The President's Alien Princess (Warriors of the Lathar Book 18) by Mina Carter

Author:Mina Carter [Carter, Mina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Times & USA Today Best Selling Author
Published: 2023-09-13T18:30:00+00:00

12

This place was colder than hell freezing over. Murphy sighed and ran a hand through his close-cropped hair as the air plumed in the thin light of his torch every time he breathed out. It was a good job they were all wearing extreme weather gear, or the humans in the group would already be in trouble.

Inside the dimly lit lounge, the two teams clustered together, working out what they’d managed to recover from base camp as they’d fled. His gaze picked out Lynara as she stood by Taavik, the pair of them trying to get the computer access terminal in here working. Otherwise it was a long, cold trek back to the mainframe core, and after trekking through the storm from basecamp, he knew none of them had the energy for that.

But he wasn’t thinking about that, not really. Instead, he was full-on staring at the delicate little Latharian woman as she frowned at the screen. He swallowed as heat flooded his veins. What the hell was wrong with him? He never normally reacted to a woman, any woman, this way. He was strictly a one-night sort of guy, and she most definitely was not that sort of woman. She was the sort of woman a man took home to meet his parents and started making plans that involved weddings, picket fences, and two point four children.

But he had no parents. Or rather he had, but neither of them had wanted him. As for kids, why would he want to inflict his fucked-up life and emotions on children?

Taavik cursed suddenly, leaning back to shove his hand through his hair.

“Everything okay over there?” Murphy called out.

The Latharian rubbed the back of his neck. “Just trying to work out the routing for the power cells to get heat and lighting in here. Think I’ve got it, though.”

Lynara smiled as she looked over. “If we can get this power spur active, we’ll be able to access crew quarters on this level. Which means proper beds and maybe even shower facilities. Warm water…”

There was a collective groan and he chuckled. “Okay, I think you have everyone’s vote for that.”

She grinned back and memories of their kiss last night ran through his mind again. He wanted to pull her up against him again and drive his hand into her long, dark hair to hold her still as he plundered her lips. The taste he’d had of her last night had been nowhere near enough.

Murphy dragged a hand over his face, scrubbing at tired eyes as Dubois walked over. Savaar trailed after her, his arms folded over his broad chest. Their grim expressions set off warning bells in his head.

“We have a problem,” Dubois announced without preamble.

Murphy bit back his sigh. Of course they did. “Okay, what have you got?”

Dubois’s jaw tightened. “This storm isn’t natural. I managed to hook the data cores from our equipment up to Savaar’s computer. The readings are all wrong. Look…”

She flipped the handheld screen around to show him. He didn’t know much about weather mapping, but as usual Dubois was way ahead of him.

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