BY THE GREATER GODS he wanted her. He had known since he first saw her in the viewing area that she was the one. He had fought a mighty battle of wills not to strip off his armour and take her there in the slave market. Her scent had been the strongest in the room, rising above the stench of Human fear and sorrow.
Here was a warrior, she had seen death, and she had an indomitable spirit that was simply hiding, he could sense it. She would be made to understand his need to mate with her, her species was almost extinct, his was going to veer dangerously close to it if they couldn't breed. There was no cure for the sickness that had ravaged the D’Shraki females, rendering any who survived it infertile, he looked down at her, seeing the battle of wills within her mind.
With his own mind, h
