Barbarian Mine by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: science fiction romance, aliens, barbarian romance
Publisher: Ruby Dixon
Published: 2015-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

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My heart thumps in my chest, frightened like a stalked quill-beast. Har-loh is limp in my arms, unconscious. Her skin is covered with a sheen of sweat, like she is hot, but her hands and her cheek are cold.

Another human scurries around my cave, a female. I want to snarl at her to leave, to go back to the bad ones, but she’s got a bladder of water and she dampens a square of leather and brushes it over Har-loh’s face. She looks upset, too. She wants to help.

It’s only because of that I let her stay.

My Har-loh is sick. I hold her close, stroking her jaw and neck, waiting for her to wake up. At her side, the female dabs the wet square on her cheek.

“Has she done this before?” the female asks.

I want to snarl at her to go away, but I don’t know what to do to help. Maybe she does. So I shake my head in answer.

“Has she had problems with the baby? Spotting? Nausea?”

I don’t know some of these words and bare my teeth, holding her closer. “She is fine.”

“Bullshit.” She doesn’t stop to explain the word. “Look at her face. Her eyes are like hollows. She looks tired and even I can tell she’s hurting. She rubs her side constantly.”

“She is carrying a kit,” I snarl.

“So am I! And I’m not sick like her. Something is wrong.” The female all but yells at me. She gestures at her belly and I see a rounded bump there for the first time. She’s right – her face doesn’t have the same exhausted look that my Har-loh does.

I cradle Har-loh closer to me, worried. She…is pale. And she has difficulty waking some mornings. I’ve noticed that she struggles, but I don’t know how to fix it. It concerns me that this female sees it right away. Have I been turning a blind eye to my mate because I am afraid of what I will see? Of losing her?

I hold her closer, agonizing. I will die if I lose her. She is the only thing worth living for. Now that I have Har-loh, I can’t go back to the loneliness of before. I cannot bear the thought of a day without her smile, her touch, her scent. Her small, cold hands on my skin as I wake up.

“What do I do?” The words escape me before I can bite them back.

The female purses her lips, and for a moment she looks so strangely similar to Har-loh that it fills me with longing. I stroke my mate’s sweaty face again. “She needs to come back to the tribe.”

Leave me? Leave here and go with the bad ones? I bare my teeth at the female for suggesting it. “No!”

“You think it’s safe to be out here in the middle of nowhere with her?” The small female smacks my arm as if trying to beat her words into me. “What are you going to do if the baby comes early? What

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