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Sex Me Up

A quick reconnaissance of the shop showed no one lay in wait downstairs. In fact, nothing about this place, or the town he’d spotted outside the glass, looked familiar to him. After he checked out the loft, he needed to find a way to contact his people.

How could he determine whether or not war with
Savari,
as well as the
Banart,
was necessary if he wasn’t there to actually do any spying?

Whoever had pulled him out before he completed his mission, better pray he was satisfied with whatever reason they chose to give him, or they’d regret toying with national security this way. He scanned the shop once more before heading toward the stairway behind the counter. A raised voice at the top of the building drew his attention. He tilted his head in amazement. They weren’t even trying to be quiet.

Shaking his head, he started up the stairs, a stunner wand grasped in one hand, a sharp blade in the other. If someone had brought him here to slaughter him, he’d not go down without one hell of a fight.

Feeling no need to keep his entrance quiet, he took one step back and rammed the door open with his shoulder. He quickly scanned the tiny room, only spotting two people—a man and a woman. And from the look of things they weren’t on the friendliest of terms. Lovers spat, maybe?

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Tianna Xander – Bonnie Rose Leigh

They stood together, one of the man’s arms wrapped around her neck, the other holding her head. Was he going to break her neck?

“Don’t come any closer,
Banart!
”

“What?” He looked from the man to the woman and she stared back at him, perhaps trying to ask for his help with a look. He may be there unwillingly but at least he wasn’t threatening to kill her. Yet. And besides, this was the perfect opportunity to find out just what type of leader Dare Raden really was.

And, looking at the man, there was no doubt in his mind that’s who held the trembling woman. He looked just like his brother at rebel headquarters. The rebels would have taken the man into custody to ensure his brother’s cooperation if not for the fear of the reprisal such an action would cause. Suspicious, he narrowed his eyes. How had he managed to be exactly where he needed to be when even the
Carrillian
Rebels
didn’t know why the meeting was delayed?

His gaze once again settled on the terrified woman. If he hadn’t worried that an ambush might lie in wait up here, he would have taken the time to really look at her. As it was now, knowing only the three of them were in the room, he couldn’t help but stare at her unusual beauty. Hair as black as sin hung in tousled waves, curling around her heaving breasts. Her smoky 10