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of engagement for visiting a new planet was to not interfere with the natives’ growth as a species, which meant they had to hide all their advanced technologies.
    Because of the unstable nature of the wormhole that had opened between the Milky Way galaxy and his own Bel’Tan galaxy, no one had any idea how much time the Kadothians had before the wormhole began to shut down and they’d be forced to return home or be stuck on Earth forever. As it was, their scientists were confident they would be able to give thirty-six hours notice before the wormhole closed, but that was still cutting it tight.
    Not that this planet was a bad place to be. Earth had yet to encounter another species from their galaxy, or if any visitors had come they had only stopped at Earth before moving on. Their technology was primitive, and they were in danger of making their planet uninhabitable to human life due to pollution, but as a whole they weren’t doing too bad for a fledgling species warring with itself. While Kadothia was united beneath one governing body, the High Council, Earth still operated in independent countries, all battling for the same resources for their people. In many ways Earth reminded him of Kadothia before the Great Sorrow, when separate kingdoms had fought until they almost destroyed the Kadothian race.
    Well, they did manage to destroy half of it. The women. Not a single female had been born on Kadothia in ten thousand years, so the males of the race had to go off planet to find their brides. Every Matriarch on Kadothia was born off planet, but had been converted by a blood exchange via a kiss into a female capable of bonding and reproducing with a Kadothian male. His own mother had been from a seafaring race on a planet far from Kadothia and he’d inherited his dark skin tone from her.
    While brides came from every corner of the Bel’Tan galaxy to Kadothia, they’d never come from as far off as Earth.
    “If you will follow me, Commander,” Cormac said in a formal tone.
    They were good friends, but with the subordinates around them watching closely they would keep their conversation strictly professional, at least until they were in private.
    As Cormac led Tren through the kitchen area of the farmhouse and down into the basement, he acknowledged the men who stopped whatever they were doing to salute him as he passed.
    Tren lifted his chin in return, but right now his thoughts were focused on finding his bondmate. He felt her, a distant warmth that had grown stronger as he zeroed in on her position. It had only taken him a week of jumping around planet Earth to lock onto her. He hadn’t smelled her yet, hadn’t been lucky enough to get that close, but her soul called to him. The urge to go hunt her down was strong, but first he had to talk to Cormac about the proper way to court a bride from this region of Earth.
    It didn’t take them long to reach Tren’s temporary quarters beneath the home, and he took a moment to glance around the standard, cream and brown toned three-room suite before turning his attention to Cormac with a real smile.
    They crossed the room and met in a hearty, back slapping embrace. “It is good to see you again, Tren.”
    “You too, Cormac. It has been what, close to two hundred years?”
    “Seems like just yesterday we were taking back the Governor’s Mansion on Haldina from the Hive.”
    It had been a bloody battle, but with the help of the Haldina army the Kadothians had managed to break the Hive’s line and push them out of the city.
    “The older I get, the faster time seems to go.” He sat down on the edge of a smooth chocolate brown chair made up of millions of nanobots that instantly conformed to his body. “How is your bride hunt going?”
    “Frustrating. She was here, then gone, then back again, but always gone before I can get a lock on her. I cannot figure out where she is, or why she keeps leaving, and it is really beginning to piss me off.”
    “Piss you