“How?” the Dark Father demanded. “It will take you years more to accrue enough energy to exit the time vortex you are trapped in so that you can serve me properly! I want nothing more to do with you—I will find someone else to bedevil the Kindred!”
“But, Father—” the scion began to protest.
“Do not call me that any longer!” the Dark Father roared. “Never speak to me again, you wretched failure!”
Then he withdrew his presence, slinking back to the parallel universe and leaving the scion all alone in the deep blackness of space.
The scion withdrew into himself, into the safety of his shell, the Eye of Ten’gu, where he brewed the emotions of self-pity and rage like a fine wine. He felt betrayed, but most of his rage was not for the Dark Father, who had abandoned him, but for the Kindred. He had failed twice to hurt them and because of them, his father had called him useless.
How he wanted to make them pay!
And then something happened that no one would have believed. The slow-time bubble—which had been lodged beneath the Hells’ Gate Station, staying in the same place for generations—began to move. Slowly at first, then more quickly, the time bubble drifted away into the blackness of space. And where it had been, the normal flow of time resumed.
The scion could hardly believe it. Free—at last he was free!
Reaching from within the Eye of Ten’gu, he stretched out a tendril and latched onto the corroded metal that made up the side of the Hell’s Gate Station. Carefully, he pulled himself forward and began looking for an entry hatch. Once inside the station, he could leave the Eye behind and at last emerge into his true form.
And once he took his true form, his harassment of the Kindred could begin in earnest.
“I will make you proud, Father,” the scion whispered, as he made his way inside the station. “I will prove to you that no one can hurt and humiliate the Kindred as well as I can!” He would make them all pay and the Dark Father would welcome him back into the fold, the scion promised himself. He would prove himself worthy by causing them pain and he would never stop until he was once more welcome in the Dark Father’s presence.
His true mission began now.
The End?
OF COURSE NOT!
There are always more Brides of the Kindred stories and Kindred Tales to come. And if this happens to be your very first Kindred book, first of all, I’m impressed—you’re pretty brave starting a series on book #26! And second, if you want to know what happens to Sophie, Liv, Kat, Baird, Sylvan, Xairn, and Commander Terex, well, they all have their own books in the Brides of the Kindred series. So go back to book #1, CLAIMED, (which is free everywhere) and start from the beginning.
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Evangeline, April 2021
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Brides of the Kindred series
(Sci-Fi / Action-Adventure Romance)
CLAIMED (Also Available in Audio)
HUNTED (Also Available in Audio)
SOUGHT (Also Available in Audio)
FOUND (Also Available in Audio)
REVEALED (Also Available in Audio)
PURSUED (Also Available in Audio)
EXILED (Also Available in Audio)
SHADOWED (Also Available in Audio)
CHAINED (Also Available in Audio)
DIVIDED (Also Available in Audio)
DEVOURED (Also Available in Audio)
ENHANCED (Also Available in Audio)
CURSED (Also Available in Audio)
ENSLAVED (Also Available in Audio)
TARGETED (Also Available in Audio)
FORGOTTEN (Also Available in Audio)
SWITCHED (Also Available in Audio)
UNCHARTED (Also Available in Audio)
UNBOUND (Also Available in Audio)
SURRENDERED (Also Available in Audio)
VANISHED (Also Available in Audio)
IMPRISONED
TWISTED
DECEIVED
STOLEN
COMMITTED
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME ONE
Contains Claimed, Hunted, Sought and Found
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME TWO
Contains Revealed, Pursued and Exiled
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME THREE
Contains Shadowed, Chained and Divided
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FOUR
Contains Devoured, Enhanced and Cursed
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME FIVE
Contains Enslaved, Targeted and Forgotten
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME SIX
Contains Switched, Uncharted and Unbound
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME SEVEN
Contains Surrendered, Vanished, and Imprisoned
BRIDES OF THE KINDRED VOLUME EIGHT
Contains Twisted, Deceived, and Stolen
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Kindred Tales
The Kindred Tales are side stories in the Brides of the Kindred series which stand alone outside the main story arc.
These can be read as STAND ALONE novels.