“What…did he do?” she asked the captain in a low voice, ignoring Percy’s obvious wish to be away from the hold of the ship and the blindfolded man chained to the wall.
“Oh, he’s a murderer many times over, favors the knife for his dirty work. A regular sociopathic killing machine, aren’t you, Teague?” Captain Ketchum turned his head to direct his last words to the prisoner himself, but Teague’s only answer was that wild, white grin again.
Krisa thought his teeth looked much sharper than normal, almost animalistic. She wouldn’t have been surprised to see a smile like that staring back at her from behind the bars at the large predator exhibit at Capellia’s Imperial Menagerie.
“He seems to enjoy killing,” Ketchum went on with grim good humor. “But then, what can you expect from a brute like that? More animal than man, these Ferals.”
“I’m surprised he’s on a merchant-class ship with normal people if he’s as dangerous as you say,” Percy said nervously. He had evidently decided to resign himself to being acquainted with Captain Ketchum.
“Oh he’s dangerous all right, deadly as they come. But you needn’t worry, Mister DeCampeaux, Miss Elyison.” He nodded, and a grim look passed briefly over his handsome, regular features. “I had a job to catch him, I can tell you. But now he’s going back where he belongs, the Deep Freeze. That’s what the chaps who live there call the Lynix Omega Correctional Facility,” he explained. “Because the temperature never gets much above zero, you know.”
“But why the blindfold?” Krisa couldn’t help asking. Her eyes were drawn again to the silently snarling Teague.
“The blindfold is actually a kindness,” Ketchum replied. “Ferals are indigenous to the Night side of Al’hora. They never see the sun, so the brutes have adapted to do without it, light is painful to their underdeveloped eyes. If I wished to be cruel I should transport him without it, but I’ve never seen the need for unnecessary brutality, even to an animal like Teague.” He grinned charmingly at Krisa who returned the smile hesitantly.
“But what about—” She was cut off by an announcement from the ship’s overhead system.
“Would all passengers please report to the blast couches? Liftoff is scheduled in ten minutes.”
“Well,” Percy twittered with obvious relief. “I expect we ought to be going.”
“Quite right,” Captain Ketchum agreed. “I shouldn’t like to try a liftoff if I wasn’t safely tucked in. Fairly painful, I should think.” He offered Krisa his arm. She noticed a modest row of medals on his maroon jacket which gleamed with muted brilliance in the dim light of the overhead glows. “May I escort you to the blast compartment?” he gravely enquired.
“All right.” She took his arm, ignoring Percy’s grumbling. “But…” She looked back at the chained man. “But what about him?”
Ketchum laughed, a delightfully mellow tenor sound that fell pleasantly on her ears. “Don’t worry about Teague, my dear. Ferals are extraordinarily tough, he’ll be just fine without a blast couch. Unless you want me to unchain him and let him have the couch next to yours?” The pleasant tone was lightly mocking.
Krisa looked at the enormous man and felt that cool tingle of interest run along the length of her spine again. For some reason, her cheeks grew hot, and she forced herself to look away from Teague quickly. “No,” she said in a voice that was little more than a whisper.
“I didn’t think so. Let’s go, shall we?” He turned them toward the metal frame of the doorway and they left the hold with a fuming Percy in tow. Still, Krisa couldn’t resist one last look over her shoulder at the hulking figure chained to the wall of the hold.
As she looked, Teague raised his head and turned his face toward her, just as though he was looking back.
The last thing she saw as they exited the hold was that white, predatory grin.
You can find the rest of Planet X at the ebook retailer of your choice. Or if you'd rather listen, you can find it in Audio form, narrated by the extremely sexy voice of the talented William Martin, who also narrated my audiobook, Purity.
**Author's Note--I say Planet X is the book that started it all because it was the first sci-fi romance/action adventure novel I ever wrote. I enjoyed it so much that I went on to write my Brides of the Kindred series as well as lots of other sci-fi romance. It was previously published by another publisher but as I have recently gotten the rights back, I wanted to put it out again with a fresh cover (coming soon) and as an audiobook.
Anyway, I hope you reading and listening to Teague and Krisa's adventures as much as I enjoyed writing them.
Hugs and Happy Reading to you all!
Evangeline
Also by Evangeline Anderson
Brides of the Kindred books (in order)
Claimed (also available in print and audio)
Hunted (also available in print and audio)
Sought (also available in print and audio)
Found (also available in print and audio)
Revealed (also available in print)
Pursued (also available in print)
Exiled (also available in print)
Shadowed (also available in print)
Chained
Divided
Devoured (also available in print)
Enhanced
Cursed
Enslaved
Targeted
Forgotten
Switched (also available in print)
Uncharted
Unbound (coming March 2017)
Mastering the Mistress (A Brides of the Kindred novella)
Alien Mate Index Series
Abducted: (also available in print)
Protected: (also available in print)
Descended: (also available in print)
Severed: (also available in print)
Cougarville series
Buck Naked (coming April 2017)
Cougar Bait (coming May 2017)
Stone Cold Fox (coming August 2017)
Stand Alone Novels
Purity (also available in audio)
The Institute: Daddy Issues
The Institute: Mishka's Spanking
The Academy (YA novel)
Hunger Moon Rising
Cougar Christmas
Planet X (coming Feb. 2017) (also available in audio)
Born to Darkness Paranormal series
Crimson Debt (now available in audio)
Scarlet Heat (now available in audio)
Ruby Shadows (now 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***
About the Author
Evangeline Anderson is the New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Brides of the Kindred and Born to Darkness series. She is thirty-something and lives in Florida with a husband, a son, and two cats. She had been writing erotic fiction for her own gratification for a number of years before it occurred to her to try and get paid for it. To her delight, she found that it was actually possible to get money for having a dirty mind and she has been writing paranormal and Sci-fi erotica steadily ever since.
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