She has spent years being exactly who she was told to be.
Sereya came to Kantenan as Roemary’s companion — polished, composed, cruel enough to keep her place. It’s a performance. It’s also the only belonging she has ever had.
Gol-Vett Dhomhes sees through it in thirty seconds.
He’s the most dangerous male on the planet, and the one who told everyone that a male could control what happens when he meets his mate. His body proves him wrong the moment she steps onto the ramp — in front of witnesses who will enjoy reminding him about it.
But Dhomhes doesn’t push. He asks. He waits. He tells her she doesn’t have to speak to Roemary first, and it’s such an ordinary permission that it nearly undoes her.
Then Sereya overhears something she was never meant to hear. Telling him will cost her everything she’s spent years protecting.
A bombed landing platform. A search someone is deliberately obstructing. A friend who says her real name out loud in a bright, crowded room.
Sereya has always survived by making herself smaller.
This time, someone is finally looking.
Alien Burn is Book 3 of Most Wanted Alien Brides: Kantenans. Fated mates, a slow burn that earns every inch of it, and a hero who asks first.