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CHAPTER 1
As she had every night for the last week, Star woke up without an orgasm
Running her hands through her sweat-da funda a totally hot sex drea off
“Dreaain?”
The soft feh the metal confines of Star’s ship
Tossing aside her coverlet, she hopped out of bed, too worked-up to go back to sleep “Yes, damn it The bastard If I didn’t want to fuck him so bad, I’d kick his ass”
“You do realize you are speaking of a figination?”
“Yeah, I knoo-Thousand I’ it from lack of sleep”
Naked, she padded barefoot down the hallway until she reached the 1
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bridge “The craziest part is I still have no idea what he looks like He’s just this yummy deep voice in the darkness I swear that voice makes me so hot” And his hands—those warm, tender hands They knew just where to touch her, stroke her, caress her
She shivered
“Why do you wake up?”
“Because he leaves!” Star coht before we fuck, he leaves”
Dropping into the captain’s chair, she checked out the navigational readings “How are we doing time wise?”
“Excellent You will be on top of your fugitive soon”
“Good I could really blow off soht about now”
“Will you kill him when you capture him?”
Star sighed at the question, and turned her gaze away froalaxy beyond “Probably”
“You answered with very little hesitation”
Shrugging, Star kicked her feet upward to rest on the console She’d purchased the newestwith the bonus earned from her last capture “Why feed him rations all the way back to Priet there? I’m a hunter of criminals, not a restaurant Besides, he’ll be a handful I don’t want to deal with him”
“While I agree that is practical, do you not worry that perhaps the Supreme Court Justices passed sentence too quickly?”
“You know,” Star gru”
“All correctional CPUs are prograuess decisions
It helps keep judges on their toes”
“Yeah, yeah You know the rules, Two-Thousand, and so did he
Jacians can’t be on the loose when their heat is on thees, and if they’re not locked up with their pre-assigneds, they’ll rape or go irreversibly crazy It’s just that simple”
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“For you, hed, it would have “What if he was not attracted to his pre-assigned partner?”
Leaning forward, Star snatched up her nail file and began to shorten her claws The darew like weeds “When a Jacian is in heat, even a deck plate is attractive”
“Regardless, hoould you like being locked in a room with someone you would not want to have sexual intercourse with?”
Star rolled her eyes and shot a quick glance at the console readout
They were five clicks away from Rashier 6 Intel had reported that the Jacian had last been seen there If hishis heat nohich effectively trapped hi for the next week besides fuck “You’re ht now, he’d want to have sex with you”
“Funny, Star”
“Actually, it’s not Poor bastard At thisa ship is iet him arrested”
I alri from her earlier dream
Except she wasn’t breaking Interstellar Council Law, and he was
Soher than others, like this one She really did feel sorry for the guy, but she was a judge and her job was to follow the letter of the law Black and white Right or wrong There wasn’t any place for her to give leeway because she syenetics And she was the only judge as of the Hunter species Her ability to hand down fair verdicts was heavily scrutinized, and left her no rooht have been able to appeal for a reduced sentence, she could not That hy she was so surprised the Jacian government had asked her to personally handle this capture It was almost like they wanted their 3
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rogue ambassador dead
“Maybe his pre-assigned had qualms”
“Whatever, Two-Thousand Now you’re being ridiculous You know his pre-assigned was hot for it” Jacians were a telepathic species renowned for their exotic beauty Pale green skin reen Thick, silky hair in various colors Eyes in a rainbow of jeweled tones And their inexhaustible sexual appetite, which they aug theht after as mates
“Have you been with one? Sexually?”
“Nope” Star stood and stretched, lifting her ar out the bony spines that coursed the length of her back before retracting theain “I like sex as much as anyone, uy would killmost of the time, there has to be some time when you’re not
You gotta sleep and eat, right? And once ets tedious fast”
“You are kidding”
Laughing, Star checked the programmed coordinates, and started the mental preparations for the hunt She liked to be ready for anything
It’s why she was the best Because of her skill, she was counting on this being an easy capture The Jacian was holed up so mad with need for one He didn’t stand a chance
“Of course I’ about thenue In fact, this is the first case I’ve heard of in my lifetime A shame to have to waste a prime Jacian male like this, but he had a trial and was duly sentenced Wanted dead or alive Those are our orders”
“I aree with the popular opinion 4
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about their beauty”
“I don’t know, I’ve never seen one” Star opened the weapons bunker and withdrew her favorite blade She didn’t need it Physically, she was equipped with the claws and teeth to kill anything But using a knife or blaster kept her prey alive “I’ve always been too busy collecting the judicial credits I need to make it to the Supreme Court bench”
“I have pictures of him,” Two-Thousand coaxed
“No, thanks” Moving back down the hallway to her quarters, Star caught up the silvery blond tresses that flowed down her back, and tied theet ready for the hunt
“Jacians are pretty distinctive I just have to find the one with the raging hard-on”