Page 58 of The Alien Warrior's Mate

Sara wished she could understand. But even if she couldn’t name that look, she could feel it. It seeped into her skin and shot warmth into her veins.

“Sah-ah,” Korben spoke in a low, gravelly voice, “uh iz meh intera-won.”

He’d said that last night too. He’d growled it while she’d screamed his name and Sara had gotten the gist.

Intera-won.

It was a declaration.

Sara, you are mine.

If she were back on earth, that statement wouldn’t fly with her. The men she’d known before were players, jerks, and man-children who only wanted to play around with her body and didn’t understand the principles of commitment, self-sacrifice, or faithfulness.

They could never say those words and make her feel okay with it.

But Korben did.

As he looked at her, she felt that vow down to her toes. He would give his life for her and had put himself in the position to do so many times. Enough that she believed him. She took his hand and pressed her mouth into his wrist. Her lips brushed the leathery texture of his blue skin.

Their eyes met and held. His irises shifted and took over as his black pupils enlarged. A chuckle rose in her throat when he roughly rolled her into position. Sara wrapped her hands around him, shifting her thighs so he could press in.

“Someone isn’t trying to hold themselves back anymore.”

He grunted, wrapping his fingers around her wrist and locking her arms over her head. “Sah-ah.”

Her eyelashes fluttered, and heat struck her everywhere. It was like electricity. Lightning fast. She was sore, but Korben had the remedy for that. He could make the pain better or worse. She didn’t care. She just wanted him.

“Sah-ah,” he said again.

Her core tightened on command.

When. Korben. Growled. Her. Name.

He could set her on fire with just that deep rumble. Pushing up on her elbows, Sara rose to kiss his lips, her heart beating wildly as she prepared for the alien’s invasion.

Just then, she heard a startled baby’s cry.

Sara froze.

So did Korben.

They listened as Ga Eun tried to shush the child from the other room. That only seemed to make things worse and the baby started bawling harder.

Korben’s eyes shifted away from the door and back to her. She looked up at him, dropping her elbows and lying flat on her back in confusion. It wasn’t that the baby’s crying was a mood-killer. The way she felt, Korben could have her anytime, anywhere.

What had them both freezing was the fact that Ga Eun hadn’t mentioned a baby.

At all.

Not even that they’d been trying.

It wasn’t like the couple owed her access to their personal information, but Sara recalled Ga Eun mentioning something about the Plutonians’ inability to reproduce because all their females had died in a plague.

If Ga Eun had a baby…

And if it was a baby she’d created with Rune…

Korben scrambled off Sara and grabbed his pants from the floor. She thought he would run out of the room to investigate alone but, to her surprise, he grabbed her dress next. Though he didn’t bark at her or show his impatience, she read the urgency in his eyes and hopped off the bed.

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