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Rok glared at Lamira, the human female who looked just like the one who’d stolen his ship and left him stranded on the abandoned planet Pifany eight months ago. It had taken him and his crew three weeks and a lot of sweet-talking to find a lift back to civilization. Then it had taken another six weeks of the most dangerous smuggling work—piloting a borrowed ship loaded with weapons into a war-torn planet of Jesel—to earn enough to buy a new airship.
In fact, he still hadn’t recovered financially from the setback.
So to find a human who claimed to be Lily’s sister peering from behind the so-called Zandian prince annoyed the veck out of him.
“Where is your vecking sister?”
Prince Zander drew himself up. “You will speak with respect to my mate.”
Mate, huh? That gave him pause. The sli
