Alien Romance Box Set: Uoria Mates II Complete Series (Books 1 - 10): A Sci-fi Alien Warrior Invasion Abduction Romance

by Ruth Anne Scott

  The light from outside was rich and golden, filling the room with the same glow as the day that the Covra had locked her. Lynx kicked the door closed behind them and crossed the room to lie her down on the bed. He lifted his mouth away from hers and looked down at her. There was a nervous look on her face and he stroked her cheek tenderly.

  "What's wrong?"

  "I was just lying down to take a nap that day," she said softly, obviously reminded the same way he was of the day that the Covra locked her, "I had been working most of the night the night before and I was tired. I had no idea that I wasn't going to wake up the next day."

  "I promise that you will wake up tomorrow," Lynx whispered, "and I will be lying right beside you."

  Rain lifted her mouth to his, tucking her hand behind his head to bring him back down onto the pillow with her. They kissed languidly, their mouths moving across each other without hurry as if they were trying to make up for all of the time that they missed with one another. Filled with the intense need for one another, and a sense of awe that they were finally able to touch one another, their hands moved along each other's bodies, removing clothing slowly and trailing kisses along the skin that they exposed.

  Lynx nurtured her with his tongue, tracing the curves and folds of her core to patiently bring her forward and prepare her for him. She writhed against the bed, her hands grasping at the blankets beside her as sounds of intense pleasure filled the space around them. The sounds lifted Lynx further, making him almost ache with the need for her. He wanted to bring her all the way, to carry her to the heights that he had been dreaming about since the moment that his eyes touched her.

  Just before she reached the peak of her pleasure, Lynx took his mouth from her and slid up on the bed. He turned her carefully onto her side so that he could tuck his body around hers protectively. She nestled back into him, the softness of her body massaging against his. Lynx stroked his hand from her thigh over her hip and into her waist, then onto her stomach and up onto her breast so that his hand cupped it, allowing his to knead into her flesh. Rain whimpered and tilted her head back so that she could kiss him, coaxing him with her tongue and the roll of her hips.

  Lynx moved her hand down her body again and tucked it between her thighs so that he could part them slightly. Pulling the top leg back so that it draped over his thighs, Lynx brought his hips forward so that the tip of his erection touched her opening. They both groaned at the feeling and he struggled to maintain his control. Finally Rain arched her back, pressing her hips further against him so that he sank deeply into her.

  Moving her leg back down into place, Lynx cuddled closer to Rain's back, cradling her against his body as he began to roll his hips so that he moved within her in long, deep strokes. His mouth played along the curve of her shoulder and neck, and he could feel the pounding of her heart against his hand as he pressed it to the center of her chest to keep her against him. Lynx could feel the wet heat of her body increase as he moved, and he reached down to stroke his fingers along the sensitive pearl of flesh at her peak. She rolled her hips against his touch, gasping as Lynx increased his pace and pushed deeper into her with each thrust.

  Suddenly she let out a strangled cry and Lynx felt Rain's body contract around him, gripping him tightly and pulling her more deeply into her. The sensation was too much for Lynx to handle, and he crashed into his own climax, meeting each of her rapid tremors with pulses that filled her and bonded their bodies and their souls.

  Chapter Eleven

  Ivy stepped up to the stone wall at the back of the settlement and rested her hands against it. She took a breath, letting the cool air wash over her. The weather on Uoria was proving incredibly challenging to her. She was accustomed to the weather on Earth where she could predict the temperature and any impending storms by the time of year. On this planet, however, the weather seemed to change and shift on whim, though the Denynso didn't seem confused or taken aback by it.

  "It is a wonderful night."

  Ivy turned to the sound of the voice behind her and saw one of the stunningly beautiful strangers Pyra and the other warriors had brought back approaching her. This man had caught her eye the first time she had seen them standing in the street when they arrived back to the settlement, and she hadn't been able to stop thinking of him since. His eyes were like honey and when they met hers, Ivy felt like the breath couldn't find its way out of her lungs.

  "It is," she said when she could finally manage to speak.

  "May I join you?"

  "Yes."

  "Your name is Ivy."

  "Yes."

  It seemed ridiculous that she couldn't find any better words, but his intense beauty seemed to steal them from her.

  "I'm Maxim," the man said.

  He reached his hand forward and Ivy reached forward to shake it, but Maxim caught hers and lifted their hands between them. She felt him press his palm to hers and align their fingers. The touch of his skin was warm and smooth, almost sultry against hers. She remembered the gesture from when the rest of his kind was meeting the warriors who had stayed behind. It had seemed a strange, foreign ritual when she first saw it, but now that she was doing it with Maxim it was intoxicating.

  "I was going to take a walk," she said softly. "Would you like to come along with me?"

  "I'd be honored."

  Their hands parted and Ivy felt a flicker of disappointment, but she could still feel the tingle on her skin where it had touched his and as they turned to walk he drew close enough that their shoulders brushed against each other.

  "Where should we go?" she asked, looking around the unfamiliar surroundings.

  "Away from the graves," Maxim said solemnly, "I have seen enough of those."

  Ivy nodded, the words sinking deeply into her like a chill. She turned to look at Maxim, allowing herself to drift away into his eyes so that she could pretend that just below them the Light Ones hadn't gathered in the glow of a Denynso-built fire to bury their dead, placing them alongside the first victims of the Covra in a cemetery that had waited more than a century to see the end of the war.

  There was still space in the field, though, still room among the graves.

  It wasn't over yet, but Ivy wouldn't let herself think anything of it. She would think only of Maxim until she closed her eyes and allow whatever awaited them tomorrow to exist only after she opened them.

  (To be continued in Part IX…)

  Book 9

  Chapter One

  "Has it changed much?"

  Lynx felt Rain intertwine her fingers with his and heard her give a sigh that sounded somewhere between contemplation and resignation. She looked out over the settlement from their vantage point at the top of the hill, her bright blue eyes scanning the streets and buildings newly alive again after more than a century of forced slumber. Those eyes were one of the greatest delights that Lynx had discovered since Rain had awoken. Though he had seen them briefly reflected in the mirror during his visits in the moments that led to the Covra locking her along with the rest of the Light Ones in the settlement, those fleeting glimpses didn't even begin to compare to how they looked when she was gazing directly at him.

  "It has and it hasn't," Rain said, turning to look at him. "It's strange because it doesn't seem at all like it has been so long, but at the same time everywhere I look I can see the years. Does that make sense? I feel like I just went to sleep that day and then woke up the next morning. Like maybe my nap went on too long and I ended up sleeping through the night and then woke up in the morning just like I would have, but instead of waking up the next morning I woke up a hundred years later. The buildings look older. The plants look bigger.

  Strangely, though, things don't look as different as I would think that they would look after a century passed. I don't know. You have this concept of a hundred years being so long and that everything will just disintegrate in that long if you weren't around. But I opened my eyes and found out that the world had just gone rig
ht on without me. It survived. Everything went on without us as if we were never here. I noticed vines climbing up the back of one of the buildings yesterday. They had started to creep into one of the windows. It's like the planet is just moving on, trying to take back over and go forward."

  Lynx gave Rain's hand a gentle pull to draw her up against him so that he could wrap his arms around her. She curled into his chest, tucking herself as closely against him as she could and wrapping her arms around his waist as he rested his chin on the top of her head and gazed out around the settlement just as she had. He tried to imagine what it would have looked like when they first arrived, whenever that was. What did the roads look like? The buildings? The arch leading into the settlement? In all of the time that the warriors had spent in the settlement among the Light Ones trying to figure out how to save them from the Covra and unlock them, Lynx hadn't really thought much about the settlement itself. He had been so focused on freeing his mate that he had pushed aside the lingering questions about why they were there and what the settlement meant for the rest of Uoria and the relationship between the Denynso and the people of Earth.

  Though when he first discovered that Rain and all of the other Light Ones within the settlement were actually humans who had come from Earth Lynx had wondered why they were there and how they got there, especially considering Creia, who the Denynso respected and honored as their knowledgeable and powerful king, didn't know that they had been there for more than a century, he had quickly turned his attention back to her and to all of his efforts to kill off the gruesome creatures that locked her and bring her back to life.

  Now that she was free and they were gradually rebuilding their lives, all of these thoughts began to creep back into his mind, making him feel uneasy. The Denynso warriors had embarked on their journey around the planet with the intention of finding out about what other species might inhabit Uoria and determining if those species posed any threat to the Denynso, their compound, or the mates who had joined them in the last year. They had anticipated encountering creatures they had never seen and potentially engaging in battle in order to exhibit their dominance and show why they were considered the most fearsome and skilled warriors of the entire galaxy in order to dissuade those creatures from getting near their compound. They had not, however, anticipated encountering a species with whom they were already familiar with but also who they were told had not come onto the planet at all before Creia began allowing specific representatives to come for short periods of time to research.

  The fact that the Light Ones were human and had been on the planet for more than a century was in a way unnerving to Lynx. It meant that either they had arrived on the planet without the Denynso knowing it and carried on with their existence without ever making their presence known to the Denynso or anyone other than the beautiful creatures who they had connected with at the other kingdom. Or Creia already knew that they were there all along and knew about their conflict with the Covra and had simply chosen not to tell the warriors. And if he did know, that meant that he either figured that they would not exist any longer once the warriors left the Denynso compound for what was supposedly the first time in the history of their kind, or that he intended for them to go and encounter the Covra and the humans for reasons that Lynx couldn't fathom.

  "What's wrong?" Rain asked.

  Lynx didn't realize that Rain had stepped slightly back and was now looking up at him, her expression telling him that she was concerned about his sudden quiet. He stroked the backs of his fingers along her cheek and gazed into her eyes.

  "I was just thinking," he said softly.

  "What about?"

  Lynx let the air stream out of his lungs. He had just found his mate, just completed his bond with her, and he didn't want to do anything that he thought might alienate or offend her. Now that he finally had her in his arms he couldn't bear the thought of losing her just because of something that he said.

  "I don't know much about you," he admitted. He stepped back away from her so that he could reach into his bag and pull out the picture of her that he had taken from her nightstand. "I know that you're human, but how did you get here? Why are you here?"

  Rain took the picture from his hand and looked down at it, a faintly homesick expression on her face. She paused for a moment and then looked up at him.

  "You want to know about me and my group?"

  "Yes. I mean, you are my mate. I was intended to be with you from the moment I was born even though you were laying here locked in place then. I love you no matter what, but I do want to know more about you."

  Rain smiled softly.

  "You love me?"

  Lynx hadn't realized that he had used those words. He hadn't really meant to even though he meant them with every ounce of his being. He wanted to give her more time and allow her to better assimilate to opening her eyes in a time that was unfamiliar and a situation that might be truly terrifying for her before he had that moment with her, but he hadn't been able to stop himself.

  "Yes. With everything that is within me. I have since the moment I was born and will for the rest of my life."

  "I love you, too."

  Lynx ducked his head and touched a kiss to her lips. She nuzzled her nose against his and sighed contentedly.

  "I guess it's time that we all sit down for a talk," she said as she pulled her face away from his. "I think there are some things that we all need to know a little bit more about.

  Lynx nodded, tucking the picture back into his bag and then taking her hand so that they could walk down into the heart of the settlement where the rest of the warriors, the teachers, healers, and scientists, the surviving Light Ones, and the beautiful creatures from the nearby kingdom roamed and tried to make connections.

  Chapter Two

  Ivy leaned against the wall surrounding the settlement and felt the pressure of Maxim's body rest into her. His hands came to her hips as his face nuzzled gently into the curve of her neck and shoulder. The touch was tender and soft, but it sent a shiver through her body as she felt his skin touch hers and the warmth of his breath ripple down between her breasts. The pads of his thumbs massaged into the fronts of her hipbones and she could feel each steady rise and fall of his belly on hers as he breathed. As his lips touched her collarbone Ivy lifted her hands to bury them in the thick, silky strands of his hair and stroke them down along the back of his neck.

  "Tell me more about you," Maxim whispered against her neck.

  Ivy smiled, subtly lifting her body up so that it touched his more fully. The beautiful man in front of her responded with the press of his body and a tender touch of the tip of his tongue along her skin.

  "What do you want to know?" she asked.

  His hands slid around to the small of her back.

  "Everything. Where is your home? Why did you come to Uoria? Why did you come here with the Denynso?"

  Ivy laughed at the stream of questions, each punctuated by a kiss along her chest until he reached the soft dip at the base of her throat and stroked it with his tongue. She gently pushed Maxim away so that she could stand up straight.

  "Let's take a walk," she said, taking his hand and starting to guide him around the edge of the wall, "I need to get outside of this wall for just a little while. Have you ever been out there?"

  Max looked out over the wall.

  "Only for the time that we were walking from the kingdom here. It used to be that my kind moved in and out of the kingdom freely, but that has changed in recent years. Now the younger generations are expected to stay inside the kingdom until they are fully grown and then they are allowed to leave."

  Ivy laughed.

  "Fully grown? Aren't you fully grown?"

  The concept of being contained within one small area until she was an adult seemed so strange to Ivy, but when she stopped to think about it she realized it really was no different than being expected to stay close to home when she was young. The thought of never leaving the equiva
lent of her small hometown, though, seemed unfathomable.

  "What do you think?" Maxim asked, "Do you think I'm fully grown?"

  The suggestion in those words brought the smile off of Ivy's lips as her breath deepened and her eyelashes lowered. Her steps paused and she felt Maxim pull slightly on her hand so that she turned into him. Ivy's breasts crushed against his chest and she kept her eyes trained on the sliver of skin revealed at the top of his shirt to keep herself under control. She felt Maxim tuck one finger under her chin and tilt her face up to look at him. The color of his eyes seemed to deepen as though it were melting as he gazed at her. He brought his mouth forward and Ivy lifted her face more to meet it.

  Their lips met and she relaxed into his kiss, allowing him to coax her lips apart with the tip of his tongue so that he could delve deeply into her mouth and explore her. Ivy heard Maxim moan into the kiss and the sound sent fire through her. She gripped his shoulders, rising up onto the balls of her feet to lessen the space between them and press her mouth harder against his. She needed him like she had never needed anything, and the pounding of his heart against her ribcage told her that he was feeling the same thing for her.

  When the kiss ended, Maxim took his lips from Ivy's slowly as if he were trying to savor the last taste of her lingering in his mouth. He kept his face close enough to hers as he whispered to her that she could still feel his lips softly brush hers with each word.

  "Come on," he said "let's go explore."