Warlord - 01 The Warlord by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2005-06-28T22:21:04+00:00

"Because I'm not, technically. My parents were. Dad was a Warlord, Mother was a fem. I just inherited their genetic characteristics.

"The strength and speed."

"Right. Anyway, about thirty years ago, the Vardoneese went through one of their periodic political convulsions. They decided the Blood People – that's us – were responsible for the wars they kept getting themselves in. If we didn't exist, they wouldn't be so quick to rely on violent solutions."

"Oh, bullshit," said Lyonet. "They'd just end up hiring merc units like everybody else."

"Probably, but they didn't see it that way. They deported the lot of us. Every last Warlord and fem, to the far corners of the galaxy. They were afraid if they put us in one place, we'd come back and conquer them."

"Paranoid bunch of bitches."

"Got it in one. So anyway, Baird was raised on one of those colonies. But everybody in the colony had come from the same basic genetic root stock. They didn't have enough genetic variation to sustain the population. The colonists decided to send their unbonded Warlords and fems out to look for Blood People they could bring home as mates."

"And Baird found you."

"Looks that way."

"And he wants to make it permanent."

"Yep."

She learned forward and glared into my eyes. "So what the hell's the problem?"

I clenched my fingers hard around the knight. "I don't want to become his slave."

Lyonet blinked, startled. "Come again?"

"The Warlords are very ... dominant in bed. And fems ... we're designed to give them what they want. To submit."

She leaned back in her chair and lifted an eyebrow. "I have trouble imagining you as submissive."

"We're not. Ordinarily. In combat, we're designed to function as backup. Not as strong, but better at some things Warlords can't do because of their sheer size. Agility, speed, getting into tight places. We're cool and controlled when they're in riatt – the berserker frenzy Baird used to beat Jogox. We keep them from getting carried away and making mistakes."

"Sounds like equals more than master and slave."

"And equals are exactly what we are -- outside the bedroom. Inside..."

"... He wants to tie you up and screw your brains out. So? I don't see why you'd find a few sex games intimidating."

I shook my head. "What if it's more than games, Lyonet? I've never actually known any Warlords other than Baird, and I'm not sure what I'd be getting into. My father died when I was young, so I never really knew him." I swallowed and looked down at the knight, finding I could not quite meet Lyonet's perceptive green gaze. "My did sister bond with a Warlord she met off-planet when I was fifteen or so.

She brought him to our home on Fairworld, but they stayed only a short time before they left for his colony."

Her eyes sharpened, and I knew she'd read the discomfort on my face. "Something happened during that visit, didn't it?"

I glanced up, then away. "I saw them together. One night. I heard her cry out in pain, and I went to help.

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