Pursued: A Sci-Fi Alien Warrior Romance (Raider Warlords of the Vandar Book 4) by Tana Stone (world best books to read .TXT) 📕

bed, with a skylight above it, took up the center of the room. The space opened up onto a balcony and then a pool that dangled out beyond the cliffs, the blue water sparkling as the rays from two distant suns bounced off the surface.

“Most pleasure planets are not like this,” I said, marveling at the luxury, and wondering how this jewel had managed to elude our notice before.

Alana plucked a shiny, purple berry from a tray and popped it in her mouth. “The Raas quarters are pretty nice, but this is amazing.”

The mingled moans of other couples in villas drifted up from below.

“Normally I wouldn’t be into listening to your friends fuck, but in this setting it feels pretty normal,” Alana continued, with a laugh.

I came up behind her, wrapping my arms around her and cupping her breasts in my hands. “I’m glad you don’t mind.”

She rolled her head back. “As long as you don’t mind them hearing us.”

Desire coiled in my belly as I thumbed her nipples between my fingers and ran my tail up the inside of her leg. “That is the only thing of you that I do not mind sharing.”

Chapter Thirty-Six

Alana

Padding naked across the room, I paused at the table and dropped a sedative pill into Bron’s half-drunk glass of wine. I watched it dissolve, then sat on the edge of the pool and dangled my legs into the water, moaning at the delicious warmth.

“It’s heated,” I called over my shoulder to Bron, who was stretched across the bed on his stomach.

He lifted his head lazily and then dropped it again, grunting at me.

I laughed and slipped all the way into the water. “Don’t tell me I’ve worn you out already, Raas.”

“Is this how you killed people?” He rolled over onto his back and stared at the skylight in the ceiling. “You fucked them to death?”

Even though he was teasing me, I flinched at his words. The reality was I’d killed many males after I’d fucked them. Some I’d killed while they were still inside me. I lowered myself so that the warm water enveloped my shoulders. “Is that how you wish to die, Raas?”

His chuckle was warm and deep. “For a Vandar, the most honorable death is in battle. But I might reconsider spending eternity in Zedna with Lokken if the alternative was to spend it with my cock buried inside you.”

I stretched my arms wide under the water, pulling them hard and propelling myself to the clear side that hung out over the cliff. Peering beneath me, my legs scissored above the transparent pool bottom. Below that were alabaster rocks, extending to the pink curve of sand, and the sea-green bay.

My pulse fluttered at the sheer drop and the sensation that there was nothing beneath me, but I crossed my arms, resting them on the pool’s ledge, and gazed out across the horizon. The two suns that warmed the planet were sinking into the sea, sending a warm glow across the water and making it appear as if it was on fire.

I sighed as I took in the idyllic scene. I’d spent most of my life moving from target to target, with stops at outposts and imperial colonies to refuel and resupply. But I’d never been somewhere like this, or allowed myself to be fully immersed in anything that wasn’t an assignment.

I twisted my head to look at the alien warlord lying on the bed. I’d also never felt about anyone the way I felt about Bron. Even though truly being with him was impossible, I couldn’t ignore the way he made me feel. I turned back around abruptly, despising myself for what I’d done.

“Come back to bed,” he called.

“You come in the water,” I teased, giving him an arch smile over my shoulder. “And bring our wine with you.”

He lifted himself so he was propped on his elbows and eyed me.

“You do swim, don’t you?” I asked, flipping over and hooking my arms over the pool’s ledge.

“How many pools have you seen on our warbird?”

I thought about that and the depth of his bathing pools. There was no swimming required when all you had to do to save yourself from drowning was stand up. “Come on. It’s not hard. I’ll teach you.”

He grumbled as he rolled to the side of the bed and stood.

Even though I’d seen him naked more times than I could count, it was hard to tear my eyes from him as he walked across the room, plucked the two glasses off the table, downed the rest of his wine before putting the glass back down, and continued to the pool’s edge. There wasn’t a micron on him that wasn’t muscle, aside from the long cock that swung between his legs and made my throat tighten.

I choked back a laugh when he’d lowered himself into the pool and the water still only reached his chest. “I don’t think you need to know how to swim in here. You can just walk.”

The Raas grinned as he took long steps through the water toward me, holding out my glass of wine.

“Thanks.” I took a sip and tried not to think of the sedative pill—the last one I’d had hidden on me when I was taken—and the drugs that were making their way through the Vandar’s system. I swallowed and set the glass on the wide lip of the pool.

Bron braced his arms on the clear wall on either side of me, leaning forward and pinning me beneath him. “You’re right. Swimming isn’t hard.”

I rolled my eyes at him. “At least you’re out of bed.”

“Not everything requires a bed.” He bent his head to mine and nipped at my neck, sending tingles of desire skating down my spine.

Although we were at the top of the cliff, the pool was completely in the open, which sent a forbidden thrill through me. I let my legs float up until they could circle his waist, then I hooked my hands around the back