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  Dani put a hand to her beating heart. Those eyes…they seemed like something she had seen before, but she couldn’t place where. Maybe they were from a half-forgotten dream…

  He can’t see me, she reminded herself as the prisoner stared in her direction. No one can. No one knows I’m watching.

  But she couldn’t help the feeling of unease when those piercing eyes swept over her hiding place once more before the guards dragged him away.

  She knew exactly where they were taking him and she ran ahead, taking a shortcut through a little used conference room and several royal bedchambers before she slipped into her father’s own private suite.

  Once inside, she went directly to the corner where a heavy brocade tapestry hung over a seemingly black wall. Once the tapestry was pulled aside, however, Dani knew the exact combination of knocks to cause the locking mechanism within the wall to release.

  With a low but audible click, a section of the wall, which was covered in blue velvety wall moss, swung open, admitting her to yet another secret corridor.

  Dani went along the corridor, soft and silent in her little slippers, until she got to the door which led into the private interrogation cell. This passage was supposedly only for the use of the Monarch and only his touch could unlock the door.

  That was what was widely believed, anyway. But Dani knew, from trying the door herself, that the palm-pad would respond to her own touch as well. It was based on outdated technology, which read DNA signatures. Since she had much of the same DNA as her father, the mechanism mistook her for the Monarch himself and let her pass.

  Dani wasn’t worried about anyone finding this out. She was reasonably certain no one else ever tried the door besides her father, so no one else knew of the mechanism’s deficiency.

  She peered through the glass panel at the top of the door which would have been too high for any other women to look out of. Dani, being too tall, however, was well able to watch as the guards shoved the giant into the interrogation cell and forced his hands above his head. He had on a kind of uniform shirt made of some brilliant deep blue fabric that looked heavy and shiny. It stretched tight across his broad chest and rippled when he flexed his muscular biceps, straining to break free.

  It was a wasted effort, as Dani well knew. The force of the shielded magnetic field holding the mangno-locks in place was so strong that even a herd of wild jorex beasts all pulling together couldn’t have broken free of it, let alone a solitary male.

  Still, it was interesting to watch him try.

  Dani watched him silently, her eyes wide with interest. She had never seen a male with skin that wasn’t blue. Even the savage Thuggors who lived on the one continent her father did not have dominion over had skin which was blue, even if it was tinged with gray. Who was this male and why had he come here? She’d heard the guards calling him “Kindred” but she knew very little about that people. She would have to find out more, she told herself.

  Aside from his uniform shirt, the Kindred was wearing a pair of tight black leather trousers and high black leather boots which hugged his muscular calves and went up to his knee. She frowned—in Goshan society males wore long robes—she had never seen a male’s legs so openly displayed before. It was…strange. His bizarre wardrobe taken together with his wavy brown hair and those piercing green eyes and of course, his strange tan skin, made him the most interesting male Dani had ever seen. He looked nothing like anyone she had ever met before—she found she could not stop staring at him.

  And then he spoke.

  “Whoever you are, stop staring at me and come out and talk.”

  Dani bit back a gasp. How did he know she was watching? The window in the cell door was one-way glass—there was no way the Kindred giant could know she was there. And yet somehow…he knew.

  “Come out,” he said again. Or are you too fucking cowardly to face a chained male with no weapons?”

  Dani had only meant to stand there and watch him but his words put her on the defensive. Her honor would be tarnished if she allowed him to talk to her in such a way and she would be proving she was a coward if she didn’t take his challenge.

  Taking a deep breath, she pressed her hand to the palm-pad and listed to the hiss of compressed air and then the click as the mechanism unlocked. Pushing the door open, she stepped into the room.

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  A Note from the Author about Brides of the Kindred and Kindred Tales:

  This is the third Kindred Tales novel I have written and it won't be the last--I'm hoping to have 2 more out before the end of the year. I am going to write Kindred 21 soon, but it's going to be complicated and take lots of plotting. *Whew!*

  It occurred to me as I considered the mammoth task ahead of me, that I have a lot of stories in my head that fit into the Kindred world but don't necessarily fit with the overarching story plot of the Hive which is currently going on in the main books. I wanted to write some of these stories for you, my readers, even though I knew they didn't fit with the "big picture" plot I have going on in the main books.

  Each Kindred Tales novel is set in the Kindred world and has the recurring characters you've come to know and love, as well as some hot new heroes and spirited heroines who have lots of hot sex. I hope you'll enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them and I promise to get back to the main plot with Kindred 21 sometime in 2018. Hugs and Happy Reading!

  Evangeline

  Also by Evangeline Anderson

  ***All Kindred novels are now available in PRINT just follow the links below to find both e-book and print formats on Amazon***

  Brides of the Kindred series

  Claimed (Also available in Audio)

  Hunted (Also available in Audio)

  Sought (Also Available in Audio)

  Found (Also Available in Audio )

  Revealed (Coming soon to Audio)

  Pursued

  Exiled

  Shadowed

  Chained

  Divided

  Devoured

  Enhanced

  Cursed

  Enslaved

  Targeted

  Forgotten

  Switched

  Uncharted

  Unbound

  Surrendered

  Mastering the Mistress (a Kindred Tales novella between Enslaved and Targeted)

  Bonding with the Beast (a Kindred Tales novel between Unbound and Surrendered.)

  Seeing with the Heart (a Kindred Tales novel set after Surrendered)

  Freeing the Prisoner (a Kindred Tales novel set after Seeing with the Heart)

  Born to Darkness series

  Crimson Debt (Also available in Audio)

  Scarlet Heat (Also available in Audio)

  Ruby Shadows (Also available in Audio)

  Cardinal Sins (Coming Soon)

  Alien Mate Index series

  Abducted (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Protected (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Descended (Also available in Print and Audio)

  Severed (Also available in Print and Audio )

  The Cougarville Series

  Buck Naked (Also available in Audio)

  Cougar Bait (Also available in Audio)

  Stone Cold Fox (coming soon in Audio)

  Big Bad Wolf (coming soon)

  The Institute series

  The Institute: Daddy Issues(coming soon in Audio)

  The Institute: Mishka's Spanking

  Compendiums

  Brides of the Kindred Volume One

  Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found all in one volume

  Born to Darkness Box Set

  Contains Crimson Debt, Scarlet Heat, and Ruby Shadows all in one volume

  Stand Alone Novels

  Purity (Now available in Audio)

  Stress Relief

  The Last Man on Earth

  Anyone U Want

  Shadow Dreams

  Mastering the Mistress

  Hunger Moon Rising

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