Unbound by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic romance, Science Fiction Romance, alien romance, second chance, steamy romance, scifi romance, alpha male, fated mate, brides of the kindred, alien warrior
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

“Everything in the Hive has to do with scent,” Jorath had said to him, during the hours before Varin’s escape. “There are different castes within the structure they live in—workers, warriors, sentries…and plenty more. You have to fool them into thinking you’re one of them and the way you do that is to smell like one of them.”

“How in the Seven Hells do I manage that?” Varin had growled. “Kill one and wear its skin or shell or whatever?”

“No—the best way is to find a marker—one of the workers whose job it is to scent-mark those whom the sentries have allowed inside the Hive. But to do that, you have to get past the sentries in the first place…”

Lying flat on his stomach, downwind of the Hive, Varin frowned as he stared at the two huge insects guarding the black hole in the ground he’d seen Brynn entering in his vision. There they were—the sentries. He had one chance to take them out because, according to Jorath’s information, if he only wounded them, they would immediately release an alarm scent that would bring the rest of the warrior-caste insects running for the surface, believing the Hive was under attack.

One shot, he thought and braced the blaster against his left forearm, which still ended in a mangled-looking stump. His hand was actually trying to regrow itself, which was why it looked so bad at the moment. His body had managed to regenerate the bottom of his palm and part of his thumb and forefinger, but nothing else.

Varin wasn’t sure if there would be anything else and the parts of his hand that were regrown were weak and tender. He had found a pair of expensive Berathian driving gloves in the clothes storage unit of his stolen ship (the previous owner had really been quite the dandy) and put them on to cover the ugly sight.

Not that he cared so much what his hand looked like—he just wanted to protect any vulnerabilities he had when going into enemy territory. At least when I shot off my hand, I took the damned obedience band with it, he thought wryly. Now if he needed to lift Brynn and make a quick get away with her he could be certain a bolt of pain wouldn’t hamper his efforts. So that was something, anyway.

Brynn…he’d had another vision of her while he was landing his ship, being careful to leave it behind a low hill out of sight of the Hive. Someone was leading her over a narrow, steep bridge that ran across a pit of stinking death. Varin had been afraid she would fall but then she was safely across and standing in front of a small room that seemed to grow out of the wall. It pulsed with ominous light and he wanted to shout at her again not to go into it, but he had a feeling she already had.

One shot, he thought again. I have to hurry—not much time!

He narrowed his eyes

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