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Happily never after?
She stepped in. Jemi sat on the edge of the sleeping mat, his shoulders hunched and head hanging. He stared up through the black strands fallen over his face.
“Hey,” Irene said. “Are you okay?”
He shrugged, then shook his hair back. “No.”
“Me either. I’m trying, but it isn’t quite working.” She edged closer.
“I don’t want every time we make love to feel it be the last. It hurts, Irene.” His expression was pure misery despite the obvious swelling of his crotch as he stared at her nudity.
“I don’t either.” She sat next to him but didn’t touch, determined she wouldn’t push him. “But it reminds me of how truly precious what little we have is. I hate it, but I’m grateful as well. I can’t take any of it for granted.”
“Will it be worth it? Later?” His voice was unnaturally thick.
“I don’t know. Maybe at first, it won’t feel like it. We might even wish it hadn’t happened when we’re missing each other the most.” She drew a breath and swiped at the tears escaping. “I think in the end, I’ll be glad to have been with you as much as possible. Eventually, I’ll have more to smile than cry about when I remember this.”
“You think so?”
“That’s how it usually goes when I haven’t visited my parents in a long while. It’s been over a year and a half, if you don’t count vid coms. Trust me, those aren’t the same as being with them in person.”
“We won’t even have that, will we?”
“Not for a while. But Jemi, change is constant. We can’t imagine it happening now, but someday Earth and Kalquor might get along. Nothing’s impossible.”
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She searched for freedom and found a Kalquorian clan.
Irene Jonson is a rising star in opera, thanks to Earth forcing her to leave her parents as a teen to join a prestigious opera company. Years later, she loves music, but she wants the freedom to forge her own path as a performer and be reunited with her family.
Sherv, Rusp, and Jemi are a clan and band playing hard, driving music. Success means more than fame and fortune; it would show their disapproving families they’ve chosen the lives they were meant to live. Encountering Irene, creating a new and exciting sound, gives them that opportunity…and a chance at love.
Two worlds on the brink of war threaten everything Irene and Clan Sherv have built and everything they dream of. Two worlds are bent on snatching Irene from the men and music she loves. What chance do four misfit musicians possibly have against Earth and the Kalquorian Empire?
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