Marauder Kain: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance (Mating Wars Book 5) (15 page)
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Authors: Aya Morningstar
“Oh, shit!” Felicia squeaks.
“Your message to us cut out at the toilet part,” I say to Malcolm. “What was the good news?”
“The bioglove,” Malcolm says, clenching his fist. “Obviously.”
Kara
“
G
uys
!” The Marauders are all running back to the dropship!”
I bring my drone a little bit closer, and I see one of them--Raius, I think--scowl up at the camera.
“Why is he scowling at me but not firing?” I whisper to myself.
“Kain,” I say, “Can the dropship make it back to Darkstar?”
“Yes,” he says. “If it has enough fuel.”
“Okay,” I say. “I’m blowing it up then.”
I fly in closer, and fire a missile at the dropship.
I expect a flurry of plasma beams to hit me as soon as I open fire, but instead I see Raius shove a Marauder onto the ground by the dropship, and the other Marauders run.
What the hell?
The missile blasts toward the dropship, and the Marauder gets back up, then shoots tendrils into the ground to catapult himself into the air.
I watch as he flies headfirst into the missile. He explodes in the air, a few hundred meters in front of the dropship. The other Marauders are now rushing toward the ramp.
“They’re out of antimatter!” I shout. “I’m just blow the shit out of them!”
“Raius is mine!” Kain shouts.
“No way,” Felicia says, “You two are supposed to have a nice Martian honeymoon, no bullshit fights!”
Felicia’s drone starts to dive toward the dropship as the Marauders rush toward it. She opens fire with a gatling gun. I see a few Marauders get cut down by the bullets, but the ramp shuts.
The dropship starts to lift into the air, and Felicia pulls her drone’s nose up and rams straight into the ship.
The drone and the dropship explode in one big blast.
“Dammit!” Kain shouts. “You shame-debted me!”
“It was me,” Felicia says. “Kara didn’t shame debt you!”
Felicia turns to me and smiles, then whispers to me, “Now he can be mad at me instead of you, aren’t I a great sister?”
“I heard that, Felicia,” Kain shouts. “Learn to work the comms properly for once!”
“
U
h
,” I mumble, “Mr. Tsar, Tsarina…I mean…your Excellencies—“
“Aegus and Anya,” The Tsarina says to me, smiling.
It’s the second time I’ve met them. The first was when Kain took me back to Sankt Petersburg, but now they’ve come all the way to Mars. They insisted I drop the formal titles when I met them back on Sankt Petersburg, so I just avoided addressing them at all.
“I’m, uh,” I say, “shame-debted that you travelled so far for our wedding…”
Anya smiles. “If it makes you feel better, we had to come here on official business anyway. Your wedding was a nice bonus.”
I sigh relief. That
does
make me feel better.
“And I haven’t seen my brother in ages,” Aegus says. “Where is he?”
“I think he’s inside,” I say.
Someone grabs my arm, and I
jump
. In Martian gravity, I grab some serious air.
“Uncle,” Sara says, pulling me back to the ground. “This one is a good pilot. I took her for a bit of a coward at first—“
“Hey!” Kain snaps. He appears from seemingly out of nowhere, but there crowd is thick, and he must have overheard us as he approached. “Do no call my wife a coward!”
Sara lets go of me. “I said I
thought
she was a coward, but she showed otherwise. If not for Kara and Felicia, Raius may have escaped—“
“No,” Kain says. “I’d have taken them down.”
Sara rolls her eyes. “She’s not your wife yet, by the way. You guys still have to get married.”
“I was trying the word out,” Kain says.
I smile and squeeze his hand. “It fits very well, I think.”
Kain taps my shoulder and points out across the crowds. We’re in a domed-off garden—one of the nicest on Mars—and there’s even a big fountain in the middle…a total luxury and extravagance for Mars. Kain is pointing toward the fountain, where I see Felicia and Malcolm holding hands—both hands—and staring at each other as if there were not crowd swarming around them.
“We better get married fast,” Kain says. “Or those two will beat us.”
I laugh. “I didn’t realize it was a race.”
“Ramses should be here soon,” Kain says. “Don’t worry. I can’t get married without my best man.”
I stretch out my arms and smile. “I’m not worried. For like, the first time in my entire life, I’m not worried. Everything is good, and each day we wait is a wonderful vacation.”
“It’s not just a vacation,” Kain says. “We’re free.”
I feel an explosion in my chest at the realization. I really
am
free. There may be some difficult times ahead of me—no life is perfect—but the worst is all behind me, and I have so much left to look forward to.
A
n alien warrior
breaks all the rules to protect his human mate.
Ramses Ivanov never thought he’d find his mate, but when this alien warrior meets his new partner--a human cop on Earth--everything changes. He can’t resist her soft, sweet voice; or her almond-brown eyes and killer curves. Dating your partner is strictly forbidden, but when it comes to his mate, all rules are meant to be broken.
Elise never really wanted to be a cop, and she
certainly
never wanted an insufferable, frustrating asshole like Ramses as her partner. The sexy, pink-skinned alien swaggers onto Earth like he owns the whole planet, and he looks at Elise with a cocky grin, like he owns
her
.
When a terrorist attack exposes Elise to a mysterious gas, the supercomputer that runs Earth tries to kill her. Ramses knows of only one place that he can keep her safe--a planet no one is supposed to land on...Atlantis. He’d go to hell and back to protect Elise, and it turns out that Atlantis is the closest thing there is to hell. Ramses and Elise will have to become much more than partners if they want to survive this ice-cold abyss--freeze to death, or find warmth in each other.
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f I have
to burn down the entire city and give up everything to get her out, I’ll do it in a heartbeat.
Sophie’s only hope of escaping is to trust him, but she has been burned too many times in her past.
He’s violent, possessive, and cocky as hell. He’s trouble, and Sophie has more than enough trouble to deal with already. So why does her skin feel like it’s on fire when she looks at him? And why is she wasting her time with his promises?
But Vash al Domitus does not make false promises. When he wins the right to choose a slave as his claim, he chooses Sophie. And once she’s his, he’s never letting go.
They will both need to work together if they are going to survive against deadly gladiators, corrupt guards, and one of the most powerful slavers in the city...Vash’s father.
A
ya Morningstar lives in Denver
. She writes with a hot cup of Earl Grey and her loyal were corgi by her side. She writes both paranormal and sci-fi romance.
