Reluctant Alpha (Love Slaves of the Alpha's 4) by West Shannon

Author:West, Shannon [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Published: 2013-07-05T05:00:00+00:00

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Kai pulled back the string on his bow and let fly at the target, hitting it squarely in the middle. Lucas had set up the targets for him soon after they arrived on Lycanus 3, and Kai spent time practicing every day. Not because he was really interested, but because he wanted to please Lucas, who liked him to do things he considered manly, like sports and hunting and watching action flicks on the vid machine.

From the moment they’d arrived, he hadn’t seen much of Lucas, who had been busy with things Kai didn’t fully understand. He knew he was close by, and he saw Lucas every night, but there was apparently some kind of problem with council members that he needed to take care of, and he’d worked late almost every night since they’d arrived. When he was at home, there was a distance between them that Kai strongly felt, but he didn’t know what to do about it. He knew it was mostly because of the trickery and deception that lay between them like a poisonous cesspool, slowly seeping into every facet of their life together, no matter how hard either of them tried to get away from it or pretend otherwise.

Kai couldn’t explain properly about the lies to the matchmaker and he couldn’t tell his mother’s secrets and risk the Alliance taking action against her. Yet since he’d come to this planet, and seen the male children walking around openly, no one acting as if there were anything wrong or shameful about them, he’d begun to feel terribly confused and uneasy.

What if everything he’d been taught all his life had been one big monstrous lie? What if male children weren’t truly defective and the priestesses had lied to the Scythian women? The women of Scythia turned the boy babies over to the priestesses to be mercifully re-assimilated back into the goddess, but what if they could have kept their children? What if the goddess was wrong about males? But that couldn’t be. That would make everything he’d ever known a falsehood, and the priestesses nothing more than monsters. It would make the goddess herself—what?

Kai shook his head, scared by the thought and refusing to contemplate such blasphemy. All his life, he’d been afraid of the goddess’s wrath. As a child, he’d expected any time to be snatched up by the goddess and re-assimilated. These blasphemous thoughts could get him cast into the hells where he would burn forever. He could only hope that the goddess had lost track of him so far away from Scythia. He stood still in the backyard of the alpha’s home, his new home, and looked around him uneasily.

This planet was very different from Scythia. Instead of the verdant forests of his home world, the landscape seemed to be mostly desert, though Lucas had told him it wasn’t all so barren. They had first landed in the middle of the night, and Lucas whisked him away to the city as soon as they arrived.

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