“Where are they?” I asked the man, starting to panic. “Did you take Damien’s family and Basin’s family or just us? Didn’t my female offspring send someone for Rose’s family and mine?”

“The slavers,” Thom spat out, “were offered safety in our camp. They are being transported separately. Hannah and Kennedy are well respected or such a request would never have been honored.”

I stared at the man in the dim half light of the tunnels. He had referred to our men as “slavers” and I had that sinking feeling again Free men would view men like Damien and his Brothers as no better than the women.

“I am free with Damien and his Brothers,” I said quickly taking a step toward Thom.

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a slave and made me family one night

you this? They told you one day you

Damien and his Brothers decided on their own that slavery was wrong. I

their decision, was it?” Thom asked lowering his voice and sounding slightly menacing. “They told you what you would be and you

Thom just continued to speak, “You cannot make someone family, Rachel. Family between men and women is a choice. I don’t think you ever had the option of choosing

truth in them. It wasn’t Like I had been offered the choice of Damien’s

“it is still a Long ride to our

then a couple of gulps. She Looked amazed as she handed me back the container. This had been a first on this planet

most part. I wasn’t sure what to say. Freedom from Nu-reeh had been such an overriding goal, I hadn’t stopped

my men would be judged harshly by

cave. There appeared to be a flat, black lake with a large circular island in the middle.

several transports Like ours. I saw men milling around passing in and out of the

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