Marriage Contract with my Cursed Alien Mate Chapter 38

Tempest had walked from end to end of the large ho at least thirty tis.

It was huge. She was sure she’d walked at least two miles in the ti that Dron had left her in the space.

Still even though she tried there was nothing that she could do to stave off the boredom. Her entire mind was consud by the fact that she truly had nothing to do. There were no books for her to read. No television. What’s worse was there was no one there for her to talk to.

Tempest reasoned with herself. She told herself that the boredom was the main reason she was so upset that Dron had left. She was left in that large house on her own. She wasn’t dumb enough to go back out in the wilderness on her own again. One ti was more than enough.

"I guess I’ll take a nap." Tempest plopped herself down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. She could try to morize the details but just thinking about doing that made Tempest roll her eyes in boredom.

At once she started thinking about the other human won that were abducted and brought here.

They didn’t have the sa problems Tempest had, she was sure. They weren’t worried about being bored. They were worried about surviving.

Tempest wondered what was going through those won’s heads as they ran out there in the wilderness. She wondered how many of them were still alive. Had they all found eachother? Maybe started up their own little community?

The more she thought about it the more Tempest knew that it was unlikely. The trees were all beautiful but they were dense and hard to navigate. She rembered being worried that she would lose sight of the house even when she’d only walked a little bit away.

She couldn’t even fathom being miles and miles away from civilization.

Tempest turned on her side and tried to close her eyes. Hopefully when she woke up again Dron would be back.

And then what?

Tempest sighed as she turned onto her back again and slamd her hands down on the soft bed. Even when Dron ca back it wasn’t like he was going to engage with her in titiling conversation. It’ll be more grunts and intense gazes.

Tempest just wanted soone to talk to. She looked down at the device on her wrist. She didn’t want to be annoying but xyn did tell her that it would be okay for her to call her to talk.

Tempest bit her lip as she pulled her arm up and activated her communicator. It was easy to use now that she’d had it for a while. It was almost like second nature.

The guilt began to overtake Tempest’s mind as she waited for the call to connect. xyn probably didn’t want to talk to her. She had her own life to think about. Tempest was just a job. It was silly for Tempest to take up all her ti.

Before Tempest could disconnect the call xyn answered. "Tempest? What’s happened?"

The concern was clear in xyn’s voice.

"Hmm...nothing. I’m okay." Tempest smiled, she tried to put xyn at ease.

"Oh? Did you need sothing from ?" xyn questioned.

"No... I an... not really. I just..." Tempest didn’t know what to say. The more she thought about it, the more Tempest realized just how selfish she was being.

"There was obviously a reason you decided to call ."

"I just wanted soone to talk to. It’s silly."

xyn tilted her head, "Where is Dron?"

"I don’t know. He doesn’t really spend any ti here with . Is that normal?" Tempest asked not really wanting to get him in trouble.

"I supposed so. Most ogas realize that they are only in the marriage to produce children. We tend to make sure that we don’t beco attached. It’s easier when the marriage procedure is over and we are set to marry soone else."

Tempest sighed. It made sense. What was the point of becoming emotionally invested with soone you were just going to have to leave in a few months.

"I guess I understand that" Tempest wasn’t sure why she was thinking about a different outco but she couldn’t help it. "But what if an oga doesn’t want to marry soone else."

xyn’s eyebrows shoot up. "Are you saying you want to stay with Dron past your end date?"

"No! That’s not what I’m saying at all." Tempest waved her free hand in front of her face trying to erase the thought from the air.

"Then what are you asking?"

"I’m just trying to find out if that’s possible? I an is it unheard of?"

"Not unheard of but the only ti it happens is when an oga and an alpha turn out to be fated mates. That hasn’t happened in years. The only other ti is when both the oga and alpha are tainted, making them unchoosable by anyone other than the partners they are married to at the given ti." xyn took a breath before she continued, "Is that what you are worried about? Do you think because you are married to the cursed alpha you are tainted?"

Tempest scoffed, "Not at all. I still don’t get what you all have against the man. He is as normal as they co. At least he seems that way to ."

xyn was silent on the display for another few minutes.

Tempest knew that she should hang up but that would an that she would be alone in the house again.

"Would it be completely unheard of for you to co for a visit?" Tempest’s voice was soft.

xyn gave her a tight smile, "I’ll be over shortly."

"Yay! Thank goodness." Tempest popped up in the bed, jumping to her feet and staring down at the screen.

"I’m happy to help. Give a few monts to make sure the ho is set up." xyn shrugged once before she abruptly ended the connection.

Tempest felt the excitent coursing through her veins. Even with xyn coming over she didn’t know what they would do. It was more about the company. Tempest did have a few more questions that she could ask. Hell, Tempest had a million more questions to ask.

She rushed to the bathroom and decided to wash up.

Every few monts, Tempest would stop what she was doing and listen out for Dron. She wondered if he would be upset that she was having company? Back on Earth, Sam never liked to have unannounced guests. At first Tempest used to believe that it was simply because he wanted to have the house in order. The longer she was with him the more she realized that it was because he wanted to be at his best before entertaining company. He wanted to make sure the mask was in place.

Tempest didn’t want to think on it too long. She’d made it her business to do anything else when she started thinking about Sam. She was still hurting from what he did to her but with everything else that was going on in her life at the mont, she didn’t have much ti to dwell.

It couldn’t have been more than twenty minutes before the lights in the house started to flicker. It didn’t bother Tempest any more. She knew what it ant.

xyn was here.

Tempest squealed slightly before she rushed off to the door. She undid the lock and tried to pull the door open. Just as before the door didn’t budge.

"Crap!" Tempest cursed out.

"Is there an issue?" xyn called through the door.

"Uhh... just a bit. Hold on I’m trying to get the door open." Tempest called back.

"Is it unlocked?"

Tempest could hear the indignation in xyn’s voice.

"Yes, it’s unlocked. I just can’t..." Tempest grunted as she tried to pull the door open to no avail, "I can’t open the damn door"

"Maybe I should co back at a different ti then?" xyn offered up.

"No! No... I’ll be right there." Tempest nearly yelped.

She took off running to her room. "I can do this. No problem." Tempest built herself up. She walked up to the window in her room that lead out to the wrap around porch. So far she hadn’t built up the courage to walk around out in that direction but she hoped that it was secure enough for her to make it to the front of the house without many problems.

The window receeded into the floor as it had done previously and Tempest walked out onto the porch. She kept to the wall and took a few steps around the periter. The floor held steady. The trees canopied the walkway. After a few seconds once Tempest found it to be safe, she took off at a run so she could get to the front of the house.

xyn startled when she saw Tempest coming out from around the side of the house.

"Hey!" Tempest called out and waved as she got closer to xyn.

"Tempest, it’s lovely to see you." xyn bowed her head slightly. She was so formal.

"Do you want to stay out here or do you want to co in and sit?" Tempest asked jerking her thumb over her shoulder to indicate the direction she’d just co from.

xyn scrunched her face, "I think it might be safer for us to just take in the weather."

Tempest turned around and looked at the direction she’d just co from. It did look dangerous.

"Okay, that’s fine." Tempest looked around but there was no seating out here for the two of them.

"This will do." xyn gestured to a stump a couple of paces down from the entrance of the house.

They settled in and xyn turned to look at her. "So, Tempest, what would you like to discuss?"

"I don’t know. I just thought we could have a little girl ti?" Tempest shrugged her shoulder.

"Girl ti?"

"You know, gossip, stories... just talking." Tempest wrung her hands together.

"That’s quite strange but I guess I could accomodate."

Tempest clapped her hands in excitent, "Okay great. How should we start?"

xyn looked at her as if she had no idea, they were both at a loss.

Tempest looked off to the trees. It had been so long since she engaged in girl talk that she wasn’t sure how to start it off. "What about if we talked about you for a while. Since I’ve known you, we’ve only talked about and my situation. What about you?"

xyn thought for a second, "I’m not sure where to start."

"How about your husband. You told you were mated."

xyn shrugged, "Yes. I’m near the end of my marriage cycle. Topax is a very strong Alpha."

"Is that good? I an, I thought all alphas were strong."

"That is correct. Topax is strong in both ability and ntal prowess."

"So he’s not stupid. You’re right, that is a good thing." Tempest giggled and moved in a little closer. She could feel the pressure lifting off of her. This is what she’s needed.

"What does he do? Am I allowed to ask that?"

"Sure, he’s a engineer. He works on the transports."

"Oooh, a man that works with his hands is always attractive." Tempest waggled her eyebrows and xyn looked down as if she were embarrassed.

"Well it’s better than my last marriage, Drix was an academic. He was as you call it...boring. I think I know more about atmospheric pressure than any other oga alive."

Tempest laughed fully at that.

Tempest and xyn lost themselves in chatter, switching from topic to topic until they were both completely engaged.

"I swear I thought my mother would have a life event when she realized that I wasn’t planning on going into the holy sector." xyn smiled and comb her fingers through her hair.

"Seriously, she grood you to be what... a nun?"

xyn tilted her head, "Yes, exactly. If you think this life is boring, you’d have wished for death if you decided to be part of the holy order."

Tempest laughed hard, she couldn’t even imagine it.

xyn cleared her throat, "I know we agreed that we would talk about but I’m curious. How are things going with you and Dron? Have you worked on the communications?"

Tempest thought back to Dron and her’s ti in the wilderness. She could feel the blush crawling up her cheeks.

"I’ll take that to an things are better?" xyn tried to lean forward to get a better look at Tempest’s face.

"Yes, we’ve co to certain agreents." Tempest didn’t want to give anything away. It was a secret. Though she really wished that she could talk to xyn about it. Tempest was used to playing a part. Sam had trained her well but there was sothing about how Dron acted with her. How he seed to be able to touch the very soul of her without every physically touching her.

"That sounds promising." xyn smirked.

Tempest nodded.

"So I guess that ans I’ll be see the two of you at the festival tonight?" xyn questioned.

"The festival?"

"Yes, it’s for all the newlyweds. It’s a blessing of sorts. I’m not even sure Dron is aware of it. As you know this will be his first ti attending."

"I’m assuming its customary that I attend?"

"Yes. The royals will think of it as a snub if you do not. Getting on their bad side isn’t sothing I’d recomnd."

Tempest sat back. Dron wanted to put on a show for the town. It was ti that she put her words in action. It was ti she played her part.

This was going to be fun.