Wanted by the Warriors: alien barbarian warrior romance (Banished Alien Warriors Book 3) by Riley Onyx

Author:Riley Onyx [Onyx, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

14

VARI

She said my name.

Even I though I’m not wearing a whisperer, I understand the rest of her words. The stares I receive from my brothers confirm it. She’s chosen me.

I want to be wrong. We discussed it, and I thought she’d agreed to choose Orik. He’s the one who needs someone. Not me.

Our gazes clash and she doesn’t look away. Tension rolls off her even though she has no kam to send that signal. How her kind survived for long enough to lean to sail the stars, I do not know. They cannot even see well at night. Yet she challenged Yva without fear.

If I say no, will she take Orik?

Yva is bright and angry. If I say no, there will be more violence between Yva and Orik. I can’t put Orik in danger.

If he was chosen, he’d be beyond my reach. That it is me who is chosen, twists in the wound that my leaving caused.

Bridget’s eyebrows draw together, and she speaks again.

Edilk stands. “Walk off your charge, Yva.”

Yva keeps his fingers spread and his markings illuminate the night. “Vari hasn’t agreed. If he refuses—”

“I accept.” The words fall from my tongue.

Orik’s gaze is as sharp as a sword as it slices through me.

I silently reach out to him. I’m sorry. This isn’t what I wanted.

It’s what I wanted. Orik turns and walks away, and I want to go after him to make things right. But I can’t.

Sunif follows him. No one will let him be alone tonight. He’ll be alright. I need to believe that. But I don’t know if it’s the truth.

Edilk tilts his head. “Are you sure, Bridget?”

She nods, and her attention is dragged from Orik’s back as he disappears into the darkness. “I am.”

Is she?

I am not.

“Do you want use of the ship?” Edilk asks.

I do not want to take her to the bed I make for Orik, and that has been well used since. “No.”

There will be no mating tonight.

Or there shouldn’t be. But a part of me is reveling in the knowledge that I have been chosen. That she picked me above all others. And my traitorous body wants to know if there is a difference between fucking a man and fucking a mate. Already my meq hardens.

I grimace. “Though I do not know where to take her.”

That is a problem. Are you sure you don’t want the boat? Edilk asks.

Why don’t the rest of you take the boat? They won’t want it for the same reasons as me. It will reek of mating. And I’m not sure that Sunif is ready to give it up.

Hrad stands. Yva, Orik and I will make a camp on the beach to give the mated couples some space.

Yva snarls, but there is nothing he can do. If he fights, he’ll be kicked out of this tribe—which is becoming more tribe like now there are mated couples.

Edilk nods. Very well. I will send Orik your way. Tomorrow we need to make a plan.

To get Tiril? Yva curls his fingers into fists, but his markings remain bright.

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