Chosen by the Alien Above Part 5: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance Serial Read Online Free PDF Page A

front of me. It didn't seem possible that I had been here less than twenty-four hours ago. It made everything about the experience unreal. Everything but one.
    Him.
    He was real. I’d never felt more real. Whatever happened, at least we would be together. If we had to die today, at least we would be in each other's arms.
    Noah knelt before me and cupped my cheeks in his large hands. The smoldering sunlight in his eyes touched the deepest parts of my soul. He kissed me. Not the kiss of one lover to another. More the kiss of sunlight at dawn. The kiss of the first golden ray as it hits sparkling water below. The kiss of the first drop of rain as it nourishes a parched plant.
    He nourished me.
    His tongue captured mine. Our souls fused through the contact of our mouths. Heat, pressure, ecstasy.
    His lips broke from mine even as they broke my heart.
    “Live for both of us, Cora.”
    The harsh reality of his intentions crashed over me like a tsunami on a low-lying island. The force swamped my ability to think. He couldn't leave me!
    “What.. What are you doing, Noah?”
    He paused at the hatch, one had anchored to a pipe.
    “I can’t go with you, Cora.”
    “Don't be insane! We just found each other! I can't lose you now! Don't do this!”
    “I’ve been lost my whole life, Cora. Until you found me.”
    “Then why are you staying? Is this thing between us not real for you?”
    “It's more real than anything I've ever felt before.” He dropped his head and chewed his lips. His gorgeous lips that I was about to lose forever. He looked back up with tears brimming in his eyes. “I can’t go with you.”
    “Don't say that! We have everything to live for, together.”
    “I’d do anything for you, Cora. Anything but put the entire human race in jeopardy. Don't you see?”
    “I see that you're leaving me! I see you’re pushing me away.”
    “It's not you, Cora. It's me. This alien being inside me. It can control me. It's growing stronger. It wanted to use you to birth more of its kind. Don't you see?”
    None of his words made sense. They meant nothing because they weren't saying that he and I would be together forever.
    “If I go back, I put the future of the human race in jeopardy. My life is not worth the future of humanity.” He pushed through the open hatch and into the airlock beyond. “I won't let it do that. Cosmo, seal the hatch.”
    “Yes, Noah.”
    The hatch swung closed and sealed with a sharp hiss.
    I scrambled at the restraints across my chest. I wasn't going to leave without him. If he wasn't leaving, I wasn't either. I unclipped one of the belts, scrambling to release the others.
    “Noah, the capsule’s systems are initialized and prepared for launch.”
    Noah retreated through the airlock door and shut it. The lever on the near side swung down as he locked it into place.   His face was no more than twenty feet away and yet two panes of thick glass made it greater than the distance of the known universe.
    The straps weren't coming off fast enough. I reached for him. He blew a kiss that I knew would never cross the gap.
    The ships comms crackled to life. “Cosmo, initiate launch sequence.”
    “Yes Noah, initiating capsule launch sequence.”
    A long, horrible moment later, a change in inertia pushed me over in the chair. The blackness of space cut into the circular window as Noah and the docking bay grew smaller.
    “Noah, Orbital One’s oxygen levels have dropped to 1%. The probability of your death is high. You need oxygen.”
    “I know.” His whisper barely registered over comms.
    I worked the last restraint free and kicked for the window. My head cracked into the pipe above it and blood seeped into my eye, blurring my vision.
    “Noah!”
    I wasn’t going to let him go without a fight. I'd sooner die than be without him. What did it matter anyway? Death was coming for me anyway. It didn't matter if it was today or a few weeks away.  
    I had to get back to him. He needed my