Zaedon's Kiss: Sci-fi Alien Romance (Ketaurran Warriors Book 3) by Rayna Tyler

Author:Rayna Tyler [Tyler, Rayna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-07T18:30:00+00:00

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Zaedon

In the few weeks we had spent together, Cara had never requested my presence, let alone insist I meet her somewhere. I had wanted her to know that I trusted her and staying behind, though difficult, seemed to have been the right decision. I watched the transport until it was nothing more than a tiny spot in the distance. The farther away from me she moved, the heavier the pressure constricting my chest became.

When Derrick first arrived, and offered his help, something devious, bordering on malicious, flared in his dark eyes. Even the tone of his voice, which he had tried to disguise, led me to believe he had a hidden purpose behind his request to stay behind. A purpose I planned to discover now that Cara was safely on her way.

I ignored Derrick and led Chompers toward the nearest patch of plants and went back to work. Sometimes, when dealing with someone trying to be deceitful, remaining silent was the best way to draw out their intentions rather than questioning them directly.

Derrick was not armed, but he had come prepared to carry out his facade. He slipped on the pair of gloves he had tucked in his waistband, then began removing pods from the plants a few feet away from me. I only had to wait a few minutes before he stopped what he was doing to speak. “You know you don’t stand a chance with her, right?”

I gripped a plant the way Cara had shown me and carefully extracted two more pods, then tossed them in the wagon. “Perhaps.”

“Perhaps nothing. There’s no way she’d ever be interested in someone like you.” He tightened his jaw, red spreading across his cheeks.

I took a deep breath, ignoring his comment. It would do me no good to inform him that his inference about Cara sharing the same dislike for my people as he did was inaccurate. Besides the affection she bestowed on Torrlun and his family, she had shown nothing but respect for my friends and me.

Being a vryndarr and personal bodyguard to the drezdarr was a dangerous existence that did not come without sacrifices. Ketaurran males were expected to protect females. Although the females of my species were strong, they were not trained to fight. For many years, my friends and I believed we would spend our lives without a female by our sides. A belief that changed soon after we met the human females, the ones we considered warriors.

After Jardun discovered Laria was his ketiorra, his mate, I clung to the hope that I would someday find a female who was my equal. Now that I had found Cara, I was not going to let this human, or any other male, come between us.

The faraway rumble of a transport engine, growing steadily louder, interrupted our conversation. Cara was an excellent mechanic, but I struggled to believe she had repaired the harvester so quickly and was returning. My suspicions were confirmed when a midsize version of a solarveyor approached from the opposite direction she had taken.

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