Free Boss Alien: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (Reestrian Mates Book 4) by Sue Lyndon, Sue Mercury

Excerpt:
     
    Jax tried to concentrate on the circular display screen below him, but all he could think about was the fact that Gina was unclaimed. He inhaled her scent from across the room, drawing in a long, deep breath, and puzzled at not detecting the slightest scent of another male. She possessed an exquisite beauty, her pale complexion offset by her dark eyes and even darker hair. She was shorter than him, as all humans were, but she wasn’t so petite that she wouldn’t be able to handle the rigors of his mating.
    But she wasn’t Reestrian, and she probably wouldn’t just offer herself to him because it was his biological time to mate. She was a human, a rather headstrong one from what he’d seen so far, and she would need all the pomp that came with human courtship. Lunch and dinner dates, flowers, and thoughtful gifts. He would have to take her to the movies too. Klemm had explained human dating behavior several days ago while urging him to seek out a human female in a town outside Rahatha.
    Heat pummeled through him and his cock strained against his pants. He clutched the sides of the display screen as a wave of dizziness assaulted him. He blinked hard several times in order to clear away the stars dotting his vision. Taking deep breaths, he waited for the dizzy spell to pass, while his eyes went wide with realization.
    The human female known as Gina had accelerated the onset of his mating urge. It was the only logical explanation for the sudden change in his physical state. Before her arrival, he hadn’t felt his blood heating or his pulse accelerating so abnormally.
    He wiped the perspiration from his brow and strode to her side, using his foot to turn around her swivel chair and force her to face him.
    “Hey, Mr. Jax, what do you think…” Her words trailed off and she stared up at him, her gorgeous dark eyes widening.
    “You will go to lunch with me, Gina, and then I will buy you flowers on the way back to work.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “Then tonight I will take you to dinner and a movie. There’s a theater on the other side of the city, and I’ll make sure we get the best seats. I will hold your hand during the movie.” When she gaped at him in silence, he backed away a few steps, not trusting himself to keep his hands off her. He didn’t want to scare her by moving too fast, something Alice had warned him about. “I will walk you home after the movie and then kiss you thoroughly.”

Chapter One
     
    Jax scowled at the couple walking ahead of him through the maze of vendors. The Reestrian male had an arm circled around his human female mate, and every now and then he leaned down to kiss her on the cheek and squeeze her tighter. Annoyance simmered hot under Jax’s skin, and he glanced away.
    You’re a jealous fool.
    Shaking the unwanted thought away, he entered a side street and hastened his steps, needing to escape the happy couple. The entire Human-Reestrian settlement was full of such blissful pairings, and their constant joyfulness put him in a perpetual foul mood.
    Jax was the only unmated Reestrian in the newly constructed settlement, a huge city named Rahatha, which had been built as a haven for human and Reestrian couples to live and raise families together. Many of the humans in such pairs worked outside the settlement and needed a quick way to get to and from their jobs each day, so Jax had brought a huge fleet of his hovercrafts to Earth to service the Rahatha inhabitants.
    His chosen mate, Tias, was supposed come with him, but she hadn’t wished to leave Reestria. Two days before his scheduled departure for Earth, she’d visited a mountainside town outside of Galattak Clan and offered herself to a male experiencing his mating urge, thus breaking the mating contract she’d had with Jax.
    The shock of her betrayal waved through him, causing his hands to shake each time he thought of her. Tias had been a childhood friend and the daughter of his late father’s most loyal friend. Though