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“Don’t torture yourself with the might haves and could haves, it’s not going to change what happened.”
The sky darkened incrementally, the oranges and reds fading as the sun disappeared behind the horizon. A single star lit up one corner of the heavens, its light bright and reassuring. “You’re right,” she said softly. “I can’t help my people.” She turned to him. “But perhaps I can help yours.”
His eyes widened, his whole body tensing. “Youwantto help?”
“No need to sound so surprised. I realize now you won’t kill me once I’ve told you everything I know, and with your technology, who knows, you just might have a chance to wipe the Dronian assholes out of existence once and for all.”
He exhaled slowly. “So whatdoyou know about our common enemy?”
“Not a lot,” she confessed. “Though Ididlearn recently that there is something about the Earth’s atmosphere that makes them sick, to the point only the toughest soldiers are surviving.”
“So that’s why you couldn’t understand why the Dronians had brought the mothership back into Earth’s atmosphere with those onboard at risk of dying.”
Her voice hardened. “The fact there are sevenraresstill alive here on Earth is probably the only reason the Dronians are sticking around. From the very start they wanted to exterminate the most powerful of my kind, the royals and therares. The rest of the Strazanians were just casualties of war.”
Gray put his glass down. “Not just casualties. The Dronians knew any one of your people could make ararebaby. They couldn’t have risked that possibility.”
She closed her eyes. “All that bloodshed because another species wants ultimate power.”
Gray pulled her against him, his warmth seeping into her and lending her much needed strength and support. “Wecanand wewillfind a way to eradicate the Dronians. Then you and the six otherrarescan start over. I know this isn’t what any of you wanted, and that in a perfect world your people would all still be alive, but I’d like to think there is a future for all of you and that happiness will come with it.”
She looked up at him, his golden eyes glinting in the semi-darkness. “I’m actually starting to believe you,” she said softly.
He smiled. “Then we’re making progress.”
Something shifted inside her chest. He’d told her that he loved her. It didn’t take a genius to know he wanted her to say it to him in return. But how could she trust her own feelings when she was only just beginning to trust in the man who’d captured her?
Click. Click. Click.
She turned as Bongo trotted out onto the patio and pushed his nose between them, begging for attention. She laughed, then dropped into a crouch to rub at his ears. “You missed us, didn’t you Bongo. You’re such a good boy.”
Bongo’s tongue lolled and his lips curled into a big doggy grin.
Gray crossed his legs at the ankles as he looked down then said wryly, “Is it terrible that I’m jealous of all the attention my dog is getting from you?”
“Not terrible at all.” She straightened and Bongo sat with a whine, watching them intently. She focused on Gray, thinking back on her own jealous moment.
Human women gravitated toward him—she’d been aware of the hot blonde on the train who’d been coming onto him. That the other woman had sent a surge of fire through Sienna’s belly that almost caused her to flicker back into visibility hadn’t been lost on her.
His height alone was enough of an attractant for many Earth women. Add in his lean but powerful body, his colored markings, which many presumed were tattoos, along with his self-confidence and brilliant mind, and no one could possibly be immune to him.
She certainly wasn’t.
“In fact it’s...nice to know you care,” she said, feeling all kinds of awkward now as tension went from a simmer to a boil between them.
“I more than care about you, Sienna.”
She shook her head, her own doubts creeping in. “You hardly know me.”
“How I feel can’t be denied. You’re all I think about. It’s like I’ve known you and loved you my whole life.”
Her heart skipped a beat, then sang a sweet melody in her chest even before he bent his head and kissed her. Like their fate was already signed, sealed and delivered.
Bongo’s claws clicked as he retreated back inside the house, probably off to find more interesting things to sniff and look at.
Gray didn’t seem to want to go anywhere, and she wasn’t about to argue the point. Her legs were already like jelly thanks to the pleasure swamping her as his big hands roamed up and down her body before he began removing her clothes, baring her nakedness beneath to his heated gaze.
“You’re so damn beautiful,” he said throatily.
