Page 1 of Monstrous Baby
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I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than my absolutely fucking gorgeous mate holding our newborn youngling on her breast.
Cradling them both against me, I threw my head back and bellowed out a victory roar. The rest of the squad joined me, raking the ground with vicious claws, screeching a warning to anyone who dared to even think about threatening our mate and youngling. Except for Snryx, who was still taking care of our mate, closing the neat incision and monitoring her stats.
:You’re scaring the humans,:Natalie said on the grid, wry humor soaking through each word.
Such a miracle to have my little human mate on our cybernetic grid.:The only human I care about is you:
I couldn’t help but bare my teeth at the man who’d left her to die to save his own skin. Wide eyed and pale, Snyder sat on the ground gaping at us, though Lohr did his best door impression to keep our mate shielded.
Our youngling made a ragged cry, snapping my attention back to her. Her little mouth screwed up into a squall, her facedarkening from soft pink to red. She was coated in blood and fluid from the warm haven of her mother’s belly.
Rizan hopped over with a bag in his talons, shoving it closer to the medic.:I brought blankets, clothes, and food just in case.:
:Perfect.:Snryx immediately dug into the bag and pulled out soft blankets to drape over both Natalie and the youngling. He uncapped a fresh bottle of electrolytes for our mate, who downed the entire bottle without pausing.:We need to get them to shelter. The longer we linger, the more likely it is that we’re spotted.:
“Oh, Nat,” the other human female whispered, squeezing my mate’s hand. “I had no idea you were pregnant when we came to Guatemala.”
“I wasn’t,” Natalie replied softly.
“How is that possible?”
She hesitated, afraid to divulge too much information that might compromise us.
“Please,” her friend begged. “This is all so incredible. I’ve dreamed of making some kind of amazing discovery like this. Are they from a lost civilization that you stumbled into?”
Axxol growled so deep it rumbled the ground.
“Aliens?” The woman asked quickly, her voice shaking. “Some kind of monster from outer space? I’ve got to know.”
“Why?” Natalie asked.
Evidently, her bluntness surprised the other woman. Her eyes flared and her mouth hung open for a moment. “The possibilities. My brain is literally on fire right now. I want—need—to know.”
:Could she have some mrion fragments?:Natalie asked.
:It’s possible,:Lohr replied.:I’m doing a deeper analysis of your DNA to pinpoint the fragments that joined ours and completed the…:
His words trailed off into nothing. Silence weighed heavily on the grid. For once, all our thoughts were blank, stunned by his realization.Ourrealization.
Completed the Myrm.
Our human mate was Myrm.
Our enemy—that we’d been engineered to destroy.
I hadn’t really had a single moment to stop and think about what had allowed Natalie to jump from the cave to join us here. Let alone free Axxol when DSC had trapped him for decommissioning. She was on our grid, fully connected.
Myhumanmate.
We contaminated her with our Sirian cells we’d been carrying as part of our programming for millennia. We’d been created from the lifeforms we were engineered to destroy, so DSC could maintain complete and utter control of the powerful technology.
Meanwhile, our human mate had already carried a trace of mrion DNA and we hadn’t noticed. Our presence completed the cells inside her, enabling her to join our grid. Jump with Axxol’s technology. Even use Rizan’s echolocation as a weapon to help them escape.
Everything we’d been programmed to believe about the Myrm flickered on the grid rapid fire.
