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"How did you meet her?" Viper asked with a deceptive calm.

Viper was really worried about Vox. Never before had he ever seen his  older brother act like this, especially around a female. He had never  seen a species like her until he caught sight of Creon and Mandra's  mates. They looked different from the one Vox had, but their features  were close enough he was sure they were the same species. He wondered if  this was an unknown alien species' way of infiltrating their worlds and  taking them over. He would need to contact their parents and brothers  and warn them of Vox's unusual behavior. It might be necessary to  eliminate the female if she posed a danger.

Vox leaned back and looked at his younger brother with a small grin.  "She was giving the Antrox running the mining asteroid a piece of her  mind. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Her eyes were  flashing fire, her body was made for loving, and her voice was like … "  Vox shook his head at his brother's open mouth look of disbelief. "I  knew she was my mate immediately. There were five of us in the Choosing  Room. She chose us all. When the Antrox tried to tell her she couldn't,  she gave him one look, and the next thing I know we were all escorted to  her living quarters."

"She chose five mates?" Viper asked in disbelief. "How could she choose five?"

"She is Riley St. Claire from Denver, Colorado, and she can do whatever  she wants." Vox grinned as he repeated his mate's words. "When I tried  to claim her, she knocked me on my ass-twice! She was magnificent."

"So, how did you escape? You said you would tell me when you got on board," Viper asked in confusion.

"Riley," Vox said with another shake of his head.

Viper listened in disbelief as Vox explained about the tools, Riley  getting hurt and having to go to medical, and what happened the next  morning. He found it impossible to believe that a female could do the  things that Vox was saying. Sure, he knew of the females who had  betrayed them. He currently had two of his brother's females locked up.  Still, they used their bodies and wiles to fight. They didn't go  shooting, blowing up, or fighting against males. His suspicions that  this species might be a deadly opponent that needed to be eliminated was  growing. They could be extremely dangerous if they were allowed to run  free or even mate with the most powerful members of their species. His  thoughts turned to the fact that all five of the Valdier royals were  mated to such creatures. Their takeover had already begun.

"You cannot mate with her," Viper said coldly, looking at his older  brother with determination. "She needs to be either contained or  eliminated."

Vox surged out of his seat, reaching out and grabbing his brother around  the throat in a deadly hold. "She is my mate. No one will touch her. No  one will harm her. She is your queen, and you will not forget that," he  snarled, his teeth growing longer as his cat rebelled against the other  male.

"You are not thinking clearly," Viper growled hoarsely, ignoring the  tightening on his throat. "I swore to protect our King and our people. I  will not let an unknown species threaten either of them."

Vox stared into Viper's dark green and yellow eyes and swore. "She is no threat."

The door opened just as Vox let Viper go. "My lord, the female has  kidnapped Nahuel. She is demanding he take her to an unknown planet."

Viper rubbed his neck and threw his brother a disgusted look. "No threat?"

"Shut up, Viper," Vox grunted out as he headed out the door. "She is always doing things like this."



Riley wasn't sure her bad-ass-girl outfit was working. Instead of  scaring the men away, they seemed to be multiplying-exponentially. The  two she had encountered originally were still following right behind  her, and if she wasn't mistaken, they were purring.

"Will you two go take a hike off a short bridge?" Riley snapped out as  she turned and walked backward. "Go on, shoo, get out of here, go fetch a  stick or something."

Tadzio grinned as his eyes dropped to the deep V on Riley's shirt. His  eyes were glued to the abundant cleavage showing. His eyes rose to look  at her glistening lips.

"The only thing I want to fetch is you," he growled out. "Do you have milk in those?"

Riley was so stunned that she stopped walking backward in shock. Her  mouth dropped open as she stared at him in disbelief. What was it with  men and boobs? She totally could not understand their fascination. They  had them too, but that didn't mean women went around staring at them.

"I know you did not just ask me something so rude!" she snapped out indignantly.

"Yes, he did," Nahuel replied with a grin.

Riley's mouth snapped shut at the same time as her eyes narrowed  dangerously. She rolled her shoulders as her hand slipped to the  waistband of her pants. It looked like the mini Taser was going to be  used sooner than she thought. She took a seductive step toward them as a  small crowd of men gathered around her.

Biting her lower lip, she pushed it out so it pouted as she looked both  men over carefully. "Would either one of you two gorgeous hunks happen  to know how to fly one of those shuttle thingies?" she asked in her best  Marilyn Monroe voice.

Nahuel's eyes glazed as he watched the voluptuous female walk slowly  toward them with a roll of her hips. "I am one of the best pilots on  board," he answered in a hoarse voice.

Riley walked up to him and ran her fingernail down along his cheek over  to his nose where she tapped it gently. Leaning into him, she let him  feel her warm breath on his lips as she answered him. A smile curved her  lips as her other hand moved to the belt loop on her pants where she  had hidden the wrist cuffs Vox had used on her.

"Well, I guess today is your lucky day," Riley breathed out huskily. "Yes, they do produce milk but only on special occasions."

Nahuel's eyes rolled in delight just as Riley slapped the wrist cuff on  one of his wrists before she ducked under his arm, twisting his arm  behind him at the same time as she kicked the back of his knees,  dropping him to the floor and slapping the other one on. When Tadzio  took a step forward, she lifted her hand and touched his chest,  squeezing the trigger on the newly recharged Taser. She would have to  remember to thank Tor for the neat little recharger he had given her. It  had come in handy.

Tadzio jerked and dropped as spasms went through his body. Riley jerked  Nahuel up and pressed the Taser into his lower back in warning. It took a  couple of seconds for the men surrounding her to realize what she had  done. When they did, they jerked back defensively.

"Now, if you don't want to enjoy the same level of discomfort as your  friend, you will do as you are told. You are now my prisoner. I want you  to take me home," Riley said in her normal voice. She grinned at the  huge alien she had captured with excitement as she hadn't really thought  it would be that easy. "Come on, chop-chop. I'm not getting any  younger."         

     



 

Tadzio groaned as his body jerked again. "What did you do to him?" Nahuel asked, looking down at his friend with narrowed eyes.

"Oh, he'll be all right in a little while. I did the same thing to Vox. I  think it took about an hour or so. He recovered from that much faster  than he did the pepper spray. Poor Tor was miserable for hours  afterward, even though he kept telling me he wasn't. Oh, can you remind  me to thank Tor for the charger. My poor Taser would have been dead if  not for him," Riley replied cheerfully. "Now, let's go. I need to get  away before the big hairball finds out I've escaped from his living  quarters."

"You are too late. The ‘hairball' already knows," Vox growled out loudly as he came down the corridor toward her.

"Great! Just great! I finally have everything going my way and what  happens? Busted! That's what! I swear I hate being the supporting  character," Riley grumbled as she tried to shuffle Nahuel so he was  between her and Vox. "If I had been the heroine I would have not only  been on a supercharged shuttle heading home, I'd have a ton of gold and  been eating caviar on little toasted crackers."

Several of the men standing around choked back a chuckle as they  listened to Riley talking to herself. They had her surrounded so they  knew there was no way she would escape, but they could tell that she  really believed she had the upper hand. Now, they watched as the  fiercest warrior on their planet faced off with the unusual female.

"Riley, let him go," Vox growled out.

"No! I caught him fair and square. He's mine!" Riley snapped back.

"If she really has milk, I am totally willing to remain in her captivity," Nahuel offered with a grin.

Vox snarled at Nahuel. "Her milk is mine!"

"Hello! Do you two have any idea how embarrassing it is to be talked  about like I am some kind of a milk cow? No one is going to be drinking  any milk from me. Now get your minds out of the gutter and shut up  already!" Riley's voice rose at the same time as her temper and the  burning inside her rose as the damn thing hiding under her skin  threatened to break free again. She looked furiously at Vox. "I want to  go home! I captured me a pilot so I should be able to just go."