StarSet (The Warrior Prince's Claim - BBW Science Fiction Romance) by Calista Skye

 
     
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    Shala cannot wait to get off of Telera One the second it docks and recolonizes the people of the original Telera. Gruff, ornery, and generally suspicious of outsiders, they haven't made her time easy as an officer of the allied forces. So, when their prince is forced to defend himself and nearly murder an intruder, and the captain delays reports of it, she's understandably confused. Especially when despite the no-fraternization rule of the allied forces, she's invited to one of the Telerans' most sacred spirit-revering ceremonies as his esteemed “plus one.”
    Can she really keep denying how hot the room gets when he enters it, or the not-uncomfortably invasive way he looks at her? And when he goes all in for the claim, will she accept an uncertain future as a princess, in the middle of a burgeoning blood feud with the father of the intruder he bloodied?
    It seems like a sure dance with the devil; so why is she making her way toward the dance floor...
     
    A BBW Science Fiction Romance (with a steamy and irresistible HEA)
     
     
    note: This alien warrior romance is sprinkled with a bit of 'All Hallows' in the form of the Teleran event: Eiowa. Happy Hallow's readers!
     
     
     
     

     
     
     
     
     
    Star Set: The Warrior Prince's Claim
    (BBW Science Fiction Romance)
     
     
     
     
     
     
    1
     
     
    Telera one.
    The last bastion of a planetless people who rather dislike the technology of their floating city. If we're being honest. Pretty ungrateful, if you asked Shala. She was entirely over the cultural cluster-fuck that had come to be Telera one, and she couldn't wait until they docked planetside on their shiny, newish orb for rehabitation. Telerans were a highly suspicious, dogmatic, often vitriolic people, and Shala promised herself she was taking a long vacay after she finished up with this post.
    Maybe she'd take a nice trip to Tenta. Given the new outpost installed with the permission of King Sesh, there was still a slot available for second officer. Hell, she'd sign on as a tour guide if it meant she didn't have to see another Teleran frown for at least a decade.
    Shala's brow quirked, the blue gleam of the data screens illuminating her face with each reporting blip popping up in her scans. Three more bloody fights below deck. That's what you got with a group of warriors, zealots, and jum addicts who all mostly disagreed with one another's logic.
    Drawing a calming breath, she drew a sip of Kafka from the Mooning shell Jake brought over from Sector 9. Technically, it was against the rules to have it aboard the ship, but she doubted any alien bacteria had come over with it that would truly be a risk.
    She was flouting those rules, quite willfully, thank you.
    The Captain paid far too much attention to detail, and she'd long decided to ignore him when he got started on his rants about cleanliness and ship security.
    “Officer Kane, we have an incident on Level 8. Bring your weapon,” Captain Von's voice cut in through the intercom.
    “Daily living on Telera One,” she chimed to herself with a hefty dose of sarcasm infusing her tone.
    Rising up from the data panels, she retrieved her thruster and shoved it into her thigh harness. Whatever was going on was unlikely to warrant anything but a few rounds of wave blasts to calm whichever brute had consumed too much Brew Wine and decided to throw his weight around.
    It was all so predictable, she might just cry.
    She was seriously considering starting a betting pool.
    Might as well raise some extra credits for that trip to Tenta.
    She was getting that vacay if it killed her.

 
     
    2
     
     
    Well... she hadn't expected this.
    “They're sending out AIs. Pretty obvious they're scouting us.”
    Jake folded his arms over his chest nervously, looking down at the pool of nano blood leaking into the cracks of the gleaming, metal decks. The thing had been terminated before Shala