Innocent Bait: Serving Her Alien Fated Mates by Corin Cain

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Seven-foot-tall Aurelians are addicted to claiming innocence

Mia: Mine is the bait. 

The huge, dominant species cannot control their mating rage around a woman untouched. They have deep biological drives to find their Fated Mate. It blinds them. It turns them into animals. Dangerous animals. 

I can’t be near the aggressive warrior species… 

I have no choice. 

I’m a Sector 4 thief, and when my boss tells me to do something, it’s either do it or get my skull cracked open. Even if that means trying to fool a species that can smell what you’re thinking. 

I have to infiltrate the manor of the most powerful aliens on the planet. I have to convince them I’m a maid. A damsel in distress. Nothing more than an innocent, helpless woman on the big bad planet. 

Gallus. Cyrus. Varian. Three powerful aliens who have built a fortune seeing through deception. Ivory skin. Huge rippling muscles and hands that could crush your skull in a single squeeze. Blank grey eyes that see through me. Protective, possessive, and controlling. Once I’m in their manor, they won’t let go. 

Will they be blinded by my innocence… 

Or will I be caught and punished?

The thief and the triad!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😟🤭😘🥰

The heroine: Mia – a human female, she grew up in one of the worst sectors in Capital City. She is a small-time criminal whose recent heists have been moving her into the big leagues. She works for a guy named Darr who has the face of a neanderthal and the strength of a gorilla. He hates the Aurelians, thinks the seven-foot-tall aliens are too smug because the whole universe is afraid of them. He wants to put them in their place using Mia to do it.

The Heroes: Gallus, Cyrus and Varian – they are an Aurelian triad, bonded to each other and still searching for the one fated mate that can bear them sons. They have a harem of 30 females, which is small for Aurelian males their age, they are very picky and often turn girls away. They live in Sector one, after their 100 years of service to the Aurelian military, they received untold wealth and grand estates with which they can live out their long lives.

The Story: Mia doesn’t want to try to steal from Aurelians. If she would get caught stealing from human, the most she could get would be a couple of years in the cells. However, Aurelians took breaking the law very seriously, and their punishments sometimes far outweighed the crimes. She could be publicly whipped and serve fifteen years without parole for stealing from them. Not only that but Aurelians can smell emotions especially coming from humans, so the con would have to be foolproof.

Their jobs lately have been done using a maid con. Mia would trick the rich people into hiring her as a maid. She would work in their mansion for three weeks or long enough to earn their trust and target a small but high value item to steal one night as she leaves work. Meanwhile Darr would find a buyer for the item so they can fence it right away after procuring it. Though Darr takes the majority of their earnings, Mia hopes to one day save enough of hers to go to the planet called Oasis, which she has been dreaming about for as long as she can remember.

Darr won’t back down about conning the Aurelians and tells Mia that the maid trick won’t work, but he has protected her and kept her a virgin all these years for this very purpose. He says the Aurelians act drunk when they see an innocent human female and they will jump at the chance to act the hero and especially if it is a virgin they can claim. Darr gives Mia no choice, she knows that he will end her life if she doesn’t do what he wants.

The story is good. I like how Mia gets the attention of the Aurelians and I liked hearing about their expansive mansion and all the art and riches they have. The pools, the library, the long halls where you could move around without running into anyone else. The huge beds and lavish closets filled with clothes. Though I found myself getting a bit bored with Mia’s thoughts since she seemed to repeat what she was thinking over and over again. Not just about what she was there for but about the Aurelians.

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