Free Choosing Riley: Sarafin Warriors Book 1 by S. E. Smith

do a better job than we can,” he said, the
semblance of a smile almost curving his thin, flat lips. “Have the
guards return to their post.”
    157 looked at the Sarafin warrior rolling in
pain and whimpering on the floor while the larger one moved back
and forth doing the bidding of the female. He shook his head in
wonder. Perhaps 785 was right. The female was doing a better job of
controlling the males than even he expected. From the reports he
had read, he would have never believed the Sarafin king would be
jumping to the commands of a female.
    157 nodded to the guards. He glanced back
once more as the blond haired female leaned over the male on the
hard floor. His mind was working numbers. With her unusual looks he
calculated the number of credits he could get for her. If she could
handle five mates, including three Sarafin warriors, she could
handle much, much more. His flat lips thinned as an idea
formed.
    Yes, 157 thought. She would bring
in a lot of credits as long as I can keep her quiet long enough to
sell her.
    He knew just the trader to contact. There
would be no questions asked, the credits would be deposited to his
hidden account, and he would have enough to buy his own mining
operation. If all went as planned, the strange female would be
available because by tomorrow evening her mates would be dead.

Chapter 6
    “I am much better, Lady Riley,” Tor said
trying to gently move away from Riley’s fluttering hands. “My
eyesight is almost clear again.”
    “Are you sure?” Riley asked biting her tender
lower lip that she had been worrying for the past several hours.
“They still appear to be tearing a lot.”
    Tor would never admit that they still burned
like the fires from the hot mountains back home or that his nose
and throat weren’t in much better shape. He took another sip of the
cool water that Lodar handed him. He glanced at his friend and gave
him a nod of thanks.
    “I hope Vox took that little cylinder away
from her,” Lodar murmured in a low voice as Riley turned away to
check on Bob and Fred who had just returned. “I don’t want to take
a chance on her using it on me.”
    Tor wiped at his eyes with the cool, damp
cloth again. “It burns like the fire moon! My throat and nose are
on fire too. What did Vox do this time to upset her?”
    “He said she smelled,” Lodar responded with a
grin. “She did not appreciate his observation.”
    Both men watched as Vox followed Riley around
trying to get her to sit down and listen to him. It was almost
comical the way he pleaded with her to just hear him out. Lodar
chuckled when she swatted at their friend and leader. He had never
seen anything like it before. The human female was totally
oblivious to the fact she was running circles around one of the
most dangerous men in the known star systems. There wasn’t a female
alive that he knew of that wouldn’t envy her position.
    “Do you think he’ll be able to catch her when
this is all over?” Lodar asked curiously.
    “More power to him if he does,” Tor said
hoarsely before taking another long swig of water. “She is almost
as dangerous as the Curizan and Valdier were during the wars. More
so if you take into account she has no idea half the time of what
she is doing.”
    “Do you think all females of her species are
like this?” Lodar asked admiring the way her tight pants stretched
over her ass as she bent down to pack something in her strange pink
case.
    Tor’s eyes followed Lodar’s over the curve of
Riley’s rounded ass. He felt his cat purr. Maybe he wasn’t as
immune as he first thought. His red eyes moved to Vox who had
frozen in place as he followed her, his eyes glued to the same
place as the other males in the room. When Riley straightened, she
reached up and tucked her mass of curly hair back up in the bright
pink scrunchie. The movement pulled the thin top she was wearing up
revealing the pale skin of her slightly rounded stomach and pulling
the top tight across her ample