Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery

Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery


The Khanavai Warrior Bride Games Book Two


Margo Bond Collins


Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Epilogue
About the Author
More Alien Romances from Margo Bond Collins


Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery
Copyright © 2020 by Margo Bond Collins
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About Captured for the Alien Bride Lottery
I refused to be in the Bride Lottery—so now I’m a runaway bride.
Somehow, I knew my name was going to be drawn in the Bride Lottery—the hellish agreement that Earth’s leaders had made to sell us to the aliens who protected our planet.
I’d grown up with the propaganda. It was our civic duty. Men registered for the draft, women registered for the Bride Lottery.
No way in hell was I going to be handed over to some giant man to be brutalized into bearing his children.
Instead, I cut out my bio-tracker and walked away from everything.
I should have realized they’d send one of those hulking, brightly colored aliens to track me down and bring me back.
Never did I expect that he’d be devastatingly attractive. Or that we’d have to go on the run from the evil Horde trying to destroy both our planets.
Now that we’re together, can I ever run away again?
And could he really hand me over to the Bride Games to be taken by another warrior?
Because I think I might be falling in love…
Fans of Grace Goodwin, Evangeline Anderson, and Ruby Dixon will love this steamy new series featuring gorgeous, bright alien heroes and the sassy human women they choose as mates!
Every book in the Khanavai Warrior Bride Games series is a standalone romance. Join these brides as they find a whole new world of happily ever afters.


Prologue


Zont Lanov
Four solar days. That’s how long I’d been on Station 21, hoping to find my mate in the Bride Games.
I’d made my fun where I could, leading my new friend Cav Adredoni on an unauthorized trip down to the arena floor, where he’d certainly found his bride, even if she didn’t realize it yet. But he’d gotten one whiff of her and instantly known she was destined to be his.
As the old Khanavai saying goes, the cock follows where the nose leads.
Don’t get me wrong—I was having a wonderful time. The entire endeavor was almost as entertaining as a trip to the Clavox Pleasure Mines, where the females all have five breasts and can bend in the most interesting and unusual directions.
Well, maybe not that entertaining.
But I was enjoying myself.
That’s what I kept telling myself, anyway. However, the absence of even one human female who captured my interest—much less my nose or my cock—had begun to weigh on me.
Maybe I wasn’t destined to find a mate, after all.
Cav and I sat in the audience, our comscreens focused on the bridal interviews below. Bride after bride stepped up to speak to Vos Klavoii, the Games Administrator. The human women were lovely, in their own way.
But none was mine.
I had to fight not to heave an irritated sigh. I was on leave from Special Ops, and I would enjoy my vacation, even if I didn’t find a mate of my own.
Without warning, all the screens in the stands went blank. I glanced around, instantly on alert for danger. Could this be an attack from the Alveron Horde?
No, I realized as the screens blinked back on, showing Vos in front of an image of an Earther cityscape. This interruption might not have been planned, but it was definitely executed on purpose.
“Warriors and women,” Vos said, “Earthers and Khanavai, we have an exciting new development in this year’s Bride Games. Apparently, one of our contestants has run. That’s right—for the first time in all the years we’ve been holding the lottery, a bride has, as the Earthers sometimes say, gone on the lam.”
The palpable excitement in Vos’s voice echoed out over the stadium and I had to laugh. This was exactly the kind of thrill the devotees of the Bride Games hoped for every year. A gasp went up at the announcement and the brides on the arena floor began chattering among themselves.
Still…
“A runner?” I spoke my thought aloud. “How did she manage that?”
Cav didn’t answer, focused as he was on Vos, who continued talking as the screen behind him changed to show the runaway Bride Lottery winner. “Amelia Rivers is now a wanted fugitive on Earth. She’s originally from Dallas, Texas, but was most recently seen in Las Vegas, Nevada.” His voice dropped. “For those Khanavai watching, that’s in the United States, a country in what the Earthers call the North American continent.”
I registered the words, but the image of the human female on the screen held my attention. She was…
Perfect.
The word popped into my mind, and in that moment, I knew it was true. She was perfect—for me, at least.
“Las Vegas,” I said slowly. “Isn’t that the pleasure city?”
Cav shrugged, too anxious to see his own mate’s Bridal Pageant interview to pay much attention to my questions. Fine. I could find out more about Amelia Rivers on my own. I pulled up the program and ran a search for her name.
She’s stunning.
And she’s mine.
I spent that night mapping out my plan of attack and gathering the team I would take with me. A quick consultation with my commanding officer led