She was abducted, uh, claimed by a Kindred warrior earlier today.” “This needs to get to my sister, Olivia Waterhouse, immediately. “Isn’t that a shame.” She nodded at the human behind the counter as she placed the massive cardboard box on the desk. And Olivia mentioned your name but I seem to have forgotten it.” “My name is Sylvan, by the way, I’m Baird’s half brother. “Yes, it’s me,” he said, following her as she marched up to the front desk. Sylvan had no idea what he had done to earn her enmity but for whatever reason it seemed like Olivia’s beautiful sister really hated him. “Oh, it’s you.” Wrenching the box away from him, she banged through the door herself and shoved past him to enter the building. “Here, let me,” he said, trying to take the box from her small hands. She appeared to be having trouble so Sylvan ran to help her. At the moment she was struggling to get through the glass door with an enormous brown cardboard box in her arms and the exertion had turned her cheeks a rosy pink that was most becoming with her large green eyes. Not to mention the fact that she was so tiny the top of her head would barely come up to his chin. She was all lush curves and her rich chestnut brown hair was much darker than the hair of the Tranq Prime females. Sylvan shook off the painful memory and turned his attention back to Olivia’s sister noting that she was nothing like the tall, pale beauties that had always drawn his eye. Looking at him and saying, I’m sorry, Sylvan. Sylvan could still remember Feenah looking at him with those beautiful clear eyes like the finest crystal. Mostly because they were completely unlike the glacial women of Tranq Prime with their pure white hair and eyes so pale they were almost colorless. It was true that he’d never had an interest in the tiny, fragile female creatures that made up half the sentient life on this planet.

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