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The Android’s Bride

The Android’s Bride

“When she spoke of her inability to breed with the soldier robot you frowned,” C-Raptin said in his electronic voice.  “Know this:  you can breed with Eisler.  You can—and it will be expected of you to do so.”

Karin’s mouth grew dry.  “How could we possibly…?”

Karin is a dedicated administrator in her once prosperous country of Red Scale.  When their militant neighbors begin a merciless war, Karin and her Governor father contact the isolated country of Lohocke for help.  All they know of this mysterious neighbor is a legend about metal men.

They not only make contact, but are promised the help they need.  The price?  Karin must go to Lohocke and become the bride of the Alpha Lord Eisler Durant.

Karin has been tied to Lohocke in an intricate way since her birth.  She’s ready to accept her destiny at the Alpha Lord’s side—even if he’s not the man she expected.

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Governor
Jol-Hassik leaned close to bulbous microphone attached to a communicator
station as big as an armoire.

“Hello,
hello?”  He glanced back at his two
daughters with his bushy silver brows brought together, then refocused on the
microphone.  “Can anyone from Lohocke
hear me?”  He wet his lips and glanced
back again.  His tallest and eldest daughter,
Nina, wrung her pale hands together.
Karin, his youngest at 25, merely stared.  Her expression was one of stony determination.

“Your
communication is being received.  This is
C-Raptin from Lohocke.”

All
three started in unison.  The voice that
boomed from dual speakers sounded electronic.

Jol-Hassik’s
lips trembled.  “Oh, um, this is, um…”

Karin
darted forward to claim the microphone.
“This is Red Scale calling.  Our districts
are under attack from the Haradan.”

Jol-Hassik
began to wring his hands in the same way as his eldest.  Karin stayed focused on the microphone.  Her lips moved as if she had more words to
add, but none came out.  This had been
her idea: reaching out to their distant neighbors.  She felt responsible.

“Is
this Karin Hassik-Ten?”

Karin
blinked a few times.  “Yes.  Yes it is.”
The sound of her name gave her an instance of panic, but then she
realized they likely monitored their news broadcasts.

“The
war between Red Scale and the Haradan is well known to us.  There is no alliance between our lands.”

Karin
exchanged a glance with her father.  He
reclaimed the microphone.

“This
is Governor Jol-Hassik speaking.  We’re
asking for help.”  Pain now weighed down
his voice.  “The Haradan won’t negotiate
for peace.  We just offered them our unconditional
surrender but their response was their most violent raid to date.  They aren’t interested in conquering us.  They merely want to pillage our
resources.  The mountain reservoirs, the
crop terraces, our two refineries.
They—they’re out to survive by making us extinct.  I don’t know what we can do anymore.  They’re killing our soldiers by the hundreds.”  He paused to swallow.  “Now, we don’t have white-coal to spare right
now, but next year we could allocate half the mine’s take as payment.  Not just coal.  We’ve grain and timber too—that we could give
you right off.  The timber I mean.”

“Lohocke
has no need for any of this.”

Jol-Hassik
face grew scrunched.  Karin pulled the
microphone toward her.  

“What
do you need then?  All we’re asking for
is a thousand of your metal men to repel the Haradan.  We’d give you anything for that.  We’re desperate—surely there’s something,
something that you—“

“We
will provide one thousand soldier robots in exchange for you.”

Karin
and her father froze in the silence that followed.

“In
exchange for what?” Jol-Hassik said.

“In
exchange for Karin Hassik-Ten.”

Karin’s
stomach felt as if it descended from her.
She scarcely noticed her father’s shaky hands gathering around the
microphone.

“What…just
what are you saying?  You want my
daughter?”

“The
exchange shall be made at the western foot of your tallest scale-covered
mountain, sunset tomorrow.  Please
confirm.”

The
electronic voice said everything in rapid high-pitched monotone.  Karin stared agape at the console, as if a
demon stood before her.  

“Wait
now—what do you want with her?”

“Karin
Hassik-Ten will be taken as a bride for Alpha Leader Eisler Durant.”

Nina
let out an expansive breath of air and dropped into a wooden seat.  “Thank God—they’re going to help us.”

Karin
shot her sister an incredulous glower.

“The
exchange shall be made at the western foot of your tallest scale-covered
mountain, sunset tomorrow.  Please
confirm.”

Jol-Hassik
frowned.  “Oh…well, this Eisler fellow, I
mean…”

Karin
wrenched the microphone from him.  “Yes,
yes!  It’s agreed!  Sunset tomorrow!”

“This
commitment is irrevocable.”

The
line went dead.  A loud humming noise
filled the small station until Jol-Hassik pushed down the lever to end the
call.  Deep lines formed in jagged
tributaries beside his eyes.  He
swallowed a lump formidable enough for Karin to hear his gulp.

“Oh,
Karin.”

She
crossed her arms.  “What choice did we
have?”  She intended to show
determination.  Heat built in her chest
and then pressure behind her eyes.  She
drew up one slender hand to wipe away a rebellious tear.

The
head of the royal guard (a metal worker who’d been compelled to take the post
after the true guard was maimed) peeked his head into the one-room
station.  

“If
you’re done, governor, we’d best be getting down.  It’s not safe.”

Jol-Hassik
lifted his head to sigh.  “He’s
right.  Come, girls.”  

He
ushered both of them out to the waiting six-wheeled mountain car.  As fate would have it, the station sat on the
peak of their tallest mountain, Mother Dragon.
It was the only place high enough where a signal with far neighboring
lands could be established.  They began
down the winding dirt road.  The mountain
car hugged its surface with splayed wheels like some kind of insect.  The wheels bounced, but the cabin was still—a
great feat for their engineers back at a time when riding up and down the numerous
mountains was a major concern of the country.

Outside
the clear membrane windows were fields of tight red grass, which grew in scale
shaped clusters and glistened in the sunlight.
From the distance the mountain truly looked like the body of a glittering
red-scaled dragon.

Karin
stared, but took in none of this.  She’d
drifted to a numb void where the implications of her fate could not reach her.

“Oh,
Karin,” said her father again, while wiping his tears on a handkerchief.

“He
called them robots,” she said, without emotion.
“I saw that word on the diplomatic files before we rode up here.  I should have called them that instead of
metal men.”

Jol-Hassik
sighed again.  “That’s what the merchant who
went to their land described them to us as.
That’s about all we’ve ever had to go on.  They never did let the diplomat visit.  There was nothing of interest to them in Red
Scale.  Nothing, well, until now.”  His voice broke in the last sentence.

Karin
deplored having used an improper term.
The new land she was entering would already be prejudiced against her
for her ignorance.  

Nina
sat leg to leg with her on the cab’s furred bench.  She focused on her cuticles.  “I don’t see what the tragedy is.  She’s got to be getting a better husband than
what our wasted land has to offer.”

Once
back in the manor house Nina flitted away to make wire calls to her
friends.  Karin followed her father into
his cluttered office and sat before his desk.

“I
never could have expected this.  Oh,
Karin.”

She
stared without focus to the side of her.
“I expected not to get a connection, for the call to be ignored, or, if
we did reach them, to simply be turned down.”

“What
shall I do without you?” Jol-Hassik’s voice grew heavy.  “Why couldn’t they have asked for Nina?  Oh, of course, it breaks my heart to lose
either of you, but you’re such a help to me.
Particularly in these times.
You’ve such a mind for governance.”

“Your
biggest problem is the Haradan.  If these
robots get rid of them then you’ll be running things as they were in peace-time
again, when I still lived with my birth mother.”

“What
glorious times those were.  You could
trust your neighbors.”  His chest rose
and fell.  

Karin
grew contemplative.  “This is the best
outcome.  If you have an army, I don’t
have to worry about you.  About our
country.  This will make everything
right.  Isn’t this the best thing I can
do for our people?  It would be paying my
debt back to you in the greatest way I can.”

He
glanced at her solemnly.  “These are good
thoughts, Karin.”

A
bald soldier, recently promoted to major, knocked on the open door.  They both turned to him.

“It’s
all quiet, governor.  The valley
watchtower says they went back to Jadellor with their loot.  Probably going to be gorging for a while.”

Jol-Hassik
nodded.  “Leave the lightest complement
of men at the boundary.  And tell the
others…tell them this war shall be over soon.”

Karin
had an inclination to lift her head high, but could not.   Instead
she chewed her bottom lip and tried to return to the numbness that would keep
her from a breakdown.  

“We
should…”  She began to speak without a
clear idea on what to say.  Her old habit
of catching the loose ends her father missed came to fore.  “We should open the rice rations for the
three districts that were hit the worst.”

“Oh
yes,” Jol-Hassik said.  “We should do
that.”

Karin
stood.  “I’ll see to it.”

Her
father made a sound, as if to protest, but didn’t let his voice rise before
she’d left.

Making
busy with the task allowed her mind to wander over the many things she had to
put in order before she left.  She had
the mechanic’s daughter Jaxma stay at her elbow to jot down notes for her.  The most pressing matter, finding a new
minister of finance to replace her, was the simplest for her.

“Humbridge
Elator should be given my post.  His
sister is old enough to take his place goat herding.  Humbridge must put his keen mind to our
books.  I know he’ll do just as well as I
did.”

“You’re
on good terms with him?” Jaxma said.

“Yes,
our break-up was amicable.  It just has
to be him.  I taught him almost all I
know.”  They were at the east side of the
manor which looked down into a twisting vine forest.  The foliage was too dense for her to make out
any of Humbridge’s goats, but she knew they were there.  “Pity he’s not around.  I could get that settled.”  

Jaxma
stared out with her, as though trying to spot him.  The moment’s quiet made her wonder if her
skills would be of any use in Lohocke.
Would the ‘Alpha Lord’ share his responsibilities with her?  There was likely a reason they made metal men
and not metal women.  It was significant
that they felt the male form to be the standard, unlike in Red Mount, where
there were as many scarecrows in women’s smocks as men’s trousers.  She feared the Lohocke might regard women as
chattel, the way the Haradan did.  They’d
certainly claimed her as though she were an item up for barter.

“He’s
probably bringing in the herd right now,” Jaxma said.  “It’s getting late.”

Karin
squared her chin.  “You’re right.  Let’s keep moving.”

She
tried to do her own packing early the next day.
Nina’s girlfriends descended onto her bedroom, with tears and words of
encouragement.  She was able to delegate
the chore to them.  There were just a few
books she had to take with her from the shelf in her father’s office.  Nina emerged to block her path with folded
arms.

“Father
says I have to help you dress in a bridal smock and do your hair for you.  You don’t need me to do this, do you?”

“Oh,
Nina, can’t you?”  She frowned.  “Father asked you to because you’re so good
at making your friends look pretty.”

She
fumed.  “I need to dress too, you
know.  When will I have time to see about
myself?”

Karin
shrugged past her.  “I don’t know.”  

Several other matters diverted her.  When dusk colors started to peek up from the
mountains she finally met Nina in her dressing room.

“Thank
God mom didn’t live to see this,” Karin said.
She sat before her dresser table while Nina wove sparkling pink flowers
into her hair.  It was the final touch to
a traditional bride costume of flowing layers of cloth.  

“You’re
talking about your mom?  The factory
worker who died?”  Nina pinned the
flowers in the crown of her long auburn tresses with brutal efficiency.

“You
know I’m talking about our mom, Nina.”  

“I
don’t see why you’re moping.  You’re
getting to marry a rich Lohocke.  Our
mom would have been thrilled.”

Karin
eyed her sister in her mirror.  The
pressure of tears had returned to the back of her eyes.  Her sister was without any worries, because,
as always, her only concern was for her own prosperity.  The thousand robot soldiers ensured
that.  

“You
aren’t going to miss me, Nina?”

Her
lanky sister rolled her eyes.  “Ugh,
don’t try to make me sad when we’re finally getting an end to the war.  You can really be selfish, you know?”

Maybe
it’s good that’s she’s incapable of empathy, Karin thought.  Father is
destroyed over my fate.  Wouldn’t it be
better if he didn’t suffer over it, like Nina?

“You’ll
be fine,” Nina said, and Karin knew the mantra would keep her from any further
thought about it.

***

Jol-Hassik
rode alone with her in the car to the mountain.
He took her hand in his.  “We
hardly spent any time together.  You were
so busy.”

“I
had to make sure everything was settled.”

His
lower lip began to quiver.  “I shall miss
you so dearly, my child.”

“But
I could get to visit, or at least call.”

“Oh,
that would be a great comfort to me.”

Karin
pursed her lips.  “But, if not, there’s a
lot I wanted to say to you.  More than we
have time for.”  She drew a letter from
the pocket of her multi-layered dress.
“Read this once I’m gone.”

Jol-Hassik
cradled it in both hands like a treasure.
She’d written of how grateful she was to be adopted by him and her mother,
how he’d made her feel as loved as his own true child, and how grateful she was
for the education and opportunities he’d given her.  This was the debt she had spoken of.  The letter went on to describe a few matters
he had to see to in her absence, but ended with her assurance that she would
thrive in most any situation thanks to his care in raising her.  

She
could visualize her father reading it later with tears falling.  If that was the last communication she had with
him she hoped he’d take comfort from it.

“Good
God, look!”  He pointed through the
membrane window beside them.

The
clear silhouette of an army of giants was rising into view.  Karin’s stomach tightened.  The robots were behemoths, twice as tall as
any man from their cities.  Their heads were
shaped like upside-down buckets and had a single yellow glowing band where eyes
should have been.  Their chests were
thick rectangles adorned with armor that imitated pectorals and abdominals.  Black crescent shoulder plates protruded out
on either side with jointed metal tube arms as thick as most men’s thighs.  For hands they had three long gun barrels
coming from their wrists.  A boxy pelvis
was below the abdomen.  From this came
not legs, but a hexagonal metal skirt with tank treads on either side.

Karin’s
heart raced.  Her father wept beside her.

“Oh,
they kept their word.  They’re honorable
people.  And these things…the Haradan
will run in terror from them.”

She
swallowed while still focused on the hideous army.  Rows of the beasts stretched further than she
could see, up a small side mountain and over its blunted peak.

Jol-Hassik
clasped her elbow and pointed.  “Look at
those ones.”

Grouped
in a cluster in front of the army were six smaller red oval-shaped robots who
would have matched Karin’s height, except that they hovered a foot above the
ground.  Large circular white eyes took
up most of the top third of their round forms.
Karin’s brow rose at the sight of them.
Not only were they less intimidating than the robots, the way they
bobbed up and down in the air made them endearing.  These were the robots to come to the car when
they parked.  

When
they exited Nina and her girlfriends were already gathered near the round
robots.

“They
said no people came,” Nina said.  “Just
metal men and—“

“Are
you Karin Hassik-Ten?” said an oval robot.
Its voice was electronic, but emotive and decidedly female.

Karin
had to clear a lump from her throat before speaking.  “Yes.”
(Her driver was depositing her trunks and suitcases behind her).

A
second round robot moved beside the first and spun so her glowing eyes were on
her peer.  “Pree-pree-longa.”

“Hmm?”
Karin said.

The
robot faced her.  “You’re pretty.  We didn’t know what you would look like.  I think the Alpha Lord will be happy.”

“Oh.”

Jol-Hassik
stepped forward.  “He’s not here?  Eisler Durant, I mean.”

Nina
stamped her foot.  “I told you no people
came.”

“No,”
a third floating robot said.  “You
expected him to come in person?”

He
wet his lips.  “Well I—I didn’t
know.  I presumed there would be some
type of ceremony.

The
same robot started to answer but another interrupted.  “You can have a ceremony if you want.  Whatever you feel you need.  But we can’t turn the soldiers over to you
until she’s been given to us.”

Karin
glanced at the imposing robots.  She noticed
one bristling as though growing impatient.
At the same time, four of the red robots extended out banded metal arms
with pinchers for hands from hidden compartments.  They used them to gather up her luggage.

“I
should go now.”

“Oh,
Karin!”  Her father drew her into his
arms with a new swell of tears.

Nina
looked at the robots agog.  “So that’s
it?  There’s no wedding?”

“We
couldn’t arrange something like that remotely,” a robot said with a touch of
irritation.  

“How
are you floating like that, anyway?”
Nina spat out the question with disdain, as though their drifting
annoyed her.  When none of the robots
answered she grumbled and headed back toward their car.  

Karin
reached out for her.  “Nina, give me a
hug goodbye.”

“Oh
forget it.”  She lifted open the car
door.  “Goodbye.”

Her
girlfriends gathered around Karin instead.

“Oh,
you must try to make contact,” Jol-Hassik said.
“Just let me know you’re well.
I’ll ache until I know it.”

“I’m
sure she’ll be able to call you,” a robot said.

Another
thumped her with its round body, almost dropping the trunk it held.  “You don’t know that.  Don’t make promises you might not be able to
keep.”

Karin
blinked a few times while watching them.
They’re just like people.  But
the voice that spoke to us in the station sounded so emotionless…

Loud
clanking started to the side of them.
They looked to see one of the metal behemoths breaking formation.  He rolled on his treads until he was near
Jol-Hassik.

“Are
you our commander?” the robot said with an electronic voice loud enough to
reverberate in Karin’s chest.  

Jol-Hassik
shrank back from it.  “Dear God.”

“Yes,”
Karin said.  “For now he is.  Our major will take command once you’re at
the boundary.”

“Let’s
move out, then,” the robot said.
“There’s a lot of men here wondering what’s in store for them.  They’re getting impatient.  Frankly, so am I.”

Even
these ones, Karin
thought.  They’re like people in metal
bodies.

She
gave her father a final hug.  “I’m sure
I’ll be fine.  They don’t sound
uncivilized.  I’ll send word just as soon
as I can.”

He
fretted as she pulled from him.

Karin
faced the flying robots.  “I’m ready to
go.”

“Are
you sure?  Don’t riddle-longa.”

Karin
made a look of consternation.

“No
slang!” another red robot said.  “Keep it
basic, remember?”

“Oh
right,” the first said.  “Don’t rush, I
mean.”

She
swallowed and nodded.  “I’m sure.”

The
capsule-shaped robot began to grow longer.
Karin’s eyes bulged.  It expanded
until a gap began to form in its center, and then further, until a cushioned
seat for one was revealed.  

“Climb
in, and buckle yourself,” the distorted robot said.  “There’s two buckles that go across you like
an X and another that goes across your lap.”

Karin’s
mouth went dry.  “Oh.”  

Jol-Hassik
and their driver came over to help her.
Karin’s hands trembled as she fastened the buckles.  The robot was still levitating inches from
the ground.  She felt as though she were
on a boat.

“Alright,”
the robot said.  Its voice was all around
her.  “So are you ready?  Hold on to the hand rests.  Close your eyes if you have to.”

Karin
squeezed her eyes closed.  “Oh God.”  She felt herself rising.

“Take
care of yourself, my daughter!  I love
you!  I’ll miss you!  Oh, do be careful with her!”

His
voice was growing distant.  She opened
her eyes to see that he’d become small beneath her.  Nina came out of the car to gape up at
her.  The rest of the red oval robots
were flying with her things in a scattered group about them.

“Goodbye!”
she managed to scream.

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“You said you could help me,” I said, with my arms huddled close to my body and my shoulders tense.  “I’m listening.”

Quinn was leaning back in an overstuffed leather arm chair with a
glass of Pinot Noir held loosely in his fingers.  “Darren told me you’re
too old to qualify for campus housing.”

I wet my lips and swallowed.  His younger brother Darren was my best friend at Montaque University.

“Yeah.  I turned 24 this year.  They don’t let people my age in the
dorms.”  Getting booted from campus housing was my latest catastrophe.  
It was yet another consequence I had to deal with for dicking around a
few years after high school instead of going straight to college.  My
parents had warned me that the money I blew in Europe was what they’d
planned to give me for college.  I had no else to turn to for help.

“What are you going to do?” Quinn said.

I grumbled through my nostrils.  “I don’t know.  Some private company
is willing to give me a student loan for $20,000.  That would cover an
apartment probably.  I just can’t see myself borrowing so much every
year.  I’m only a sophomore.”

“You can’t afford it,” Quinn said.  “You’re not going to make enough
to pay back such expensive private loans when you graduate.  They can
never be discharged in bankruptcy or forgiven.”  His answer was a little
too pat.  The spiel sounded practiced.  He already knew my situation
from Darren.  The fucker was up to something.

I was desperate, though.  “What do you suggest?”

“Move in with me.”

My stomach felt like it dropped.  Of course that’s what it was.

“I’m just five steps from the campus.  I’ll take care of your room and board.  Then your tuition will be manageable.”

I didn’t know what to say for a few seconds.  If I was in a better
position I would have told him to go fuck himself.  Since he had me
pretty much where he wanted me I held it back.  My eyes lowered to the
floor.

“In exchange for what?”

I looked up just in time to catch his Grinch Who Stole Christmas smile.

“Stuff.”

I grimaced.  He sipped his wine with a soft laugh.  God, he must have loved to see me squirm.

“I’m not going to be your fucktoy.”

This made him laugh louder.  “Oh, come on.  A little pain in the ass now is worth it for your education, right?”

I felt on the verge of tears.  “This isn’t a joke.”

The pain in my voice was enough for his smug smile to disappear.

“Look, Ryan, you know I want you.  I just figure if I have you living
in my house and indebted to me I’ve got a better chance of scoring with
you.”

I spoke through my clenched teeth.  “I’m not gay.”

He remained patient.  “I know.  That’s what makes you so sexy to me.”

I had to turn away.  “You think because you’re rich you can get whatever you want?”

“I think because you’re broke you should compromise a little.”

“I’m not compromising my ass.  You’d have to fucking drug me or…or—”

His brow rose.  “Do you want me to drug you?”

“No!”  My face must have gone two shades whiter at the suggestion.  How the fuck did it come to this?

“Then I won’t drug you.  How about alcohol?”

“Fucking no!  That’s still rape, anyway.”

Quinn’s deep blue eyes shot me a glower.  It pissed me off that
someone as handsome as him needed to manipulate a guy for sex.  The
30-year-old had a thick muscular build and sexy tendrils of black hair.
He was probably the Belle of the ball at whatever gay bars he went to.
Why’d he have to go after his little brother’s straight best friend?

“I’d have you consent before you got drunk.”  His voice stayed even.  “I’m actually just trying to make it easier for you.”

My eyes narrowed.  “Yeah.  You’re a real saint.  If you actually
cared about me you’d do me this favor without demanding I take your dick
up my ass in return.”

“Why should I do you any favors?”  A mild sneer was on his lips.  
“You don’t even like me.  You’re lucky I lust for you or I wouldn’t
bother offering to help.”

I groaned and dragged myself to my feet.  “Forget it.”

Quinn leaned forward and touched my arm.  “Wait.”

I stood in place.  Part of my getting up to leave was a bluff.  I was
hoping deep down that there was some way I could still get his help.  
What the fuck else was I going to do?  Even if I took the outrageous
private loan I still didn’t have an apartment secured.  The housing
situation in the city sucked.  Everything reasonable was already snagged
by grad students.  Quinn’s condo would be an awesome set up for me.  He
had a huge spare bedroom and I just had to cross the street to get to
class.

“Look.  It’s important to Darren that I help you.  You know I’m not a
rapist.  You said I can’t drug you, so I won’t drug you.  You said I
can’t take advantage of you when you’re drunk so I won’t take advantage
of you when you’re drunk.  That just leaves me trying to seduce you when
you’re sober.  I can deal with that arrangement.”

My brow furrowed.  “Trying to seduce me?”

“That’s right.  I won’t force you to do anything.  I’ll just consider you a…challenge.”

The word put ice in my stomach.  I still felt like I was getting somewhere.

“So…you’ll let me live here without me agreeing to fuck you?”

He leaned back and his smug smile returned.  “Oh.  You’re going to
fuck me.  You might as well make your peace with that, pretty boy.”

My lower lip began to tremble in anger.

Quinn pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen from the drawer in the
lamp table beside him.  “What I’m saying is, I’m not going to force
you.  I’m going to…convince you.”

He leaned forward to use the coffee table to write something up.  I resumed my seat.

“You really like the smell of your own shit, don’t you?” I said.

“Easy.  Try to remember you’re going to be fucked with or without my
help.  I’ll fuck you a lot more gently than the student loan company.”

I made a disgusted groan.

“I, Quinn Reynolds, hereby allow Ryan Cameron to reside in my spare
bedroom for the current school year.”  He read while writing on the
paper.

“Just the current year?” I said with a frown.  “I’ve got three more years left.”

He looked up.  “Well, obviously, if I don’t manage to fuck you by the end of this school year I’m going to kick you out.”

My eyes bulged.

“I promise not to drug him, take advantage of him while he’s
intoxicated, nor take him to bed by force.  Ryan understands that it’s
my goal to seduce him, and he must tolerate this in exchange for free
housing in my condo.”  He signed and dated the bottom of the page, then
slid the paper over to me.  I studied it as if I hadn’t heard a word he
said.

“That…that’s it?” I said.  “That will be the arrangement?”

“I think it’s pretty generous.  I’m opening my home up to you.”

He was right.  This was a huge windfall for me.  He may have wanted
my ass, but he was also saving it.  This would at least take care of me
for the upcoming school year.  I took the pen in my shaky hand and
signed.

His grin returned.  “Excellent.”  The smug bastard lifted his wine glass to me.  “I look forward to wearing you down.”

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Running With the Pack (Alaskan Were)

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Disillusioned with society, Kevin escapes to remote Alaska and is unwittingly turned into a werewolf by the resident pack.  He runs beside Joel, the were who took him in, and the mate his wolf spirit is drawn to.  Things look to be glorious in his new life, until the alpha perceives a threat to his power.

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The night should have been completely black to
me.  There were just a few stars and
hardly any moon, but I saw the snow we were running on as a bluish gray, and
other shapes, like alders or hills, appeared in the darkness just when I needed
to see them.  My wolf eyes were like the
visors of some strange 3D reality video game.
I was sure of every stride my fast legs were taking—even though the
faint light shouldn’t have allowed it.

Joel ran at my shoulder.  We were nearly at the tail-end of the
pack.  I knew it was a demotion for him
to lag so far behind.  As the newest
member I should have been the lowest ranking.
I wasn’t though.  Shortly after we
started running I realized a black-furred omega was following a short distance
behind us.

I had a lot of natural instinct ruling my muscles and
mind.  If we were running in human form I
might have wanted to ask why this guy was lagging even further behind than
me.  As a wolf I didn’t need to ask.  I knew he’d fallen out of favor with the
group for some reason or another—possibly one that was never even stated in
human form.  I knew I was higher than him
and it would disrupt the pack order to reach out to the guy.  I’d follow the lead of my mate, my superior,
Joel.  His beautiful silhouette ran
beside me without a backward glance toward our ‘friend.’

Joel and I had an easy vibe going between us, one of
friendship, but also a crazy kind of magnetism.
We needed to be near each other.
Flesh to flesh or fur to fur.  I
didn’t have much of a connection with the rest of the pack yet.  Joel’s confident stride kept me from worrying
about that.  He’d brought me in.  He’d take care of me.  This made me warm inside, despite the cold.

The run ended at an abandoned bear den with enough
matted grey fur inside to tell me this was where they usually stayed.  The alpha stood outside, not meeting any of
our eyes as we dog-piled in.  All of us
except for the omega.  He was gone now,
and I sensed the alpha was making sure he didn’t dare try to bed with us.  I started to feel sorry for the guy.  Inside was the dense heat of ten furred
bodies huddled together.  Outside was
below zero.  

I was pinned between Joel and the back earthen wall.  Our wolf bodies smooshed together perfectly.  There didn’t seem any position that could be
uncomfortable in this form.
Soon…probably too soon, I was fast asleep with my head resting on Joel’s
paws.

I hadn’t slept that good in years.  Wolves don’t have insomnia, and none of the
thoughts that used to crowd my mind came to bother me.  I was truly free.  Even sleeping this way was freedom.  I mean, I’d gone through a night of Alaskan
winter without burning a single piece of firewood.  All those trappings of humanity were gone,
along with the pain balled up in my past.
I got a fluttery euphoria when I saw a sliver of sunshine peeking into
the den.  What a wonderful fucking night
I’d had.

And what a wonderful new life.

Joel stirred beside me.  He leaned his back against the wall and
turned into a human.  Seeing his bright
white flesh in the dimness of the den made my ears perk.  I sat up and transformed also.  Yes, we were naked, but the furred bodies of
the others still kept us warm enough.

Joel smiled with his yellow eyes twinkling.  “You alright?”  His shaggy long black hair gave him a wolfen
look, even in human form.  I also noticed
how much larger he was than me.  I don’t
think I could have touched my fingers around the wrists of his thick arms.

“I’m better than I’ve ever been my whole life.”

He laughed allowing me to see his pronounced
canines.  “I know.  You fell right into stride.  I knew you would.”

Some of the others blinked awake near us, then turned
away.  

“Today’s going to be a hunt.  Hiram—that’s our boss man there—“  He nodded toward the alpha’s large sleeping
form.  “He hasn’t said so, but we kind of
know these things.  It’s time to
feast.  Especially since we got a new
member.”  He winked at me.

I cracked a smile, then said, “Are we going after the
moose?”

“Yeah, I smelled him too.  But, nah.
They’re getting too scarce these days.
We’d get him if we were desperate, but there’s plenty of other game
right now.  We’re going to chase after
the caribou.  See if we can catch a
straggler or two.  We do the hunt in wolf
form.  Your muscles know what to do;
you’ll see when we get out there.”

I wet my lips in my mouth and nodded.  His words rang true.  I already felt the strong grip of instinct
when we were running.  Still, I didn’t
want to fuck up.  The last thing I wanted
was to end up ousted like the omega.

“Focus on corralling the one we target,” Joel
said.  “You may get a good chance to
pounce on him, but don’t.  The kill goes
to Hiram, or to the one he gives a nod to.
I’m thinking it might be me this time, you know?  But, anyway, stick to nipping at its legs or
cordoning it off.  Don’t go for the
kill.”

“Got it.”

Joel rubbed his hands over his bare shoulders.  “That’s all I needed to tell you.  I’m getting back in my fur.”

I clutched his thigh before he changed.  “When are we going to get a chance to talk
again?  I mean…really talk.”

Joel laughed softly.
He leaned over and gave me a soft kiss.
The heat of his mouth against mine, his moist breath—it made my belly do
a flip-flop.  

“Talking’s for men,” he whispered.  He swept a hand over the side of my face—down
to the valley of my collarbone.  I got a
shiver.  

“We don’t need that many words—do we?”

I swallowed a thick lump.  He was right.
I knew what we both felt for each other—the trust that was there.  Wanting to quantify things was a leftover
from my human insecurities.  I was still
learning how to be a were, still trying to shed the remnants of that old life I
hated.  I needed to get over myself and
just run with it.  Run with them.  Joel was a better teacher to me than he could
ever realize.

Hiram stood up on all four paws.  I saw all the heads of the sleeping wolves
around me turn his way.  Joel and I
quickly shifted back.

The alpha stretched while the others slowly rose.  He went to a small-ish oil-black wolf and bit
his scruff.  The wolf got up.  Hiram squashed him back down and clamped his
teeth on a mouthful of the wolf’s scruff.
His beta whimpered in pain.  Hiram’s
teeth weren’t puncturing him, but he was clamping enough flesh to make the
wolf’s shoulder’s look stretched.

I kept still, as the others did, while watching
this.  Why was he punishing him?  I don’t know.
I think this was the snide guy who voted for me not to be allowed in the
group.  He appeared to be Hiram’s mate.

Finally, the big wolf let go and his beta’s tormented
withers sprang loose again.  Hiram licked
the place he’d tortured long enough for the fur to get wet with saliva.  The black wolf rested his head on his paws
with his eyes closed and his sides expanding with fast breaths.  Without any pause, Hiram stopped licking and
ran out of the den.  We all darted after
him.

Now, it’s clear that this pack lived more as animals
than men, and they were ruled by that animal instinct far more than I was.  But still—what the fuck was that?  It made no sense to my human or wolf
mind.  Was this punishment for how he’d
rejected me?  I didn’t think so because
the beta was so blasé in my cabin.  He
spoke freely, without fear of any repercussions.  I don’t think the guy was being
punished.  This was just abuse.

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