Exile's Hunter by Kate Rudolph

Author:Kate Rudolph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kate Rudolph

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Mad tried not to think about why he’d tossed and turned the night before. He’d spent most of his evenings alone on Guerran. Last night was no outlier.

But it was a night without Kenzie.

He truly was going mad if one night with a woman had spoiled him for sleeping alone. Especially when the woman greeted him with a knife to the throat. He’d much rather wake to breakfast. Or lips around his cock.

But he’d done his part, and now he got to see Kenzie again. Excitement surged in him and he couldn’t quash it. He’d spent six years on Guerran with no purpose other than survival.

At least now he was helping someone.

Where was the someone he was supposed to be helping?

Mad got to the meeting spot early and made sure he wasn’t followed. Jadirel wasn’t the type to micromanage, but now that word had gotten out about Mad killing Tyze, there were others who’d be after him. Life was cutthroat on Guerran.

Had someone found Kenzie? Alarm surged, and his fingers ached to grab his axe and start busting heads.

Kenzie was his.

And there was the madness again.

Kenzie was her own. She was on a mission, and she’d be leaving the planet as soon as it was done. There was no future for them. They existed for this one moment of time, and then she’d be nothing more than a memory.

You could go with her.

The dangerous thought danced across his mind. To go with her was to sacrifice every hope he had for returning home. He didn’t know the human. He couldn’t give up on his family like that.

And yet…

Temptation waited.

Mad looked down the street, hoping to spot the human. She wasn’t walking towards him. He didn’t see her at all. He tried not to worry. If Jadirel had caught her, word would have reached Mad.

Of course, word could take a while to travel.

No. She hadn’t been caught. He had to believe that.

Something pulled his gaze up, and he saw a figure on the roof across the street. It could have been anyone. They were wearing a hood and too far away from him to make out features. But something in the way the figure held themselves told Mad it was Kenzie.

He rushed across the street and up the stairs of the building before she could run away.

And there she was, dark cloak overhead, knives strapped exactly where he expected them, and a Guerran-style tunic covering the rest of her. He liked her better in his own clothes, but seeing her in the clothes of this land was almost as good.

“Trying to blend in?” he asked. “You’re too short for it.” Kru’dari towered over humans, at least as far as he’d seen of the humans on Guerran. There weren’t many of them. Maybe the taller ones were hidden on another planet. But as it was, Mad was more than a head taller than Kenzie.

All the better to shield her from danger.

“Blending here isn’t an issue. You should have seen some of the places I’ve been.

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