Aevar: Trekkers (A SciFi Alien Human Military Romance) Read Online Free PDF

family?”
    She sucked in a breath. Clearly he had chosen a sore subject. Way to go, Aevar.
    “It was always just Mama, Daddy, Maggie, and me. And then they were gone.”
    “Because the monsters took them?” he asked her.
    “I assume so. Or they're dead back on Jubar. I guess I can't really be sure.” She paused for a moment as he grabbed some bread. “Do you have any more information about the monsters? Anything new since the autopsy?”
    He knew she would ask sooner rather than later, but he was hardly ready to break the news to her. “Not much,” he said as he put the cheese on the bread and threw it in the pan. “We know that once, he was human. And he had an emblem branded onto a shoulder.”
    She sat up straighter. “An emblem? What emblem?”
    “Nothing we've ever seen before. We've asked all of our contacts, all over the Galaxy, but no one knows what it is. I'm afraid that we’ve hit a dead end.” He turned and looked into her dark green eyes. What would she say?
    “You can't just give up! They took hundreds of people! Who knows where they took them? Or what they're doing to them! We have to find them, Aevar. You have to promise me that you won't give up.”
    She was so strong in her convictions, swuya , she was sexy when she talked like that. No other woman had ever challenged him like Ivy did; it was just another delicious quality of hers.
    “And how do you expect us to do that? I told you, we've spoken to all of our contacts. No one knows anything.” She folded her arms across her chest and stared at him defiantly. She looked so sexy like that, that he ached to move closer to her. To touch her…
    “That's not true. No one is talking, perhaps, but someone know something. I've worked in the world of traders my entire life. Someone always know something.”
    She was a determined little thing. “So where do you suggest that we go to get information?
    She rolled her eyes at him. “Goya.”
    His mouth dropped open. “That place is full of Pirates and crooks. No one goes there from the Alliance. It would be putting a target directly on our backs.”
    “I didn't say the Alliance had to go there, but I'm going to get information about where my people have been taken. Whether you choose to accompany me or not is your choice. I'm not going to force you into anything, Aevar, but I'm not letting this die. So come with me, or don't. It’s up to you.”
    But it wasn't up to him. His heart was practically beating out of his chest knowing that she wanted to go to Goya by herself. There was no way he was letting her do that.
    “So what do you suggest? I defy orders to keep you on the ship and take you Goya?”
    She sighed. “I don't want you to have to disobey your commander. I want him on our side. You can trust me, Aevar, I've worked with people on that planet a million times before. I’ve traded there with my father, and I have friends there. People who will tell us the truth about this emblem. And trust me, if they're stealing people from my colony, you know they're taking people from others. No one wants these guys to survive. People will give up the information willingly, I'm sure of it. We just have to get there and get a face to face with them. At least ask your commander, we have to try,” she pleaded with him.
    As the sandwich finished cooking, he decided she was right. Visiting Goya was risky, but just letting this go might be a risk that he wasn't willing to take.

Chapter 9
Ivy
    “ Y ou stay here with the rest of the Alliance and take care of yourself.”
    “But I want to go with you,” she whined, sounding more childish than she had in years.
    “I'm sorry, Maggie, but you can't come with me.”
    “You’re always treating me like a child! You know I’m an adult now.” She stood a little taller. It was sweet, really, but not convincing.
    “Like it or not, yes I do. But that doesn't change the fact that you're my little sister and I want you to be safe. I know they'll take care of you