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fear had her thinking the worst. Of course
he couldn’t blame her, not when it was clear she had been living a nightmare. “No,
no. It is just an endearment in my language. It means dearest one.”
    Her brows dipped low, and she glanced at the ground.
Her mouth moved, but he couldn’t hear what she said.
    “Luna?” She snapped her head up and looked at him.
Her eyes seemed so very blue compared to her too pale face and the dark circles
directly below them. He took a step closer and was thankful she didn’t move away.
“You should lie back down, and give yourself time to heal. That is all we want,
to have you whole again.”
    She took a step back when he moved forward this
time. “We have no intentions of hurting you.”
    “We only want to take care of you.” Genet stepped
beside Erak, his voice coaxing and gentle. Genet had always been the calmest out
of the three of them, whereas Raimi was the outgoing and playful one. Erak had
been called many things: ruthless, commanding, domineering, but never had he
been gentle, not like his brothers. But the longer he was in Luna’s presence he
wanted to give her everything he had.
    He held his hands out further, and took one more
step closer. They were only separated a body length apart, and the saccharine
scent of her filled his lungs as he
inhaled deeply. “You have nothing to fear. We will not harm you.” He told her
again, hoping that if she heard it enough times maybe she would understand they
spoke the truth. But Erak didn’t blame her for the wariness she felt. She was
from that fucking rotten planet, and who knew the horrors she had seen on a
daily basis. He tried once more to soften his voice, to not be too rough in
speaking. Just the fact his mate was right in front of him, had the primal part
of him rising and wanting to go to her. He felt guilt for his physical reaction
to her, that his dick was harder than the steel that
surrounded them, because the state she was in should have had the fucker
inverting. “You remember what we are called?”
    Her brows knitted again, and he realized asking her
too many questions right now would be draining for her. “I am Erak.” He heard
her heart beat faster, but not from being frightened but because she
remembered. Pleasure over that filled him.
    “Yes, I remember.” Her voice was nothing more than a
whisper. “And you are Genet, and you Raimi.” His brothers both shifted, and he sensed their pleasure as well. Their mate
knew them, called them by their names, and that was one fucking heady
sensation. “What…” She licked her lips. “What do you plan on doing with me? I
won’t be sold. I’ll fight until I’m dead before that ever happens.”
    “ Fallina , I told you that is not our intent.”
    Her strength and resolve were commendable, but it
didn’t stop the possessive side of him from shifting violently inside of him.
Just the thought of someone thinking they had the right to sell her, of another
male touching her, and being with her, had an animal instinct in him needing to
kill something. Thinking of another male that wasn’t one of his brothers just
being in her presence had him curling his hands into fists. He breathed out
harshly.
    “You are not being sold, Fallina .” His words were too
harsh, because she flinched. Taking a deep breath, he spoke again, softer this
time. “I just mean we would never let anyone harm you.”
    “Why? I am a stowaway on your ship, a thief.” Her
eyes grew wide again as she looked at them. Tears started to gather in her eyes,
and he cursed. He was in uncharted waters here, and he didn’t know how to proceed
and not make things worse.
      “You’re ours,
Luna, but not in the way you I know you’re thinking. We don’t want a slave, do not want a robotic female to do what we say.”
    Genet put his hand on his shoulder, urging him to
stop without words. Erak should have given her time to recoup, but her fear for
them had something inside of him snapping, and all he