Releasing Friday - Irene

 

A hero’s reward

If it weren’t for her parents, Irene would tell Clan Sherv to take her to Kalquor that very instant. She’d give up opera and her rising stardom to play rimnastin in the galaxy’s worst dives for the rest of her life if it meant remaining with the trio. The prospect of leaving them hurt almost as much as the thought of never seeing her parents again.

She felt the agony deep in her gut. It tore at her, and she thought she might scream. How could she walk away from them? How could she sacrifice what little contact she managed with her parents for them?

Either way, she’d lose a massive piece of herself. Whichever path she took meant ripping her soul in two.

Irene turned so they wouldn’t witness her torment. She stood looking at the dinette table and the mirror hanging on the wall behind it. Facing her agonized expression, she saw her bleak future, empty and incomplete. Hers was an impossible choice, but she had to make it.

Let me make every second we have as glorious as it can be. When I leave, let it be with as few regrets as possible.

Rusp’s scent of excitement was as good a clue where to start as any. Irene pulled open the front of the gown and sent it falling to the floor. It puddled around the tall heels she wore, which made her as tall as Jemi.

Sudden silence greeted her abrupt disrobing. She stalked to the dinette, shedding panties and bra as she went. She kept the heels. She watched herself in the mirror, calling on her acting abilities to erase loss from her features as she bent and grasped the sides of the table, her fingers curled on the edges. She set her legs in a wide stance.

She tossed her hair out of the way as she glanced at Rusp over her shoulder. “The warrior has won the battle. He should claim his just reward.”

Rusp pushed Jemi away. He tore off his clothes. The next instant, he was at her back, hands gripping her hips, his mouth hot on the side of her neck. Irene shouted at twin jabs as he bit her and hung on, but she didn’t attempt to escape.

The Nobek didn’t wait for his venom to take effect. His primary filled her in a single, brutal thrust. Irene wailed again at the gorgeous mingling of pleasure and pain, her knuckles whitening as she hung onto the table.

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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?