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

are on the Stream and sell yourself to me, in the same way I feel I will be selling my soul to you.” Her anger bubbled up near the surface; she had not meant to show him so much of her emotions, but she couldn’t help it. She did not intend to give up her freedom, something he had now admitted she would have to, if she went to his planet.
    “I am not as eloquent as your StreamStars. So I will put it simply. I am attracted to you.”
    She burst out laughing. “Then you have more problems than I thought. Why would you want me, Lytril? There are other more attractive women; hell, most of the women on Earth are more attractive, skinny, pretty, nicer. More amiable.”
    “I have seen. The night we met, I saw the woman who was to be the lottery winner.”
    “So it is rigged!” She whistled. “I knew it. I mean, apart from the obvious fact I won, and I didn’t enter.”
    “We need to breed the next generation. And so we pick women who will prove fertile and have no faulty genes.”
    “Go on.”
    “It is our way.” He looked at her and she couldn’t read his expression, but he left something unsaid between them. Something had touched him, something that had surprised him. Now she began to understand Okil’s words. She had touched him.
    “But it is no longer your way?”
    He got up abruptly. “I do not know, Vanessa. It should be.”
    “So this is where we strike a bargain.” Why didn’t she just go with him? He wanted her, she could give him a child and he could give her food, and colour . What a ridiculous thing to want.
    “A bargain?” He turned back to her, his eyes narrowing. “I am offering you a life on Karal, food, water and clean air. I would keep you with me, if we both agree.”
    “You are offering me a life I never wanted. I told you, I want to live here on Earth for the rest of my life. I never entered the lottery. And I do not appreciate you taking control of my life like this.” Her voice rose, and he looked a little stunned. She figured no one had stood up to him for a very long time. Well, she had never pissed off a human female before, had he?
    He took a deep breath, steadying his nerves, but the colours were skimming across his face and she could see them on his hands too. If he stripped, his clothes from his body, just as he did in her apartment, would those same colours cover his whole body? She longed to know, to put her hands on his skin and feel what he was feeling. There was her resolve, once more, dissolving before her eyes.
    “I offer you the chance to experience my world, to be part of the decision I have to make towards the women on Earth. I have a strong resolve; they should be in the breeding houses once they are with child.”
    “I will not live that life.”
    “Yes, I understand that. So here is my conundrum. I take you, who I find attractive in some primal way, and try to understand what it is that attracts me to you. In this way we might understand how best to move forward with the regeneration of my species.”
    “How did your species manage before? I mean, this is not the first time you have been through this whole process.”
    “Before... It was disturbing, to say the least, for our fathers; the females were not our equals. They lacked the brainpower we have, so we took what we needed.” He left her in no doubt of what he meant. “Humans are the closest we have come to our kind in a long time. We hoped to make things sustainable, but the Earth is too fragile and there is no way to regenerate it.”
    She took a piece of fruit, eating it absently while she thought. Was this what Okil meant, that she perhaps held the key to making Lytril and Karal help Earth, or at least stop humans becoming extinct. What should she do? How was she supposed to bargain?
    “At the moment, you are talking as though you are experiencing lust. You want a woman, you want me.” She raised her eyebrows and thought, goodness knows why . “What happens when this lust wanes?”
    “That is what