"I am your mate. Your breeder," he purred, his heavy gaze dropping to her parted lips with ruthless intent. "And by the time I am finished rutting deep inside you, relentlessly filling you with my seed until you are heavy with my offspring... I will fuck every last drop of that defiance right out of your pretty little mouth." She fears the beast who claims her, yet every glance from his crimson eyes sends a dangerous thrill through her body. Defiant, sharp-tongued, and unwilling to bow to anyone, she refuses to accept the fate he insists belongs to her. But on a world far from home, resistance becomes harder with every passing day. Towering over her with unnatural strength and predatory patience, the alien warrior is everything she should hate. Everything she should fear. Yet beneath his possessive gaze lies a hunger that mirrors her he becomes to claim what he believes is his. And the closer he gets, the more she begins to wonder whether surrendering to the bond between them would be her greatest mistake... ...or her deepest desire.