Tribute: Captives of Kazir Book 1
About this ebook
Kazir was supposed to be a sanctuary for the weary, desperate humans. But the alien race that already occupies the planet demands a terrible sacrifice to let them stay.
Mena is that sacrifice.
Now she belongs to a harsh alien master, destined for a future of endless suffering.
And yet, bending to his demands strikes a chord of desire that she doesn't understand.
Mikkal knew agreeing to take a human was a bad idea. The darkness inside him has never been easy to keep hidden. Now it has begun to escape his control.
And the worst part?
He’s never felt more alive.
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Caution: steamy aliens go to dark places to compel human affections.
Chapter 1
The portholes on the shuttle were small, but it wasn’t difficult to see the large ship receding as they pulled away. The Hope II, their only home since leaving Earth ten years ago, grew smaller and smaller until it was lost from sight, just one more point of light in this vast area of space.
The shock of what was happening had at first stirred cries of anger and indignation from the forty-odd passengers, demanding to know what was going on. When it became clear that no one on the shuttle knew why they were there, they mostly fell silent, and waited.
Mena Clarke, strapped tight in her seat, gripped the hand of her best friend, Addy. Twenty minutes ago she’d been reading a steamy romance in her tiny cabin. Then a glowing blue light had simply appeared in her room, and herded her out the cabin door and down a number of strangely silent halls. When she realized she was being pushed into a shuttle, she balked, but the buzzing that surrounded her body when the blue light continued forward was unbearable and she moved across the threshold to escape it.
She spotted Addy and ran over, the two women embracing.
“Is Daniel here?” Mena finally pulled away enough to ask.
Addy shook her head. “We were in the gardens, doing soil testing. Then he suddenly stopped moving. At the same time, that blue light showed up and pushed me to this shuttle. Mena, what’s going on?”
A loud bell interrupted them and a soft female voice emerged from the ceiling. “Please take your seats. We will explain in a moment.”
The shuttle door swung shut with a bang, and Mena heard hissing noises.
A woman close to the windows whipped her head around toward the noise. “Find a seat, people, this baby is about to release, and we’re gonna lose gravity!”
A moment later the gravity disappeared and dozens of people collided with each other and the ceiling until, one by one, they were hauled down by the more experienced crew.
Someone cried out, “Look!” and they turned to the portholes in disbelief to watch as the shuttle detached from the ship and moved away.
This was not what was supposed to happen. They had just arrived at Allos, a planet uninhabited except by the first group of humans who’d left Earth before Mena’s group, in Hope I. But Mena couldn’t imagine what was going on, unless they’d been chosen to go down to the surface early, without warning, in secrecy. Even as she thought it, the idea seemed absurd.
The bell interrupted her thoughts.
“Humans. Welcome to Kazir, the planet you call Allos. This planet is not uninhabited, as your primitive observations led you to believe. The Kaziri people have lived here for thousands of years.”
Cries of disbelief and confusion drowned out the speaker’s words, and she fell silent until they died down.
“We have sympathy for your dismay. It's not easy to find out that you are not alone in the universe, nor is it pleasant to hear that the planet you believed was yours to conquer belongs to someone else.”
An angry voice came from behind Mena. “You’re flippin' kidding, right?”
“The first group of humans who arrived seventy-five solars ago were just as shocked. Had they simply asked for sanctuary, we would have welcomed all of them. But, they believed we were technologically inferior, and made plans to defeat us by force and take over the planet. They did not get the chance.”
The voice paused, and the anxiety in the room was palpable. Mena fought to breathe.
“As you may have surmised by now, we are far superior to humans. We subdued them with ease and kept them to serve us, something our culture has a long history of doing with the worlds we conquer.”
Dread ran down Mena’s spine, and she heard the quick intake of breath from others on the shuttle. What was she talking about?
“We learned that most humans are unfit to serve us. Those few solars were a dark period in our history.” The voice hesitated as though it meant to say more, then went on.
“So, when your captain also decided upon a course of invasion, we had to make a decision. The vote was close, and you need to understand how near you came to being destroyed without warning. In the end, we decided to compromise. The majority of humans will be settled on a large, uninhabited island. You, however, will not be joining them.”
Protests sprang up from all over the cabin.
“Silence!” The word echoed through their bones. “We have been listening to your conversations for a solar, which you call a year, as you approached the planet. We’ve been monitoring what you read, what you watch, and who you have intimate relations with.”
Mena’s cheeks grew warm. The last vid she’d watched had been a really steamy one and something she’d been embarrassed to have wasted time on. The last book was Alien Captive, and the last time she’d seen Daniel, one of her favorite partners, he’d spanked her, at her request. She looked over at Addy. Her best friend, and other favorite partner, was staring back, the horror on her face probably a mirror to Mena’s.
“Each one of you has a submissive personality.”
Voices cried out in protest, much louder this time. Suddenly, there was total silence, even as people strained to talk.
“I have placed a Zone of Silence over you until I am done speaking. You can protest all you want, but we know you almost better than you know yourselves. That personality resides within you even if you don’t show it to anyone else. Therefore, we made an arrangement with your captain. In return for a place for humans to build a new home, he would supply us with humans to serve us. This decision is final, and there is no appeal.”
Even if they had been allowed speech, Mena wasn’t sure the shock of what they’d just heard wouldn’t have rendered them speechless, anyway.
The ship began to rumble as white streaks raced by the portholes, and they entered the atmosphere.
Mena’s hand grabbed Addy’s, and she screwed her eyes shut as she struggled to grasp that she’d probably never get the home and family she’d traveled across the galaxy to have.
They’d left Earth just as it fell apart. The five thousand people on board were only half the number of colonists chosen to be in the second ship, but the ship left a month early when it became too dangerous to stay.
Mena had been fifteen. The grief of leaving her family behind had faded over the years. Even with the additional unplanned years on board, she couldn’t remember a time in her life she’d been so happy and part of something hopeful.
A gentle bump and the hiss of escaping air told her they’d arrived.
But the planet they’d pinned all their hopes on was occupied, and her future wasn’t going to be as part of a new beginning for her people, but as belonging to an alien.
She should have stayed on Earth.
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Key words: captive fantasy, alien romance, alien master, capture fantasy, dark romance, first contact romance, alien abduction, Alien alpha males, alien breeding, Alien mates, alien planet, alien romance, discipline, sci-fi erotic romance, scifi romance, Spanking romance, dub-con romance
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About the author
For years I've written stories of power exchange and capture fantasies, hiding them in my computer, convinced I was alone in my desires.
My women are fierce and independent . They will not surrender until they are respected by the mates who claim their hearts as well as their submission.
Right now, I split my time between being mother, wife, overworked employee, and servant to the cat's every need. Most evenings will find me hiding in my office cave to write, where I only care about my internet signal and the strength of my coffee.
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