Married to the Alien Cowboy (COWBOY COLONY MAIL-ORDER BRIDES #1) by Ursa Dax EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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SILAR
“They want want to send us women.”
The warden’s words fell over the room like a thunderclap.
The astounded silence that followed was broken not by words but
by the sound of four adult Zabrian males leaning suddenly forward in their
chairs, making the old wood creak beneath us.
My chair creaked perhaps loudest of all.
The sound seemed to embolden Zohro on my right. He pulled off his
weathered, wide-brimmed hat and aimed it at Warden Tenn like a weapon,
his eyes gone bright white with what could have been keen curiosity but,
knowing him, was probably rage.
“What do you mean, women?”
“Are they convicts?” Garrek piped up, his voice deep and charredsounding. “They have only ever sent boys before.”
Zohro snorted and Fallon flicked his whip-like tail across the floor.
None of us needed to be reminded of that fact. We had all been young boys
upon our arrival here, the first generation of underage Zabrian criminals
dumped on this Empire-forsaken planet. Too young to send to the Zabrian
mines, too irredeemable in the eyes of the empire to remain on Zabria.
And now they want to send us women…
“No,” Warden Tenn said. Stationed here by the empire, he was the only
male within a distance of a hundred spans that had come here for his career
instead of as a result of his crimes. “The women are not convicted of
anything. They are not coming here via the same program you all did.”
“What, then? Why are they being sent here?”
Fallon, Garrek, and Zohro’s heads all swivelled to me. Somewhat
startled, I realized it was I who had spoken.
“So Silent Silar speaks when the subject relates to females. Good to
know,” Zohro sneered, leaning back in his chair now and replacing his hat
upon his head. In the shadow of the beaten brim, his eyes still glowed.
“It’s a good question no matter who asked it,” Fallon said. “Why are
they coming here?”
“They’re being sent as brides. For you,” Warden Tenn clarified when we
all responded to that remark with a stretch of dumbfounded silence. “To
marry.”
“Brides.” Zohro and Fallon said the word at the exact same moment.
Zohro with incredulous disdain, Fallon breathing it with something close to
wonder. Garrek and I exchanged guarded glances as the warden went on.
“Yes. Brides. The empire has decided, now that you are adults and have
served so much time here, that it would be unnecessarily cruel to deprive
you of female companionship into the remainder of your adult years.”
“Ha!” Zohro dragged his tall body out of his chair. I watched in silence
as he began to pace, his pink hide darker than usual in the dim light of the
warden’s office, his eyes killing white. My tail twitched close to the blade I
kept in my boot.
“The empire cares nothing about cruelty,” Zohro growled. “This is
nothing but a placation, a flimsy attempt to distract us from the fact that
they should have tried to reintegrate us into Zabrian life by now, but they
have not. They are leaving us here among the dust and the dung and trying
to bribe our acceptance of such a fate with women.”
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