Prime Deliverance (Katieran Prime Series (Book Five)) by KD Jones Read Free Book Online Page B

noticed…” She was interrupted when RendEL kissed her soundly.
    It was kind of uncomfortable watching two people completely in love expressing that love. They were expressing really hard. Everyone tried to look away.
    “Break it up or go to your own suite!” KydEL spoke gruffly, causing the couple to separate.
    The twins were sleeping soundly in their little carriers that RendEL had made special for them. AriELa looked at the sweet, sleeping faces, longing for her own children. But even if she mated, chances of her breeding and carrying to term were slim. It pained her to think that she may never hold a young of her own. She needed to leave before she broke down in front of her family.
    “I’m really tired. I think I’ll retire early. Goodnight, everyone.”
    Her aunt looked at her with concern. “Goodnight, dear.”
     
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    The next day she had another run-in with TarAK. Was he stalking her now?
    “What do you want?”
    TarAK looked at her intently. Like he wanted to say something but was fighting to hold it back. “I don’t think you should go to Kiljor. You are too young to mate and Kiljor is not your home. Katiera is.”
    She was at her breaking point with everyone. “I am no longer a young!” She didn’t say anything else but stormed away. She couldn’t take it anymore. She needed to be more independent. How was she to do that when she still lived with her aunt?
     
    *****
     
    Later that evening, AriELa had packed her bags and made her way to the suite that Captain Malone and Doctor Morris shared. She hoped that she would not be turned down. She needed this to work out.
    She wiped a tear from her face. When she had told her aunt that she wanted to move out, they had a fight. It was the first real fight they ever had. Then they both started crying and hugged before she left. Telling her had been difficult enough, but telling her cousins was going to be even worse. She was saving that fight for another day. Maybe they would be so preoccupied that they wouldn’t notice she had moved out for at least a few months.
    She stopped in front of the suite door and sat her bags down. She rang the buzzer and waited. “Please say yes, please say yes,” she whispered over and over. The door opened slowly and she put on her best pretend smile.
    “What’s up?” Jaxon asked.
    AriELa walked inside the suite setting her bags in the hallway. She was nervous. “I hate to impose, but would you and Dr. Morris mind if I move in with you two?”
    “I don’t mind and I’m sure Doc will be fine with it, but why do you need a place to stay?”
    “I’m getting tired of people treating me like a young. I am NOT a young!” AriELa exclaimed.
    “Who treats you that way?” Jaxon asked.
    “Aunt SandELa, my cousins, TarAK…just everyone!”
    AriELa was grateful the female warrior was being so nice. She had AriELa come inside and sit on the sofa. Jaxon insisted that she be called by her first name since they would be living together.
    It wasn’t too long after AriELa’s arrival that the female medic came home. Doctor Katrina Morris was a female medic from Earth. She said she was okay with AriELa moving in and insisted that she call her Kat.
    Kat was in a really bad mood. She had gone on a date with one of the Lieutenants, but it didn’t turn out too well. Turned out the Lieutenant was more interested in Jaxon than Kat. Ouch , AriELa could understand how much that must have hurt. It still bothered her whenever she saw TarAK with Cassie. Though Cassie was completely in love with RendEL, it still hurt to be rejected for another female.
    Jaxon wasn’t much for females sitting around complaining. She said she had a cure for what ailed all of them. It was a foul drink called Tequila. They all three drank and drank. They complained about men, about being treated differently just for being female. Kat was on the couch and Jaxon and AriELa were laying on the floor with a glass of tequila in their hands. That was where