Bought for Protection: Steamy Sci-Fi Romance Featuring An Obsessive Warlord

Anya didn't plan on being auctioned. Nobody does.

One moment she's navigating a galaxy that already treats human females like rare commodities, the next she's standing under harsh lights on a black-market platform while bidders calculate her value. The one who wins isn't gentle or warm. Warlord Kaelen is battle-hardened, controlled to the point of coldness, and he makes it clear from the start: he's her legal guardian, nothing more. She's traded one cage for a bigger, better-armed one.

Keeping his distance turns out to be harder than he planned.

Anya is fragile by the standards of this galaxy, and that fragility demands his constant attention in ways that blur the clean line between duty and something else entirely. Every time he has to steady her, every accidental brush of her hand against his, every quiet moment where she looks up at him without flinching, something shifts in him that his discipline can't quite reach. He doesn't have a word for it. He doesn't want one.

Then the rival factions start moving. The galaxy, it seems, has opinions about where Anya belongs, and none of those opinions involve Kaelen. His protective instincts, already stretched thin, tip into something rawer and harder to justify. He'd dismantle entire systems to keep her breathing. The question is whether he can admit why.

Two people, one impossible situation: a warlord who built his identity around feeling nothing, and a human who keeps making him crave everything.

Can a man who refuses to bend learn to hold something without breaking it?

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This is a standalone story in The Alien’s Precious Property series. Every claim is absolute, and every heart is bound by a love that defies the stars.

In a galaxy where Earth is a faded memory, humanity has become the universe’s most coveted treasure. Humans are frail, rare, and dangerously beautiful. Because of this, they are protected under the strict Alien Protection Program. But for the elite warriors of the cosmos, ownership is more than a legal right. It is a primal obsession. When these powerful alien males claim a human, the law dissolves into instinct. Within the gilded cages of their ships and the hidden depths of their worlds, they do more than shield their pets from harm. They consume them. In this universe, to be protected is to be possessed forever.

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