Whoever said space was cold, never found love from the stars ... Some people never learn. This is the tune playing once again in Alex Beaumont’s head when he sees a vision in white attracting odd glances in the quiet little seaside resort of Padstow. He came to get away from it all, to bury himself in work, to forget every man he ever falls for eventually needs to get away ... from him. Adrift in the universe, Mani searches for a place to call home. The planet he finds is cold and inhospitable, not at all what he was expecting. He feels lost and alone, until a stranger’s smile warms him. And with that smile comes another kind of heat, one he’s never before experienced. Love is not what Alex ever imagined it to be. They say space is infinite, but the distance between what Alex wants and what he has experienced romantically seems to be growing ... until now. Like a shooting star, he’s about to fall long and hard. Will he crash and burn, or find the love he’s always dreamed of when looking at the night sky?

Space, Man

He recalled the sensation of Mani’s kiss to his neck and the harsh bite of teeth soothed by the sweep of Mani’s tongue and duplicated the action with just the right amount of force, a fine degree of pressure, and finished with a suck that was strong, and hard, and never stopped, until Mani screamed out.


The act hadn’t taken long, but its perfection swiftly stamped out any twinge of disappointment. Just what we needed.Yes, for him and for Mani, this was just perfect and when the alien came Mani tasted…Alex wanted to say sweet, but that was wrong. He didn’t taste of salt or the ocean, or even bland. Mani tasted of something mineral with a light sweetness sufficient to take the edge off the flavour and make it pleasant. He tasted like nothing on Earth. He tasted so right.


Chapter 20