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Beyond Out of Kilter
by NJ van Vugt
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61 pages50 minutes
Summary
What do you do when your sexy Scottish lover reveals he's actually a matter-manipulating alien from another dimension?
After merging with McRae's true form, Sheena discovers there are unexpected side-effects. With a broken Earth on the path to recovery, Sheena and McRae's bond develops into something out of this world.
Publisher: Cobblestone PressReleased: Jul 15, 2017ISBN: 9781386550037Format: book
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Beyond Out of Kilter - NJ van Vugt
Beyond Out of Kilter
By
NJ Van Vugt
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Beyond Out of Kilter
Copyright© 2017 NJ Van Vugt
Cover Artist: Kelly Martin
Editor: Angela Kelly
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.
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Chapter One
Reconnected
A voice from the radio droned on about the alien revelation. Sheena couldn’t concentrate on the words. She felt physically drained, aching even, yet her mind was awake and racing. The erotic merge with McRae’s alien form replayed over and over, lucid in the forefront of her mind, until the craving to remerge became an almost unbearable headache.
McRae rattled around in the kitchen, as she willed her sore body to move and forced herself off the couch and into the bathroom. Sheena stood under the cascade of cool water until the sharpness in her mind dampened and the throbbing in her muscles lessened. It took a long time.
Finally she turned off the shower and stepped out onto the mat. Standing in front of the mirror she stared at her own naked body, pale and vulnerable. She would never feel the same about herself, her life, or her planet, and vaguely mourned the oblivious and innocent girl she’d been just days earlier—before she’d met the alluring Scotsman, before he and his species had revealed their covert existence and their plans for Earth.
Sheena stepped closer to the mirror and looked into her green eyes. Something made her lean in for a closer look. Around both pupils was a band of gold that glowed so fiercely she stepped back in surprise. Grabbing a towel, Sheena rubbed her face dry then the mirror, and met her reflection again. The rings of burning yellow remained, but the longer she stared the fainter they appeared. Or was she just becoming used to the sight? Either way, it could only be something left over from merging with a matter-manipulating alien’s natural form.
Sheena took a seat at the kitchen table with McRae when he finished making pancakes, but barely knew which of her thousands of questions to start with. There was silence at first as she watched him eat ravenously.
What’s your species called? Do you have a spoken language, or do you communicate telepathically? How many of you are here on Earth? What’s your home planet like?
The questions fell helplessly from her lips before she could stop them.
A look of amusement crossed McRae’s face. "There are approximately 840,000 of us on Earth. We don’t have a name for ourselves—we just are—but we are by nature wardens as humans have named us. We don’t have a language, and we don’t communicate telepathically either. You don’t have a word for it; it’s more along the lines of data-wave exchanges. And we don’t come from or live on a planet. We’re from…you don’t have a word for that either. You could probably liken it to a sub-dimension, or maybe a plane of existence."
You realize none of what you just said is something my simple human brain can comprehend, right?
McRae chuckled, shaking his head a little. The human brain’s not as simple as you think. You just don’t access it fully. And you don’t need to for your level of being.
Level of being. Hmm.
Sheena felt vaguely offended. "Are you ascended beings?"
No.
He smiled at the question. We didn’t evolve from something; we always have been and we always will be. We’re a singularity that came into existence when the universe did, and we will cease to exist when the universe does.
That’s something else I can’t comprehend. Are you saying you’re immortal?
Mortality is a human word that can only be applied to linear existence, such as your own.
Sheena contemplated his reply for some time as she ate. "I’m guessing you’re more advanced than I could even
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