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version of your brothers, not the bonded versions. This stuff makes you crazy. Look at what it did to you? Is still doing to you?’

“Will you quit doing that?” the blue Danan exclaimed, throwing up his arms.

And I had to admit they were very nice arms. There was so much muscle I thought one arm would probably weigh as much as my whole body.

I pushed down my erotic thoughts with annoyance, knowing my eavesdroppers would pick them up. There had to be a way to keep them out of my head. Having to control my thoughts as well as my feelings was exhausting.

‘You don’t have to control your thoughts,’ Rian rushed to assure me. ‘I understand that you find my brothers sexually arousing. That’s the bond at work.’

I growled aloud.

“She’s having trouble with the Mind Speak. I’m trying to assure her that she doesn’t have to censor herself for us. She finds you attractive, and she thinks I’ll be upset about that,” Rian said.

I felt my cheeks burn. Open the ground right now! This was so embarrassing. I shot Rian an aggrieved scowl.

The brothers exchanged looks before the green one took over. “This is a mess. But we can get through it. We just need a plan.”

I rolled my eyes. A plan? How the hell would a plan work with any of this?

“Let’s start with introductions and you telling us how you managed to get to us in time?” Rian suggested.

I looked out the viewing screen at the endless darkness of deep space. Where were we going? In my fear, I hadn’t cared where we went other than off that damned planet. Now… Now I was starting to feel like I needed some control. Some way forward.

The blue one nodded. “Right, right. First things first. Jenna, I’m Lain.” He pointed to himself. “The green guy is Nial, and the red Danan is Meida. We’re overjoyed to finally meet you and to see you’re well.”

I nodded in acknowledgement, trying to keep their names straight in my head. I wish Rian had prepped me for this meeting. It would be good to know a little about each of them. If they were to be my mates.

Oh, Lord, was I really considering this? A week or so ago I would have run the other way if someone had said I was a podmate. The idea of the mating frenzy was more than I could contemplate. I’d found all Danans frightening, alien monsters. Then I’d let Kius heal me of some of my pain and I met Rian. Now I was talking about having a pod, as if it was a done deal.

Was it?

I knew Rian and Charsus must have been listening to my inner dialogue, but they chose to stay quiet. It was a relief.

“Thanks. Now can you tell us what’s happening?” I said unsteadily, looking from one to the other of the huge colorful warriors sitting around the flight deck.

Had Rian been this big? I didn’t think so.

‘I was,’ came Rian’s brusque reply.

‘Fine, then they just look bigger because it’s an enclosed space and there’s three of them.’

‘I suppose so,’ he admitted grudgingly.

Lain began filling me in on the mission to save me, how Rhain had seen them rescuing us from the monsters while the rest went on to follow the Keeda and witches.

Going after the witches sounded way too dangerous. Especially with the Victims on board. What had they been thinking letting them take part in this mission?

‘They need to have some control of their situation. They wanted to save you,’ Rian told me.

“How do you know?” I demanded aloud.

“I was part of the mission to rescue you. That’s how Charsus and I ended up getting to you in time. We...he, was already on a planet not far from here. It was an easy jump between here and there.”

I couldn’t get my head around wormholes. They all seemed to be one way tunnels and sometimes tunnels to and from the same location lay close together, sometimes they didn’t. It was a maze that required serious plotting to navigate.

“So they could have jumped to where we were, but they didn’t? They took the longer route to get to where the Keeda were?” I checked.

“Yes,” Nial said confidently. “See it as a U Turn Rian took. We are that much closer to home than if we’d continued on to our original destination.”

I nodded, still not making sense of it. But it didn’t matter. What mattered was getting back to Varga. I was about