Free Alien Romance: The Alien's Wonderland: A Sci-fi Alien Warrior Invasion Abduction Romance by Ruth Anne Scott Page B

“If you really have to know what goes on with the rest of the planet and you won’t travel on land, there must be some way of sending messages to find out. You don’t have to use the water to spy on them unawares. That’s no better than peeking in on them in their bedrooms.”
    He blinked, but she interrupted him before he could speak. “Don’t tell me. You don’t think anything of peeking in on someone in their bedroom because you share bedrooms in your family homes. You have no concept of privacy or personal space, so you wouldn’t understand how a person could feel violated by you watching them without their knowledge.”
    “You’re right,” he replied. “I wouldn’t understand that. Everyone here can see everyone else at all times.”
    “I’m surprised Sasha hasn’t said something about this,” Frieda remarked.
    “Maybe she said something to Fritz about it,” he replied. “She wouldn’t attend the convocation for months after she first came. But she does now.”
    Frieda turned away. “I will never attend it.”
    Now he would leave for certain. She’d offended their most sacred institution and called it a lot of nasty names. She had no business staying here. That vision she shared with Deek in the meadow was nothing more than wishful thinking, a fantasy like the rest of this dream world.
    She wouldn’t look at him. When he walked out that door, he wouldn’t come back. He wouldn’t try again to welcome her into his family after she snubbed him twice. As soon as he was gone, she would go find Sasha and find out how to go back to the land.
    She waited, but he didn’t move. Then he took her hand. “You don’t have to attend the convocation, Frieda. If you live here the rest of your life and never attend it, no one will care. If you want to join our shared vision of Angondra, you are very welcome. You are very welcome no matter what you do.”
    Her eyes drifted around to his face. “Do you really mean that?”
    He nodded. “No one will require you to do anything you aren’t comfortable with. If you don’t want to join the convocation, you don’t have to. I’d still like you to join me at our family gathering. There will be a lot of my relatives there you haven’t met, and I’d like them to meet you.”
    Her heart fluttered. She couldn’t contain her overflowing emotions. “Really?”
    He frowned. Then he sighed. “I don’t know how to explain to you that you are welcome here—more than welcome. You’re the answer to our prayers.” He pressed her hand between his. “You’re the answer to my prayers.”
    She looked down at his fingers tracing over her skin. “I’m a breeder.”
    “You’re so much more than that,” he murmured. “Do you think I would throw myself at any woman who showed her face here? You’re the woman marked for me by the water. The water brought us together, and we belong together.”
    She shook her head, but she couldn’t look him in the eye. “I can’t accept it that way. I can’t put my reservations aside and accept this world as my own.”
    “No one’s asking you to,” he told her. “You can keep your reservations. Don’t you see? You’re reservations are your greatest asset. I wouldn’t love you the way I do if you didn’t have any reservations. I wouldn’t want you if you blindly gave yourself away to the first man you met.”
    “I have to hold myself back,” she went on. “I want to accept this world as my home. I want to join my life with yours and share a common vision, but I can’t. It isn’t right.”
    “Not yet, it isn’t,” he replied. “And until it is right, you have to stick to your reservations. You have to keep your distance from me and my family. I understand that. Don’t give yourself away to me or anybody. I want you the way you are, with all your resistance and reservations. You wouldn’t be worth waiting for if you didn’t.”
    She lifted her eyes to his face and found him not half an inch from her. In a