Mountain Man's Secret Baby

by Lauren Wood

  “I have a plan, but it would have worked a whole lot better had we been able to implement it here at the facility. I’m going to have to improvise and one thing that we need to do is to get that scud missile into the air.” Russell followed her down the hallway to an elevator that appeared out of nowhere. This was not the normal kind. This was specially made.

  “I’ve known about her arsenal for a long time, but I’ve never actually seen it in person. I really didn’t wanna know how she could justify having ways of killing people right underneath her feet. I’ve been deluding myself into thinking that I wanted to be more like her. That couldn’t be further from the truth.” “I’m suspecting that there won’t be anybody down there and that her full force is right now about to attack. It’s going to be devastating for the people of the United States and the world abound.”

  “I want you to know how much it means to me that you’re standing by me in all this, Natalie. I know that it can’t be easy and you hide it well, but betraying your mother has to hurt you where it matters the most. I suppose we’re both sacrificing a lot, but we need to make sure that there is continued peace and prosperity for your world.” They entered into a complex and they both looked around quite shocked at what they saw with their own eyes.

  Natalie went over and used her cardkey to access the armory. She went inside and found all the necessary supplies that were needed to fulfill his secret request. She filled the container. “I hope you know what you’re doing. These elements are dangerous in the wrong hands. I’m trusting to put all of this in your hand, but there’s no way that I can get a jet. Then again, we already have the ability to fly.” I was hoping that I was going to be able to find a way to get into the air, but the place had been totally locked down from the moment that the dragons came here.

  “I hope that I can keep it together long enough to do what needs to be done. With you by my side, I believe that I can conquer anything. I should be on the side of my people, but I found a second home right here on earth and I don’t want to lose it. Having you come into my life gave me a reason to hope for that happy ending. I’m guessing that you won’t want to miss this, but I suggest that you take some precautions. You have been trained by the best and it might be that training that helps you to live through this. I would suggest that you grab anything that is flame retardant. I’m assuming that your mother has already instituted that command to her troops.”

  They went back up the elevator and came out on the same floor that they had just vacated. They look at each other and they knew that this wasn’t going to be easy. They had decided that it was better for the planet to make sure that the dragons didn’t get a foothold on this world.

  “I was hoping that we would find a way to live in harmony, but I don’t think that’s going to work. Your kind has a blood lust that almost matches the one that my mother has. They are evenly matched and my mother will give as good as she gets.” “I have no idea what Marcel is thinking, but apparently it was going to take some amazing altitude. We were Airborne and we didn’t just fly into the sky. We are hidden within the clouds. It’s almost like he can navigate without being able to see beyond. Being in his arms and the thin air is causing me to grab for the oxygen canister that he presented to me after taking it from the armory.

  They circled behind a mountain and then Marcel landed on the ledge to leave Natalie there to witness at a safe distance. “I don’t want to have to worry about you. This is where you’ll be able to see everything, but not get personally involved.” He didn’t allow her to say anything in response. He took flight with the weapon in hand. He used his destructive claws to rip it open. The contents were now feeding the clouds above. He wasn’t sure if it was going to work, but it was only thing that he could come up with in all the years that he had been on this planet. He knew that he could never return to his old life. It was time to start a new chapter with the woman that he loved.

  He emptied the container and then returned to watch what was going to transpire with Natalie.

  “You were right about your kind bringing them into a trap. That valley has only one way in and one way out. The dragons are going to use that to pick off the troops one at a time like shooting fish in a barrel.” “I want to ask him what he did with the weapon, but maybe not knowing gave me a sense of plausible deniability.”

  “I knew from the moment that I came here a few years ago that this atmosphere was a little toxic to my people. I’m going to make them believe that it’s deadly and that their only option is to leave.” He flew down in the mists of the battle. He landed in between the two factions and he stumbled toward his kind looking like he was drunk. It was about that time that the air became cooled and the clouds opened up with a rain shower from above.

  “I came as soon as I could get away. I wanted to reach out before now, but I was unable to. I had to warn you before you came here and discovered it for yourself.” Marcel fell to his knees and crawled on his hands and knees looking like he was parched from a desert journey that had left him almost on death’s door. “This place…the environment is not safe. I wanted to come home, but I couldn’t. I’ve been living day to day as a human for my own continued survival. You can’t say that you haven’t felt different and that’s only going to get worse. I’ve been living…on borrowed time. I had to shelter myself by staying indoors as much as possible. Being penned in like an animal…is no way to live for our kind.” He felt the effect of the rain hitting his skin and he made one final gasp before dropping at the feet of Jackson in a fragile and human form.

  Jackson feeling something in the air took a deep breath and began to wheeze uncontrollably. He turned his attention towards the enemy. They were cowering behind their vehicles waiting for some moment to strike. Jackson felt like his lungs were on fire and his entire insides were burning up. A little heat was normal, but this was suffocating and taking the very breath from his body. He turned to see that his brethren and those loyal to him were having the same problem. It appeared that Marcel’s warning was too late to save him, but maybe it wasn’t too late to save the rest of them.

  He was about to go over and collect the body of Marcel, but felt that his soul had already been welcomed into the dragon of Elders. The body was nothing more than a husk and getting off this planet was paramount.

  He made a motion to his soldiers and they all took flight with their wings flapping and receding into the distance, until they were a mere speck. Once they were in space and aboard their ship they didn’t stick around. They had hid behind the moon to avoid detection from the many satellites littering the neighboring space.

  Natalie had found her way down from the mountain. It wasn’t easy by any means. She was scraped and now running with tears in her eyes over to the fallen Marcel. Her mother seeing the angst on her daughter’s face decided to give her this moment.

  She put her hand on her daughter’s shoulder “I want to know that what he did was the ultimate sacrifice. I was wrong about him and I’m sorry. I don’t know if you will ever forgive me, but I hope in time that we can put this behind us. I’m going to give you time to grieve, but in a week or so, I plan to continue where I left off.” She left behind a black vehicle for her daughter and then she made her way slowly back to the complex.

  Natalie was cradling the head of Marcel who was in that naked desirable human form. There was an explosion that could barely be heard in the distance. “You won’t have to worry about them coming after you. All the others that survived will have to go underground. My mother will have to start over and I destroyed her data and any backups that might be pertaining to the subject of her experiments. “I’m going to miss you and these feelings are much too overwhelming to ignore. I would rather die with you, but you probably knew that it was better this way.”

  It took a bit of doing, but she managed to put him into the vehicle in the back. She would bury him with honor and suddenly there was a hand touching her shoulder. She swerved to the side of the road, looking back to see that he was
smiling. Her heart felt like it was going to jump out of her mouth.

  “I had to pretend to be dead and I had to make it look real. Your reaction sold it and I hope that you can forgive me for not telling you this part of the plan. That toxic atmosphere was enhanced and I was lucky that I was holding my breath or things could have gone a whole lot worse.” Marcel saw the anger in her eyes and was terrified that his little ploy had destroyed the one thing that he couldn’t live without. “I meant no harm and I only wanted to do what was right for everyone. This way, your mother will still have her crusade and my people know that coming here will only be detrimental to their health. I’m not sure they will stay away forever, but for now they’ve seen the effects of what this world can do to me and that was more than enough to prove to them that staying here any longer than necessary was stupid. I know that what I did was wrong, but I had to weigh all the options.” She had pulled away from him and was looking at him with this distaste and shock mixed into one.

  “I should hate you. No woman or any one should feel that kind of crushing pain from losing the one that they love. You went about this wrong and you made this arbitrary decision without even consulting me. I can’t fault you for your reasoning and my outburst and subsequent grief had certainly proven to my mother that you were worthy of her respect. I suppose I could forgive you, but that’s on the precipice that you can forgive me.” “I should’ve told him, but I was unsure myself until this morning. Feeling my stomach turn was only a sign, but the test that I did under the sly had proven that what I suspected was true.” “I promise that I won’t make the same mistakes that my mother did. I hope that this is the only time that you keep these things away from me. You need to remember that we are a family and all three of us are going to have to rely on one another.”

  Marcel was taken back for a second and then he realized the full meaning of what she was saying to him. They were going to have a baby born of love and that was something that they could both share. The way that she hugged him told him that his ruse did not ruin what they had together. He was worried that she would feel betrayed, but this was essentially the only prudent course of action.

  They held hands and they drove into the sunset with their lives forever linked. Fearing reprisal from the government they decided to leave before being discovered all over again. They did not return to his home world and the vessel that had brought him here was repaired after the child was born.

  They found an oasis that was uninhabited and began a simpler life of living off the land and on the love that they had for each other.

  THE END

  CAPTIVATED BY SAVAGE SEAL

  Chapter 1

  “Nina, I’ve never seen you look more ravishing or desirable. It’s a good thing that you came out with me to shake things up a little bit. I’ve been worried about you. You seem to have lost something and you seem to be just going through the motions.” Nina looked at her best friend Susan with her long blond hair and voluptuous good looks and she wonders if she ever did attract a man like that. “That dress is going to knock any man out of their boots. I guess it’s true that a little black dress is a girl’s best friend. We all have one and now you can say you have one too.”

  “Susan, you know that this is not me. I’m not this risqué or erotic. If I were to step out of the doors wearing this, I would probably be arrested for indecent exposure.” Nina was looking in the mirror and she noticed that her dirty blond locks were the perfect contrast to the dark dress that she was currently wearing. It had a plunging neckline with ruffles to indicate more than what there was. It was short on the bottom and rose up to almost a scandalous amount. One wrong move in any direction and she would be putting herself out there for everybody to see.

  “That’s precisely the reason why you should get it, Nina. We know that eventually you’ll have use for it. It’s better to have it now, than to never have it at all. I don’t think I’ve seen you out on a date in at least a year. You can’t tell me it’s because of Benjamin. He’s 10 years old now and he has his own friends and before long, he’ll be old enough to stay home on his own. You’ll blink and you’ll find that life passes you by. I don’t want to see that happen to you.”

  “I know that she means well, but she has no idea what I’ve been putting myself through. That trip five years ago is still haunting me. Every morning, I wake up with his face in my mind and the regret of leaving him behind. I never told her the story. Maybe I’m embarrassed by what happened, or maybe I just want to keep it to myself. I know that there’s no chance that I’m going to see him again, especially after I left things cold.” Looking at this dress, Nina begins to see that maybe it’s time to finally shed that memory and get on with the rest of her life.

  It had been over five years, but that navy seal with that killer instinct in his eyes and body to kill for was the only thing that mattered. She found herself measuring the men that she went out with by a certain standard that they couldn’t possibly live up to. It didn’t matter if they were nice, well educated or even had a bad boy quality. She wanted the whole thing, the total package and the only person that had ever given that to her was John Evans. That man knew how to make a girl feel like a natural woman and also show them that they were respected enough that foreplay was mandatory.

  “Earth to Nina. Where did you go? You’re here one minute and then you were in that secret place that puts a smile on your face. You lit up like the 4th of July and now I know that there’s something underneath all of this. I think it might be a man. You’ve never said as much, but I have seen you looking exactly like you are right now. Your eyes seem to glow with a memory and if that memory is the only thing that is holding you back, then I suggest that you think of something else. I’m starting to see the reason why you are alone, Nina. You want something that you can’t have. You crave it, you wait for it, but you know in the deepest part of yourself that it’s never going to happen. Perhaps, he’s married and you got caught up in an affair of a heart that made you feel like you were doing yourself a disservice.” Susan had always had Nina’s back, but this time, she saw that this was a losing battle. Something was eating at her and preventing her from finding the true happiness that she deserved.

  Nina was the perfect 10 with a body that was sculpted out of the gym every morning for an hour. With her clothes on, her body looked like a man’s wet dream come true. With her clothes off, she became the ultimate fantasy with pendulum breasts that were a natural C Cup. She also had the kind of nipples that a man could chew on for days. She was only 5 foot two, 100 pounds, but she still felt that there was need for improvement. It’s was her piercing green eyes that made most men take a second look.

  “I do have a secret, but I really don’t want to talk about it. It’s painful time in my life and a pleasurable one at the same time. I don’t know how that’s even possible, except for the fact that I had a wonderful weekend with a young man and then after it was over with, I left without saying a word or leaving any signs that I wanted to continue pursuing something between us. I’ve been hiding, hoping that he would find me, but how can he, when he doesn’t even know that I came from this town. He lives a life of mystery and there are times that I know that he’s bad for me, but I don’t care.”

  “I want everything and I think that I should never have to settle for second best. If life means for us to come together at some point, then so be it. Until then, I need to stop living in the past and live for the present. If I don’t, then I’m going to find myself shying away from the perfect man. He’s out there and maybe I’ve already found him and because of my feelings for John, I let him go. That was a sad thought. I did not want to go down that road. I did not want to live like a hermit for the rest of my life. I’d found comfort in television shows, but now I had to go out into the real world.”

  “Nina, I really do have to run. I have a few errands that I have to do, before I go home and make supper. I think that I’m going to take it slow, because I always have more fun when Steve is
there to make supper with me. Sometimes we don’t even make it out of the kitchen, if you know what I mean.” Susan was only trying to make her friend smile, but she realized that her attempt at doing just that had backfired. Her happiness with Steve was getting underneath her best friend’s skin.

  “You don’t have to rub it in. I know that you have the best life and I would never begrudge for having everything you want. I would like to have what you have, but I have no idea how to go about it. I can’t just go into a bar and pick up a guy. Most likely than not, he’s only there for one thing and one thing only. I’m not really looking for a one night stand. I want something with more substance and is going to stand up to the test of time. I want that friendship that is going to turn us into lovers. You started that way with Steve and you’ve been going strong ever since. Why is it, so hard for me to find that best friend that could turn into a whole lot more?”

  “Nina, you can’t find it, because you haven’t been letting it find you. You need to walk amongst the people, talk to them and get to know them on another level besides just idle chitchat. I want you to go out tonight in the black dress and I want you to say to yourself that you are over him and that you can do better than somebody that was only a weekend affair.” There was a small problem with that. They both knew that going into a club would only cause those young men in their informative years to become drooling idiots. They were older than most of the crowd at 35 apiece and had been best friends since they were kids.