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Chaos
Book: Chaos Read Online Free
Author: Viola Grace
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you back to your ship so you can rendezvous with the warship on time." She shouldered the pack and started for the entrance.
    "Wait one minute. What do you think we are going to do? Leave you here?" Carser grabbed her shoulder and spun her around.
    "Yes. The planet is open to a colony if your organizers will accept the space on a living world." She looked up at him and smiled brightly.
    "Stop talking about the colony. What about us?" His words were more growl than speech.
    "There is no us. You were here. I was convenient. It has happened before, it might even happen again." She shrugged.
    Wayk looked shocked. "That is not what happened here."
    She cocked her head, "What?"
    "We chose you as our mate. We had to wait for you to be free from previous obligations, but we selected you out of all the possible candidates our elders presented us with. The only problem lay in which one of us you would choose." The twist of his lips ended in a frown.
    "I don't understand." She needed to sit down, so she exited the cavern and sat on a rock.
    Carser continued when his companion looked lost for words. "You were the best woman for the job, but if we had simply wanted a final evaluation, there were other officers who were not occupied. We wanted you."
    They were both smiling now and she couldn't help but be a little flattered. Zora scowled to fight the flutter in her chest. "It doesn't matter. If you stay here, you will be stuck with me. Shisala will make sure of it."
    Wayk tried the practical attack. "What if that is what we want? The Oefric are trying desperately to get Terrans into our genetic lines. We want you, you want us, there is nothing wrong with that."
    Her frown deepened. "I have always wanted to be wanted for my genetics. Nothing like not being wanted for my personality or my looks."
    They looked at her in shock, as if they didn't know what to say.
    "Shisala will let you go. I promise. Come back or not, it will not affect my decisions. I am her avatar and I must remain here." She used her best brush-off technique and when their expressions shut down, she knew she had succeeded.
    Inside, she was wailing like a child, but outwardly, she maintained an expression of calm. "I will need to retrieve my belongings as well. The sooner we get going, the faster you can be on your way."
    They shifted into their bear forms and she stared into the snow. Each step she took landed her on dry, warm grass, the snow melted at her approach. Her companions were sullen, but they moved through the snow with ease.
    Shisala invaded her thoughts randomly, trying to get her to ask them to stay. Each time, Zora fought her back.
    She was going to send them home where they could each find the woman for them. She wasn't going to keep them from being happy, even if her own heart was breaking with every step closer to the shuttle.
    The wolves didn't bother coming in for another attack. Her gentle caress on their minds sent them running for cover long before they would have been visible.
    The bears on either side of her weren't romping, weren't enjoying themselves. They simply trudged along until the shining silver of their shuttle was visible again. Carser made his way to the door and shifted so he could palm the lock. As soon as they were all inside, he locked the door.
    "Zora, I don't think you understand what has transpired here. Oefric mate for life and both Wayk and I have chosen you as our mate. Multiple matings do not happen often, but it does happen. What's more, you accepted both of us as your mate. This means that we are not going anywhere without you."
    "Why did you lock the door?"
    "So that you can't leave before we make our call in to the warship. Wayk?"
    "Yes, General." Wayk sat at the nav station and started entering the call details. "This is the exploration team on Pakrik calling the Ninth Star."
    "This is the Ninth Star, go ahead, Captain Wayk." The voice was low and female.
    "One of our team members has been selected by the planet as its
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