by Tammy Walsh
I saw Ettana more often than the others and not for the first time, I wondered if she was expecting something “more” from our relationship. She always denied it but I couldn’t help but get a sneaking suspicion she might. She was a lot of fun to be around. A good friend, nothing more.
I shut my eyes and let myself drift back to sleep.
Someone cleared their throat.
I turned my head in the direction of the noise. The room continued to sway even though my head had stopped moving. I shut my eyes, feeling sick to my stomach, and waited for the world to cease spinning.
“You shouldn’t be in here,” I said, unable to make out the fuzzy figure standing across the room. “This is my bedroom. You’re free to go to any other room you like.”
The figure didn’t move.
I squinted and tried to focus. I made out a sharp suit and a long, lean body. Even if I couldn’t see his face, I could have recognized his stiff gait anywhere.
“Hi Qat,” I said.
“Good morning, young master,” he said.
Qat was my mother’s butler and head of household. He rarely left her country estate except on important business matters.
Business matters…
It was only then I remembered the thing I was supposed to do this morning.
I was meant to visit Mom.
She kept her own small apartment in the city for important business or social events and needed a place to stay.
“Your mother wishes to see you,” Qat said. “You had an appointment with her this morning.”
He spoke in quick, sharp, clipped sentences. He wasn’t a man to waste words.
“Right,” I said.
I glanced at Ettana and worked my arm free. She mumbled something in her sleep and placed her face on the bedsheet. She didn’t wake.
Qat didn’t give her naked form so much as a second look. I’d never seen him blush my entire life. I covered Vicky with a sheet anyway.
“Tell her I’ll be right there,” I said. “I was… busy and had to take care of some things.”
I spotted my underwear on the floor. I swung my legs over the side and kept myself covered with blankets as I slid them on.
“I’m afraid that won’t be possible, sir,” Qat said.
I moved to the ensuite bathroom, the room still spinning a little. I splashed some cold water on my face. I grabbed a toothbrush and scrubbed at my teeth as I leaned over the sink.
“Oh?” I said. “Why’s that?”
“She’s here, sir,” Qat said.
I froze with the toothbrush halfway through scrubbing my tongue. The toothpaste slopped out of my mouth and into the sink.
“She’s here?” I said.
I couldn’t think of anything worse.
My mom. Here. After a party I’d had the previous night…
Did everyone leave after the party? After I went to sleep? Or had they crashed the way they usually did?
It was too much to hope they’d gone home.
“She’s waiting outside?” I said.
“No, sir,” Qat said. I could swear there was a slight curling up of his lips. “She’s in the next room.”
My stomach fell and I felt the reaction to it immediately.
I spun around and fell to my hands and knees. I spewed into the toilet bowl, my whole body retching.
Funny, I thought. I can’t remember eating much last night.
I didn’t stop until my stomach was empty.
Qat handed me a towel.
“She’s waiting in the dining room, sir,” he said.
There was nothing my mother hated more than waiting. And nothing I wanted to do more than keep her waiting forever.
Vicky is sold cheap to a hot bad boy Titan with a serious chip on his shoulder. He makes her a deal: Pretend they’re in love so he can keep his inheritance and he’ll send her home. But there’s more to him than meets the eye. Can she keep her hands to herself? Can she treat this like the business relationship it is? Or will she get too close and replace that chip with a feral kiss? CONQUERED BY THE ALIEN is available now.
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About the Author
In space, no one can hear you scream...
And where’s the fun in that?
Hi. I'm Tammy Walsh. I've been reading romance and science fiction my whole life. I always wondered why those genres hadn’t been a mash-up years ago and now I'm super excited I get to combine them into a single steamy encounter!
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I wrote the #1 bestselling FATED MATES OF THE TITAN EMPIRE series. I write science fiction romances set on far-flung planets and ships traveling at the speed of light.
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SEIZED BY THE ALIEN
Book Three in the Fated Mates of the Titan Empire series
by Tammy Walsh
Copyright © 2020 Tammy Walsh
Published by Urgency
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