Avir had seen Matt in the throes of what he’d believed to be a full-blown panic. He realized he’d only had a hint of the terror that existed in his would-be companion’s head when he entered the room where they were holding Matt and endeavoring to calm him.
The young man shrieked words in snatches and shoved a couple of spaceport medical technicians who were attempting to clean blood off his cheeks. Two harried security officers were alternately struggling to prevent him from hitting the techs and clawing at his face. The blood had come from Matt’s fingernails.
“If you’d let us use the stasis field—”
“You saw how he reacted when he saw it. Don’t worry about us; stop him from hurting himself.” A medic noted Clan Avir’s entrance. “Is he yours? What the hell is wrong with him? What the fuck did you do to make him this way?”
On one hand, Avir appreciated the protective attitude, which came from medics and guards alike. They stared at his clan in undisguised fury, blaming them for Matt’s condition.
Guilt filled his gut. It was their fault. They shouldn’t have left Matt alone.
Kom had no patience for explanations when Matt was screaming and crying and trying to squirm free of the men surrounding him so he could hide under the nearby bench. The Nobek barreled straight to the hysterical human and picked him up.
“Mattie! What happened, little man? Talk to me!”
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His past demons have returned, and only a Kalquorian clan can save him.
Matthew Larsen should be happy.
Reunited with the Nobek he fell in love with years ago, welcomed into a clan
determined to give him a better life, he has everything he never imagined
possible. However, he’s haunted by the hellish past and certainty it will
reclaim him.
Nobek
Kom spent years searching for Matt. Their reunion and his clanmates’ acceptance
of the troubled Earther seemed to be all that stood in the way of the perfect
future. His Earther love isn’t so easily rescued, however. Even a warrior can’t
protect someone against his nightmares.
Dramok Avir and Imdiko Masok are devoted to the beautiful Earther Kom brought home. Loving such a gentle soul isn’t a problem. Saving him from monsters, real and imagined, is another matter when Matt’s worst fears come true and the terrors of the past rise once again to drag him into the abyss.
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