WARNING: this chapter contains minor sexual content.
"Our engagement can be considered as good as over," Nile further crushed Lily's hopes decisively.
To Alex's questioning gaze, Nile beamed reassuringly as Lily was left speechless in disbelief. Tyler and Faust had visibly relaxed their tense nerves, while the recon team slowly backed away from Lily. Nile was, after all, was the more influential of the two.
Nile, "Now we just need to go home. All of the preparations have already been made."
"Oh," Alex pondered for a bit before concluding that the original Nile was the more unfortunate of the two. After ten whole years of hardship, he finally managed to arrange everything so that he could smoothly annul his engagement with Lily.
In the current times, it wasn't as simple as "I don't love her, so I refuse to go along with this," then, boom--NULL. As both parties were heirs to their respective families, which just so happened to be two of the top four families in the universe, Nile had to do a lot of undercover work without letting anyone from both families find out all while keeping up his responsibilities as the future head in order to keep suspicion away from him. Where would he have time to constantly be with Alex like Tyler and Faust had? He had already tried his best to be with her as much as he could, as he was probably the one who wanted to see her the most.
From what Nile had just spoken, it seemed that the original Nile already had everything he needed to be together with his beloved. The only thing missing was said beloved. In the end, as he had already abandoned himself, he could only take her cold, lifeless body and emotionlessly surrender it to the researchers to desecrate.
Lily already knew she couldn't justify antagonizing the trio, as not only were Tyler and Faust the of the top warriors in their generation, they also had the armory with a seemingly limitless supply of weaponry. So, even though she wasn't content with the idea of sticking around with aliens on the opposing faction, she could not do anything about it.
Furthermore, she couldn't just outright declare they were no longer humans because she'd also be brought to question, but who said that she had to be straightforward? All she had to do was to somehow get Alex injured so that everyone--including Nile--could see that her blood was abnormally yellow.
She didn't believe that Nile would still love Alex when he found out that she was the Queen of those monsters he was sent out to kill.
Nile interrupted her in the midst of her scheming when he stated their next course of action with his deep, melodious voice, "We will loot this place after a brief rest, then return to the cockpit shortly after. Dismissed."
As he said so, he took out three space rings from a compartment in his black combat suit.
Space rings were interdimensional rings; their storage capacity was as of yet still unknown, and the production method had to do with the implementation of the theory regarding wormholes. An eccentric scientist commonly referred to as Eve had taken his curiosity to the next step, resulting in the creation of the first interdimensional space ring.
To summarize, he had spent over fifty years trying to find out how to split apart a wormhole at the molecular level. He used elements with high levels of protons that opposed the giant mass of electrons that was his personal wormhole bestowed to him by various tycoons and sponsors of the experiment and successfully divided it into ten small pieces. The original wormhole was massive, but due to the lack of efficiency the majority of it was lost to nothingness.
Then, with those ten individual pieces, Eve then contained them securely into rings made of similar elements that he split the wormhole apart with; there was a compartment on the ring that could open up a tiny hatch within the ring, exposing the minimized wormhole and enabling the wearer to store any item into the space that it lead to. Because they were composed from the same wormhole, each of the ten rings shared the destination. That was both a pro and a con in that Nile only had four of the rings in his possession.
He had tried to haggle over the other six rings from their various owners, only to be rejected. In the end, he could only gather them together to come to the agreement that no one would touch any of the items inside that they didn't own otherwise he would be back to retrieve both his items and the rings.
With the rings, the four of them shoved everything within the armory swiftly into the rings as the rest of the recon team caught their breaths after two hours of non-stop running and jumping due to Nile rushing them like a madman earlier.
At first, they thought that he just didn't want to deal with the aliens while they made their way to the armory. Furthermore, as the recon team they were only responsible for inspecting the area so they had to stay alive for as long as possible in order to properly relay crucial information to the team back at the carrier vessel.
It was only when they arrived at the occupied storage room that they realized that their captain didn't even give a damn about their job or survival and were forced to swallow an entire three stomach-full's worth of dog food! Nile obviously wanted to get to his wife as soon as possible before she could commit adultery with his older half-brother! Luckily for them, they tried their best to keep up with his pace and not slow him down, otherwise if Alex had managed to take that last step they knew that Alex and her partners would not be the only ones who would suffer.
And even though they were relatively unfamiliar with her, they had a newfound respect for Alex due to her unbending willpower that was strong enough to see but not eat!
The group of eight took no longer than half an hour to rest and stock up on their wares before departing to return to the carrier to discuss further plans with Duke as the vice-captain of the reinforcement fleet and Team Protagonist.
On their way, Lily had tried a multitude of gimmicks and foul tricks in her attempt to harm Alex, Tyler, and Faust to no avail. Even though she was the supreme Alien Queen along with her almighty female lead halo, she couldn't do anything that would catch the attention of her own teammates, so she had to hold back her strength. Because of this, Tyler and Faust, who were lower in the hierarchy than she was as Royal Guards could defend against her with relative ease.
She wasn't even Alex's match on a normal day, much less while her output was limited. Furthermore, Alex was under the close supervision of Nile, who was already growing more and more irritated as time trickled by. Thus, her plan to expose the trio had failed for now, as they had arrived at the carrier before she could continue on with her silent barrage of offenses.
No matter, Lily thought to herself, we're on my territory now.
It was true. No one knew of Alex on the carrier ship, but Lily was not only Rigel's noble heiress--she was also Nile's (ex)fiancée. Their falling-out was certainly filmed and shown to the entire troop of forty-five soldiers who were left behind to observe them as they breezed through the starship. However, all they knew was that Nile had abandoned her for another woman. As the losing party as well as the comrade they had known for a significantly long time, Lily could play the pity card to appeal to them and garner their sympathy.
As accomplished business leaders, Nile and Alex were already well-aware of Lily's diabolical plan to sabotage their reputations, but they could care less as they had more important things to do...
The moment their feet landed inside the carrier ship, Nile had seized Alex's small hand and immediately parted the sea of soldier like a shooting star, disappearing with his wife and headed straight for his private quarters all the way at the other end of the ship from their current position.
The entire dash there, Nile was cursing the structure of the ship what with all the twists and turns and most importantly how his room had to be located at the farthest possible point from them.
Feeling particularly lazy and impatient, Alex fell behind. She was the alien Queen, so her speed, strength, and stamina were top-notch. But she was already at her mental limit which took a toll on her ability and motivation to keep up with Nile's ungodly speed.
Not neglecting any of his wife's needs, Nile pulled his arm forward, tugging her along before swooping her up so that he was now carrying her bridal-style as he sped up his pace through the irritatingly populated hallways.
When they finally reached his room, he forcefully kicked down the door and barged right in, tossing Alex onto his soft and wide mattress before tearing off his constricting suit from the neck down. His chest was still heaving heavily from the previous exercise, but he still had plenty of energy and vigor reserved for an even more intense and enjoyable workout in bed. He needed to make sure his little wife would no longer have thoughts about other men now that he was around.
Actually, Nile wanted to discipline Alex so that even when he wasn't around in the future, the only person to occupy her mind would be him.
Satisfied with the idea, the now completely naked Nile leisurely knelt down on the bed as it curved down along with his weight; one knee cozily between her milky white thighs and his proudly erected member twitched in excitement after being released for the first time in a very, very long time.
"Did you have a lot of fun without me?"
Nile feverishly gazed down at the flushed Alex whose pale blue eyes were now glazed in lust beneath him before lowering himself, propping his elbows beside her shoulders as his large palm slid beneath her head and brought it up to his own to smother those plush red lips in a searing hot kiss. Their chests pressed tightly against each other as they gasped for breath.
"En..." Alex managed to breathe out when their lips finally parted, her hands roaming his perfectly carved body greedily. She indeed had a lot of fun with Tyler and Faust, and Nile already knew all about it so why bother lying?
She felt a comfortable rumbling coming from his chest as he chuckled darkly into her ear, biting the lobe in a show of displeasure, "Wrong answer, baby."
Then, he roughly directed her face to his, once again capturing her lips, thrusting his eager tongue into her small cavern as his hands slowly and tantalizingly unzipped her suit from her seductive body.