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e stopped to let off steaed at him to find a female and plant her with his seed Too bad there weren’t any Zandian females left to implant

At least, he’d believed there weren’t until two short planet rotations ago when two stunningly beautiful fe every et the hell off the space pod

The fehter, came already mated to the warrior Tomis, and Eslyn seeht in fro by the rumors, she wished to shed herself of thoseto take their place, offering to share her like her previous mates had

Sharing wasn’t Erick’s style, though Even though he’d never had a relationship, he knew that instinctively about himself He’d be a possessive vecker If he had a Zandian fealaxy for her

A stray nelot—one of the furry mammals usually kept as pets on Aurelia—curled around his ankles, blinking up at him He bent and scratched its ears “Sorry, I don’t have any food for you, little one Zandians don’t eat often” Only once every ten planet rotations, to be exact Unless they were parted from Zandian crystal, the stone at the core of their planet, which gave theemstone behind the Finn’s invasion and o

The electronic doors sparked and zapped as he stepped through, but since he had no weaponry, he entered unharhtened with the anticipation of release

Veck, he’d never needed to blow off steam more

He’d just lost 750,000 steins of Prince Zander’s money

In the years since the Finn took their planet, Erick had earned or helped Prince Zander earn s Wealth the Zandians desperately needed to ar to regain their precious home Wealth they’d used to buy airships and weaponry

But he’d just co with a broker eone

“Forgive lentian broker who had put together the deal for three galactacarriers had said, twisting a giant Zandian crystal ring on his finger Erick had traded him that crystal solar cycles before in another deal “At this point, all I can tell you is that the deal has been delayed”

Delayed his ass

Although Behn had hidden it well, Erick recognized signs of his distress The trickle of sweat running fro

Erick’s fingers had twitched over the handle of his sword He may be Prince Zander’s business and trade advisor, but he’d been warrior-trained by Master Seke, right along with the rest of theone unschooled except the very elderly, no matter what their role in the palatial pod was They had a planet to recover and precious few of their species left alive