Snow and the Shadows (Once Upon a Harem Book 2) by Cara Carnes

Author:Cara Carnes [Carnes, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: After Glows Publishing
Published: 2018-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Snow

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I gasped as my seven Shadows all collapsed. Shock gave way to rage. I leaned down, took Ashan’s pulse with one hand as I pulled his plasma blaster with the other. Frack. They were too far apart to defend them all easily, but I would. Somehow.

I fanned my aura outward until it encompassed them all. Whoever had downed them would not touch them again.

“Well, that was unexpected,” Helos commented.

The annoying zing in my head returned, again and again. I winced, aimed the blaster at Helos. “What did you do to them?”

“Why are you not immobilized? I have never failed to immobilize a species. Explain.”

“Revive them at once, or I will destroy you,” I warned.

“One moment please.” The automated voice grated my nerves. I paced between the men, scanning the area.

No one moved to intercept them or cause problems. We’d been taken to a remote area outside a large entry to a dome-shaped building. I pulled a Roteran blade from its sheath on Slade’s thigh. Why had I been unaffected by whatever the robot had done to them? Why had they been attacked? I tucked the blaster under my arm and leaned down, took the supply list Zelig gripped and shoved it into a pocket in my cargo pants. Then I grasped the blaster and looked around. I should have brought my own weapons, but Dacian explained that an armed female would offend many species within the farthest regions of Deep Space.

“Well, this is awkward.” A woman with fiery red hair stepped out of the double doors, which swooshed closed behind her. Armored far more than even I could imagine, she stepped over Ren’s prone body.

A feral growl rumbled from me. She froze.

“Don’t get near them,” I warned.

Hands raised, she looked back at the cluster of armed guards, weapons aimed in my direction. Drones flitted overhead. Red circles appeared on my torso and theirs. Rage gripped me as my mind sought an answer to the problem. What would Dacian do? Marden? Was there a Summoner’s Well here? Perhaps I could blast everyone like I did with the mercenaries.

No. I’d promised Varik I wouldn’t ever do that again. He’d worry.

Better a worried, pissed-off Shadow than a dead one.

I was sick of people attacking me. My Shadows. They’d risked too much to help me. Now they were struck down by some unknown threat. Strange people clustered around me, their numbers growing larger and larger.

The redhead held them at bay, however. She’d raised a hand at my order and none approached me, even though I had enough weapons trained on me to kill half a planet. My one plasma blaster and Roteran blade seemed foolish in comparison.

“Can you even use that blade, female?” The curious question drew my focus to a tall, handsome Avaru warrior beside the redhead. Unlike everyone else, neither he nor she had drawn a weapon.

“What is the meaning of this attack?” I demanded. “We arrived here to make fair trade to fix our ship. Give us what we need, and we will be gone.

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