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

she’d expressed her reluctance about relocating to Earth, Jax hadn’t worried she’d choose to mate with another and break their contract, yet she had done the unthinkable. Angered, and publicly shamed, he’d left Reestria alone, unsure of what he would do when his mating urge finally came upon him.
    Any day now his blood might heat and his biological urge to mate for life would throw his world into a spin. With all the females in Rahatha already taken, his only option would be to look outside the settlement.
    A human. He’d have to find a human female to bond with.
    Problem was, he didn’t know any humans outside Rahatha.
    He exited the side street and headed for his business, a tall dome-shaped building that contained hundreds of hovercrafts. The roof opened to allow the ships to fly out. Business was good and most of the crafts were used every day, many of them traveling as far as Florida on a daily basis. Jax hoped eventually humans would be open enough to the idea of living side by side with Reestrians, but until that day came, settlements like Rahatha were necessary. A second such city was being constructed in Texas, and plans for a third city in Maine were being discussed.
    Jax nodded at a few of his pilots as they passed him outside the dome. The sun glowed pink on the horizon, signaling the end of another business day. He strode into the hangar and looked at the check-in screens. Only one craft was still deployed, and as he gazed up at the dimming sky a bright light descended. The last hovercraft landed in a space nearby, and Jax started walking to his office, but paused when he noticed three bodies disembark from the ship.
    The Reestrian pilot, Dimal, a regular human customer named Alice, and a third human female he’d never glimpsed before who was carrying a small suitcase. The two human women chattered and laughed as they approached Jax, while the pilot hurried from the building, probably anxious to return home to his mate.
    “Good evening, Jax.” Alice grinned and pulled her companion forward. “I would like you to meet Gina, my very best friend in the whole wide world.”
    Despite his bad mood, Jax managed a smile and offered his hand to Gina. She put down her suitcase and reached forward, and the moment his eyes collided with hers, his heart skipped a beat and his breath became ragged. He grasped her tiny hand and electricity shot through him. Her dark brown eyes twinkled with pleasure and he immediately liked her. “I’m pleased to meet you, Gina.”
    “The pleasure’s all mine, Mr. Jax. Alice has told me a lot about you.”
    “Is that so?” He didn’t look away from Gina and held her hand long past the point of decorum for both their cultures. When a blush crept across the pretty brunette’s freckled cheeks, he finally released her hand. Inhaling a deep breath, he thrilled at not detecting the scent of another male on her.
    Gina was unclaimed.
    His cock stirred to life and he shifted his stance, hoping neither female noticed his sudden predicament. Gina was the loveliest woman he’d ever seen. He peered down at her, thinking her head would rest perfectly over his heart if he surrounded her in his embrace. Her dark brown hair fell just past her shoulders, and he longed to tangle his fingers through her locks and inhale her intoxicating scent over and over again. He also ached to lick the soft spot beneath her ear while whispering about the scandalous things he wanted to do to her.
    “Oh yes,” Alice said with a laugh. “I’ve warned Gina about how grumpy you are. But I insisted she would like you once she got to know you.”
    Jax suspected he was being set up, but he didn’t quite care. It was common knowledge among the inhabitants of Rahatha that he needed to find a mate soon. With his final growth spurt long completed, his mating urge might strike at any hour. “She’s lying, of course,” Jax said, his palm tingling from the handshake. He wished it was customary for humans to shake