Page 5 of His Human Rebel
Suddenly I’m hoping he wants to try this out with me and not just because of the legal reasons and the fact that I need his help. I’m starting to shift on my feet, trying to relieve the throb between my thighs.
I did not expect to be attracted to the alien stranger I married in absentia. This is yet another unexpected turn of events.
Rake looks me up and down again and nods. “Now you’re both mine. Get in the vehicle.”
My eyes widen. “Wait. What?” I’m startled for a moment at this declaration. What does he mean? But then I think through what he said. Hmm. He knows about the baby and he’s not bothered? That’s a big deal. “You know that I’m pregnant?”
“Yes.”
“And you don’t care that it’s human and it won’t be yours?”
“You’re both mine,” he confirms.
I tilt my head and decide I’m going to warn him again because he deserves to know the plain truth about what’s he’s getting himself into. “I was kicked out of the community I worked in on my home planet because I’m outspoken and if I see wrongs to be righted, I right them.”
He shrugs. “This is an admirable quality and if those beings didn’t recognize that where you came from, it was because they are weak minded. I am not like that. Get in the vehicle,” he orders.
Hmm. This is sort of a turning point.
Will I accept his orders? Or will that rebellious streak inside of me that hates being told what to do—by anyone—balk at his demand? Will I march back into the transporter room and plead for them to send me back to New Earth, or will I remain?
Our gazes clash as he calmly waits for me to comply.
There’s a little smirk on the corner of his mouth. As if he knows what’s churning in my mind.
I exhale and nod. “Okay,” I say, “let’s give this a chance.”
He steps out of the utility vehicle and onto the platform. When he’s right in front of me, I lift my chin because he’s so much taller and bigger than me. Kevin, my one-night stand, was a big guy, but Rake Flagstone makes that guy seem small. And dear gods, this Hyrrokin’s chest is amazing and so lickable. All that skin down to…I can’t help but glance at his crotch and get a glimpse of a very big package underneath his black pants.
I quickly force my eyes back up to his face.
Rake reaches out a red hand with silver-tipped claws and I look down and see that he’s taking my suitcase.
I let go of it.
He lifts the case, walks over and puts it in the back and then he comes back and picks me up. Yes, sweeps me off my feet as if I’m light as air.
I let out a squeak of surprise and grab for his neck.
“I’ve got you.” He carries me down the steps of the platform and places me on my feet next to the passenger side seat. “Get in,” he says again, this time gently.
And suddenly, I feel a burst of energy. Like maybe this really won’t be so bad. Maybe instead of the townsfolk sending me somewhere that they thought would be a terrible penance for what I’d done, maybe they’ve accidentally sent me somewhere good?
Is this someone I can count on? There are good men out there—I’ve met them and I know they exist. There’s a slight possibility this isn’t going to turn out bad.
And I swear I thought I saw a flash of heat in his eyes when he put me down. He looked at me from head to toe and back up again, his gaze lingering on my ample chest. Quickly, furtively, not salaciously like other men do. Almost as if he were trying to be respectful. But I noticed and I saw heat in his eyes.
A wave of joy hits me hard.
I hop into that utility vehicle. “I’m ready.”
And he starts the engine and we’re off.
Chapter 3
Rake
The human I purchased as my mate arrived much earlier than expected.