Claiming Quinn (Other World Series Book Five) by Ramona Gray

Author:Ramona Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action, parallel world, submissive, dominant, sci fi romance, warrior women
Publisher: Ramona Gray

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“You know, this really isn’t all that bad,” Evan said cheerfully as he sank into the steaming water.

“Speak for yourself,” Craig said from the tub next to him. He sniffed at his armpit before grabbing the soap and rubbing it vigorously over his skin. “You didn’t have to clean up pig shit all day.”

“Hey, it wasn’t exactly easy weeding the crops,” Evan replied. “Most of their weeds have these thorns that are as big as my thumbs. Dora gave me leather gloves but I still got stuck a few times. Hurt like a son of a bitch.

“So you saw Dora, huh?” Gage said. “Is she as ugly as Lloyd said?”

Evan shrugged. “She’s not gorgeous or anything but she’s sweet. She said she was going to bid on me at the claiming ceremony and ask one of the queen’s guard to fight on her behalf. I’m cool with it.”

Gage glanced at Silas. “You’re quiet.”

“Just tired,” Silas said.

Just before dinner, about half the men had been led from the common room to what was obviously a communal bathing room. A dozen metal tubs were lined up in two neat rows of six. There were no faucets but each tub had a hole plugged with a small metal piece of rod. Below each hole in the tub there was a larger hole in the floor. Each tub was filled with steaming hot water and all of the men had stripped eagerly and climbed into a tub.

“Lutan, will the other men bathe after we’re done?” Craig asked the man in the tub beside him.

The dark-haired man shook his head. “Nah, they’re the breeders this month so they have a bath every morning. If we’re not breeding they only let us bathe every couple of days. Except for Vida. He gets a bath every day. He didn’t used to but the massina made a special rule for him. She also convinced the queen to let him go swimming in the river once a week. He swims unbelievably fast. I thought for sure he’d try to escape but he never has. Between you and me, I think the massina has a thing for the blue guy. She’s always getting him special treatment.”

Ignoring his jealousy, Silas stared at the tub to his right. Vida had climbed in about ten minutes ago, submerged completely in the water and hadn’t reappeared since.

“I thought the massina didn’t sleep with the breeders,” Gage said with a quick look at Silas.

“She never bids at the claiming ceremony,” Lutan said, “but I think she gets up to it with Vida even though it’s against the rules. They’re just really careful not to get caught.”

“Why does he get to go swimming and bathe every day?” Evan asked curiously.

“He needs the water,” Lutan replied. “He gets all cracked looking and dries out like a croken in the sun if he doesn’t.”

“Croken?” Evan said.

“It’s a sea creature,” the man said. “Shaped like a star. You don’t have them where you’re from?”

“Maybe,” Evan replied, “but if it’s the same thing we call them starfish.

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