Page 34 of The Biker Alien

Idiots. They didn’t see her for the gorgeous, intelligent woman that she was. Maybe she intimidated them. I don’t know, but whatever their problem with her was, she didn’t give a rat’s ass. All she cared about was getting what she knew she needed.

And from that point on, I knew what I needed.

Who I needed.

Her.

That was the day before I pulled up to her shop. After she left the general store, I followed her for a bit. Her bike sure is nice. I’ve seen nothing like it. One of a kind, just like she is.

I know what Greg and Hal and all of the others have to say about it.

That she’s my fated mate.

Not every humanoid species has a fated mate, or maybe they all do, and they just don’t realize it. it’s a pull, a draw, something that connects the two of you from the moment you first meet.

Honestly, I didn’t think it was real.

Not until I met her.

But Earthlings are most certainly a species who don’t believe in that, or at least most of them don’t. The way they treat dating and marriage, all of the divorces… I honestly don’t understand it, and I’ve been on Earth for five years now.

And the Grelites, the Rebel Brothers, have been a pain in my ass for almost every one of those five years.

There’s a kicker with that too. I was the one to set up the Armadas first. The Grelites could’ve set up shop anywhere else on Earth, but no, they had to come here, acting like they own the place, like we should move.

Yeah, because I could believe them when they said that they wouldn’t follow us to here or there or the other place.

Joey Carpenter is a rat in sheep’s clothing. Not a wolf. A rat.

He’s always been that way.

Five guns and two knives. That’s what I have on me. It won’t be enough to take them all on, but that’s all right.

The plan isn’t so much for me to survive.

It’s for me to get in and get Teri out to the bike so she could escape. Not necessarily me with her because I have to make sure they don’t follow her.

If he’s harmed her in any way, if he’s tortured her… I don’t think I could stand that.

The faster I drive, the worse my thoughts become, but finally, I’m here, behind the warehouse that is the hiding spot for Joey’s headquarters. I’m not sure if Hal’s here or not, and I don’t bother to call him.

This is a one-man job. If Hal comes with me, he could very well get killed, and I’m not going to ask that of him.

I won’t ask that of any of my men.

Yes, I know what could very well happen if this rescue mission should end with my dying at the hands of Joey. The Armadas will launch war against the Rebel Brothers, and it would be a complete bloodbath that might not leave any of the Koxians or the Grelites alive.

Maybe that would be what’s best for the Earthlings.

When the boys and I left Vukox, we brought along a decent amount of our technology with us. We hadn’t realized at first that we would end up on a planet with relatively primate technology like Earth. For the most part, we haven’t used a lot of our technology from our home planet, but I have a few items with me now.

The first is a radar gun that creates an infrared map of the building its pointed at and uses heat sensors to be able to detect who is inside and where. The smallest heat signature must be Teri. She’s on the ground level, in what appears to be a very small room.

A laser etcher is the next device that I take out. I don’t directly cut through the frame of the building into the room she’s held captive in for fear that someone will notice and one of the guards could very well have been ordered to kill her immediately if someone shows up to rescue her.

I make a hole in the façade that is just big enough for me to crawl through, so yes, it’s decently sized, but at least the tool works from intense heat and is relatively silent as it melts through the warehouse’s outer wall to a hallway. I climb through the hole and straighten, listening, reaching for a gun. There’s no one in sight, and I peek around the corner toward the room where Teri is being kept. No one down there either. Hmm.

As quietly as I can, I slip down the hall until I reach the door.

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