back into the metal cup. Jordan continued to pound on the glass and call out to him, but he seemed completely focused as he crossed back to the glass cube and pushed the bar back through the glass, tilting it so that the liquid streamed out onto the floor.
    Jordan grabbed onto the bar and the young man's eyes snapped to him. He tilted his head, his eyes flitting from Jordan to River as if this was the first time he had noticed they were there. They lowered to River's hands and she placed one on the bar next to Jordan's, holding it tightly. He met her eyes and she saw the gems in his face glow red, fade to a light purple, and then return to red.
    Without saying a word or taking his eyes from her, the man pulled the bar back with one hard movement, yanking them toward the glass before River had a chance to let go. She prepared herself for the impact with the wall, but never felt it. Instead, she felt the floor disappear from beneath her feet and in the next moment was struggling to get them back under her beside the young man on the other side of the glass wall.
    Just as she got her balance, the young man dropped the silver bar and looked between her and Jordan.
    "Run."

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    River didn't have the chance to think. The floor seemed to unfurl under her feet as she ran behind the young man to the opposite side of the room and through another section of the wall he opened by touching his hand to it like he had closed the first section. She could feel Jordan close behind her as they made their way through the wall and down a narrow hallway that was as bright and stark looking as the room they had just left.
    She wanted to know where they were going but was too afraid to ask. There was a feeling of panic and urgency in the way the young man had told them to run and the pounding on the wall from where the young man had entered still drummed in her ears. They continued along the hallway and then through another wall into a darkened room.
    "No. No, no, no, no, no," the young man said, running around the edge of the wall, tracing his fingers along the expanse as if looking for something.
    "What is it?" Jordan asked.
    The gems embedded in the young man's face pulsated brighter red as he turned to them.
    "Light," he said, "There's no light. We can't get out."
    "Then why'd we come in here?" River demanded.
    "I didn't realize they had started turning off the activators."
    He sounded frustrated and angry, and River felt a sudden wave of concern for him. She looked at Jordan. In the dim light of the room, his face looked shadowy and older than it had before they