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Chapter One

Kyle looked down at the coot his first look at Tarr Bonnet The eous, a hueria as also one of the alaxies This was Kyle’s first look at hier down one of the stripes on the face in the picture

Extreer than the Lycans, at an average of perhaps seven feet tall Their skin was a golden-brown, andand curly and a shade soold His eyes, like all of his people’s, were catlike, slanted, and a rich eer-like stripes running just under their skin,the people look like some outlandish fantasy creature

Gods, he was a gorgeous thing, and Kyle had to adjust himself a little as he stared down at the picture Too bad he was a thieving, cold-blooded bastard of a Jolly Roger pirate

Blayde walked up behind hi, isn’t he?”

Kyle slanted hi just wasn’t adequate The words were too tame, too ordinary for what he was

Kyle nodded anyway and traced his finger over the picture again “This one won’t be easy to catch,” he said “All of the Tygerians are strong and smart, from what I’ve heard ”

“I know Tarr Bonnet is for sure That’s why I’ll need your help I’h I hate to be away fro…”

“Oh hells, that’s right The Tygerians love humans They prefer them, they say, over all other species ”

“Yes,” Blayde replied, his lips tightening “For their subot his hands on Ryan he’d have hihest bidder before I knehat hit me ”

Ryan and Blayde had been mated for almost two full cycles, and still couldn’t keep their hands off each other Blayde had every right to be cautious about hi man was beautiful and a former porn star, whose vids had been circulated all over the known galaxies Not to mention the fact that he was a blond huerians were so fond of as their concubines They would pay a lot for a prize like hih the Alliance would love to put a stop to it, the Tygerians had been trafficking in human slaves forthe Alliance wanted Tygeria had been at ith the Alliance for over a century

It had all started when the Alliance of Planets had discovered how rich Tygeria was—rich beyond belief—in dia Alliance standard measures had been estirade of 2 29 carats per one hundred cubic meters With diaoverning body first tried diplomacy—and when that didn’t work, they tried invasion

The Tygerians fought off the Alliance forces with unparalleled ferocity In the first wave of invasion, al starship troopers had been totally annihilated by the Tygerian forces when they shifted into ers and wiped out the first wave of troopers to the last man At that time, they took no prisoners, and ed to catch The bodies the Alliance forces ed to recover had been ripped to pieces

Then an Alliance ship had crashed on the planet while atte a covert operation, and its entire crew of one hundred and fifteen erians had iladiator-style gae crowd of spectators, with only the ain At the end of the games only a handful of men had survived, and they were taken as love slaves by their victorious opponents in order to humiliate the Alliance

They paraded the erian warriors caave a thumbs up or down to determine which of the Alliance warriors deserved to live after the dust settled