Riv's Sanctuary: A Sci-fi Alien Romance by A.G. Wilde (best books to read TXT) 📕

His glare softened. “You have no idea what you’ve done for me.”

She watched his throat move. He was looking at her as if she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

Riv buried his face between her breasts and inhaled deeply.

When his hands slid to her legs and under the tunic, Lauren gasped, her body responding immediately.

“I wish I could have you now. My cock aches to be inside you.”

His bluntness only made the heat within her rise.

“You can have me, if you want to.” Her voice was only a little louder than a whisper.

Riv’s head shot up from her chest, his eyes searching hers. “I can?”

“Yes, why wouldn’t you be able to?”

“You are not sore?”

She almost chuckled. “A little, but I can take more.”

Riv stared at her and she could see the heat starting to grow in his green depths.

“Does that mean what I think it means?” His hands caressed the juncture of her thighs and her hips.

“What do you think it means?” She could hardly think with his hand so close to her center.

One movement, and he’d be touching her and she was already sure she was wet.

“That I can have you as much as you want me to.” He leaned forward to rub his nose against her tunic where her hard nipple pushed against the fabric. “And I sure hope you want me right now.”

Lauren wet her lips.

“I do.”

It was all he needed to hear.

Riv rose and lifted her.

Staring into his eyes as he carried her, her heart beat hard in her chest as he headed back to the bedroom.

30

A whole day of loving later, a ping sounded on Riv’s comm unit and he growled before looking at it.

They were entangled together in a comfortable arrangement on the bed and she could understand why he didn’t want to be disturbed.

She didn’t want to move either.

“It’s Ka’Cit,” he murmured. “He’s coming in.”

“Oh.” She stiffened a little before relaxing and swinging her leg from over him. “Guess I should put something on, then.”

Riv nodded as he eased off the bed and slipped on his trousers.

He gave her a longing look before he slipped from the room and hurried to meet his friend.

Finally dressed, she headed to the main room and looked out the window. She could see Riv talking to a male as large as he was. They were standing near to a hovercar near the cow-hippo enclosure.

Beside them, Grot came padding in from his morning hunt and bumped the new male with his nose.

Well, if Grot approved of this Ka’Cit, she guessed he couldn’t be bad.

As she exited the dwelling, the male’s tail seemed to grow tense when he turned her way. It stopped moving and suddenly froze in the air.

It was obvious the male was wary of her and she couldn’t help but wonder if their tails were a body part that depicted how they were feeling.

Riv’s brother had a tail, but she hadn’t really noticed it back then.

Maybe her interest was because she now knew how Riv had lost his.

She reckoned that when upright, the tail would make a male look taller and stronger. That was probably why Riv was so self-conscious about his.

Little did he know that he was perfect in her eyes.

As she approached Riv and his friend, she noticed the male was covered from head to toe and the only reason she realized he was blue was because she could see his arms. Even his face was behind what she could only describe as a welding mask.

She glanced at Riv but his attention was on his friend.

As she came closer, Riv turned, saw her, and pulled her close as Grot came by her side.

A feeling of acceptance by these two strange beings washed over her and made a warm calm settle within her.

She didn’t know how she could tell, but the guy in the mask was now definitely looking at her.

It was sort of how she could feel Riv’s eyes on her even when he was wearing the shades.

She was having the same feeling right at that moment.

“This is La-rehn. My…gnora,” Riv said, his face splitting with a smile.

The word didn’t translate and she looked up at Riv, who squeezed her shoulder reassuringly.

The male in front of them said nothing for a second and she realized immediately why they were friends.

This Ka’Cit was a strange one, too.

“Greetings, La-rehn,” the male finally said. “I have the offending guards. What am I supposed to do with them?”

“What?” Riv sounded alarmed, his gaze drifting to the hovercar behind his friend.

Sure enough, there was a tail hanging over the side and a reptilian foot poking up on the other side.

Lauren’s eyes widened in shock.

The alligator-looking guards. He’d killed them?

“Oh my God. Are they dead?”

She felt the male’s eyes on her again and when he lifted the mask from his face, she didn’t know what she’d expected to see.

Long dark hair fell over the man’s shoulders as his ice-blue eyes hit her squarely.

He was the same species as Riv because he, too, had the small line of bumps along his nose, over each brow, and down his chin.

“Ka’Cit, what have you done?” Riv glared at his friend.

“It’s temporary. They live.” Ka’Cit glanced at Riv. “For now…” he muttered, before, “I told you I’d take care of it.”

Riv stiffened a little. “Yes, but not like this…”

The other male shrugged, patting Riv on the shoulder. “My services are yours, brother.” Ka’Cit glanced toward the house. “Sohut here?”

Riv shook his head. “He’s on a mission.”

“Hmm.” Ka’Cit frowned a little. “I need an isotope pulser.” He motioned to the hovercar. “I wiped the idiots’ memories. Now I need to reprogram them before they wake. Make them believe they came out here and there was absolutely nothing.”

Lauren was shocked. They had technology that could do that?

She didn’t know what to say, so she kept her mouth shut. They were going through all this trouble because of her.

“There’s one inside. I’ll go get it.”

Riv