“Eat this now,” Evan demanded pressing food to my lips.

I took the meat and chewed as Damien continued to talk. “The females know what their female breeders know when they are born. They also know what their male breeders know, but the bond is tenuous. The women found when the human slaves carried a female of our species, the slaves temporarily bonded to the male breeder. It is how the young female learns.”

“We were unaware,” Christof said. “Nu-reeh told us you must have had a very strong female to have bonded to us while we were in the mountains and you were in the compound. Our Mistress believes your child will be worthy of her kind, such strength should not be wasted.”

I was too tired to worry about it. My men fed me and put me in the bed next to Hannah. She was so lovely. I cooed and watched her as she rested.

“What is ‘Hannah’?” Christof asked me quietly.

“It was my mother’s name,” I told him. “On my world it also meant Favored by God.”

“That should be acceptable to Nu-reeh,” Christof told me. “She wanted to make sure you gave the child a strong name.”

the power to name my child. I vowed that even

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me and Bane lay

early in the day, but Nu-reeh said you should

have rested alone before. There are better things to do rather than lay in bed

be made insane if he had to stay cooped up

I will stay,” Bane sighed putting his head back on his

rest and went quietly into the main room after closing the thick leather flap between the two

you to watch me, didn’t she?” I asked

“Sleep, Ciara,” he ordered.

him and he Looked back

to sleep,” he

quiet but watched him. He wasn’t closing his eyes and he didn’t look like a man trying to take

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