Free Defying The Alliance: ERUPTION (Novokin Alliance Invasion 3) by Bobbi Ross

my back, his other slid around to palm my growing belly.
    "You are not fat. You are with child. My child. You are beautiful, wonderful and glorious."
    "Yeah yeah, whatever." I pretended like his words didn't cause my heart to swell, tsunami heights.
    "I know this is hard for you, but as you know Othmarvian children only gestate for four of your Terran months."
    "It's already been two months," I pouted.
    He nudged my nose with his. I was nearly overcome by the delicious smell of his, an intoxicating erotic mixture of a warm summer day brushed with the sweetness of apples. I took a long, deep breath, and caught him smiling. I nudged him back with my hips.
    "The Terran midwife from the mining colony, says you and the baby looked to be somewhere equivalent to the fifth or six month of a normal Terran gestation."
    I couldn't be angry at the baby. Heck, she wasn't even born and had already saved my life once. But these uncontrollable bursts of electricity from my pregnancy were maddening. I destroyed every terminal I came near. I burned three uniforms and shot bolts of energy at my crew whenever I got upset. After multiple crew members and several visiting entourages had received multiple third-degree burns, more than a few hints suggesting I take a break or even a vacation had landed in my inbox.
    A thought raced through my mind, materializing in the tangible world as a bolt of static electricity shot through a half-empty teacup on the desk next to my insulated bed.
    "What if this doesn't go away after she's born?"
    His fingers stroked my hair. Energy crackled and hummed between us, his fingers encircled with blue and green tendrils of energy. My body was reaching out to him again.
    "If that occurs my little Captain, my Caspia… We will deal with it. Maybe in time you will learn to control your new powers?"
    That earned him another slap, but a playful one on the chest. It turned into a slow rub and I savored the warm magnetic pull of his skin.
    As an Othmarvian female, I would have been able to safely absorb and then discharge the necessary energy from my growing child. However as a Terran, I had no such way to regulate the energy levels my little girl needed to survive. So every day, I relied on Trex.
    Based on the scans the A.I. doctor did on the Protectorate ship Glory, Trex's body had sensors that were attuned to the child and what it needed energy wise. Never having encountered Terrans before, the doctor as well as the rest of the fleet was unaware of any current-producing species, meaning we were deep in uncharted space here.
    The only nice thing about my situation was that the more skin contact there was between the two of us, the easier it was for him to regulate the necessary energy fields for me. It took a few tries, and a few positions to narrow down that tidbit of information. A sensual wave of energy pricked the skin of my forearm like a cool breeze in a hot summer’s day. Seemed my man was done reading.
    Turning to face Trex I was greeted by bright hazel eyes, crackling with the wrath and virility of the spring thunderstorm. His face drew close to my when the first tendrils of electricity began to jump between us. Any pain from the sparks was sweet, more closely resembling a lover’s bite.
    I wove my fingers through his charged silky, golden brown mane. When I had a nice firm grasp, I held his beautiful face inches from mine studying every minute detail of it. Green and gold firebolt stricken eyes captured me in their loving and tender gaze. They sat above high cheek bones, split by a strong, straight nose towering over big luscious lips and a delectable jaw. He was beautiful. Behind us I could smell smoke from where one of the errant tendrils of lightning we had discharged was burning through the papers he had brought with him. It was a good thing the bed was fireproof. Very good.
    Across the room photo frames holding exact duplicates of the pictures from my Captain's quarters shook, while the images inside them