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Quicker than a sandstorm could rise from the Xano deserts, Jaro’s hands moved, and with a crack, her second 80

Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais choice warrior—with the repulsive kisses—dropped with a heavy thud.

Jaro straightened and gazed at her, his eyes alight with ire—and hunger.

Heat suffused her, and moisture invaded her cleft, which ran contrary to the trepidation that shook her body.

Confused at what she needed to do next, having never covered this situation in her teachings, Aylia, for once in her life, chose the path of cowardice. She ran.

Or meant to. The door opened and she made it to the corridor before slamming into a pair of bodies. Hands steadied her, and try as she might to thrash and kick, she couldn’t break free from their implacable grip, although, she did inflict enough damage to cause her new captors to grunt in pain.

“Frukx, cousin. When you said we were corralling a danger to society, you didn’t warn she’d try and emasculate me,” gasped a purple-skinned male with shockingly white hair.

A chuckle from the second male, also with the same skin hue, made her fume, especially when she couldn’t free her hands to hit him when he said, “Damn, but she’s a feisty thing. I bet she’s a wild ride.”

“You are not to touch her,” growled Jaro from behind. “I have other plans for this one.” 81

Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais Aylia craned to see him. “What are you going to do with me?”

“Do? Why, give you what you want,” he said in a mocking tone. “You said you wanted seed. So I am going to sell you to a brothel where you’ll find plenty of males willing to give you what you seek.”

Make her into a whore? Not frukxing likely. “Never,” she spat. “I knew I should have killed you when I had a chance.”

His face tightened and his lips thinned, his face a mask of controlled anger. “Yes, you should have.” He took a step toward her, close enough for her to inhale his musky scent. Leaning down, she thought he meant to kiss her, but instead, he disarmed her. He took all her weapons, her sheathed knives, the hidden pronged stars, the small laser pistol, even the necklace she wore that doubled as a garrote.

“I wouldn’t want you to accidentally hurt my cousins, Brax and Xarn. They might be annoying, but my aunt is rather attached to them.”

“I don’t need those tools to end your life,” she snapped. “I know more than a few ways to kill a male with my bare hands.”

“Try it. I dare you,” he whispered against her lips, and the deadly promise in his tone made her shiver, just not in 82

Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais fear. He pulled back and stepped away. “Take her back to my ship and keep her confined to the bridge,” he ordered.

“Whatever you say, cousin.”

A moment later, Aylia found herself tossed over a brawny shoulder, a heavy arm braced over her legs, staring down at a taut, trouser-covered backside. Lifting her head, she saw the second purple male following behind.

His lips quirked into a smile, and she noticed how attractive he was, and muscular. But, oddly enough, unlike his cousin Jaro, she felt nothing, a dilemma she’d ponder later, once she escaped.

“Let me go now and I promise not to kill you,” she offered benevolently.

Laughter made his eyes sparkle. “Now, you know I can’t do that. While I’m sure you’d try to murder me, unsuccessfully, I might add, Jaro definitely would. Besides, he’s family so I kind of have to do what he says. I will admit, though, I’ve never seen him so completely out of control. I don’t know what you did, but might I say, good job.”

“All I did was capture him and mount him for his seed that I might start my line. It’s not like I hurt him and I know he enjoyed himself,” she retorted.

His purple jaw dropped, and the shoulder she rode on shook as laughter spewed forth from both of Jaro’s cousins.

“What is so funny?” she demanded.

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“All of it,” the one carrying her said.

“Heck, if you wanted some purple babies, you should have just told us. We’d have been happy to donate.”

“So I’m discovering,” she muttered.

Arriving on a familiar ship, she waited for her chance to escape, but despite the cousins’ jovial humor, they didn’t give her a chance.
I guess I wait for my punishment,
because she knew Jaro meant what he said. The jerk. What form his revenge would take, though, remained to be seen. Surely he didn’t truly intend to sell her to a brothel?

Leaning against the wall in the command center, she watched the two cousins through hooded eyes, waiting for a chance to incapacitate them. However, while they might possess more lighthearted miens than Jaro, they made effective guards. They kept out of her reach and watched her back with just as much intensity.

When Jaro finally entered, clad in skintight britches that delineated his muscled thighs and a loose shirt that hid his magnificent chest, she couldn’t stop her heart from speeding up, or a tingle from spreading through her body. He didn’t spare her a glance, instead seating himself in his command chair and barking out orders to get the ship launched.

Aylia straightened, miffed that he continued to act as if she didn’t exist. “Let me go.”

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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais A pair of frigid eyes swiveled to peruse her, and dismiss her. “No,” he replied flatly, and turned away.

“Besides, I’ve already set up the auction date with the brothels on the nearest pleasure planet. I’d hate to disappoint them.”

Anger boiled up inside her. “You have no right to sell me. I won’t allow it.”

He didn’t bother looking at her. “You don’t have a choice, the same way you gave me no choice when you chained me up like some animal and used my body.” A snicker made them both flash a glare at the cousins, who immediately adopted bored expressions.

“Out.” Jaro spoke the word softly, but the duo exited immediately, the door not sliding closed fast enough for them to miss the explosive sound of their laughter.

“If you go through with your plan to sell me, I will escape and when I do, I will come after you and kill you,” she promised.

He inclined his head toward her, and a cold smile tilted his lips. “I’d like to see you try.” Then he ignored her again. Pantariste taught her many things during her training as a warrior, patience being the first and most important lesson, followed by never losing her temper, no matter the temptation or the taunts.

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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais In the face of his casual indifference as he flew the ship, Aylia forgot all she’d learned. Rage and indignation at his treatment suffused her. Without any audible warning, she flew at him, unarmed, but never defenseless.

Jaro met her rush, rising from his seat and turning to grapple with her as she thrust fists and elbows while her feet kicked and stomped. She landed blows, some of which would surely leave some fabulous bruises, but in the end, his greater strength won, and when she spun to give herself better space to fight, his arms manacled around her, holding her tight against his length.

Chest heaving, her body flushed with coursing blood, Aylia couldn’t help the tingling that invaded her body at his proximity. A hard bulge poked at her lower back and moist heat flooded her cleft as she realized despite his words, Jaro was not unaffected by her presence.

She no sooner realized this than he flung her from him, sending her stumbling. Catching herself, she turned and held herself in a half crouch, waiting to see what he would do next.

To her disbelief, he pulled out a pistol and aimed it at her.

“Coward,” she spat.

A tic pulsed in his cheek, then without further warning, he fired.

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Chapter Eight

Jaro caught her unconscious body before it hit the floor. Why, he didn’t know. Anger coursed through him, a molten rage that made him want to go on a murderous rampage, and it was all her fault. He’d meticulously planned out his capture of her, and everything was going along according to his plan when he caught her returning to her room with that grey-skinned male. Livid didn’t come close to describing his emotions when the alien dared to touch her and use his brute strength against her small stature. An unfamiliar sensation had washed over him—jealousy. Even stranger, he didn’t know why it filled him to the point he needed to kill the other male she’d chosen. Actually, he lied.

He did know why he’d had to decimate the alien biped.

Because he touched what is mine.

It made him furious to know she’d so casually dismissed him and gone on to another. Sure, he knew she quested for a father, but to go from him, greatest warrior and scourge of the galaxy, to a waystation bully? It made him want to kill the bastard again.

Cradling her limp form in his arms, he couldn’t help inhaling her scent, a sweet perfume that haunted his sleep—

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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais for her. To speed up his task, he’d snagged his cousins—in the nick of time too because their most recent scam had gotten them into trouble yet again. Each galactic unit he’d spent searching raised his ire, and boiled his blood as he imagined her in the arms of another.

Even now, he couldn’t be sure she hadn’t shared her body in the time they’d spent apart. The all-consuming jealousy at that thought made him tighten his grip on her.

Striding from the command center, he headed to his quarters. He’d no sooner laid her on his bed than his cousins crowded in behind him. As he snapped the manacles that he’d resized in his spare time around her slim wrists and ankles, he could feel their silent questions at his back.

“I hate to say it, cousin, but don’t you think that’s being a little overcautious?”

Probably, but he’d planned this part of his revenge during their time apart—fantasized about it, in fact. “You saw her. She’s too dangerous to leave loose.”

“Kind of exciting if you ask me,” Xarn replied. “She can beat on me anytime, naked preferably.” Without even looking, Jaro kicked a foot back, snapping it into Xarn’s leg making him crumple with a shouted “Ow! What was that for?”

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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais not unless he wanted his cousins teasing him mercilessly. He settled for, “Don’t let her fragile looks fool you. She’s a killing machine.” He ignored the matching snickers as he moved to manacle her ankles.

“You aren’t serious about selling her, are you?” Brax asked.

“To the highest paying brothel,” Jaro replied tersely as he closed the last restraint. He stood and turned so as to not see her looking so helpless and small in his bed, the pale skin of her ankles and wrists marred by the black metal shackling them.

Both his cousins had no such compunction and peered around him at her still form. “What if we bought her instead? We’ve got some credits saved up, and well, I like the idea of giving my seed to such a feisty female. What a child we’d make.”

In a flash, Jaro had Xarn pinned against the wall, the sharp edge of his blade pressed against his neck. “No one touches her,” he growled. “Do you hear me? No one!” Jaro shouted the last part, stunning even himself with his vehemence.

“No problem, cousin.” Xarn stupidly didn’t show as much fear as he should have with a dagger only a nudge away from slitting his throat.

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Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais Suddenly realizing what he did, Jaro released him and stepped away, but he didn’t sheath his blade. Someone still wore too much clothes. “Leave.” The next part of his plan didn’t require an audience. Make that, he refused to have an audience looking upon his captive’s nakedness. He’d never shared well with others.

“You’re not going to kill her, are you?” Brax asked with clear worry.

Why kill her when revenge would taste much sweeter?

Jaro bared his teeth. “No. She’s safe for now, but if you both don’t leave, I’ll kill you.”

With a shared look, his cousins left and the door slid shut behind them. Silence reigned except for the soft sound of her breathing.

Jaro turned and looked down upon her, the way her dark lashes fluttered against her cheeks. How her full mouth parted slightly with each breath, and her bosom moved with each inhalation. Shaking his head, he went to work, slicing through her clothes, baring her body to his view. The sight of it stole his breathe—and engorged his cock.

Parting the cloth, he couldn’t help drawing a finger down the soft flesh of her chest, finally touching the body she’d denied him. He let his digit circle around her plump breasts before he drew it up to her nipple, which shriveled immediately at his touch. He tugged on each of the gold rings 91

Intentional Abduction – Eve Langlais piercing her dusky aureoles, so easily imagining himself pulling on them as she rode him, her fiery red hair a silken curtain around them. He couldn’t resist twisting the metal, a sharp pull that stretched her nipple.

Even in repose, her body responded to him, the scent of her desire rising to surround him and making his prick harden to the point of painfulness.
What is it about this female
that entices me so?

The fiery thatch at the top of her thighs drew him, and he didn’t bother trying to hold himself back from sliding his fingers through her curls to the damp cleft beneath. Her flesh quivered at his touch, and a soft sigh signaled her approach to wakefulness from the stunning shot he’d given her. Again, he stroked her, the moisture of her sex coating his finger, begging him to taste it.

As if burned, he stepped away from her just as her eyelids fluttered open.

“I’m not dead?” she murmured.

For some reason, she sounded surprised, and he bristled, making his response come out terse than he’d planned. “Death is too quick. I told you, I intend to punish you.”

Another sigh escaped her, this one sounding annoyed, unlike the soft, pleased sound of earlier. “Are all males outside of Zonia so vengeful? On my world, while the males 92