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They bought me at auction Claimed me Forever

Two purple, horned males with massive chests and arms as thick as my waist

They’re taking

The only trouble is—I’nant

And if my for is born

My new ive far more pleasure than pain Their planet is beautiful

But when they find out my secret, I have no doubt they’ll cast me out

And my life will be forfeit

Because no human female with a bounty on her head survives more than a lunar cycle out there

Aurelia Minor 2, Slave Auction

Danica

Naked, strapped to a post on the auction block, I suck the blood from my cracked lower lip

Please let this be quick

The longer I stand up here, trereater the chance of so I’m wanted

I guarantee my former master, Akron, put a bounty on my head the moment he realized I escaped And he doesn’t even know the secret I’ The one that would spell my death

Yeah

So it was escape or die And I escaped Briefly

Three Ocretions walk by, chortling to thehter Iis inside my body, as I fiercely pray they won’t stop Ocretions would know to check my slave barcode and trace my history back to Akron It wouldn’t take them more than half a planet rotation to find out about the bounty and deliver htful owner

I hold my breath until they move on

Apart froain as soon as possible Supposedly, there’s a planet where huerous, but that doesn’t bother me My life is probably forfeit, anyway

I wriggle in ht straps The anione nuht and I can scarcely breathe I work to slow my inhalations because panic will only make it worse

The s of every species Most appear too poor to even offer twenty steins for me

Of course, I don’t look likehere When I first arrived, I rubbed some of the crimson dirt from this planet on my hair to cover the exotic color Blondes are considered a rarity aht reedy sler, whose only interest was a quick sale