Savage Alien: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Reestrian Mates Book 5) by Sue Lyndon, Sue Mercury

Excerpt:
     
    “You are not supposed to be angry, little Mia. You are supposed to be overjoyed to have been chosen for the honor of mating with a Warrior Reestrian.”
    She laughed, but the smile didn’t reach her eyes. She was right, he didn’t know much about humans. He stepped closer to her, only for her to back away. Her behavior confounded him.
    “Overjoyed? Are you for real? I was kidnapped and told I’m to become some strange alien’s mate. What part of that scenario is supposed to leave me overjoyed?” Her hands curled into fists and she peered around him, her face lighting up as she stared out the small window, a perfect view of Rahatha’s streets below the landing site. “Let me walk off this ship right now. Please.”
    “I can’t allow that. You belong to me now, Mia. If your family didn’t wish for you to be taken as a mate, they should have protected you.” He suspected her family didn’t care for her wellbeing, otherwise the males, her father and her brothers, would have kept her hidden. This thought saddened him.
    “My family?” She made an exacerbated noise. “I live by myself. I’m a grown woman. I’m thirty years old and I’ve been living on my own for the last twelve years, thank you very much.”
    “You will live alone no longer.” He closed the space between them and cupped her face. She flinched but didn’t pull away, and he stroked her cheeks with his thumbs, drawing circles on her soft, warm flesh.
    “Please, Sekor. I am afraid of you.”
    He dropped his hands to his sides and took three large steps back. The look of relief on her face to have him so far away perplexed him. Why did she fear him? He planned to protect her and love her.
    “Does your heart belong to another, Mia?”
    “N-no.”
    “Then why haven’t you taken your robe off and offered yourself to me?”
    She tied the robe tighter and crossed her arms, preventing him from staring at the mounds of her breasts. “Unbelievable,” she muttered. “Do you really expect me to strip naked and fall at your feet? Keep dreamin’, asshole, because that will never happen. I want to leave this ship. Now.”
    Nothing fazed Sekor, ever. Not until Mia. He was normally confident, so confident he felt no fear in battle, and so confident he had never considered a female might reject him. When he imagined experiencing his mating urge, he had always assumed the female he selected would try her best to please him. The female standing before him wouldn’t even take her clothes off. This human girl affected him, her rejection wounding him and her bravery garnering his deep respect.
    He decided to continue on. He needed to mate her soon, needed his fever to cool and to feel the spiritual ecstasy of the mating bond. Clearing his throat, he reached for his towel.
    “Would you feel more comfortable if I stripped first?”

Chapter One
     
    A series of explosions rattled the ground. Mia looked up as a second fleet of ships joined the three ships that were currently attacking Rahatha. She’d driven four hours just to glimpse the magnificent walls surrounding the secretive Human-Reestrian settlement in Oregon, and now she regretted her trip. She stumbled as another blast sounded, praying these new aliens, whoever they were, didn’t aim at anything outside the city’s walls. How stupid she’d been to park a mile away and travel on foot.
    Green bursts of light caught her attention, and she paused and gawked at the sky. Her mouth dropped open. The second fleet of ships weren’t joining the first three to wreak havoc on the city. No, these ships were attacking the first ones.
    Fantastic . She’d slipped past the road block and trespassed on the same day an aerial battle was taking place. She wondered who the hell could be attacking Rahatha and why. None of the crafts zipping over the city resembled anything she’d seen on Earth. Humans didn’t have a hand in this violence. The black ships, the first three that had appeared, had to