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

people of Earth. I have walked among you, more than anyone else on Karal has. It has taken me many months to understand you. Now I know we have to break the Hier Ruler’s resolve, and only you can do that. If you wish to save your species, Vanessa, you have to find a way.”
    She stood up. “He’s not going to make it easy, is he?”
    “No. But I have never seen anyone have such an effect on him.”
    “Saw anyone, because now it’s gone. He isn’t the same person I met.”
    “That person is still in there. You just have to reach in and find him. Many of us will support a change in policy where humans are concerned. If nothing else, we are willing to go out into the vastness of space and help you find a new home.”
    “Because you don’t want us all on Karal?”
    “That is a thing that will never happen. Even I would not support that. Nor, I believe, would you ask it. Not once you have seen the beauty of our planet.”
    “Because we would ruin it?”
    “There are just too many of you, Vanessa.”
    “I know.” She sighed. “Can we forget about this for now? Take me to my rooms, I would love to see where I am going to spend the next few days, because something tells me that might be the only length of time I am here. If I’m not careful, I will no doubt upset Lytril and be exiled to this island of yours.”
    Okil laughed. “That would not be too bad. Grenvet is a beautiful island.”
    “Okil, will he keep his word about that? Or will he send me to the breeding house?”
    “If there is one thing Lytril is, it is loyal and true to his word. If has given you his promise, then he will not take it back.”
    “You are a good man, Okil. If that’s what I am meant to call you? Or is that an insult, because here on Karal you despise men.”
    “You can call me what you want, Vanessa. You cannot offend me. I see through to your soul. I know how you helped that old woman and her son. It is why I know you were the right person to persuade Lytril that we have a duty not to abandon Earth.”
    “Wait, how could you know? That was before I met Lytril,” she asked suspiciously.
    “Here we have an all-seeing eye onto the Earth. We have satellites, which record your world. They are left over from before we made ourselves known. We used them to collect data.”
    “That is so wrong.”
    “Regardless of the rights or wrongs of it, I watched you help them. I saw your compassion.” He smiled sadly at her. “I had to know who you were. When Lytril asked me to help him, I had to know who I was helping.”
    “Oh, Okil, I wish that you hadn’t. I have spent so long trying to distance myself from other people. Now you have thrust me right into a thing I wanted nothing to do with.”
    “Are you so sure?”
    “Yes,” she insisted as they walked down the ramp and she took her first proper breath of clean, fresh air. Shielding her eyes, she took in the breath-taking scenery. “Oh, my!”
    “Still sure?” Okil asked.
    “Okil, do you have paints on Karal? I brought what I had, but they would never do justice to this view.”
    “I’ll see what I can do. But maybe you are pleased you came here now?”
    As she took in the green grass and the trees festooned with heavily scented blossoms, she couldn’t deny that whatever happened between her and Lytril, this view alone would have been worth winning the lottery for.
    Up above her head the dual suns wound their slow deliberate paths around each other. Okil stood patiently while she took her fill of her surroundings. She didn’t care what her rooms were like. Not when the outside world held such joy.
     

Chapter Seventeen – Lytril
    He was tired. A thing he rarely experienced, but the journey from Earth had drained him. Immediately on exiting the space cruiser, he had been thrust back into his old life. The strain of using his willpower to both keep his own emotions in check, and read other Karalians had increased his fatigue.
    There had been a small dispute while he was away;