Alien Admirer (Alien Next Door) Read Free Page A

“You didn’t drive under the influence, did you?”
    He raised his eyebrows. “Of all the things I said, that’s what you picked up on?”
    “No, I just want to make sure it’s not the alcohol talking. Because if you are intoxicated, I’m going inside and pretend you didn’t say that the sight of me with another man bothered you.” Though, his words were already embedded in her memory.
    “I can assure you I’m not drunk. Didn’t even finish my first beer. It wouldn’t have helped anyway. I can’t get you out of my mind.”
    She shook, running her hands down her arms. This has to be a joke. She wasn’t a cougar, didn’t go after younger men.
    “You don’t want me. I’m an old widow with two kids. ” What young man looked for a girlfriend with wrinkles around her eyes, flabby arms, and stretch marks? “I’ll tie you down.”
    He rose, stretching out his perfect, muscled body, and drew closer. “I adore Melody and Zach, just as I adore you. I may only be twenty-seven, but I know what I want. You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever met.”
    He traced his fingers along the side of her face, leaving her lightheaded. How did he have this effect on her when her date had given her the creeps?
    “I’m looking for a long-term relationship with the right woman. That is, if she wants me.”
    God, yes. She wanted him more than anything. But she needed more than a fling. Her children already told her almost every day she should marry Adam.
    She spun away, needing some space to think. What would Rob think about being replaced by a younger man?
     
    What is it going to take to convince her I want her? On the ride home, he’d persuaded himself to give up on Sera. Until he’d seen her on the porch. He had to seize what might be his lone opportunity.
    “Why do you have such a problem accepting that I’m attracted to you?”
    She faced him again, her cheeks glowing with color. “I don’t have a problem with that. In fact, I’m flattered. I have a problem with how much I’m attracted to you, how even on my date, I couldn’t get you out of my head.”
    It was all the invitation he needed. Closing the space between them, he held her, pressing his lips to hers. Sera moaned, her body tight against his. She didn’t push him away, instead wrapping her arms around him, running her foot up and down the back of his calf.
    He clutched her thighs, pulling her up to straddle his waist. Every moan encouraged him to keep going. He wanted more.
    “Inside,” she said in a breathless whisper. “Take me into the house.”
    All right! Grasping and fumbling with the handle, he managed to open the door without letting her go. Focused on her in his arms, he shuffled around blindly until his knees met her couch. He laid Sera on the cushion, but she clung to him.
    “No, my bedroom. And be sure to close the door.”
    Her room? Holy shit! Before that moment, he’d expected several days of trying to win her over before she invited him to her room, if she ever even acknowledged his feelings.
    He carried her up the butcher block wood steps, to the bedroom he’d helped build. While he’d helped build every part of the house, the master bedroom remained the one room he hadn’t entered since Sera moved in.
    Sacred, just like her body.
    Setting her on the bed, he took in her pleasant, feminine scent, vanilla with a hint of peach.
    Absolutely delicious. He shed his boots and jacket, unsure how much more to take off. He didn’t want to get ahead of himself, nor give her the chance to stop him from going any further.
    He slid onto the bed, between her legs. Counting backward from ten, he tried to calm his raging hormones and the urge to fuck her right away. He growled, hiking up her sundress to stroke the soft skin of her thighs. “I’ve waited a long time to do this.”
    “Well, hurry up already.” She lifted her hips, slipping her black silk bikinis off.
    He shivered in anticipation . How had a night that started out so