“Are you joking?” She frowned at the man. “Have you seen Tina? She’s the one with the body. I’m…” She swallowed as the man’s face darkened with rage, letting her know he was really ticked off and she seemed to be pissing him off more. “I’m not as attractive as her. This has nothing to do with my body. We love each other.” The leader snarled and spun away again, pacing the large room. Coto looked miserable as he watched the other man.

Coto took a deep breath. “I know this is bad, Father. I know what Rever did was insanity but he loves her.”

Hyvin Berrr growled. “I know this like I know Rever and he had to feel very strongly for her to take her to the Outlander area.” He stopped pacing and slowly turned to meet Coto’s eyes. “What do I do? I must follow the law even though it is my own offspring. I will lose respect if I don’t and a leader without that is no leader at all. I can have the charges dropped but he will never forgive me for handing over his woman to another warrior. He will hunt down Volder and kill him to reclaim her.” Shock tore through Brenda. Will Rever come after me? Part of her rejoiced and then part of her was frightened. Logic told her that if he came after her it could get Rever killed. Volder lived on a spaceship with warriors under his command and Rever would have to go on that ship to get her since she knew that’s where Volder would take her to live.

“He would not,” Coto shook his head. “It would be a battle he could not win.”

“He won’t see it that way.” The Zorn leader looked miserable. “I know he will fight to the death for his woman because I would do the same and he is much like me. If I had a woman who gripped my heart that tightly I would do anything to keep her.” Sadness flashed in his eyes. “I have no answer this time.” The chamber doors opened, startling Brenda. Dread hit her as she turned her head, hoping it wasn’t Volder. The tall Zorn woman who walked into the room was almost as muscular as one of the males and seeing her stunned Brenda. The Zorn was dressed as if she were a man in leather tight pants and a tight male shirt that revealed she wasn’t wearing a bra since her breasts swayed as she marched forward. Her hair was cut to her shoulders, another oddity since all the Zorn women had long hair, and then the strange woman fixed her furious attention directly on Hyvin Berrr.

“I was informed Rever was returned.” The woman stormed right up to Hyvin Berrr, glaring at him. “I won’t be humiliated by having your son work in some camp like a criminal, Berrr.” The woman twisted her head, a pair of almost black eyes turning on Brenda.

Shaken by the amount of rage directed at her, Brenda took a step back, feeling the Zorn’s hatred almost as if it were a physical blow. The woman’s face was a little harsh and definitely cold. A growl came from the woman, her sharp teeth showing as her eyelids narrowed.

“You are what my son threw his pride away for?” Disgust showed on her features.

“If you are dead you can’t be the object of our shame any longer.” She moved, coming at Brenda.

Horror hit Brenda the second she understood the woman was going to kill her. She didn’t know why but the woman definitely had the look of murder in her cold, evil-looking dark eyes. Brenda backed up and almost stumbled over Coto’s foot in the process of getting out of the other woman’s way. Coto moved to block the advancing woman from reaching her.

Hyvin Berrr moved too, he lunged forward to grab the woman’s arm and spun her around as he halted her. “No, Alluwn. Rever loves her.”

“Love?” The woman hissed. “That is for fools and weak females.” Sadness flashed over the Zorn leader’s face. “I am aware of your opinion of emotions. He is your son and he would hate you even more if you were to attack his woman.” He paused. “I won’t allow it.”

Shock tore through Brenda, her mouth dropping open. That was Hyvin Berrr’s bound? That woman is Rever’s mother? Rever definitely takes after his father in looks. The woman was glaring at Hyvin Berrr as if she were ready to kill him. If he wasn’t gripping both of her arms Brenda wondered if the Zorn woman would have hit him or at least tried to. Brenda pressed her lips together.

The woman moved, pushing against the man’s larger body, going almost nose to nose with him. “Do you think I care? They are your sons and I won’t live with the shame caused by one of them due to his lack of control. Aliens are fine to mount but he stole that one, abandoned his bound, and now I look weak. They will think I raised a warrior without self-control.”

He snorted. “No one would accuse you of that. Your brutality is well known, my bound.”

Alluwn hissed. “You will stop the shame and kill the alien to be done with it.”

“I won’t and you don’t give me orders.”

The couple glared at each other but Alluwn finally lowered her eyes. “What are you going to do about this?”

“I am deciding,” Hyvin Berrr said quietly.

“There is nothing to decide. If you won’t kill the pathetic alien then send her off the planet with the warrior who wants her. He commands the Drais, correct?”

“Yes.”

“Then send her off our world to be rid of her and I will handle Rever.” Hyvin Berrr growled. “You will stay away from my son. Don’t you have some male to go bend for?”

Alluwn hissed. “I don’t allow males to mount me. I mount them.” He gave her a shove. “Then go and never come here again. You made your choice.

We are bound until death because I made a vow but you made one as well. Stay away from my sons. You have no right to come here to demand anything.” The woman growled and shot Brenda a murderous look. Her angry focus shifted to Coto and a cold smile curved on her lips. “Hello, Coto. Why don’t you come give your second mother a kiss?”

Coto looked pissed off as he growled. “No.”

Hyvin Berrr snarled. “Leave now.”

The woman turned her head, still smiling coldly. “Don’t you want to watch a man being mounted by me? I always wanted Coto but he wouldn’t touch me. He feels that useless emotional bond to you for taking him into our home. It is pathetic for a true warrior to allow emotion to rule his physical self. Watching me taking a male is the closest you will ever come seeing my body that way again. I know how good it feels for you to release your seed into a woman. Does it hurt when you remember what that was like? Do you burn with the desire to feel it again?” Two massive arms crossed over his chest as Hyvin Berrr’s blue eyes turned ice cold.