Seduced by Two Warriors by Ravenna Tate

Sera.”
    “That’s
why the Addonians were formed,” said River. “To bridge that
gap. To try this time to bring about a solution that didn’t involve
kidnapping people from other planets, or turning our own people into men and
women who promoted slavery and gang-rapes. And we’ve achieved that now.   Or at least, we’ve made huge inroads into
achieving it. This mission will work. And once it does, we will rid our worlds
of this faction of Tyranns forever.”
    “And
then we plan to help Earth rebuild,” said Vaughn, looking directly at Gia. “If
you so choose, you can go home again one day.” His voice was so quiet. When he
finished his sentence, no one spoke. Again, she could hear a clock tick over
the pounding of the surf outside.
    Gia
swallowed hard again. She didn’t dare glance at either Thane or Rune right now.
Did she want to go home again? It was all she’d dreamed about for two years.
But now that she was here, and finally understood what they were doing on these
two planets—on Sera and Addo—really understood it for the first time, she also
realized she had a very difficult choice to face.
    Because
if this mission succeeded the way they all hoped it would, her planet would be
restored. It was her home. But it wasn’t home to Thane and Rune, and it never
would be. Their work here wouldn’t end with this mission. And she couldn’t ask
them to leave it, any more than they’d expect her to choose to stay here with
them, over returning to Earth.
    And
that was assuming they came back from this mission alive, and still wanted her
with them when they did.
     

Chapter
Ten
     
    That
night, long after they’d all walked along the beach and admired the moons and
the stars, after the dishes were cleaned up and the leftover food and drink put
away, and after she’d confirmed that every man in the house, including Blake,
was going on this mission, Gia lay awake in the room she’d been given to use
during her visit, staring at the wood-beamed ceiling.
    Her
window was open, and she should have been lulled to sleep by the sound of the
waves, but her mind raced with confusing and conflicting thoughts. Thane and
Rune might die. Jakara, Blake, Vaughn, and River might die. Cord and Arlo might
die. Their mission, from what little she’d absorbed during the conversation
that had continued all day and well into the evening, was insane.
    They
planned to do exactly what she’d been told mere weeks ago was not in the plans. They were going to invade Voyeur Moon, plain and simple. They
were going to rescue everyone they could from the Zoo, the holding cells, and
the three prisons on the planet, and then they were going to bomb the shit out
of those buildings.
    When
they had wiped them off the surface, they were going door-to-door to get the
few people still living on the planet away safely. Ordinary citizens who, for whatever reason, had been unable to leave and move to Sera or Addo,
would be given shelter on one of those planets. But the Tyranns living in
hidden homes, as Jakara had once done, would be executed, along with the guards
and wardens of the Zoo, holding cells, and prisons.
    They
wouldn’t stop until Voyeur Moon was as dead as Earth now was. Only they
wouldn’t leave anyone on it, like there were still people living on Earth.
Their intention was to wipe the planet clean of people. There would be no
Tyranns left when they were done. And then they planned to form teams who would
journey to Earth and help them rebuild the planet.
    It
was bold, and expansive, and totally nuts. But the men in this house each had
complete confidence it would work. She had no frame of reference to judge
whether it would or not. She only knew it meant that Thane and Rune would be
gone a long time. Weeks or even months, before Voyeur Moon
was free of people. She didn’t yet know if the two planned on joining
the teams who would eventually fly to Earth and help them rebuild. She hadn’t
asked. She didn’t want to know. Not