I hadn’t seen fresh fruit for ages and I was starving as well as horny. The ground below was littered with more orbs that had fallen from the tree. They couldn’t be poisonous or the creatures wouldn’t be eating them so eagerly. I stripped off the jacket of my uniform and turned it into a makeshift sack, stuffing it with as many as I could grab nearby. I reached out from behind the low bush where I was hiding, trying to snag an especially tasty-looking one, but I must have moved too fast. Suddenly one of the males pointed at the bush and growled a warning to the others.
I backed into the forest, keeping a wary eye on the creatures in case they decided to chase me. Though I was twice their size, their sheer numbers would have brought me down easily. They hadn’t shown signs of violence, but those growls and roars sounded fierce.
Apparently all they wanted was for me to leave, since the farther away I got, the more they calmed down. I kept on going, until the sight and sounds of the tree faded away. Breathing a sigh of relief, I decided to sample one of the juicy orbs. Wow! No wonder those monkeys had looks of rapture on their faces. It was the most delicious fruit I’d ever tasted. The firm sweet flesh reminded me of a perfectly ripe nectarine. My crew would love them.
I polished it off and turned around, ready to call it quits on my reconnaissance mission for the day - and bumped into a solid wall.
A solid wall of bronze male flesh.
I’m five foot nine, but I looked up…and kept on looking up. He had to be seven and a half feet tall. Bare chest, packed with muscle. Powerful shoulders, with his arms crossed over that broad chest. He was naked, except for a wide belt and loincloth slung around his hips, like some kind of alien Tarzan. Built like a human, except – wait. Was that a tail swishing behind him?
I studied his face, framed by a wavy mass of dark hair hanging down to his shoulders. Strong lines with a square jaw and chiseled cheekbones. Lips set in a stern line. With his bronze skin tone, he reminded me of a picture I’d seen once of a fierce American Indian riding bareback across the plains. I was a pushover for tall, dark and handsome. When he smiled, he’d be devilishly attractive. I had high standards, but if his cock was in proportion to the rest of his body, I could overlook the tail.
Till now I’d avoided meeting his eyes. When I did, a shiver ran through me. Pupils and irises both nearly coal black, flashed with little golden lightning bolts of anger.
I didn’t have to be an empath to come to that conclusion. His voice gave it away. Deep and loud. He’d started shouting at me but until that moment I’d been too stunned for it to register.
At first it was just a garble of rough sounds. Fortunately the Tellex chip implanted behind my left ear kicked in almost immediately.
“…invaded out Sacred Space. You have offended the gods, stolen their forbidden fruit. Now you must be punished.”
Maybe I was in shock. Maybe it was because I’d been watching everything those monkeys did with their tails, but all I could think at that moment was Oooh! What kind of punishment did you have in mind?
Coming May 2018
A Note from Kallista
Dear Readers,
Thank you for the marvelous reviews you left for Claiming Their Mate, book five in the Tharan Warrior Ménage series! I hope you enjoyed reading this book about Aliya and her brave, battle-scarred twins just as much.
Don’t miss my FREE novella Punishing Their Mate: Tharan Warrior Ménage Book Two. You can get it here. Book Two continues Commander Cass Randall’s story of newfound love with Tharan twins Rhynn and Rhom from Their Captive Mate, as they introduce her to new thrills in their world of erotic submission. There’s a sneak peek at Chapter One at the end of this book, plus info on where to get the entire novella.
I’m already dreaming up spicy scenes for Theirs to Possess: Tharan Warrior Ménage Book 7, where a hot new pair of warrior twins take over the hunt for the last missing human crew member. They’re determined to rescue the Luna’s astrobiologist Jazmin. She’s been traded to savages on the jungle planet of Eridanuus.
But first, I’ve turned my novella from the USA TODAY bestselling box set Alien Alphas into a full-length novel. Her Savage Mate is coming in May 2018. You’ll find a preview included in this book.
I have a few more treats in store for you. There’s a novella in the works giving you a peek at how Aartan and Azar handle fatherhood, as well as a special Christmas surprise for one lucky female from the Luna’s crew - coming later this year!
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Kallista
About the Author
USA TODAY and Amazon #1 bestselling author Kallista Dane’s steamy romances combine eroticism with adventure. She loves to weave tales of strong, independent women tangling with the hot Alpha and Omega males who appear in their lives when they least expect it.
Kallista’s naughty novels have hit bestselling lists in Sci-Fi, Contemporary, Historical, and Western Romance.
Kallista says she’s a little like Goldilocks. She’s tried living in northern Michigan, where summer is two bad days of ice fishing and in the Florida Keys, where she had to turn the air conditioner on “low” to get in the mood to decorate the Christmas tree. Now she’s in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where it’s just right.
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