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highway in front of her.
    “No. Of course not.”
    She closed her eyes. “And no one else but those agreeing to
mate one of you guys is allowed in Ilyria?”
    “That’s the only reason we’re here. To retrieve the ones
destined from birth to stand and reign beside us.”
    Something shifted over her expression. Set. A determination.
“Okay.”
    Her response should have relieved him. It did anything but.

Chapter Two
     
    Aurora let the miles wash by her as she considered her
options. She didn’t have many. If anything, in most aspects she was a practical
woman and long ago had accepted that fact that there were things you could
change in life and there were things you couldn’t.
    She glanced over at Connyn. He stood solidly in the “couldn’t”
category. For the time being. At least he wasn’t hard on the eyes even though
he was a major pain in the ass. But she’d worked with enough male models to
know how to handle the type who thought the world owed them their every whim
simply because they had gorgeous hair and cut abs.
    Turning back toward the road, she blinked as the lines
blurred. Good god. As strongly as she believed in fate, it was still difficult
to believe she was on her way to Colorado with a stranger from another world.
She couldn’t remember a time her life had ever been exactly normal, thanks to
her mom, but her mother was gone and she would cling to the last bit of family
she had with everything inside her. Even if it meant promising to mate an
alien.
    Things could be worse. The aliens bent on retrieving her
family could have looked like rejects from the Star Wars bar scene with slimy
skin, tentacles or googly eyes sprouting from various parts on their bodies.
According to Ellen, Ilyria was similar to Earth, just located in a parallel
dimension crossed by portals. Apparently that meant that the people were “human”
to a large extent with various powers exhibited by the rulers to guard the
general population from their enemies, though Ellen had been fairly vague in
referring to said powers.
    As far as the Predators, Ellen hadn’t known much about them
either. Her information was limited to two basic facts. They belonged to a race
called the Sleht and she knew exactly how to kill one, a piece of knowledge
that had come in handy at least once for Amy. Soon she’d need to know more
about these Predators, the Sleht and Ilyria, but right now she just wanted to
sleep.
    She shifted again, trying to stretch her legs. They’d been
driving for hours, stopping only once for gas and a dinner of prepackaged
snacks that they ate in the car. At least they were in her car with the bag she
had packed for the weekend in the trunk. Unfortunately for Amy, so was her and
Chloe’s bag. But more important than an extra set of clothes and makeup, Ellen,
Amy and Chloe were all safe. For now.
    Closing her eyes, she leaned her head against the seat and
shifted her hips, trying to find the most comfortable position. She loved her
car, but she hadn’t bought it with long road trips in mind.
    A bump brought her jerking awake suddenly. Regardless of the
discomfort, she must have drifted off. Straightening in the seat, she looked
out the window at a flashing bright pink Vacancy sign.
    “So we’re not driving to the ends of the earth tonight?”
Aurora turned her head side to side, working out the stiffness.
    Connyn turned off the engine. “Do you have a suitcase with
you?”
    “Yes. Wait—” she grabbed his arm as he started to get out of
the car. “Where are we?”
    “Outside Lubbock.”
    “Lubbock, Texas? I thought you had your drawers all in a
knot to get to Colorado.”
    “I don’t want to get to Colorado too soon before the portal
opens back to Ilyria.”
    That got her attention. “But aren’t we meeting Ellen in
Colorado?”
    “No.” He pulled out of her grip and got out of the car,
closing the door firmly behind him, leaving her in the dark in more ways than
one. The man really knew how to piss a