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Yes, Ari thought. I’m home—here with the man I love and all my wonderful new friends. I’ll live out my days on the Mother Ship as a Kindred bride with Lathe and thank the Goddess every day for my good fortune.

  She smiled again, contentedly and let the rest of the conversation wash over her. She had a long, healthy, happy life with a man she loved to look forward to and as many friends as she could wish for. In fact, there were only two things troubling her.

  First, who exactly had made the assassin robot and how close were their ties to Uriel Two? And secondly, she couldn’t help feeling bad for poor Slade. He had saved her life down in the lasher tunnel and had fought bravely with no thought for his own safety when they were getting free of BleakHall. What exactly had happened between him and the girl he had believed was a Pairing Puppet? And would he ever find her?

  Sending a prayer to the Goddess for the big hybrid, Ari decided she would ask Lathe if they could have Slade over for dinner one night. It was the least they could do after he had helped them escape the nightmare prison. She only wished she could see him as happily settled as she and Lathe were.

  But maybe he would be…someday in the future.

  The End?

  Of course not—I think you know what’s coming next. Read on for a sneak peek at Slade’s story, Bonded by Accident, coming soon to my Kindred Tales series. And look for Malik’s story in Kindred 23, also coming soon. (As long as no one else pops up and demands to have their story told first like Ari and Lathe did. Characters can be so pushy sometimes! ; )

  Hugs and Happy Reading to you all!

  Evangeline (in August 2018)

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  Hugs and Happy Reading,

  Evangeline

  And now, here's a taste of Bonded by Accident, available September 8 at the Aliens & Alphas Bookstore…

  Sneak Peek at BONDED BY ACCIDENT—

  A Kindred Tales Novel

  A hybrid warrior, born of both worlds, belonging to none

  Seeking to end his sexual torment without breaking a vow

  A girl from Earth with an itch to scratch

  Looking for no-strings-attached sex

  But when you make love with a Kindred, things get complicated

  What are Brandi and Slade going to do now that they are...

  Bonded by Accident?

  Slade is an ex-slave, an ex-con, and a widower who has made a vow never to love another woman since his mate died tragically. But after his escape from BleakHall Prison, he finds he has a desperate need for female companionship. How to scratch his itch without breaking his vow? Easy—visit the Pairing Puppets aboard the Mother Ship—female-looking androids without emotions that help unmated Kindred males relieve their urges until they can find mates.

  Brandi Dixon is a single mom with a difficult life. She and her daughter live in a double-wide trailer in small-town rural Florida. Brandi longs for a man but she's picky and doesn't want to bring home a string of "temporary daddies" for her daughter like her mom did to her when she was growing up. Then her cousin wins tickets to tour the Kindred Mother Ship and tells Brandi there's a place where she can have hot, no-strings-attached sex with a Kindred warrior. Brandi wouldn't normally do such a thing but she's desperate—it's been a three year dry spell and she needs a man—even if it's only for a single night.

  Posing as a Pairing Puppet, she gets picked by Slade for a night of passion. But imagine her surprise when, after the best sex of her life, she hears the big Kindred's growling voice inside her head!

  Now Brandi is freaking out and Slade is pissed off that he broke his vow. Yet neither of them can deny the animal attraction that keeps drawing them together. When Brandi's daughter, Emmie, gets herself into terrible danger, Slade is the only one who can help. Will Brandi let the huge Kindred warrior into her life?

  You'll have to read BONDED BY ACCIDENT to find out!

  Chapter One

  Slade was horny as hell, but it wasn’t his fault.

  Being locked in solitary in a super-max prison with no female contact for five years will do that to a male. And of course, the eroto-lust stimulant his old mistress had given him, in an effort to make him fuck her brains out, didn’t help either.

  Slade shifted uncomfortably on the exam table, hearing it groan beneath his considerable muscular bulk. Even for a Kindred warrior, he was on the big side. At seven and a half feet, he was taller than most of his kind and a look at his eyes revealed the reason why. The right eye was like melted gold and the left was a brilliant green.

  Slade was a hybrid—half Blood Kindred and half Beast Kindred and he had both the fangs and the mating fist to prove it.

  Not that anyone had looked at his mating fist in a good long time…

  Just thinking that…imagining sinking balls-deep in some willing female and letting the fist swell within her had him hard as rock under the too-tight orange and blue striped BleakHall jumpsuit he wore.

  Slade shifted again, trying to ease the pressure, trying not to think about finding a female to ease his need.

  Of course, he didn’t want a real female, Slade reminded himself as a pretty little human nurse bustled into his room and started taking his vitals. She was as gorgeous as a Rathian gorna-flower in bloom, but so tiny she looked likely to break if he so much as looked at her wrong. Why were all these human girls so damn small?

  But even if the little nurse hadn’t been too small and skinny for his taste, there were other factors holding Slade back from making a move. One, the little human female smelled strongly of another Kindred. Doubtless she was bonded to one of the males who worked aboard the Mother Ship—that made her strictly off limits.

  And second and more important, Slade had taken a vow.

  Not a vow of celibacy or chastity exactly—more like a vow that he wouldn’t be with a real woman again. Not after Cinda. Though it had been nearly six years since she died, her memory was still fresh in Slade’s mind and he sure as hell didn’t intend to cheat on it.

  Not with a real woman, anyway. Which was why he was extremely eager to get off this damn exam table and go find the Pairing Puppet House which he knew was somewhere in the Unmated Males section of the Mother Ship.

  Pairing Puppets were female androids the unmated Kindred males used to relieve their needs until they could find the female the Goddess had for them and form a bond with her.

  Only hybrids couldn’t bond with anyone. He hadn’t even been bonded to Cinda, though they had been together for five years. Even without the mental connection most Kindred shared with their mates, and despite the fact that both of them were slaves, it had been a beautiful relationship.

  Right up until the time his old master had sold her…

  Slade tried to push the memory out of his mind. Cinda was gone—dead by her own hand. The old master was history too—Slade had made sure of that himself. And as for the mistress he’d been sold to—the one who had bought him right off the chopping block—well, she’d gotten rid of Slade as soon as it was evident he wasn’t going to service her the way she wanted to be serviced. But not before she’d given him the eroto-lust stimulant to try and convince him to fuck her.

  Slade closed his eyes, remembering the angry look on her thin, pretty face when he’d refused her advances…

  “What’s wrong with you, slave? Did I not save you from death after you killed your old master? Have I not given you good food and a fine, thick mattress to sleep upon? And am I not beautiful?”

  “I’m grateful for the food and the place to sleep and of course, for my life, Mistress,” Slade had growled. “And sure, you’re pretty. A little on the skinny side but hell, I guess that’s the fashion here. But sorry—I’m not gonna fuck you.”

  “Such crude language