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“Just wait You’ll see,” he repeated

Veck Tomis sank back to the bench and rubbed his face He didn’t knohat in the hell was going on and couldn’t stand the implication that all the males had seen Talia

He forced himself into stillness, quieted hiselse for him to do until the poent off, anyway Time passed—a few hours, perhaps

The sound of catcalls and shouts down the corridor made him lift his head

His giant cellmate jerked his chin “Here she comes”

He flew to the panel of bars and leaned his head against the cool rateful the bars weren’t electrified like eon had been in use for thousands of years With his neck cranked, he could see down the corridor at—oh vecking stars—what had they done to her?

Two guards dragged a naked Talia past the cells

His ht for her freedoe, to tell her he’d coht

Instead, he backed up a step, sinking into the shadohen she passed their cell Even so, her gaze jerked to hiuards shoved her forward, hard

To up into his throat, kept his face perfectly blank But the scent of Talia lingered By the one true Zandian star—did he smell her… arousal?

He closed his eyes, reviewing the ie of her burned on his retinas She was slender—too thin Small for a Zandian At least, he didn’t think females were normall

y so small The elders he’d met were not She was als, her bare sex dainty between them Flat belly Two pert breasts Were her nipples stiff?

His cock hardened, re He replayed the scene in his ht at him, tossed that thick, reddish-brown hair over her shoulder and, yes, the dusky purple peaks of her breasts had turned rigid when her eyes widened

He adjusted his aching cock in his combat pants Well, that was unexpected Stars, he didn’t need the extra distraction This feht outhis mother’s death Zandians weren’t norical, practical Warriors ell-disciplined and dispassionate All that had flown the ram

Well, he’d have to treat the emotion the same way he did pain Use it as information and power