Free Alien Romance: RAYER: Space Warrior's Mail Order Bride (Space Beasts Book 2) by Alyssa Ezra

the door.
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                  Rayer glanced around, gold silk flashed at the corner of his eye.  Rayer turned his head and found Coletta at the window, gazing out into the Siigerian night.
                  “You can see forever from here,” she sighed dreamily.
                  “The tower is above the mist cast by the falls over the forest city.”
                  “Is that the city that we drove through from where we landed?”
                  “Yes, we skimmed the outer edge of the city.”  Rayer shrugged out of his over robe sighing when the heavy, embroidered fabric fell from his shoulders.  He caught the expensive garment before it hit the ground and laid it over a narrow bench.
                  “I would love to go back and look at it up close – it looked so pretty there.”  Cole turned a sweet smile back on him, her green-gold eyes imploring.
                  “It is quite beautiful, I would be happy to show you around it.” Maybe we can do that tomorrow…today actually…no – we’ll do it tomorrow since it is already so late and there is more to come before either of us sleep.  “You said that you would like to talk.”
                  “No, I said that we could.  Honestly, I would rather take advantage of this time, before I am sober again, to skip awkward lead ups.”
                  “Why would they be awkward?”  Rayer asked, bringing a surprisingly wry laugh from his mate’s lips. 
                  “Come on, I am not exactly a prime catch, I am simply the only woman that presented herself that is genetically compatible with you.  I have no illusions Rayer.  I am well aware that I am not the most beautiful…” 
                  “What are you talking about?”  Rayer interrupted as he crossed the room to stand in front of Coletta.  “I think you are beautiful.  I was thinking just a short time ago of seeing to it that you never wear any color but gold.  Sii women don’t look anything like you.  Most are very straight, and while there are plenty that find a slim frame to be ideal, I find the way you are shaped to be quite pleasantly feminine.  But more than anything, it is your face that is so very striking to me.  You are quite exotic…your eyes, your lips…”  Rayer’s trailed off as he reached up to stroke his thumb over her petal soft lips again. 
                  This time, Coletta knew that he was touching her.  He hoped that she could now see the desire that he had managed to keep hidden under the layers of his social mask while at the feast.  Rayer felt the last layer of blank expression slip away.  At the same time, Coletta’s eye’s widened in surprise.
                  Rayer slid his hand down from her lips.  His fingers brushed her chin, before sliding past her jaw to slide down the long column of her neck.  At the base of her throat, Rayer settled his hand over the web of gold and jewels.
                  “They suit you,” he said softly.  “They are the gems that my mother’s clan gave her for the day she entered the mating rites with my father.”
                  “I hope it was alright I wore them…”
                  “I wouldn’t have sent them with the slippers if it wasn’t.  There are a number of people that have wanted these since my mother’s death.  Montala is the first among them – she was digging through my mother’s things one day when she realized that they were still in the Royal Compound.  I protested very loudly, and my father realizing that his heir was not going to let it go, sided with me.  I have had possession of all my mother’s affects since that day.  I never mentioned it to my father, but I know that these are what she was looking for.”
                  “They hate you…her and the