The Alien’s Ruthless Obsession for His Human - Owned by the Galactic Alphas, #4

A rigid mercenary with a cybernetic arm. A chaotic alien scientist who pets carnivorous plants. A quarantined death-world that wants to eat them both.

Jax Graves has three rules for surviving as a mercenary: Never take a job on a jungle planet, never trust an alien aristocrat, and never get attached to the cargo.

Extracting a fugitive xenobotanist from the quarantined hellscape of Ouroboros-4 was supposed to be a simple, highly-paid smash-and-grab. But when his dropship is shot out of the sky by corporate assassins, Graves finds himself stranded in a toxic, flesh-eating jungle with a target on his back and the most infuriating, brilliant, and dangerously attractive alien he has ever met.

Vaelen is a genius with plants, a disaster with personal boundaries, and currently the most wanted man in the galaxy. He also might be the only reason Graves survives the week.

When a lethal spore storm forces them to ingest a volatile biological cure, it leaves them with a side effect neither prepared for: a telepathic nervous system link that broadcasts their every spike of fear, adrenaline, and burning, undeniable lust straight into each other's minds.

Now, with a syndicate kill-squad hunting them down and the jungle closing in, Graves and Vaelen have to rely on each other to survive. But keeping the eccentric alien alive is easy compared to resisting the intoxicating pull between them.