He stopped right in front of me, his chest nearly brushing my hardened nipples. He was so utterly alien and yet so masculine at the same time. My body reacted despite my brain’s confusion. He was hairless, with very round eyes, a flat nose, and high cheekbones. The spikes around his jawline didn’t look quite so scary anymore. If anything, my hands itched to touch them. He wore only a pair of pants, and I had a hard time not fixating on his broad chest.
He cocked his head, those orange eyes like embers heating my blood. With one claw, he stroked the side of my neck, from behind my ear lob to the base of my throat. My heard pounded, my pulse so loud in my ears that he had to hear it too. “Questions?” he hissed just as I caught a glimpse of a thick tongue with a slit at the tip.
What was this? Was he trying to seduce me? “Yeah, um questions?”
His claw descended down, slipping over my clavicle before rounding the top of my breast. Right as he reached the darkened edge of my areola, he stopped. “What are your questions?”
What were my questions? Oh right. “Um, who…who are you?”
“My name is Loprok, and I’m a Warnex warrior from Trazian 2 in the Pulsar galaxy.”
I blinked at him. I knew approximately half of those words. I focused on learning one thing. “You’re… intelligent life. From a galaxy and a planet that isn’t Earth?”
He seemed more interested in my tits than answering my questions. “Yes.”
“You’re not fucking with me? This isn’t some weird reality show where you kidnap women and pretend to be aliens?”
He blinked at me. “Reality show?”
I blew out a breath. “Where am I?”
He squinted. “We will soon be entering the Pulsar galaxy. We will stop for fuel at the Urzian station before continuing home to Trazian 2.”
I was going to throw up. Or faint. “I’m sorry. I’m in space right now? Like outer space? Like zero gravity?”
He stepped away from me and hit a censor on the wall near my bed. A small window opened, and I looked out. Pitch blackness was dotted with pinpricks of white light. A reddish planet hung in the distance, its atmosphere swirling with gray and black gases.
I sucked in a breath and stumbled to the bed where I sank down. “I’m sorry, what is…why am I… what the hell?” I held my head with a groan as the room seemed to spin around me.
Large warm hands settled on my knees. “You’re safe here,” Loprok said in a soothing rasp. “We’re going to my home planet, and you’ll love it there. I’ll have Prothy bring us some food.”
I groaned louder. The thought of food had my gorge rising in my throat.
“But I don’t understand, I was safe on Earth. Why—?”
A buzzing cut me off, and a slightly smaller version of Loprok entered the room holding a tray in both hands. His gaze darted to me and back to Loprok as he took careful, measured steps to the table. After placing the tray down, he folded his hands in front of him and took a small bow. “Hello, human.”
“Billie,” I blurted out.
Loprok turned to me. “What did you say?”
I scowled at him, realizing he hadn’t even asked me yet. “My name is Billie. Billie Grant.”
“Billie,” he echoed.
“I’m sorry for the language mistake, human Billie,” said the smaller alien who I assumed was Prothy.
“Just Billie.”
“I’m sorry, Just Billie.”
I groaned. “Whatever.”
“Thank you for the food, Proth.” Loprok said. “Anything to report?”
He shook his head. “On course.”
“Good. Head back to your station.”
Prothy did something with his lips that looked like a smile attempt before fleeing the room like his tail was on fire.
“Come eat.” Loprok gripped my hand and led me to the table.
I tried to tell him I wasn’t hungry but before I knew it, I was plopped on his lap and his fingers were lifting something delicious to my lips. He held me captive with a firm hand across my hips and those glowing orange eyes. His black pupils were large and round, nearly taking up his whole eye.
“Open your mouth, beautiful Billie,” he said in a low rasp, and I did. I opened my lips and let him feed me like I was his pet. Because I’d gone insane and they were pumping some drug through the air system. That was my only explanation.
He placed a square of some sort of fleshy fruit on my tongue and flavors exploded in my