Alien Romance: Her Alien Beast: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Alien Romance, Alien Invasion Romance, BBW) (Space Beasts Book 1) by Alyssa Ezra Page A

BRIDE’ BY ALYSSA EZRA
     
     
     
     

Chapter 1
     
    He had been awaiting the summons – he supposed that it was long due in reality.  Unfortunately, such logic didn’t make the summons any less disdainful.
    “High Prince Rayer.  My lord, his highest majesty, your father has requested your presence.”
    “Why do you insist on calling it a request when we both know that such edict is a command?”  It didn’t matter how many years Rayer had been receiving summons this way, ever since he had been a child he had known the difference between a request and an order – Why can’t court manners at least be honest? He had always wondered that question, and he did so again, now.
    “Sir.”  The messenger, Hanneth, had been Rayer’s keeper ever since he had been weaned from his mother’s breast, and had become his full-time care-giver during his childhood and adolescence after the still mysterious illness that had ravaged the females of the planet had taken his mother in one of the most severe cases witnessed by the planet. 
    Rayer had barely been three solar orbits of age when his mother had fallen ill – he had a scant few memories from the time.  They weren’t happy memories; however, they were cherished as they were his only memories of his mother, High Queen Arati.  The high queen had fought the illness as stalwartly as any other warrior princess – as that had been the status of her birth – would have. 
    The people of the planet, Siiger, had loved his mother and did not take well to the idea of his father’s remarrying.  After some time, they had come to accept the new high queen, but she had never accepted Rayer.  His father’s second mate, Montala, wanted her offspring to be the next high king.  Perhaps if the man had actually been the product of the high king’s loins that dream would have had a chance.  Rayer’s father had claimed Graith, but it was merely as a social nicety, not because Rayer’s younger brother-by-marriage would ever sit on the throne.
    At fifty solar orbits, Rayer had finally hit his prime.  Most of the other hominid races reached their prime physical conditions and reproductive states between twenty and thirty-five; however, the Sii, the people of Siigert didn’t reach that point until they were well past their fortieth orbit.  It had been obvious that Rayer would reach his on the tail end and at fifty orbits, he was physically far superior to Graith, who had hit his zenith early at forty. 
    Some of the other races said that the Sii aged slowly – that in his present condition, Rayer was comparable with the thirty-or-so aged men of similar races.  He didn’t much worry himself over the views of the other species of the galaxy.  Especially not now – not as he trekked through the ceremonial throne room to his father’s office to face whatever had incited the old man to summon his only child for the first time in more than an orbit.
    One of the High King’s guards cast the doors wide, and announced into the room – his voice booming into the chamber beyond.
    “High Prince Rayer has arrived as per your summons.”
                  Rayer walked into the room.  It had always been one of his favorites in the entire palace complex.  Giant windows cast great swaths of natural light into the cavernous space from one courtyard facing wall.  The rest of the walls were lined with shelves that held items of prophecy, scrolls recording the history of the Sii Empire, and other samples of crystalline growths and mysterious objects that had been collected from all over Siiger for as long as the Sii had walked the surface of the planet.
                  “Father,” Rayer continued to approach the most powerful man of the planet as he spoke a greeting.
    “Rayer, it has been a while since I have seen you.”
                  “Not since before my previous birth celebration.”
                  “Yes, you are correct – I