Alien Awakening – Honey Phillips

She pulled one of the furs around her shoulders and rose, crossing to stand beside him. The view was beautiful—stark and wild and utterly inhospitable—but she barely saw it. All her attention was focused on the male beside her, trying to read the tension in his shoulders and the set of his jaw.

“Did you sleep?” “Some.” A lie. She could see the shadows under his eyes, the weariness in the lines of his face. He’d spent the night awake, probably arguing with himself the same way she had, reaching the same impossible conclusions. We can’t go back, she thought. Not to how things were before.

Everything’s different now. “I need to hunt.” He didn’t look at her as he spoke, his eyes still fixed on the snow. “The storm will have driven game down from the higher peaks. It’s a good opportunity.” “I could come with you.” The offer was automatic, an attempt to bridge the distance between them.

“You’ve been teaching me to track. I could⁠—” “No.” The word was sharper than necessary, and he caught himself, softening his tone. “The terrain will be unstable. Snow drifts covering crevasses. I can move faster alone.” Alone. The word echoed in the silence. “How long will you be gone?” “A few hours. Maybe longer, depending on what I find.” He finally turned to look at her, and she saw the careful blankness in his expression—the mask he wore to hide whatever was happening beneath.

“You’ll be safe here. Keep the fire going and stay inside.” She wanted to argue. She wanted to demand that he stop running away from her, stop using excuses to avoid the conversation they needed to have. But the words stuck in her throat, trapped behind a wall of pride and hurt. I told him maybe he was right, she reminded herself. I gave up. I don’t get to be angry that he’s acting accordingly. “Fine,” she said quietly. “Be careful.”

Copyright © 2026 by Honey Phillips All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author. Disclaimer This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Cover Design by Mariah Sinclair Edited by Lindsay York at LY Publishing Services Formatted with Vellum 1kitap1.com/en CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Epilogue Baylin Author’s Note Other Titles About the Author 1kitap1.com/en T CHAPTER 1 he alarm screamed through the ship and Ember jerked awake, tangled in sheets that felt like they’d been dipped in lead.

Her body was sluggish and unresponsive, slow to struggle upright. The emergency klaxon pulsed red through the cabin’s darkness, painting everything in bloody strokes. Move. Her feet found the thick carpet just as the ship lurched, and she grabbed the edge of her bed to keep from pitching sideways. The Wind’s Whisper was a small craft, barely more than a luxury shuttle, but right now it felt like a coffin trying to shake itself apart.

“Captain Merton?” Her tongue felt swollen, and her voice came out thick and wrong. “Anyone?” Silence answered, broken only by the relentless wail of the alarm. She forced herself to stand. Her reflection caught in the dark viewport— pale skin, blonde hair wild around her face, grey eyes too wide in the red- strobed darkness. She looked like a ghost. She felt like one too, her body not quite her own. What happened? The Wind’s Whisper had departed from Port Garig eighteen hours ago.

A simple trip to the family’s secure vault on Tuknis, the second planet in the system, where her mother’s jewelry collection had been stored since before she was born. Her father had always wanted her to wear the pieces for her twenty-first birthday. Something to remember her mother by at the celebration next week.

Now the ship was screaming, and no one was answering, and her blood moved like syrup through her veins. Someone drugged me. The realization cut through the fog. She’d eaten dinner with Captain Merton, his second, and her lady in waiting—three people she’d known since childhood and trusted with her life.

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