GUEST POST ~ His Alien by Holly Day #Excerpt #GuestPost
✨ GUEST POST ✨
Hello, everyone! Thank you, lovely Addison, for allowing me back on the blog 🥰
I’m Holly Day, and I write MM Romance stories for specific days. Most often I write paranormal, but the occasional contemporary story slips through. And then we have stories like His Alien.
You see, July 21st is Invite An Alien To Live With You Day and I couldn’t pass that up.
When I started writing as Holly Day, I decided to write stories for different hollydays 😉, and I meant for all stories to be standalone. Short stories and novelettes set in different worlds, with different rules and monsters every month.
It worked for a while. I wrote short, most often under a hundred pages. Then I started to write a little longer, then a little longer, and then I wrote a sequel. And then everything went out the window LOL. The sequels were piling up and all of a sudden, I was drowning in series I needed to continue.
So I shouldn’t add another sequel to the mix, right? Nope. It’s been three years since I wrote There Will Be Aliens. Three years since Carlo got abducted (we were celebrating Alien Abduction Day then) and introduced to seven-foot-tall aliens with tails, black skin, sharp teeth, and little to no emotions.
On Negudade, their home planet, it’s only been a few months. And this time it’s Forest who’s been abducted by aliens. Aliens who look like giant woodlice. Among the others who have been kidnapped is a Negudade female, and when she’s rescued, she brings Forest with her to her home planet, where Forest is given to Brox Scoreceds Cruul.
Brox wants nothing to do with humans. He was part of the crew who kidnapped Carlo and the women who came with him, and he’s had his fill of humans. The ruling females don’t care. They put him in charge of caring for Forest since he’s one of the few who has a language chip that allows him to understand what the humans are saying.
Forest refuses to get a language chip. They might say it’s so he’ll understand what they’re saying, but it might just as well be a tracking device, or maybe it’ll infect him with a brain-eating virus. Who knows?!?
So we’re left with a tall, dark, broody alien who once was a fierce warrior but now has been demoted to a babysitter, and a confused human who doesn’t understand a word of what the people around him are saying, not to mention all the weird food and stuff they have on this planet. Forest might not appreciate being given to someone, but when a creep starts to follow him around, he’s glad he has Brox by his side. No one would be stupid enough to go up against him…he doesn’t think so at least.
It’s an abduction story, but there is little to no trauma, and it might be about aliens, space, and faraway planets, but it’s low on the sci-fi-y stuff. Check it out!
His Alien
by Holly Day
SERIES: There Will Be Aliens (Book 2 – Shared Universe)
PUBLISHER: JMS Books
RELEASE DAY: July 20, 2024
GENRE: Gay Sci-Fi Spicy Romance
TROPES: Hunky Alien, Mars Needs Women but…, Only One Bed, Language Barrier
LENGTH: Novella / 29,730 Words / 111 Pages
HEAT RATING: 3 Flames
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Blurb
Sequel to There Will Be Aliens
Brox was once a fierce warrior, but now his only job is to share his home with an alien. A human.
All Forest Blue wanted was to go on a trip to Europe, not get kidnapped by aliens. He hadn’t even known aliens existed. Though, he guessed things could be worse. The huge devil lookalike he’s been given to hasn’t tried to eat him … yet. Small favors. But would it cost him to smile now and then?
Brox Scoreceds Cruul was once a fierce warrior, now demoted to take care of an alien. A few months back, the leading females had sent a ship to gather ten human females from their home planet in hopes of saving the Negudade people from extinction. Now a male has arrived on the planet, and the leading females have given him to Brox, since he has a language implant that allows him to understand humans. His assignment is to make the human thrive. How could anyone make a human thrive?
The devils have the emotional depth of a shallow water puddle, but Brox feeds Forest and makes sure he has everything he needs. It’s not what Forest imagined his life to be, but when a creep starts following him around, Brox goes all snarly devil on his stalker. So maybe having an alien husband isn’t too bad?
Excerpt
Brox turned at the sound of Forest walking out of the bathroom. He looked… sad, maybe? The human females they’d taken from Earth had been sad, and while he wasn’t sure it was the emotion Forest was displaying, he believed it was.
“Why don’t you have hot water?”
Brox watched him. Hot water? If he wanted hot water, they could heat some on the stove. “What would you do with hot water?”
“I have no idea what you said, but unless you said I can take a steaming shower in a bit because you’ve fixed the water heater, I don’t think I want to know. I don’t think my heart can take more disappointment.”
Disappointment? Didn’t he like Brox’s home? “Why would a shower be steaming?” It was useless to speak before they could get a language chip.
“I think we need to work on sign language because I can’t get anything out of all the sounds you’re making.”
Sign language would work. Brox tugged at his shirt and then at the door. They’d go to Carlo and ask if they could borrow a change of clothes.
“We’re heading out?”
Brox nodded.
“How can you understand me?”
Brox tapped the small scar behind his ear where the chip was located underneath the skin. When Forest took a step closer, he bent a fraction so he could see. There wasn’t much to see, and while it was unnerving to allow anyone as close to his throat as Forest was, he tried to relax. He’d win if Forest attacked him.
“A scar?” A light touch brushed his skin, and Brox shivered. He suppressed it, but the echo of it flowed through him. No one had ever touched him behind the ear.
“Ah, there is something underneath the skin. A chip?”
Brox nodded.
“It translates?”
He nodded again.
“Oh, cool. And a little scary. What if it infects your brain with a virus? Or if someone uses it to hack into your mind? I’d never allow anyone to put a chip in me.”
What was he talking about? He tapped the area of the chip and then pointed at Forest, telling him he would get a chip.
“Nope, not gonna happen. You’re not chipping me like a lost dog. Over my dead body.”
He’d get a chip.
Brox moved toward the door and gestured for Forest to follow. They stepped out of the house, and Brox looked around to make sure no one was nearby. Humans were fragile, and he’d have to be on the lookout for threats. He didn’t think anyone from the town would hurt Forest. They’d seen humans since the females lived here, but if someone was visiting from another region, they might react differently. And while wild animals seldom walked on the streets, Forest was easy prey should someone venture there.
There was a startled yelp when he curled his tail around Forest’s wrist, and he turned to look at him.
“No, it’s cool. I wasn’t prepared for tail touches, but no worries.”
Cool? The late afternoon didn’t feel cool, but maybe humans sensed temperature differently.
He started walking and tugged at Forest with his tail.
“Are you gonna keep hold of me?”
Brox nodded. He needed to know where he was if danger approached.
“To prevent me from running away?”
He didn’t reply. He couldn’t run away. It wasn’t safe for him to do so. In the beginning, they hadn’t believed their research about humans being defenseless was correct, but it was. They didn’t have claws, didn’t have fangs, didn’t have spikes, and weren’t poisonous. They were harmless, and therefore in constant danger.
His heart beat a little faster. How did Zenon and Ghurva stand it? How did you live with someone who couldn’t defend themselves? He might not like being taken out of active duty to look after a human, but he understood why Koruts wanted someone like him to do it. He had one of the best records on the planet, he’d eliminated many threats and had been on many successful missions. He was capable of guarding a human.
“Oh, look at this.” There was a tug at his tail, then Forest was crouching on the ground. Brox stopped and looked. It was a flower.
“Can I pick it?” Forest turned his weirdly colored eyes at him.
He nodded. He was pretty sure he was able to pick it. The stem wasn’t tough, someone with inferior strength would be able to pick it.
Forest snapped the stem, brought the flower to his nose, and inhaled. Then he smiled only to frown. “It’s not poisonous, right?”
Something cold slithered through Brox’s chest. A strange feeling, but he did his best to ignore it. “No.” Unless it was to humans.
“Was that a yes or a no?”
“No.” Brox shook his head, and Forest tried to repeat the short word, only to smile the weird kind of smile humans had; they showed off teeth, instead of puffing their cheeks like normal people. Though no one puffed their cheeks anymore.
About the Author
According to Holly Day, no day should go by uncelebrated and all of them deserve a story. If she’ll have the time to write them remains to be seen. She lives in rural Sweden with a husband, four children, more pets than most, and wouldn’t last a day without coffee.
Holly gets up at the crack of dawn most days of the week to write gay romance stories. She believes in equality in fiction and in real life. Diversity matters. Representation matters. Visibility matters. We can change the world one story at the time.
