Taken by the Alien Next Door (Aliens Among Us, #1)

by Tiffany Roberts

It had taken time to understand a frustrating truth about the English language—using a word exactly according to its definition did not necessarily mean it was the right word. He still made those mistakes, despite his self-awareness.

The phrase I want you to carry my offspring was not one that human females found endearing.

He ran a hand over his face, muttered his favorite human curse—fuck

No, none of this was her fault.

men who take responsibility 👏🏻👏🏻

what he was reading here went well beyond anything he’d seen watching pornography. This was not merely describing sex between a male and female, it was describing their emotions during the act, describing their connection in terms far deeper than the physical.

EX-FUCKING-ACTLY.

“But more than that, I want you to be my lifemate. I want to touch you, to glide my hands over your body, to feel your soft skin and your alluring curves. I want to strip you bare and taste you, to lick every inch of you, to lap your essence from between your thighs like it is my altar and you are my goddess. I want to thrust my cock inside your pussy and feel your heat wrap around me. I want the air filled with your cries of pleasure, I want my name alone upon your lips. “I want you, Tabitha. All of you. And soon enough, you will see that you are mine.”

As much as it seemed like it should have, a cup of creamer with some coffee splashed in didn’t count as a meal.

Unlike the bodybuilders she’d seen, Zevris wasn’t completely bare of hair. There was a nice, dark, happy little trail leading down from his navel that disappeared beneath the waistband of his pants. She was eager to see what it led to.

his dick, I presume.

His palm was warm and rough, but his touch was still so light. His were practiced hands—the hands of a craftsman, of a soldier, strong and sure, and she’d be lying if she said she didn’t want them all over her.

“I have not earned your thanks. When I have given you pleasure, when I have given you security, when I have given you happiness, you may thank me.”

“I feel I have waited an eternity to see such beauty, and my wildest imaginings could never have done it justice.”

“You deserve adoration. Deserve to be worshipped. Deserve to be pleasured in ways no human or faloran has ever dreamed.” He pinched her nipple, making her breath hitch. “Your body was made for pleasure, Tabitha. Made to be pleasured by me.”

It shouldn’t have—it really, really shouldn’t have—but Zevris’s threat to her ex-boyfriend pleased her immensely.

Seeing Tabitha naked and lost in pleasure, her inhibitions shattered, had defied description. She’d been more dazzling than a comet with a glittering tail, more radiant than the brightest star, more entrancing than the most vibrant, sparkling nebula.

Even if he’d not known of her existence until a week ago, he knew, somehow, that she was the one he’d always awaited. She was the one he’d always been meant to find.

She’d agreed to his offer of pleasure last night. That did not mean she’d want it this morning.

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Her sex blossomed beneath his touch, and her essence gathered like dew upon those delicate petals.

this description is kinda gross idk

“Zevris, don’t. Let’s just go. They’re not worth it.” “But you are,” he said

Tabitha’s scent had taken on a hint of his own, creating something new but immediately familiar. It had become their scent. Zevris caught her chin. His eyes bored into hers. “You are mine, Nykasha.”

She chuckled and leaned closer, pressing a quick kiss to his lips. “It’s fine. I’m not dying.” A corner of his mouth tilted up. “Good. You’re not allowed to.”

“You’re lucky I like you so much.” “I certainly am.”

“The universe seems determined to block my cock today,” Zevris grumbled, tightening his hold on her. Tabitha burst out laughing. “You know what cockblocking is?” “I am living it, female.”

Tabitha couldn’t stop laughing as the conversation continued to scroll with gifs—a train ramming a too-small tunnel repeatedly, cream spurting out of a long, narrow pastry, the old school finger in the fist-hole, and multiple images of people thrusting their hips and humping.

he’d even said one of the most romantic things he could have ever said to her when they’d first walked into the store. Buy as many books as you want.

“Yeah, I’ve seen it in the pictures you’ve sent. That man has it hard for you. I’m happy for you, Tabby.” Oh, Mia, you have no idea how hard he has it for me…

“How were you not claimed before I met you?” Her smile faltered before disappearing completely. “A lot of guys just don’t like girls like me.” He stroked the small cleft in her chin. “Human males do not like intelligent, resilient, humorous, beautiful females?” She smiled again, and he saw the way her eyes softened at his words. “They don’t like fat girls.”

“Your size is perfect, and it is only one of a great many traits that encompass you. I do not need lily of the valley to look at you and be consumed by desire. From the moment I first saw you, I knew you were the other half of my heart, that you were what I needed to finally be content, to be complete. There is no one on this planet or any other who is like you.”

Their admission of mutual love had wrapped everything in an extra layer that made it more potent, more powerful, more meaningful. This was his home. This was where he belonged—with Tabitha, his mate, now and forever. And he refused to let anyone take her from his side.

“Don’t smell my breath till I have a chance to brush my teeth.” He laughed, the sound rumbling from his chest and into her, kindling that delicious heat at her core. “It’s a little late for that. But don’t worry. I would still love you even if you smelled like the trash can you emptied your stomach into.” Tabitha buried her face against his neck and laughed. “You say the sweetest things.” Damn, I love him.

“Knowing you are alive, that you are safe, means more to me than anything else. Baby or no, you are my mate. My love and devotion are yours forever.”

She gave Zevris her all—her love, her heart, her very soul. He was her forever. He was her happily ever after.

Tabitha smiled up at Zevris. “Skye’s going to have an army of vicious beasts protecting her.” Zevris lowered his brows. “You’re including me in that, aren’t you?”

“I would have eliminated every male on this planet if that was what I needed to do to have you.”