Orion: Arkadian Alien Mail Order Brides #1 (Intergalactic Dating Agency) by Tasha Black

Author:Tasha Black [Black, Tasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13th Story Press
Published: 2021-09-07T18:30:00+00:00

15

Tyvarr

Synn Tyvarr watched out the transport window as the industrial area around his warehouses melted into the dull, gray-green of farmland.

Everything down here seemed washed out. He had taken his family to Upper Arkadia for the winter for the past several years, and though it was beautiful, it seemed only to serve to make him dissatisfied with his life below during the rest of the year.

Another decade or so of profitability, and he could have bought a place up there and settled down, selling his territory here to one of the petty warlords that was always trying to make a little noise. The Tyvarrs could have gone straight. Maybe even gotten into just a little bit of real estate flipping up there, found a title clerk who was open cleaning up a dirty title for certain considerations, and grown the empire even further. Who knows?

But with one mistake, the Jenkins family had ruined all that.

“Here we are, boss,” Loouh said quietly. “Why don’t you wait in the craft?”

“Absolutely not,” Synn replied.

“I don’t like you getting your hands dirty,” his henchman practically moaned. “Let me handle it. That’s why I get paid so good.”

“You’re a loyal man, Loouh,” Synn said kindly. “But my son is in prison because of these people. So, this is personal. We always take care of family business in person.”

Loouh frowned, but didn’t argue.

And that was actually why he was paid well. The man was loyal, honest and obedient to a fault. If Synn had ten Loouhs, he wouldn’t have been in a spot where he needed a local farmer to make deliveries.

He stepped out of the car and onto the dusty path that led back to the concrete farmhouse. The house was low to the ground and small, but he could see the little herb garden by the front door. It had obviously been tended to lovingly for years, based on the size of the plants. Then it had been suddenly abandoned, based on how dried out and dead they were.

He walked over to it, bent and snapped off a fragrant dried petal of gywnseed, putting it to his nose for a moment.

It reminded him of his grandmother’s kitchen. When he was a boy, he had spent plenty of time in there, with none of the responsibilities he now held.

He let the petal drift to the ground, and straightened up.

The state of the herb garden did not bode well for Synn in regard to the location of the Jenkins family.

Synn had been in so much grief over his son getting caught up in the warehouse bust that he had let his best opportunity for easy vengeance cool. Now it might have to happen the hard way.

“Hello there, I’m Brother Zeff,” a friendly voice boomed out. “How can I help you?”

Synn turned to see a muscular young man in orphanage robes, striding down the dusty path with two skinny children in tow.

“We’re working the farm while Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are away,” Brother Zeff explained.

“I didn’t know they were away,” Synn said smoothly.

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