Free Colun's Passion (Alien Mates Book Four 4) by Serena Simpson Page B

like she couldn’t see for a minute. Where am I? She looked up to see Colun’s gray eyes; the comfort in them, the warmth, pulled her to him like a magnet.
    “Colun.” She threw herself into his arms shaking as her time in the maze came back to her. “Hold me, please, hold me.”
    He picked her up and started to carry her. It never dawned on her to ask him where they were going because she trusted him. Instead, in a ragged voice, she told him about the maze, about her fears, and the wild animals with yellow eyes chasing her.
    “I almost died. I can die here.” The reality that she may never leave this place was punching her in the gut. This might be the end for both of them. The last chance they had to be together, and if it was, she didn’t want to waste it.
    “Where are we?” She looked around at the landscape; it was wild and beautiful, something she never saw before. Were they on a different planet? She looked up into the night sky. It looked like Earth, but she didn’t recognize the stars in their familiar orbit.
    “This is the Earth we landed on so many centuries ago, wild, beautiful, and dangerous.”
    He sat her down on a pile of animal furs; they were soft and warm. He had a large fire going and food slowly cooking over it.
    “We have to be careful with the fire. It can attract predators I don’t want to encounter. Some of your most ferocious species died out over time; I don’t want to meet up with them again.”
    She couldn’t help looking around, “What’s that?” She pointed to a flower.
    “This flower has a healing property in it. One that modern medicine would kill for, but it's been extinct for ages now.” He walked over to the flower and picked it, carrying it back to her.
    “Are you sad over a flower?” He looked at her face, and she looked crushed as if she wanted to replant the bloom.
    “I'm just being silly. It’s so beautiful it makes me sad to think that we won’t get to enjoy it.” The flower was so unique; it had a brown stem with blue and green petals on the bloom. It always amazed her the things you could find on Earth that looked like they should be on some futuristic planet.
    “There’s a field of them through the trees to the left. It won’t matter if I pick it or not, it will not survive long enough to make it back to your time.”
    “I know.” She gave him a smile. Her heart fluttered as his gray eyes smiled back at her. If they had a chance to get to know each other on a date, maybe they would have ended up here one day on their own.
    He took the petals off; the blue ones dripped a red sap while the green ones dripped a yellow sap. There were three of each petal in his hand.
    “I want you to put these in your mouth on your tongue and suck on them but don’t swallow.”
    “All right, why?” She opened her mouth and stuck out her tongue. He placed them on it, and she closed her mouth and began to suck cautiously.
    “This is the treatment for the poison that is running through your body. Those claw marks on your arm and leg are lethal and left untreated they would kill you. This flower is the one natural antidote on the planet.”
    She nodded, her eyes watered, and her body curled away from his as he gently checked the marks on her leg. His fingers touching the area made tears spring to her eyes the pain was so intense, but she refused to holler because she didn’t want to spit the leaves out.
    He went to finish cooking the food; it smelled so good, and she was hungry. He took it off the fire and wrapped it in leaves.
    “The leaves will keep the food, and it will be good for us to eat later.” Then he dug a hole in the ground and placed branches and twigs over it. He looked over his shoulder and grinned at her. “Think of it as a twenty-four-hour refrigerator.” He turned to the fire and put it out.
    He stood and came over to her. Picking her up, he spread out the fur and laid them both down on it. He covered them up and rocked her gently as she continued