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  “I love making love with you,” Chloe sent through their link. “And I love feeling you inside me. Do it, Tark—come in me one more time to seal our bond.”

  With a low groan he pressed deep into her pussy and she felt him spurting once more, filling her again with his seed.

  “Tark, I love you!” she sent as he crushed her to him.

  “Love you too baby…my Chloe…my jewel,” he sent back and Chloe knew they would never be parted again.

  Epilogue

  “So somebody’s looking pretty happy today.” Kat gave her a wink and Chloe laughed and felt her cheeks get hot.

  “Well, I am happy. Tark and I are finally together—bonded,” she said.

  “We figured that, hon,” Olivia said dryly. “Since it’s been two days since we sent you off to do the deed.”

  “I’m sorry I didn’t call you with any update yesterday,” Chloe said penitently. “You were all so wonderful and encouraging. I just…sort of lost track of time.”

  “That’s all right,” Sophia said, grinning. “We all remember what it feels like to be newly bonded. “It really is easy for the hours to fly by.”

  “And did it work?” Kat asked. “Are the two of you able to talk without his stutter getting in the way?”

  “It worked perfectly,” Chloe assured her. “We can have long, in-depth conversations now. You know, to look at Tark you’d think he was the monosyllabic caveman type but he’s actually very thoughtful and well-read.”

  “But of course the fact that he looks like an action hero while having the soul of a poet doesn’t hurt, I bet,” Liv said.

  “Exactly.” Chloe sighed happily.

  “What about his speech problem, though?” Sophia asked. “Are you going to work with him, since that’s your specialty?”

  “Oh yes—of course,” Chloe said. “It’s already getting better. You know, it’s funny but Tark says he’s noticed that when he’s around me, his stutter is much less pronounced.”

  “So you were the answer to his problem after all,” Kat said. “The Goddess doesn’t mess around when she puts people together—she knows what she’s doing.”

  “That's exactly what Tark said,” Chloe told them. “You know, he had that prophesy about finding a jewel that would heal him and save him—now he says he didn’t realize it at first but the Rainbow Crystal he gave up wasn’t what he was supposed to find at all. He says I was the jewel he was looking for all along.”

  “Ahhh…” Olivia put a hand to her heart. “That is just so sweet.”

  “Finding Tark—or having him find me—is the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” Chloe said seriously. “It even makes the time I spent in the Commercians’ fat-shaming weight-loss house worth it. Especially since Tark likes me the size I am.” She smiled.

  “Speaking of those little blue bastards, did Sylvan ever do anything about them?” Kat asked. “It’s really not good to have an alien species with technology that can bypass the energy net the Kindred put around the Earth running around out there.”

  Sophia frowned. “He and Baird and a squadron of warriors found their space station but they must have had some kind of advance notice—it was completely deserted.”

  “Deserted?” Kat raised an eyebrow. “Where do you think they went?”

  “Maybe back to their own dimension,” Chloe offered. “The dimension where there are no Kindred to stop them from kidnapping Earth girls.” She shivered at the thought.

  “That’s awful!” Kat exclaimed. “Who knows what kind of aliens might be roaming around that dimension looking to buy Earth girls! They might have wings or horns or skin that changes colors…”

  “I’m just happy we live here, in our own dimension where there are Kindred,” Chloe said, smiling. “Otherwise I might never have met Tark.”

  “Or met us either,” Kat pointed out. “And become part of our little circle.”

  Chloe smiled at her new friends and thanked her lucky stars—and the Kindred Goddess—that it was true. She was happy aboard the Mothership and after she had wrapped up her business and given notice to her job down on Earth, she and Tark were going to move here permanently. Tark could take a job as a pilot in the Fleet and she had discovered that they were in need of Speech Language Pathologists aboard the Mother Ship. So she could continue her calling also.

  It was going to be a good life and she would live it with the man she loved as one of the…Brides of the Kindred.

  THE END

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  Evangeline

  PS--want a sneak peek at the next juicy release--read on for an excerpt from the CyBRG series I am writing with Mina Carter:

  CyBRG Files Book 2:

  Unit 78: Rescued

  Unit 78, formerly Corporal Richard Hardgraves, is a Cyborg with a mission: to rescue the Amiral's daughter from the dreaded Tr'Low Cult on Beacon 5. The Tr'Lows have a prophesy that a half-metal man will come from the sky and father the perfect child on a chosen bride--Rich tells himself he will play the part just long enough to grab the girl and run.

  Kyrin Pierce is a Peace Keeper with IPKA--the Interstellar Peace Keeping Association. Lured to Beacon 5 by a fake call, she was captured and now she is being prepared for an unspeakable ceremony. She too plays into the Tr'Low prophecy because of her flame-red hair. As the priestesses of the cult inject her full of hormones to drive her wild with need, she has nearly given up hope of escape.

  Rich might be more metal than man but he still has a heart and when he sees what the Kyrin has been through, he aches for her pain. But in order to get her out of the Tr'Low compound, he must do the unthinkable...and give the cultists what they want by taking Kyrin in their public ceremony.

  Kyrin doesn't care that the man who has come for her is a cyborg, she only knows that her body needs him desperately. And after he rescues her, her heart needs him too.

  But Kyrin's father, Admiral Pierce, doesn't approve of his daughter loving a "metal monster." When he separates them and sends Kyrin to a hospital to take care of her "problem" can Rich rescue her again...in time to save their baby?

  Half man...half metal...all heart. The CyBRG series by Evangeline Anderson and Mina Carter.

  Chapter One

  Humans were shit-scared of rogue cyborgs.

  Unit 78, formerly Corporal Richard Hardgraves, stood silently in the grav-lift, his gaze fixed on the doors in front of him. A unit of marines stood around him, armed to the teeth. His ‘escort’ for his meeting with Admiral Pierce, they’d met him at the airlock when he’d arrived and even now he could smell the fear leeching out of their pores.

  He didn’t blame them though. They’d no doubt been fed horror stories about him and his kind. He certainly had when he’d been human. There were tales of early prototypes who had gone on killing sprees, their control subroutines corrupted so they saw anything and everything as a threat; soldiers, civilians, their own kind, random hunks of rock…

  He’d even been called in to a hostage situation with one a few years back. A cyborg had taken a base mechanic hostage and had killed the three teams sent in before their superiors had gotten some sense in their heads and called in the expert. AKA Rich. An expert in negotiation and hostage recovery, he’d been at the top of his game.

  It had taken a few hours, and bringing in an expert in computer coding to help him understand what was going on in the thing’s metal skull, but they’d finally managed to crack through the cyborg’s sub-routine lock and gotten it to release the technician. Unfortunately, the logical reasoning Rich had employed had locked the thing down, r