Alien Beast By Luna Hunter -

Through the frost-edged glass of the observation deck, I saw him. He was a mountain of muscle and obsidian scales, his eyes glowing like dying embers in the dark. He wasn't one of the colonists, and he certainly wasn't human. He was the reason the ship had drifted off course.

The air inside the cryo-pod hissed, a sharp, clinical sound that signaled the end of my long sleep. I stumbled out, my legs feeling like lead, only to find the colony ship Aurelia silent. No klaxons, no automated greetings—just the low, rhythmic thrum of a failing engine and the smell of ozone. I wasn’t alone. Alien Beast by Luna Hunter

As he moved closer, the fear in my chest began to twist into something else—something hot and dangerously electric. I had signed up for a new life on a distant world, but looking into the Beast's eyes, I realized the world I was going to inhabit wasn't a planet. It was him. Through the frost-edged glass of the observation deck,