Alien Insertion: An Alien Warrior Romance (The Tuorin Legacy Book 4) Read Online Free

the captain’s chair.
    The urgency in his voice propels me and I nod and sprint toward the door. When I burst into the science room, Redonim and the other two scientists are watching vids and taking notes, each engrossed in their work. “Juordin needs you, please come quickly.”
    They all drop what they’re doing and I head back out into the hall to the next door. “Please come to the bridge. Quickly.”
    “What’s happening?” A gruff voice from behind me makes me makes me turn abruptly.
    Casin and Corin are standing in their doorway, along with another warrior. Actually, they are all trying to be in the doorway but it’s tight so they don’t quite fit.
    “Juordin is asking for the scientists and you two to meet on the bridge.”
    We hurry back to the bridge.
    “Gods, what is that?” Corin asks, aghast. The Ardak ship lies just on the other side of the asteroid belt, huge and ominous.
    I’d thought the asteroid belt was bad enough—even now I can see the huge rocks flying past at immense speeds in front of us.
    Juordin stands to face the crowd. “I think we all know what it is.”
    “What?” I ask, looking between everyone, confused.
    “An Ardak mother ship,” Casin whispers. “But we’ve never seen one that big before.”
    Juordin turns to Redonim. “If we put the malworm on that ship, will it work?”
    Redonim turns to the two women on his team. They whisper for a moment, then he says, “We honestly don’t know.”
    One of the women looks at him, then steps forward. “We don’t know for sure…but it could be better than inserting it into an exoskeleton or a lander. A lot better.”
    “Why?” Juordin asks.
    She looks at Redonim for a second, then answers, “Well, the malworm will only spread to those devices that have a connection to it. While a lander would only connect to certain teams, we can probably assume the mother ship has a connection to every cat in the vicinity.” The scientist swallows, staring out the viewscreen at the large ship.
    “I need to make a quick decision. Do we proceed to the planet, or try to install the malworm in this massive ship?”
    “We don’t even know if we can. Their technology is ahead of ours and it’s…different.” Redonim answers. “It could be shielded. They could have automatic countermeasures that will detect and destroy us.”
    “Then the best chance we have is to go into the asteroid belt and get as close as we can before attempting to land on it.” Casin says.
    “Land on it?” Redonim asks incredulously.
    “Well, it’s the only way we’re going to get inside.” Casin answers.
    “I don’t have time for a lengthy debate. Final arguments,” Juordin orders.
    “There are so many we could die trying to get into a ship that big,” Redonim says, “I can’t even list them all.”
    “We’re all going to die anyway.” Corin counters, speaking for the first time. “And it’s our chance to get the most cats possible. I say we do it.”
    Juordin seems surprised, but he nods. “I will do as Redonim suggests and use the asteroid belt to get us as close as possible. Then we will land on the ship and enter to plant the malworm.” His gaze falls on each of them. “Go back to your quarters and strap yourselves in. At least if it’s our last, this is going to be one hell of a ride.”
    He sits back down in the captain’s chair, and I strap in beside him.
    He holds out his hand to me. I take it, gazing into his face. “In case we do die, I want you to know…”
    I hold up a hand to stop him.
    He closes his mouth, looking at me.
    “Now we have to live…so you can finish your sentence.”
    Surprisingly, he laughs. “I’ve never tried that strategy before. Let’s hope it works.”
    He presses a button and a strange kind of handle pops up.
    “What is that?”
    “Manual control. Hang on tight, Princess. Here we go.”
    With those final words, he steers the ship straight into the asteroid belt.
    Suddenly, rocks that are much too large