Van, Becca - Help Me Fly Again (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)
Help Me Fly Again
Sandi Tyler is a twenty-five-year-old Elite Pilot working for the International Deep Space Exploration (IDSE) company. She has worked hard since college, studying hard and learning how to fly. Her job is to protect Earth from off-worlders, as well as testing prototype spacecraft.
A test flight goes horribly wrong, leaving Sandi stranded on an unknown, uncharted planet. She meets two very large, handsome men who invite her to their home. The two men reveal large wings which had been concealed in cavities hidden in their backs, and she freaks out. Eventually Sandi calms down, and since she has nowhere else to go, she lets them take her to their home.
Dreab and Erup Reyrd know the little human female is their mate. Now all they have to do is to convince her to stay with them. Piece of cake. Or is it?
Genre:
Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Science Fiction
Length:
35,080 words
HELP ME FLY AGAIN
Becca Van
MENAGE EVERLASTING
Siren Publishing, Inc.
www.SirenPublishing.com
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HELP ME FLY AGAIN
Copyright © 2011 by Becca Van
E-book ISBN: 1-61926-035-2
First E-book Publication: December 2011
Cover design by Les Byerley
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DEDICATION
I would like to dedicate this book to Kristen. You have my heartfelt gratitude. Without you this book would never have seen the light of day.
BECCA VAN
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Prologue
Sandi Tyler was in trouble. The lights on the systems control panel of the spaceship cruiser were all lit up red and had been for the last five minutes. She was supposed to be on a test run for the new elite cruiser, to put it through its paces, but it didn’t look like she was going to be able to get back to her home base on planet Earth. She had been testing the hyperspace drive when everything had started to malfunction.
Twenty-five-year-old Sandi had been flying for International Deep Space Exploration, IDSE, since the age of eighteen and had been a fully qualified Elite Pilot for the last two years. When she wasn’t helping protect the planet from off-worlders, she did test flights on new prototype ships. This was the first time she had ever encountered a complete systems failure.
Sandi tried to reboot the systems control panel and flipped several other switches. Nothing she did seemed to make any difference. She had no control of the ship, and it was finally beginning to slow down from hyper-drive, with no readout on her radar GPS system to advise where she was. She flicked the microphone system on the control panel on and began the ingrained crash protocol.
“Mayday, Mayday, this is Captain Sandi Tyler in IDSE Ship Mark One. I have a total systems failure, repeat, total systems failure, no location on radar. Crash protocol engaged.” Sandi spoke by rote. There was nothing she could do besides try to glide the ship to a planet, if one ever came into view. She had no idea of the speed at which she was still traveling and hoped like hell the ship didn’t decide to slow down too soon.
Sandi kept flipping switches as she spoke into the small microphone embedded in her helmet. She felt her ship slow even further, and she was lucky enough to spy a planet down below her from her port window. She prayed she would have enough speed to glide her ship onto land. The last thing she wanted was to die alone, floating out into space where she may never be found.
Sandi eased her flight stick around and sighed with relief when the ship responded to her directions. At least something on the bloody ship was still working. The planet got closer and closer. She could make out the atmosphere and prayed the earth was able to sustain a breathing human being.
Sandi had nothing to lose. As her ship plummeted through the smoky-white atmosphere, she flipped the location beacon switch on the control panel, as well as the one sewn into her suit. She was coming in way too fast, but nothing she did at the control panel stopped her forward momentum. She pulled her helmet visor down, locked it into place, and prayed to God the crash foam would deploy on impact, surrounding her body in a protective coating.
Sandi couldn’t take the time to look at the planet scenery, as she concentrated on landing her ship at the most viable location. The scenery got closer and was a blur through the front window of the ship. Colors flashed past her vision so rapidly, it was like a kaleidoscope of a flashing rainbow aura. The first impact of the ship was teeth jarring, and her ship bounced back into the air. Sandi was resigned to the fact she was about to die. She prayed to God in her mind as she waited for death to take her. The second collision made her vision cloud as the crash bubble deployed all around her, cocooning her in the white froth fire retardant. She had no vision and no radar. She was totally blind to her surroundings and hoped the ship wouldn’t burst into flames. At least she had oxygen for a while. Her seat was hooked up to a large oxygen tank via a hose, which would sustain her life while she was still in the ship.
Sandi felt the third impact, which shook her body within the foam and rattled her teeth. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, trying to calm the rapid beat of her heart and her panting breath. Adrenaline pumped through her system, causing blood to rush through her ears. The beat of her own heart was so loud in her sound-proof cocoon it sounded like she was listening to drums. The last contact of the ship to the ground was so strong, her breathing escalated once more. She felt dizziness assail her until finally she knew no more.
Chapter One
Dreab and his brother, Erup Reyrd, leaders of the Reap Clan, were just about to take flight after a restful night. Dreab unfurled his huge wings and was about to leap over the cliff’s edge after leaving their home hidden in the rocky mountain walls on their planet, Eagron. He stopped and stared at a large, black, metallic-looking bird hurtling through the sky. He watched as the bird impacted with the ground, bounced back up into the air, and then crashed back to earth. The noise of the strange bird colliding with the soil echoed through the valley below them.
