One
Commander Aubrie Kent shivered as the bitter cold of the dark, dank stone permeated through her skin. Her entire world was wet, freezing, and miserable. Tears pricked at the corners of her eyes as regret washed over her. It had all gone so wrong, so fast.
Brushing away a stray tear with the back of her dirty hand, she looked around at the cell she’d literally been thrown in hours before.
A superior officer captured. Taken. Utterly ruined.
Could she ever forgive herself for failing the mission? She shook her head. There was no way she could’ve predicted how unprepared they had been, her platoon of Earthen troops decimated. The Venassathi aliens possessed biological weapons that had wiped them out within minutes.
Every male sacrificed. Every female taken.
Now here she sat. Alone an
