“Yes,” he said and moved closer to her.
“What’re you doing?” she asked pulling away as he advanced.
“Now we will become one.”
“What?” she asked, shocked.
“Look, I appreciate you rescuing me, but I just met you. You talk about soulmates, but you can’t expect me to decide this in a day.”
“Decide? There is no decision. There is no choice. Now we will become one.”
“You can’t,” she shouted, pushing at his chest. Even as she pressed, however, he moved in closer, grabbing at her waist and pulling her close to him.
“We have met. I have brought you here. We will be together. I’ve no time for your human emotions to realize what must be. The urge to mate is too strong. It cannot wait. It will not.”
“No,” she screamed, the slight amount of excitement she’d felt when meeting this man fleeing in that instant. Was she really rescued from her tyrannical stepfather just to be brought here and forced?
His hands moved like lightning as he undid the fastener on her pants and began sliding them down her hips.
“No, you can’t!”
She tried to twist her body to get his hands off of her pants and pushed at him to get him off of her. In just that short time he’d worked her pants to her mid-thigh.
And then, he stopped.
“Where I come from,” he said slowly, “this is not a question. Yet, here, it feels as though if I were to continue this, it would cause you to not trust me.”
“You’re damn right I wouldn’t. Get off of me!”
“This is not what I want,” he said and pushed her pants back up to her waist.
“I love you. I am here to protect you. I wish for you to trust and love me as well.”
Gloria redid the button on her pants and pushed herself away from him on the bed.
“You can start by not forcing me to have sex with you. That’s a big no-no here, you ass.”
“Yes, I realize this now. I will swear to you that I will not touch you until you are willing too and desire it.”
Gloria panted through her nose as she tried to regain her breath. The confusion in his eyes was what struck her the most about all of this.
She wanted to be upset with him, offended, violated, but something in the way he held himself told her it wasn’t intentional.
He had been acting out of what he was used to, and now tried to adapt to what she needed. Of course, this was all just speculation, but she was willing to at least give the alien Rock a chance to prove his word.
“You get one chance, Rock. If you try this again, I will never trust you. Do you hear me? Ever.”
“I understand. Do you wish me to take you back to your home?”
A violent shudder shook her to the bone at the mention of that place. Going back there was the last thing she would ever want. Her stepfather, his friend, the deal. No, going back there wasn’t an option.
When she had been running through the forest she knew she had nowhere to go. Hell, she was just waiting to be caught up and taken back by those two. This was a beautiful island with a mesmerizingly handsome protector.
“No, Rock, I’ll stay here. Just give me some time. I need a chance to get to know you.”
“I understand,” he said and stood from the bed.
“And Rock?” she asked.
“Yes?”
“Thank you for stopping. It was the right thing to do.”
He nodded his head once, though this time it was hesitant, as though he was still confused on the concept himself, but acquiesced to whatever she wanted.
After he left, Gloria took some time to sit and process what was happening. Her old life was gone to her. At first, that idea was devastating. Everything she knew and loved was gone!
But as she thought about it more, she realized the only thing she missed about her old life was her mother, and she’d been dead for years. Gloria was already carrying around the memory of her mother in her head.
She thought about her every day, and even talked to her sometimes when she was feeling low.
No, the more she thought about it, the more she realized her days were terrible. Cooking, cleaning, tending her stepfather’s crappy bar. The only free time she had was spent watching movies about people that had friends so she could sit and vicariously live through them.
More often than anything she thought about what it would be like to have someone that cared for you and wanted to spent time with you. Someone that would miss you when you were gone.
Her stepfather was probably pissed she was gone, but he didn’t miss her. He’d only miss that debt of his being wiped out.
This alien though, Rock, he would miss her if she left. Right now he was trying to do everything he could to adapt to her way of living so that she would accept him. Despite him almost forcing her, it was also him that had rescued her from the forest and that wolf.