Alien Romance: Hunter: Space Commander's Fated Mate (Space Beasts Book 3) Read Free

boiling down to pure fear and dread, her mind starting to wonder if she ever really would escape him, if she would get to go back home to her friends and family, or if she would die here in the woods at the hands of some alien.
 
    She felt someone grab the back of her shirt. Juliet gasped at the large hand, the man pulling her up to her feet and against his chest in a tight grip. It prevented her from moving at all, though Juliet still tried. “Thought you were looking for peace,” the man said, his voice a deep rumble. She shivered at how close he was.
 
    “Just leave me alone! I just want to get to the city. I won’t tell them you killed that guy, I swear.” Juliet didn’t know if she meant it. After all, should she really let a murderer walk around? But if it was what the guy was worried about, if he didn’t want her talking, she would tell him what he wanted to hear. “We can both be on our way.”
 
    “The city?” he repeated, “You’re far from the city. Are you from that crash over there?” The man nodded in the direction of where they’d just come from, not that Juliet knew. Too distracted with the chase, she’d lost all sense of direction. But she assumed that was what he meant, nodding weakly.
 
    “They’ll know I’m gone,” she warned him, “They have record that I was on that space shuttle, and when they don’t find me, they’ll come looking. Please… Just point me in the right direction, and I can make my way to the city. They won’t know anything that happened here.”
 
    The man laughed. If he wasn’t a stranger, if she wasn’t afraid of him killing her, Juliet might think his smile charming. He had a dimple on his left cheek, just one, and Juliet resisted the urge to touch it. There was something in his eyes when he looked at her, a hunger… It both scared and intrigued her. “The city doesn’t care about Dwynlins. They might give me a reward for killing one.”
 
    Dwynlins ? Juliet had never heard the term before, and she was sure that she would have by now. She studied her vacation planet pretty seriously, especially since it was a work study. Juliet refused to be the least prepared out of them all. Not to mention, studying for it had been a great distraction from her break-up. “Where am I?” she asked suddenly, “What planet?”
 
    He frowned. “Tell me where your ship is from.”
 
    “I asked you first,” she replied, raising an eyebrow.
 
    “I asked second. And I could always just snap your neck if you want to be difficult.”
 
    His eyes didn’t look upset or angry, like he wanted to kill her. And he didn’t have that predatory smirk on his face like he did when he was stalking his fallen bowman. Juliet had a feeling that he wasn’t truly threatening her, at least not right now. Just reminding her that she had no power or say-so in this conversation.
 
    She pressed her lips together firmly, then sighed. “Earth.”
 
    There was a moment of silence between them. Juliet stared into his eyes, trying to catch what he was thinking. She realized, while staring, that his eyes were a shade of purple, lilac. She’d never seen that on a person, except for when they wore contacts. Determined not to get distracted, Juliet tried to focus on what his eyes were saying, but they really weren’t saying a lot. Besides the fact that he was indeed thinking about something, almost calculating.
 
    And then, suddenly, he yanked her up, throwing Juliet over his shoulders. He kept one arm tightly around her legs to keep her from kicking, the other around her waist. “What are you doing?!” she cried, trying to squirm and twist her way out of his grip, but he was too strong. It wasn’t happening. “Let me go!”
 
    “You’re coming with me, earthling,” he said simply, “Don’t make this harder than it has to be.”
But she didn’t listen. “Where are we going?!” Juliet demanded. He didn’t keep his word, never answering any of her questions. She