Alien's Reluctant Bride: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Mail Order Human Book 3) Read Online Free Page B

thought. Her brows were perpetually narrowed, her unfocused eyes appearing leagues away. No doubt she was thinking of the kidnapped women.
    Naad had grown restless in his waiting for Ally, and her reluctance to accept his people’s way of life unnerved him. Who was she to judge his people for trying to rebuild their civilization after losing millions of lives, including every last Protemeian female? He had hoped to find her more understanding of Protemeian ways, especially considering the hardship she’d known on Earth.
    A bell sounded and reverberated through the mountainside, and Ally drew closer to him, her body shaking. He tightened his hold on her and peered down at his new wife. “It’s all right.” He hesitated, then decided on honesty. “It’s the marriage bell. It signals that we’ve become man and wife.”
    “We have?”
    “We walked under the white stone arch that was blessed by our ancestors. We are mates now in the eyes of my people, husband and wife, only to be parted by death.” The fierce possessiveness he’d felt for her the moment he’d first laid eyes on her increased and burned hot through his insides. He exhaled with a low growl, his primal instinct to claim her awakening.
    As the echoes of the bell faded, all those who’d come to witness their marriage vanished into their caves. Protemeians were a private people. No one would bother them until they ventured outside their cave and onto the mountainside paths. His closest friends would leave gifts at the entrance of his cave, but none would call out or enter. Naad planned to keep his little human bride sequestered in his domicile until she came to her senses and no longer held thoughts of escape.
    Sweat trickled down his temples and his muscles tensed. His cock throbbed in his pants, and his balls drew up tight as a quiver raced up his inner thighs. He growled again, unable to stop the noise that he suspected frightened his human bride. She flinched each time he growled, but said nothing, though her gaze darted all around, as if she were looking for an escape or a friendly face to rescue her from impending doom.
    Though she wasn’t resisting, he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, needing to get her inside his cave as soon as possible. Her little human legs weren’t moving fast enough. He was ready to rip her dress off and make her his, ready to kiss and lick and bite her all over, until she writhed beneath him and shuddered with a release.
    He would give her pleasure again and again, and he would take his pleasure of her as well, as many times as he could manage before collapsing under exhaustion. Ally belonged to him, and he couldn’t wait to see her stomach swelling with their first child together. All of the human females who’d arrived through Mail Order Human had had no difficulty becoming pregnant, and visions of their future danced in his head, causing his blood to heat further as his desire to thrust into her had him growling again.
    “Put me down, Naad!” She wriggled around, but he already had her inside his cave. He entered the code on the security pad to activate the invisible barrier at the mouth of the cave. They could stand at the entrance and look upon the mountainside, but no one could see inside with the seal activated. He explained this to Ally but wasn’t certain if she heard him over her protests.
    “Be still, little human.” He carried her to the large bed against the back wall. Additional bedrooms would be carved into the stone once they started a family, but for now the cave consisted of one massive room.
    “You can’t do this!” She pounded his back and clawed at his flesh with her nails. He hissed through the pain and tossed her, as gently as possible, onto the bed. She landed with a bounce atop the thick, fur coverings.
    “Ally, listen to me. Try to understand. My family dreamed of a future for me. My uncles and father met to decide which one of us, me or one of my male cousins, would procure