Seduced by Two Warriors

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Copyright© 2015 Ravenna Tate

 
ISBN: 978-1-77233-339-8

Cover Artist: Jay
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Editor:
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DEDICATION

To my readers, thank you for
making my debut series such a success. This is the last book in the Voyeur Moon
series. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it.

SEDUCED BY TWO WARRIORS

Voyeur Moon, 4

Ravenna Tate

Copyright © 2015

Chapter One

Gia
Falconetti had been working on the planet Sera in the Alpha Centauri system for
two years now, and she’d never seen anything like the mess just dumped on her
desk. “What do you expect me to do with
this
?”
She stared first at the pile of tiny data drives, then into the face of her
immediate supervisor, Honora. The alien woman had a penchant for treating Gia
like nothing more than a scut worker.

Two
years ago, after
Gia
had escaped from the man who had
taken her for a sex slave from the infamous holding cells on Voyeur Moon, a
nearby planet in the same solar system, she had been grateful to find relative
freedom and safety on Sera. And this job, even though it had included learning
an entirely new language, was perfect for her. But she was an interpreter, not
this woman’s personal servant.

“Translate
them,” said Honora, in her own language. She never spoke English with Gia, even
though all the inhabitants of Sera, Addo, and Voyeur Moon could speak nearly
every language on Earth. “I need them by the end of the day tomorrow.”

“I’m
in the middle of a special project for your boss. You know … Petroff? You
already know that. I’m not to be working on anything else until it’s finished.”
Gia stood and scooped up the data drives, then handed them back to Honora.
“Find another staff member to do it.” Gia, on the other hand, always spoke
English on purpose, just to piss off Honora.

Most
of the drives clattered on the floor because Honora hadn’t really tried to hold
them all. She glared at Gia, and Gia knew any second now she’d be ordered to
pick them up, but she was saved from having to tell Honora to do it herself
when her aforementioned boss’s boss walked in.

Honora
bristled, practically standing at attention and saluting Petroff. He ran the
entire department, and Gia had always liked him. It was thanks to his influence
that she’d landed this job to begin with. Petroff was a Second Order Regum, but
he didn’t act like a Regum. He was so easygoing and unpretentious.

The
Regum
were
the current ruling class of Sera and Addo.
They had also ruled Voyeur Moon at one time, but that planet was now under the
control of the dreaded Tyranns. The Regum
were
old
school, and it was due to their ancient laws and rigid ways that the Tyranns
had risen up over fifty years ago to begin with.

The
Tyranns’ original purpose in revolting against the Regum was to be allowed to
dictate certain aspects of their own lives, apart from the omnipresent control
of the Regum. But within the past three years, an extreme faction had emerged
from the original group of Tyranns, and they’d quickly taken over the entire
group. Their mission was now so far from the origins of the group that six
separate departments existed within the Ministry dedicated to dealing with the
atrocities the Tyranns were committing against Earth and its people.

“Petroff … what an unexpected
surprise.
I
thought you were still on Addo.”

Gia
had to bite her tongue to keep from laughing at Honora’s fake smile and her
patronizing tone of voice. She was such an idiot. No people skills at all.

“It
wouldn’t be a surprise if you read memos.” He turned his dark eyes toward Gia
and smiled. “I have a proposition for you.”

Gia
came out from behind her desk and sat in one of four chairs that ringed a table
in the corner of her office. “Please, let’s talk about it.”

She
ignored Honora as Petroff took a seat across from her. He leaned forward, his
eyes dancing with a secret. “First of all, you’re doing a fabulous job in this
department. I’m so pleased with your work.”

“Thank
you.”

“Do
you know who Fallon Myers is?”

“I’ve
heard her name come up, but I’ve never met her.”

“She’s
an Earth woman who was taken about eighteen months ago and sent to the Zoo.”

Gia
shivered and hugged herself. The Zoo was an establishment the extreme faction
of Tyranns had built on Voyeur Moon to house political prisoners from all three
planets. Two or more men to one Earth woman shared lavish quarters, but the
décor was merely a backdrop.

The
idea was to make a fool out of their prisoners by forcing them to put on sex
shows for paying customers. Their performances weren’t voluntary, and they were
locked inside those quarters at all times. The men were encouraged to be as
rough with the women as they wanted. It was a life sentence for all of them,
and if the women refused, they were sent to the holding cells.

Gia
couldn’t wrap her mind around how the Zoo could be any better than the holding
cells where she’d first been sent. Two years later, she still had nightmares
about her experiences there.

“Fallon
has worked in the Ministry right here on Sera with the two men who escaped from
the Zoo with her.”

“I’m
sorry. What? She escaped from the Zoo?” Had she heard him right?

“Yes.
All three of them did.”

“Oh…”
Now
Gia remembered. She
had
heard about that over a year ago,
but hadn’t paid much attention at the time because she didn’t want to relive
her own experiences. Two prisoners from Addo named Cord and Arlo, plus Fallon,
were the only prisoners ever to escape the Zoo. They’d had help from a Second
Order Regum named Cortez, who’d used his contacts inside the Tyranns to cause
an electrical outage one night inside the Zoo. Two additional contacts posing
as guards had helped the three escape.

“You
remember the story now?”

“Yes.
Yes, I do.”

“Cord,
Arlo, and Fallon went to work in the Department of Reclaiming Voyeur Moon, and
now they run the branch that is responsible for writing and disseminating
information to our people. Imagine that.
Two Addonians and an
Earth woman running a Ministry department branch.”
Petroff smiled and
shook his head. “And our people say we aren’t progressive.”

Gia
smiled, but said nothing. She’d learned early on not to argue politics with
anyone inside the Ministry, and especially not with her boss’s boss. He’d been
born a Regum, and while she knew he didn’t agree with all their particular
laws, he stood by them in public.

“You
wouldn’t know this, but Cortez and I are old friends. Cortez is Cord’s cousin,
but I only met Cord once, as a youth. I ran into Cortez a few weeks ago, and he
told me that Cord, Arlo, and Fallon were looking to expand their branch. They
want representatives from the Addonians, as well as Earth women who have your
unique experiences.”

Goosebumps
broke out over her arms. “Which experiences are those?”

His
face took on a look of sympathy. “You escaped, too.
From the
holding cells.
Do you know how rare that is?”

She
swallowed hard. “I’ve been told it is, yes.”

Petroff
wasn’t a touchy-feely sort of alien, but he placed a warm hand over her
suddenly cold one. All the aliens felt overly warm to her when she had occasion
to touch them, so the heat didn’t surprise her. But the tender look on his face
did. He wasn’t an emotional man.

“I
won’t pretend to know what you went through. But you can help others because of
it. They need firsthand accounts for propaganda. Convincing our own people of
what’s still going on over there is proving difficult. They don’t want to
believe it. Now that we no longer control the planet, they’d rather simply
forget it exists. But the more we allow the Tyranns to take, the easier it will
be for them to invade Sera or Addo one day.”

“The
combined armies of Sera and Addo could wipe out the Tyranns in a day.”

He
nodded. “Probably true, but we want to find another way to stop them.”

He
moved his hand, but even if he hadn’t, Gia would have pulled hers away. She
knew all this. She listened to the talk inside the Ministry every day. And she
agreed with him. But what could she do about it? She was only an Earth woman.
They’d given her shelter and work, but she had no influence at all with their
people.

“You
want me to work for Cord, Arlo, and Fallon, don’t you?”

“Gia,
I don’t want to lose you here, but your talents are wasted in this department.”

Honora
made a sound halfway between a gasp and a snort. Gia had forgotten she was still
in the office. Petroff turned his gaze on her. “Would you give us some privacy,
please?”

Honora
looked like Petroff had just asked her to strip naked. She turned on her heel
and stormed from the room while Gia tried not to laugh. Then Petroff turned his
attention back to
Gia
. “Do you really enjoy working
for her?”

His
tone was conspiratorial, and the humor in his eyes told her it was okay to
speak honestly. “No. I hate it. She treats me like shit.”

Petroff
nodded.
“Exactly.
And she always will. She hates Earth
people.
Thinks it’s the worst kind of insult that we allowed
any of you inside this hallowed building to begin with.”

Now
Gia laughed softly. Petroff was so unassuming, and that’s why she respected him
and enjoyed working for him. “I’d miss you as my boss’s boss.”

“And
I would miss you, but it’s only one floor below this one. And you won’t be
treated like shit, as you say. You’d be valued, and you’d have another Earth
woman to talk to.”

“That
would be nice. But what is it they want me to do there?”

“Translate
your experiences into written and electronic media for distribution to our
people.”

But that means I’d have to relive
them
. “I don’t
need to work for them in order to do that.”

“No,
but I don’t imagine that will be the summation of your duties there. Gia, we
need to stop the Tyranns.”

His
face grew cold and hard, just that quickly, and the tone of his voice sent
shivers down her spine once again.

“What
they’re doing is unconscionable. It
must
be stopped. Most of the Regum
are
even willing to work
with the Addonians to see this accomplished.”

The
Addonians were a newer group, formed of people from Sera, Addo, and even those
who had formerly identified with the Tyranns. “I can see that must be true,
since you’re allowing them to work here in the Ministry now.”

The
Addonians wanted to bridge the gap between the strict laws of the Regum and the
out-of-control ways of the Tyranns. They weren’t looking to take over, merely
to find an alternative solution to the wars that went on when the Tyranns were
first formed. Too many people had already died for their cause, and the
Addonians wanted no part of that. They weren’t looking to wage war, but rather
only wanted to keep the peace, and offer the people of Sera and Addo another
way of life than the strict Regum way.

When
Gia first came to this planet, any group that opposed the Regum, no matter what
their intentions, would never have been tolerated, let alone given work and
shelter on Sera. But the Regum
were
so desperate now
to put an end to the Tyranns and take back Voyeur Moon, that they overlooked
the fact that the Addonians opposed their laws, as well.

“It’s
not anything I thought I’d see in my lifetime,” he said. “We never should have
given Voyeur Moon to the Tyranns. We were wrong to do so.”

“Why
did that happen in the first place?” She wasn’t as up on their history as she
should be, but that was because she’d chosen to ignore a lot of it. Even
something as simple as thinking about Voyeur Moon made the nightmares worse.

He
waved a hand in the air in an all encompassing gesture. “We thought it was a
good idea at the time. Let them have the planet we didn’t want to colonize, and
put an end to the wars. You weren’t here yet, obviously. But ask anyone over
the age of five and they’ll tell you what it was like before the wars finally
stopped.”

“So
when you decided to give Voyeur Moon over to the Tyranns the wars on Sera and
Addo did stop?”

“Yes.
But it took all those years for the highest order of Regum to make the decision
to simply give them the planet. And they were mostly in control of it by then,
anyway. Yours wasn’t the first planet from which they took women for sexual
pleasure, you know.
 
They’ve been using
Voyeur Moon for their own purposes for a while now.”

“I
know. I was told about the Velone women.”

The
women of Velone, a planet closer to Alpha Centauri than Earth, had been brought
to Voyeur Moon about fifteen years ago to become courtesans for the people of
all three planets. The Regum had raised their daughters from ancient times to
believe that sex was painful,
dirty,
and nothing more
than an unpleasant duty so they could bear their husbands children one day.