Avelyn and the Alien Daddy (Intergalactic Brides 3) by Jessica Coulter Smith Read Free Book Online

But if he says there is no reason you can’t bear children, will you stop arguing with me and let me put in the paperwork to make you my bride?”
    “You truly want me?”
    Thrace stepped closer, placing his hands on her hips. “I truly want you, Avelyn, and not just because you’re so wonderful with Lily. She would be lucky to have you as a mother, and I honestly think she already believes you are her mother. But most importantly, I would be lucky to have a woman like you in my life, someone to share my days and nights, someone… someone I could come to love.”
    She placed her palms against his chest; her fingers were cool against his heated skin. He felt a tremor rake her and wondered if it was from longing or something else. If she denied she wanted him, he’d call her a liar. His arms enfolded her, bringing her closer. How many times had he wondered what it would be like to hold her just like this? The warmth of her body pressed against him; her skin was like silk to the touch. As he breathed in deeply, her scent wrapped around him, drawing him further under her spell.
    “Promise me you’ll see Xonos tomorrow,” he said. “Promise that you’ll give us a chance. I know it may not work out, that he may say you’ll never have children, but at least give us a fighting chance to see where this thing between us could lead.”
    “All right,” she said softly. “I’ll see Xonos tomorrow. If I come to the station during lunch, could you watch Lily while I meet with him?”
    “I’ll sign Lily up for daycare tomorrow. I want you at the station by eight o’clock. That’s when Xonos opens his clinic and you should be the first one in the door.”
    Avelyn frowned. “You said that Lily didn’t like daycare, that they told you to never bring her back there again.”
    “It’s an emergency. I’ll make them understand.”
    “Very well. I can see this is important to you, so I’ll go see Xonos in the morning, but I’ve already told you what he’ll find. If he says the same thing my regular doctor told me, will you let it go? Will you give up on the idea of my becoming your bride?”
    He smiled. “No. But I look forward to having many discussions with you about it.”
    She gave him a disgruntled look and it just made him want to kiss her even more.
    “Now,” he said. “Why don’t you go put on something dressy and I’ll take you out for a nice meal?”
    Her gaze dropped to his chest. “I don’t have anything nice to wear. I was wearing the nicest thing I own when we met, and I haven’t had a chance to wash it yet. I was going to send our clothes down to be washed tomorrow.”
    “Then we’ll have to rectify that. What size do you wear?”
    “A ten.”
    He pulled away, but only long enough to place a call to the boutique downstairs, asking them to send up a size ten in a dress that would be appropriate for the restaurant he had in mind. Then, after getting her shoe size too, he asked that they send up a pair of shoes to match. Avelyn tried to snatch the phone away from him several times, telling him it was an unnecessary expense, but in his mind, it was a very necessary expense. He wanted to show his potential bride that he could take care of her, that he would take care of her.
    “It’s going to cost a fortune,” she said.
    “Do you doubt that I can afford a dress and shoes for you?”
    “You didn’t just order a dress and shoes. You ordered them from a boutique store in a hotel. Do you know how much that’s going to cost? Hundreds, if not thousands. This place has to be insanely expensive.”
    He sighed and pulled the communicator from his pocket. A few taps and he turned it to show her his current balance. On one line was his Terran funds and the other was the amount he’d had transferred into American dollars. He watched as her jaw dropped and her wide eyes rose to meet his.
    “I didn’t realize being a guard paid so well.”
    “I believe your people would call it hazard pay. I’m part of