DENYA.
Ru had traveled the stars for more than fifteen years. He’d met more alien species than he could name and had seen sights that anyone bound to one planet couldn’t imagine. But he’d always known that if he were lucky enough to find his mate, she would be one of the few Detyen women scattered across the universe.
Now that universe had shifted, an impossible possibility opening up before him. A human denya.
Lis.
She was asleep in the vacant crew quarters, locked in the small room but not bound. His blaster came with a freeze setting, holding its target in a beam of light, locked in place and able to be transported with ease.
Until Lis had nearly fallen off of that crumbling cliff, Ru hadn’t considered using the weapon. He understood that she was scared, that she could not unders
