All I want for Christmas is my Alien: A Christmas Novella (Zerconian Warriors Book 8)
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“Pack?” She frowned, confused.
“Yes, pack. I take it you’ll want to take some of this junk with you.”
“Ahh, I’m not going anywhere.” Had he lost it? Had she let a loony just fuck her rotten? Hey, wait a minute. “And my stuff is not junk!” she yelled.
“Whatever you say, sweet,” he said in that condescendingly dismissive voice that men often get. Damn arrogant asshole. She shot to her feet.
“Get out.” She pointed to the door. She wished her hand wasn’t shaking as though she were a junkie who needed a fix, but hey, it was the best she could do. Besides, she was starting to feel a little like a junkie. What would one more round with him hurt anyway? She licked her lips, her gaze roving over his bronzed body. She may well have jumped straight back into his arms if his conceited chuckle hadn’t hit her ears.
“Sweet, when you try to order a man from your bed, you shouldn’t proceed to look at him as if he’s all your Christmases come at once.”
Coming January, 19th, 2017.
Excerpt from Alien Warrior
“You were sent out here alone on purpose?” Happy asked.
“Yes.” She scanned the sky nervously. They couldn’t have long before those lizard creatures appeared. It didn’t usually take them long to sense fresh prey.
“But you are a female.” Grumpy looked like he’d swallowed something sour.
She folded her arms over her chest. She’d refused to get changed out of her baggy top. No way did she want to give these aliens any ideas. Not that her body was anything to brag about, but she didn’t want to tempt fate. “Nice of you to notice.”
“Why would they send a female to welcome us?” Happy asked.
She sighed. “Look, just let me speak to your commander and then I’ll get out of here.”
“You keep looking up at the sky. Why?” the sex god asked.
Zoey just stared at him, all of her thoughts fleeing as a rush of arousal flooded her.
“Female?” He frowned. “Are you well?”
“What? Oh, sorry. My name’s Zoey. Umm, what was the question? Oh yeah, I’m checking for lizards.”
“Lizards?” He repeated the word slowly, as though it was foreign to him.
“Yeah, fire-breathing, flying lizards. That’s why we built the dome. To protect ourselves from them.”
“From fire-breathing, flying creatures,” he stated with a frown.
“Yes.” What was so hard to understand about that?
“Yet you came out here without any sort of protection?” There was clear disapproval in his voice. “What was your minder thinking?”
“Look, I don’t know what a minder is. What I do know is that my commander is waiting for me to report back. So if you could ask your commander to please come out here before those slimy, fire-breathing lizards turn us into a giant bonfire, that would be great.
“We don’t have all day, so come on.” She made a hurry-up gesture with her hands. Probably not her best move, she realized, when all three frowned down at her.
“Take me to your leader.” Seriously, she didn’t just say that, did she? She needed to cut down on the time she spent in front of the screen.
“My name is Dexanon Xa’a. I am the Crown Prince of Zerconia. And I do not negotiate with females.”
Excerpt from Alien Lover
Oh, crap. When his “I-am-your-leader-you-must-obey-me” attitude appeared, then Zoey knew he was holding on to his control by a thread.
“Dex! I’m okay. Dude, let me past or he’s going to kill you.”
The male didn’t budge.
Glancing behind her, Zoey grabbed a chair and stood on it, giving her just enough height to see over the male’s shoulders.
“Dex, calm down. I’m okay.”
“He touched you.”
She winced at the rage in his voice. Thor and Macon had each grabbed one of his arms while Koran clasped him around the waist from behind.
His fury-filled gaze was centered directly on the male still standing in front of her. “I’ll kill him.”
“For touching me? Dex, chill. Besides, I touched him.”
Dex snarled and pushed against the warriors holding him. They barely managed to hold him back.
Okay, wrong thing to say, Zoey.
Amazingly, the silent male didn’t seem to be the least perturbed by the infuriated Zerconian warrior threatening to kill him. Maybe he wasn’t quite right in the head.
“Dex, just let me explain. I bought him at a slave auction.”
“I know.”
He did? How?
“You were there? What were you doing there?” The image of the naked female popped into her head and she placed her hands on her hips, scowling at Dex. “Just what were you doing there, Dexanon Xa’a?”
“I was retrieving some of our warriors, mate,” Dex growled. “You were not supposed to be there. I left orders that you were to return to the ship before the auction began.”
“You didn’t tell me that I wasn’t supposed to be there.”
“Zoey,” Thor interjected in a strained voice, “explain yourself quicker.”
She glanced over at the healer, who was usually pretty easygoing—at least in comparison to the rest of them. His face was strained, tense. The three warriors holding Dex weren’t weaklings. His rage must have given him extra strength.
“Dex, all I did was grab hold of his hand to tell him that I would help him. I was just trying to be friendly.”
“You are not to touch other males.”
Zoey sighed. “I touch Koran and Thor.”
“Stars, woman, are you trying to ensure our deaths?” Koran asked incredulously.
“You know I just see them as friends. It is the same with this guy.”
“He is a sex slave! You bought a sex slave!”
Oh. Crap.