Alien Captain's Prisoner by Corin Cain

Author:Corin Cain [Cain, Corin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-03T05:00:00+00:00

9

Vinicus

I force the barbell up with a grunt. It’s 300 pounds heavier than anything I’ve ever lifted before, and yet it rises like we’re killing Scorp on a low-g planet. I’ve seen the severed heads of Scorp flying forty feet after I’ve sliced them off. You’re stronger on a low-g planet because things act like they weigh less – except now I’m experiencing that all the time.

But it’s not because things weigh less. It’s because I’m stronger than I’ve ever been. I rack the weight and throw another hundred pounds on each side of the bar. The bar bends beneath the weight, but I throw it up like the huge iron plates are made of plastic.

She gives me strength. She gives me power.

I’ll use that power to rip the heads off countless Scorp – to kill any who stand in our way. No one will ever harm Tasha. Not if I’m alive to stop them.

I’m eager to test my new strength out in a fight. This waiting infuriates me. I was sated as I claimed my Fated Mate for the first time, but I won’t be satisfied until she has a baby in her belly. Mine, Aelon’s or Iunia’s – it doesn’t matter. We have a responsibility to continue our species.

I close my eyes and let myself feel Tasha’s aura in my mind, exulted in her femininity.

Iunia and I won’t be killing Scorp tomorrow. We’ll be brought down to the mining camps. There, I’ll command three triads on the anti-air batteries we’ve hidden in the forests.

The waiting will be hell. I prefer a fair fight, rushing into a Scorp nest head on – but when you’re dealing with Toads, there’s no such thing as a fair fight. It’s a battle of who can strike first, and hardest.

I’m just glad their cowardly species is too scared to Orb-Shift right now. Orb-Shifting is the fastest way of travelling – shifting out of space at one point and then blinking back to reality at another.

Lately, though, more and more reports of Aurelians not shifting back have been circulating – of vessels simply winking out of existence never to return. I don’t know what’s causing it. Iunia told me he thinks it’s something to do with the new era of the Bond – as if the universe is preparing for some great upset.

I don’t bother with such thoughts. I bother with keeping my triad safe, especially now that we have a threat on the horizon.

Toads.

I push the bar up and down, thinking of that cursed species. My battle brother Aelon hates them far more than I do. He was the one who’d seen the horrors on that Toad ship, when he’d led the so-called diplomatic mission to find those missing humans.

Iunia and I had remained back on our Reaver. When Aelon had teleported back, he’d thrown up – and that man does not have a sensitive stomach. Hell, I’d seen Aelon stay strong after holding a dying man’s hand. I’d seen him gut Scorp and kill space pirates with his bare hands.

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