The Dark King by Summers Jordan

Author:Summers, Jordan [Summers, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal
Amazon: B00AETVTK2
Publisher: Jodan Summers
Published: 2012-11-27T07:00:00+00:00

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Four hours later, Opal was ready to give up. She'd searched the three ravines that scarred the land near her old homestead. Other than the crash debris in Rydon Ravine, she hadn't spotted any sign of the Slavers or their ships. Since she'd told no one of her mission, there wasn’t a chance that the Slavers could've been forewarned.

Given the lack of supplies at the crash site, it was more than obvious some of the crew had survived. Solo pilots didn’t man slaver ships and there'd only been one body. She thought about all the places she explored as a child. There were so many. She'd covered the most obvious locations and was slowly making her way through her secret spots.

The sun was sinking fast. Soon she'd have to return to the safety of the Keep. Opal turned the transport in a wide arc, scanning the land and the woods in the distance. As she was doing so, something sparkled amongst the dark purple leaves, then quickly vanished.

It could be nothing, she thought, but she needed to be sure.

Opal turned the hover once more, watching the tree-line closely. The flash came again, this time more definite. Not natural. Alien tech. Reflective camouflage. She cut the power on her transport and it slowly floated to the ground. With a flick of a button, she hid the vehicle, using less sophisticated tech than the Slaver's had.

She couldn't afford for them to hear her approach. Opal shuddered at the thought of being captured by the vicious Slavers. She'd seen what they'd done to imprisoned females firsthand, when she'd participated in a rescue mission three years ago. They'd only found five of the eight women alive. The rest had been dissected, their parts distributed to exotic shops around the galaxy.

Opal couldn't fathom that there were sentient beings in the galaxy that still believed that ground up humanoid organs worked as aphrodisiacs and had healing properties, but she'd seen the stalls with her own eyes and she'd helped unpack the body parts of the women they'd been unable to save.

Slavers didn't always kill and dissect their captives. Sometimes they took them to Slave markets and sold them to the highest bidder. From that point, the women could be used for sex or for hard labor, sometimes both. Neither fate was one any woman wanted to experience. Opal had even heard rumors that on very rare occasions Slavers claimed the women for themselves. But as far as she could tell, those stories were only rumors, since she'd never seen any proof.

Opal crept through the woods, keeping downwind. Slavers weren't like Phantoms, but it wasn't uncommon for them to have 'enhanced' their senses with nanotech. She stayed low to the ground. When she couldn't get any closer without betraying her position and the rugged terrain became too difficult to navigate, Opal shifted into her cat form.

She launched herself into a tree, using her sharp claws to gain purchase, then worked her way from limb to limb until she had a clear view of the area.

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