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  Brides of the Kindred

  Book 16: Forgotten

  Evangeline Anderson

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  Evangeline Anderson Books

  Brides of the Kindred

  Book 16: Forgotten

  Copyright © 2015 by Evangeline Anderson

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  Hugs and Happy Reading and Listening to you all,

  Evangeline Anderson November, 2015

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  Brides of the Kindred books (in order)

  Claimed (also available in print and as an audio book)

  Hunted (also available in print and as an audio book)

  Sought (coming soon in audio)

  Found (coming soon in audio)

  Revealed

  Pursued

  Exiled

  Shadowed

  Chained

  Divided

  Devoured (also available in print)

  Enhanced

  Cursed

  Enslaved

  Targeted

  Forgotten

  Switched (coming early 2016)

  Mastering the Mistress (A Brides of the Kindred novella)

  Stand Alone Novels

  Purity (Also Available in Audio)

  The Institute: Daddy Issues (Coming Valentine's Day 2016)

  The Academy (YA novel)

  Born to Darkness Paranormal series

  Crimson Debt (Also Available in Audio)

  Scarlet Heat (Also Available in Audio)

  Ruby Shadows (Also Available in Audio)

  Cardinal Sins (coming soon)

  ***The above books are just a small sample of Evangeline's work. For a complete list of books from all publishers, please visit her website***

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Epilogue #1

  Epilogue #2

  Kindred 17 Switched excerpt

  The Institute: Daddy Issues Blurb and preorder link

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  About the Author

  Prologue

  “You fool! You’ve taken the wrong female!”

  Y winced as his Master bellowed inside his head. Master Two might be nothing but a chip implanted just under Y’s left ear, but he ruled Y with an iron fist, despite his lack of a physical body.

  “I took the one that sniffed the blossoms, Master, just as you requested,” he pointed out.

  “But look at her—this is not the Khalla at all—it’s the mate of that damn tracker.”

  “I can see that.” Y strove to keep his voice level. It would be wrong to raise his voice to the Master…no matter how much he might want to.

  On the cold steel floor of the Scourge Fathership, the naked girl with the long, coppery curls moaned and stirred. She had been taken by a molecular transfer beam, a Scourge invention Y had traveled to the abandoned ship to get. It had been set to take whoever inhaled the fragrance of the Dream Blooms, exactly as Master Two had ordered. Y didn’t see how it was his fault the wrong female had been taken.

  But so it had happened. This female—Kate, Y thought she was called—had apparently unwittingly sprung the trap set for Emily, the new Khalla back on Rageron. Indeed, she still had one of the deep blue blossoms clutched in one hand.

  Y wondered how it had come through the transfer beam with her—it was his understanding that only living things were transportable. But maybe the freshly cut flower still had enough vitality to make it through the transfer…or maybe it was the spell the old hag from the Wulven home planet had placed on the blossoms that allowed it to come, clutched in Kate’s small fist. She looked so innocent and vulnerable, lying unconscious on the hard metal floor that Y felt his heart twist with pity. He immediately tried to suppress the emotion—doubtless his Master would see it as nothing but weakness.

  “She’s here now,” he said, stolidly. “What shall we do with her? Do you want me to kill her?” He hoped not—he did not enjoy violence, especially towards females. But the Master was not to be denied and anyway, death would be a kinder fate than any of the horrible, twisted tortures the soulless bastard that lived in Y’s brain might devise.

  “I would kill her myself, if I had a body!” Master Two hissed, his mental voice filled with frustration. “But no…let me think.”

  There was a long silence—so long that Y wondered if the Master had gone to sleep. He did that at times—became inactive during a recharging period. Y had come to look forward to such periods of inactivity—they were the only rest he got from the relentless dictator that lived in his skull.

  On the cold floor, Kate stirred again and moaned softly.

  “Master,” Y sub-vocalized in case she could hear him. “She is waking.”

  “Hush, you fool! Ah—I have it now. We must send her back.”

  “You mean back to Rageron? And try to take the Khalla instead?” Y asked doubtfully. “That won’t be easy—they’ll know she was the true target. Doubtless they’ve taken her someplace shielded.”

  “No, you idiot! Not back to Rageron—back home. Her home.”

  “I don’t understand. Do you mean her home world of Earth?” Y shook his head in confusion. “But why?”

  “Two reasons,” Two hissed in his head. “First because we must send her somewhere—we cannot take her with us. Her mate is a Wulven Kindred and they are absolutely deadly in their fur-form—we cannot risk it. Second, because home is the last place the Kindred will expect her to be. They’ll search the entire universe before they think to look back on Earth—which