Alien Conquest: (The Warrior's Prize) An Alien SciFi Romance by Scarlett Rhone

Author:Scarlett Rhone [Rhone, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enamored Ink
Published: 2016-07-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

All Alaina could do was watch helplessly as Vega stepped slowly down off his pedestal, and slaves scurried around to clear a space in the middle of the garden for the two cursii to fight. Neither one of them wore armor. Just the ochre-colored linen trousers, airy and sheer like her dresses, and nothing else. Their muscles glistened in the low lights of the garden, but all Alaina could think about was that Vega had nothing with which to defend himself. Sand was spilled across the marbled floors to mimic the Arena, poured from metal crates into a circle closed in by rocks from the garden.

The crowd of nobility parted and Gurun appeared, leading the red-scaled Lohar towards the makeshift Arena. Alaina felt terror knot up her stomach at the idea of him winning this fight. Both because it meant Vega lost, and she knew Lohar was going to try to kill him. And also because that meant he’d win her, and the idea of having to go to bed with Lohar was terrifying. She wouldn’t do it. She’d run, she’d go back to the cells, she didn’t care. She just wouldn’t do it.

Lohar looked at her and flashed her a smile full of toothy anticipation. She struggled to repress a shudder.

She wanted to get down off the damn pedestal and go to Vega, to beg him not to fight. But she knew he would, no matter what she said. She understood that he couldn’t say no to the dominus, especially surrounded by all the Errai nobility. But he was wounded, and even if he was the better fighter, that gave Lohar an advantage. Alaina decided right then she hated Atticon. Even Lennai looked upset by all of this. She didn’t want to lose Vega either.

“Donara,” Atticon said, holding a hand up to her. “Join me, won’t you?”

She tore her eyes away from Vega and took the dominus’ hand, stepping down off the pedestal, and he walked her around the little arena towards sofas that the slaves had moved for the spectators.

“I think you’re a costly, pointless thing,” he told her, as they walked through the crowd of nobility finding places to sit to watch the fight. “And if my sister’s champion loses, I’ll see you turned into a normal slave just like the rest of them.”

Alaina swallowed against a knot that had formed in her throat. “If that is your wish, dominus,” she muttered.

Atticon laughed. “I heard you were a feisty creature. You don’t seem so feisty to me. The poor cursii think they’re fighting for a delicious hellcat. You seem more boring rag.”

“I am what I am, dominus,” Alaina replied stiffly, keeping her eyes low.

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