Power: BBW Alien Lottery Romance (Chosen by the Karal Book 3) by Harmony Raines Read Free Book Online

alien visitor, Lytril. Remembering the way he made her feel, she couldn’t quite believe he was so scary, although he had made her shudder, but not with fear. With longing. She saw that now. And he had been attracted to her too. Was that what this was about?
    “No. He’s not bad at all. He is trying to do what is right for my people. He came here to see what humans were like. And until he met you, he had no thought for their welfare. Now he is seeing things differently, and maybe you could persuade him to do more for the people of Earth.” Now he looked as if he had signed his own death warrant.
    “Okil,” she said, reaching out and touching his face, feeling the rush of emotions through her skin, telling her he meant every word he said. “I’m not sure the people of Earth are worth saving. But you do. So I will come with you. Not for any reason other than because you are showing more humanity than any other human I have met for some time.”
    “Thank you, Vanessa. Our species need each other. The more time I spend on Earth, the more I understand that.”
    “Wait while I wash and change.” She left him standing and looking at her paintings while she went and got ready to meet her alien once more.
     

Chapter Eleven – Lytril
    He checked he looked presentable one last time. He couldn’t work out why he was so nervous. Because you cheated , the voice in his head said. And he had. He had scanned her tag with his communicator and then arranged it so she won the lottery. What was he thinking?
    He didn’t know anymore. She had become his obsession; he needed to know how her brain worked, why she felt how she did. And more than anything, he needed to know if he could make her feel those deep emotions for him. That was how he planned to sell it to the small council if they learned his secret. They had to find out if it was possible for a Karalian and a human to come together without being chosen through DNA and ovulation cycles. It sounded like a plausible excuse.
    Damn, he sounded insane. Worse than Torac, but at least that was one member of the Hier Council who would support him. Torac had already been putting forward proposals to increase the lottery to once a week, bringing more females to Karal. A thing Lytril had not considered good for Karal, not until he met Vanessa.
    A car pulled up outside, and he felt the prickle of nerves up his back and knew the colours were skimming across his skin like a sandstorm in the desert. Wild, uncontrollable, she upset his equilibrium in a way he had never had to contend with before. But he had to remain calm, aloof even, or else she would know she had the upper hand. Whereas he wanted to persuade her that she had no choice but to come back to Karal with him.
    He had to persuade her that he had control.
    Footsteps upon the ramp. He went to stand at the top, looking down on her as she walked up with Okil. He didn’t know whether to be disappointed or not at the way his emotions ruled him at the sight of her. It was freeing, after a life spent keeping himself under such tight control.
    As he reached out his hand to shake hers, which Okil had taught him was a quaint custom on earth, he steeled himself for the surge of joy he would feel, and knew the colours would be visible to her.
    “Vanessa,” he said smoothly. “Thank you so much for coming.”
    “Did I have a choice?” she asked, putting her hand into his.
    Lytril felt the jolt of recognition pass between them. A sensation that fascinated him. How could she have this effect on him? It had to be lust, his desire to make love to her, to procreate with her. Yes, that was what he would explain to the council. That he needed to understand the physical effect human females would have on all males of Karal.
    For she had power and control over him if she chose to embrace it, to acknowledge it. Lytril persuaded himself that his task was clear. He had to learn to control her, to read her emotions and pre-empt any effects the other