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wrist
when she tried to get away.

    “ What do you
want with her?” he said.

    The Minervan laughed,
revealing his sharpened teeth. The woman tensed.

    “ You’re so
ignorant, Lyran. You don’t know what you have.” The Minervan’s
attention drifted to the woman.

    Balt looked at her. There
was so much fear in her eyes, more than he’d ever seen.

    “ I would’ve
thought your filthy Lyran hands would’ve been all over her by
now... but you must be a fool as well as ignorant... to waste such
goods,” the Minervan said with a lewd look at the woman. “Check the
back of her neck and tell me what you see.”

    Balt pulled the woman
towards him and turned her around. He brushed her hair over her
shoulder and frowned when he saw the black intricate mark on the
back of her neck. He knew that mark. The woman stepped away and
looked over her shoulder at him, a pleading expression on her
face.

    “ So you see,
dear Captain... we want her... hand her over and we’ll leave
quietly.”

    He stared into the woman’s
emerald eyes. He couldn’t do that to her.

    “ No deal. I own
her. She’s my property now,” he said and slammed his fist down on
the communications panel. The screen went dark and then cleared to
reveal nothing but space. He turned to his crew, never
relinquishing his grip on the woman’s arm. “Change course. Set
coordinates for Lyra Prime.”

    He dragged the woman with
him as he headed back to her room. She had some questions to
answer. His blood boiled when he thought about how close he’d been
to falling for her trick. How dare she use her beauty against him?
How dare she make him feel as though she really wanted
him?

    The door to her room slid
open and he threw her inside. She hit the table and landed on her
backside on the floor. She sat there, looking up at him with
disbelief in her eyes.

    He sneered at
her.

    “ Did you intend
to kill me?” he shouted at her. She flinched away and shook her
head. “I don’t believe you. You would’ve killed me!”

    He grabbed her upper arm
and roughly hauled her onto her feet. She lowered her head away
from him and then slowly looked up at him.

    “ I wouldn’t
have,” she whispered, her voice shaking with fear. “I should to
avenge my people, but I didn’t intend to.”

    He didn’t know whether to
believe her. If she was lying, she was incredibly good at it. From
where he was standing, she looked sincere.

    “ Tell me,” he
said, his grip on her arm increasing. She cringed and whimpered.
“How does Terran royalty become a slave?”

    She hit him hard in the
chest and broke free of his grasp. She backed away, rubbing her
arm. Tears filled her eyes and he regretted his actions. She didn’t
deserve his anger. His heart said she hadn’t been out to kill him.
She’d wanted that kiss as much as he had.

    “ Only the mark
saved me from death and made me valuable. The Vegans killed all my
friends and killed my family before they realised who they were.
Only I was left.” She backed up against the wall and slid down it,
curling up and holding her knees to her chest as she
sobbed.

    He walked over to her and
crouched down.

    “ What does the
Minervan want with you?” he said.

    She laughed. “You really
are ignorant just as he said. I’d be worth a lot on the pleasure
market... the last surviving member of Terran royalty... he’d sell
me to the highest bidder as a whore.”

    He braced himself when the
ship rocked. The Minervans weren’t going to give up easily now that
they knew he had her onboard. They wanted their prize as usual, but
for once it wasn’t him.

    He looked at her, his
chest aching to see the tears streaking her face.

    “ What are you
going to do?” she whispered.

    Another blast shook the
ship.

    She reached out and
touched his arm. “If you hand me over, the Minervan will leave you
alone.”

    He couldn’t believe she’d
just said that. She was willing to sacrifice herself in order to
save his ship. He shook his