Though tired in body, I’m anything but in mind. Kerr is proving hard to resist. A foot taller than me and three times my width, he towers over me. His thick, blond hair is silky, and my hands keep running through it of their own accord.

My eyes cannot stop glancing at his. They remind me of the Caribbean Sea with their deep blue-green hues with undertones of pale greens in them. I also cannot stop myself from looking at his plump lips, the color of caramel. His skin is a light tan, and his muscles ripple with his movements.

My thoughts he might not be masculine have proven to be completely errant. He is every bit of a man. A true alpha and sure to be a person to contend with. Though he seems to find humor in most things I’ve said.

I think he’s misjudged me as an empty headed female who will be easy to deal with. He’s in for a rude awakening in the bedroom. Kerr has been very open with his advances.

A blush has remained on my cheeks for hours as he’s plied me with his words and hands. And once with his foot underneath the banquet table. He’s very naughty and seems to delight in making me gasp.

I’ll have to rein in that behavior, and once we’re alone, I’ll do just that. With the festivities over, we’re being taken to our bridal penthouse suite in New York’s finest hotel.

His father rides with us, otherwise, I’d let him know right now that he can play all he wants for now, but that’s all. I am not a plaything and will not be messed with as a toy.

We pull into the hotel’s valet service and stop in front of the large glass doors, trimmed in gold. My new husband gets out first and holds his hand out to me. I take it and make a note to myself to tell him I am completely capable of getting out of things on my own.

The way he wraps his arm around me makes my heart speed up.

Never has my body been so erratic. His lips touch the top of my head, and in a low voice that sounds as if velvet is covering his diaphragm, he says, “Nearly there, I can hardly keep my cock in my pants. I want you so much.”

And just like that, my breath hitches in my chest and I nearly faint. “Oh, my!” My voice came out a bit higher than usual, and I believe I have broken into a sweat.

The rogue is smiling with a devilish grin. “Oh, my, indeed, Kataline.”

His hand has moved to squeeze my bottom, and I’d yelp if there was no one around. “You and I have much to discuss when we get into the privacy of our suite.”

“We can talk all you want, as long as we do it without any clothes on, wife.” His grin fades into a firm line as is if he’s actually being serious.

One porter takes us to the penthouse, and another takes his father, the king, to another place in the hotel. I’m sure it’s nearly as grand as ours. Our government always treats royalty from other planets to the best we have to offer.

The elevator stops at the very top of the huge building, and there we are. The door opens up to a spacious area draped in reds with white leather furniture and dim lighting. A magnificent fireplace has a fire going, the oranges and reds make shadows dance on the white walls.

It seems like it jumped out of a fairytale, and my heart pounds again. “This is beautiful,” I say as we step out onto the floor covered in ash stone. White ash from volcanic activity in the Aleutian Islands was used to create the most expensive flooring available.

Kerr’s hand runs around the back of my neck. “It’s lovely, but you are the only beautiful thing in this room.”

I look at him and then at the porter who excuses himself and then disappears into the elevator. We are finally alone.

Kerr wastes no time. Lifting me up in his massive arms, he carries me away. “Kerr, really! What are you doing?”

“Taking my wife to our bed.” He chuckles, and it makes his chest move with the sound.

“Kerr, we really should talk first. I mean, we’ve just met.”

“So talk.” He walks into the bedroom, and we both look at the bed covered in a blanket made from white rose petals. “Wow, that took some work, didn’t it? It’s going to be a real shame when it gets destroyed.”

I look at him with confusion. “How will it be destroyed?”

He laughs and places my feet on the floor. “Let me show you how.”

One knot is the key to my dress, and he unties it at the small of my back. “Kerr, wait!”

“No.”

His knuckles graze my naked skin as he moves his hands to unwrap the fabric from my body. They placed no undergarments on me. I will be naked once this is removed. “Kerr, we need to talk. You think of me as a person I’m not!”

My words do not slow him at all. “So tell me about yourself, Kataline. I think I know all I need to know about you to start this marriage right.” He gently pulls the fabric around, undoing the dress as he does. “I know you’re gorgeous. I know your laugh tickles my ears. I know the sound of your voice fills me with something I’ve never felt before.”

“But,” I say.

His lips touch my cheek and then he says, “I know your kiss takes me away to a place I’ve never been before. Now I’d like to find out where you take me, wife.”

“Kerr...” A piece of the white material falls across my chest, exposing one breast and my words trail off. He grazes the back of my hand with his.

His eyes meet mine. “Kataline, you are exquisite. A treasure. Please.”

I thought he’d be brutal and he’d take me like a savage. But his words are soft and kind and well, damn the man!

“Kerr, this is…”

His finger rests on my lips, halting the words. “Kataline, we are married. We will live our lives as one. But I will do what I’m asking you to first, so you don’t have to be alone and undressed.”

He takes a few steps back and steps out of his shoes. He takes the pearl-like buttons of his white, linen shirt in his large hands and unbuttons them. When he pushes the shirt off, I see his chest and stomach and find myself in awe of him.

Tight muscles are grouped in two lines on each side of his stomach. They move with every movement he makes. I reach out and run my finger up the line in the middle that parts the two sides. “This is quite amazing. How do you get your stomach to look this way, Kerr?”

“All males on my planet are born this way. I know your males here have to work and work to get such defined abdominal muscles, but ours come like this naturally.” He flexes them for me, and my insides go wet.

I step back and pull my hand away. “Kerr, the way my body reacts to you is dangerous. My heart speeds up and stops as does my breathing.”

His brows lift, and he smiles. “Baby, that’s a want for me, and I’m glad to hear it.”

Kerr pushes his pants down, and I am astounded by what I see. I stumble and find the bed hitting the back of my knees, and I sit on it. “Oh, Kerr...” Heat travels all over my entire body, and it is shaking with a chill at the same time. I fear I might faint.

He moves forward, “Kataline, that’s a natural response to seeing a male you want.”

“The closer you come the hotter I become. Perhaps it’s my unique genetic make-up. Perhaps because you are not the same species I am. I’m wet in places I’m not supposed to be.”

He stops and groans. “You are growing wet for me, wife. Let me take this off you and show you why your body is reacting this way. Were you never taught about this? Never told how males and females couple to make themselves closer and happier and make offspring?”

I shake my head. “I was told my husband would teach me that.” And then it clicks in my head that women like me, genetically modified females were most likely left uneducated about such things on purpose. We are to be awarded to aliens, and I bet everyone does things differently.

“And I will. All you have to do is to lie back, and I’ll show you.”

With a tilt of my head, I gesture to the very large, thick, long, and erect appendage between his legs. “Is that always that large?”

“Believe it or not, it can grow even larger. Want me to show you?” He says as he takes the material of my dress in his large hand and continues to remove it from me.

“Larger? Really?” I look at the monster with eyes wide open and lips parted. “And that is to go inside… Oh, Kerr…”

“Well, at least, you know that much. That’s a relief!” With one last pull, my dress is off, and I am stark naked in front of the man as I sit on the edge of the bed.

His eyes go right to my apex. I have been meticulously waxed and plucked and groomed for him. One thin line of dark hair runs down me, and he runs his finger over it. His finger grazes a part of me that sends a sensation through me, nearly making me jump off the bed.

“Kerr, your mere touch is making odd things happen to my body!” I move back on the bed to put some distance between us. All the way to the top I go, until a pile of fluffy pillows stops me.

He climbs onto the bed, eyeing me as if he’s a hungry lion. “It felt good. Didn’t it?”

“Well, I suppose it was good. I mean, it sent a sensation I’ve never had before to a place deep inside me.” His handsome face splits into a grin. “You think me silly. I know you do, but I honestly think…” His hands take my ankles. “Kerr, what are you doing?”

“The reaction you’re having to me is normal.” He continues to move up the bed, pushing my ankles up as he comes toward me. He stops just as my knees are bent, and his face is near my sexual organs. My stomach tenses up even more and his mouth touches me in the most intimate of my personal, intimate areas.

His eyes hold mine and then his lips leave me, and he says, “Lie back. Close those beautiful eyes. Know I am a man you can trust. I am your husband, Kataline. You're mine now. I’m about to show you how much pleasure I can give you and I will teach you how you can give me pleasure as well. To make you feel wonderful makes me feel wonderful. When your body begs for release, let it go. Understand me?”

“Kerr, will this hurt?” I ask hesitantly.

“Just lie back and close your eyes, wife.” His words are soft and his eyes kind.

I do as he’s told me and close my eyes, and then his mouth is on me. Warm air pushes against a part of me I never realized could feel this way.

My hands want to go and run through his silky hair as he kisses me there and I push them under the pillow so I don’t do such a forward thing. His tongue flicks across me, and a moan comes from me without me realizing it.

He moans too, and it sends shivers through me. His large hands move around me, and he takes my bottom, a cheek in each hand. With a squeeze to each, he pulls me up to him. His tongue runs ravenously over me, and my legs begin to shake as something inside me is building.

And like a wave, it crashes over me. My body is shaking, and I erupt as I shout, “Kerr! Oh! Kerr!” My hands come out and run through his hair, and I tangle them into the long tresses. “Kerr!”

He releases my bottom and lifts his head. His eyes are as dark as emeralds as he climbs up my body. My breath is ragged, and my body is pulsing.

His mouth crashes on mine, and I am almost disgusted he’s kissing me after where his mouth has been. But the taste makes something click in me, and an animal wakes inside me.

My nails rake over his muscled back, and I arch my body up to his. His thick erection pushes against my inner thigh, and I want it inside me. I want to feel it moving inside me.

His mouth leaves mine, and he looks at me. “Ask me for it.”

My breath hitches in my chest. I search his eyes. It’s not a thing I ever thought I’d ask for, but I want it. “Please, Kerr. Please take me. Make me yours, husband.”

Kerr smiles and then his mouth is back on mine, his tongue touching every last place as if claiming it as his own. His hand between us guides his large appendage to my narrow opening, and though I’m afraid and have no doubt it will hurt as it stretches my virgin tissues, I want it.

I want it like I’ve never wanted anything. I feel his pressure first into me. Then a slight burning sensation followed by a pop and a white heat runs through me.

I let out a scream, but his kiss stifles the noise. I wiggle under him, but his hands take my hips to make me stop moving. He doesn’t move. His kiss grows harder, and suddenly I don’t feel the burn anymore.

My body yearns to feel him moving inside me, and I arch up to him. He moans and pulls out, and then he goes back in with a slow stroke. Three more slow strokes and he pulls his mouth from mine and looks at me. “Are you okay?”

With a smile I stroke his smooth cheek. “Better than okay.”

We look at one another as he moves in and out and it feels like Heaven. I close my eyes and let my mind go. He trails light kisses down my cheek, over the hollow of my throat and then he pulls my breast into his hot mouth. After a nip he suckles it.

It pulls something deep in my stomach, and before I know it, my body is crashing into another climax. “Kerr!” I shout as I arch up.

My hands run over his back and down his arms. His biceps are enormous, and I hold them as the muscles ripple beneath his skin as he holds himself up over me. His body tenses and he groans.

Liquid heat pours into me, and my body convulses around his erection, causing it to let every last bit of his essence move into my body. My heart is pounding, and I can barely breathe.

His body falls on mine, and I can feel his heart pounding.

So that’s what all the fuss is about. I surely get it now!