a human woman and a non-human male, Open Door, Explicit. · Halgren Reach
Bare-Handed
He wears his gloves to eat, to sleep, to hand her a cup. She thought that was his rule. It was hers.
Mei Solvang cuts salvage alone off Halgren Reach, because a crew is a debt she could never carry. When the harbour office prices a dead freighter at two hands and lends her a Vessle diver, she signs for Ovett Halluun the way she signs for a winch.
Forty hours becomes nine days: shifts in suits, sleep in a boat with one bunk, beside a man a head and a half too big for every door she owns, whose carefulness stops reading as manners by day three.
Then his bare hand lands flat against her back, and he tells her what the gloves are for. Among his people a bare palm is not modesty. It is a claim, offered only to someone entitled to ask.
So he will keep them on forever, out of respect for a woman who never asks.
An open-door alien romance: a curvy heroine at home in her body, an enormous hero who will not guess, and one sentence she has to say out loud. Perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon and Tiffany Roberts.
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Science FictionMulticultural & InterracialWorkplace Romance
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