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Brides of the Kindred

Book 14: Enslaved

Evangeline Anderson

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Brides of the Kindred

Book 14: Enslaved

Copyright © 2015 by Evangeline Anderson

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Author’s Note #2: I'm very excited to let you know that I am in the process of turning all of the Brides of the Kindred series into audio books. The first book, Claimed, is available here and is read by the award winning Anne Johnstonbrown. Readers are already raving over her ability to get all the voices just right and she has also agreed to narrate Hunted, which I hope to have in audio by the beginning of April, 2015. If you've never tried an audio book, they are very easy to download and great to listen to during long car trips and commutes, working out at the gym, or just while you're cleaning the kitchen.(Which is when I listen.) I find listening to a book gives it a whole different dimension and I think if you enjoyed reading the Kindred series, you'll love listening as well. So give it a try!

Author’s Note #3: Please no piracy. The Kindred pay my mortgage now and without them, I’d have to go back to doing MRI full time. Since writing hot sex and complicated emotions is way more fun than shoving people into a magnetic hole all day, I would ask that you please buy your book instead of trying to find a pirated copy and encourage your friends to do the same so that I can keep writing and you can keep reading. Thanks!

Hugs and Happy Reading to you all,

Evangeline Anderson January, 2015

Also by Evangeline Anderson

Brides of the Kindred books (in order)

Claimed (also available in print and audio)

Hunted (coming soon as an audio book)

Sought

Found

Revealed

Pursued

Exiled

Shadowed

Chained

Divided

Devoured (also available in print)

Enhanced

Cursed

Born to Darkness Paranormal series

Crimson Debt

Scarlett Heat

Ruby Shadows (coming as soon as my Muse gets over her mental block. Sorry guys!)

Stand Alone novels and novellas

Purity

Stress Relief

The Last Man on Earth

Blind Date with a Vampire

Shadow Dreams

Young Adult, writing as Emmaline Andrews

The Academy

Compendiums

Brides of the Kindred Volume One

(includes Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found all in one volume)

***You can also find many other books by Evangeline at her website***

 

Table of Contents

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

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Kindred 15: Targeted excerpt

Mastering the Mistress excerpt

Kindred Glossary

About the Author

Also by Evangeline Anderson

Chapter One

Thrace S’ver was in the dark place. The black place. The place where no light could shine. Behind him he heard the slaver shouting out his wares, offering his goods to the highest bidder.

Me. I’m the fucking goods, Thrace thought grimly. Just like I was back when—

No. Don’t think about it. Don’t let it in.

The internal voice sounded like his Sire—the male who had raised him from the ages of six to sixteen cycles. He had been in turns strict and compassionate, loving and stern and he had tried to train Thrace in the honorable and forthright ways of the Havoc. He had been Thrace’s whole world. Until…

Until he fucking died in a place like this.

He tried to clamp down on the thought and the memory that came with it but it was hard…so fucking hard. Especially with the shouts of the slaver ringing in his ears.

“Slaves for sale! Fresh from the Carnal Houses—slaves trained to fulfill your every wish and desire—your every fantasy.”

The slavers had injected his voice box with a paralytic which made it impossible to speak—nonetheless, Thrace gave a silent grunt of derision. Unless whoever bought him desired to die and had fantasies of being ripped apart limb-from-limb that particular claim was going to prove false.

He took a deep breath and then another. Calm. He had to remain calm.

No one looking at Thrace would have known about his homicidal plans. After a grim and completely silent struggle with the armed slavers who had beaten and stunned him into submission, he had retreated into himself. Outwardly he was calm to the point of catatonia—his eyes closed behind the blindfold and his breathing controlled—but inside his mind churned.

Never should have docked on Padge. Never should have taken a drink at that sleazy portside bar. Shouldn’t even be in this part of the galaxy!

None of it mattered. All that mattered now as getting out of here—getting his freedom back. After that he could return to get his ship, The Empress, out of dry dock and mount a hunt for his First Mate, Solar. And then he could spend some time taking the bartender who had spiked his drink and the slavers who had captured him apart piece by leisurely piece.

But none of that would be possible until he got free—and with the pain collar around his neck and the manacles that held his arms behind his back, that was impossible here. Better by far to wait until he was sold. And then…

Then I’ll kill the son-of-a-bitch who buys me and get the Seven Hells out of here, he thought grimly. Just like I did before.