Mandate

By Viola Grace

Wren has been a caretaker for all her adult life. The offer to take up a new life in the stars comes as part of her career comes to a sad end.

They ask her to change her DNA, she does. They ask her to engage in combat training, she does. They ask her to channel the new talent that roars through her bloodstream, she focuses. If they had asked her if she was willing to mate with a stranger, she would have considered it.

Drovin has been waiting for the day when his mate would arrive on his world. He knows what she looks like and who she is, but her personality is a mystery. Binding them together before she arrived was his idea, but it might have been an incorrect impulse when she can find all of his weaknesses in an instant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Oct 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781487400590

Viola Grace

Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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Wren takes care of those around her, but will a bunch of Guardians be more than she can keep in fighting shape?

Wren has been a caretaker for all her adult life. The offer to take up a new life in the stars comes as part of her career comes to a sad end.

They ask her to change her DNA, she does. They ask her to engage in combat training, she does. They ask her to channel the new talent that roars through her bloodstream, she focuses. If they had asked her if she was willing to mate with a stranger, she would have considered it.

Drovin has been waiting for the day when his mate would arrive on his world. He knows what she looks like and who she is, but her personality is a mystery. Binding them together before she arrived was his idea, but it might have been an incorrect impulse when she can find all of his weaknesses in an instant.

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Mandate

Copyright © 2014 Viola Grace

ISBN: 978-1-4874-0059-0

Cover art by Martine Jardin

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Mandate

Terran Times Second Wave

By

Viola Grace

Chapter One

Wren Silverberg waited as the final shovel of dirt landed on the coffin of her former patient. Emily Thacker Smithwick was gone and Wren had been missing her for a week.

Ms. Silverberg, you should leave now. I will meet you in the transport momentarily. Recruiter Norz smiled at her and showed the deadly teeth that didn’t disturb her as much as it first had a month ago.

She nodded and headed for the transport with the glares of the Smithwick family following her.

They had hired her to care for Emily but seemed to think that hiring a caregiver would impart immortality to the woman who had passed the century mark. All Wren had been able to do was keep Emily fed and entertained. She had done her utmost to make Emily’s life happy, and the moment that she passed, her family had kicked Wren out of the house and stopped payment on her final paycheck.

It was simply Emily’s own devious planning that had given Wren the possibility of a new life elsewhere. Now, she waited for the man who had participated in her extrication to stop making the Smithwicks turn green, so that she could take her shuttle to the moon for training.

* * * *

Norz narrowed his eyes at the pasty and unpleasant Smithwicks. Emily was an amazing woman, and she deserves better than the greedy, grasping gathering of offspring that stands before me.

I beg your pardon.

Her eldest son, Jonathon, spluttered at the comment.

Norz handed them a disk. Here. Watch this and tell me what you think of the woman you have derided, degraded and who gave Emily bright and lively last days. She gave her all to her and you responded by ignoring her own grief and ejecting her from her home of the last five years.

Norz turned and left them to stare at the disk while he accompanied his bodyguards to the vehicle that held his newest recruit.

* * * *

The Smithwicks gathered around the screen and watched the video of Wren dealing with Emily’s temper with good humour, reading her stories, helping her with her email and keeping her in touch with her friends.

Jonathon scowled, this was not what he expected to see based on the consistent lack of funds in his mother’s wallet.

They watched clips of weeks of attendance and then came a quick pause when Jonathon Junior came in to speak to his mother.

Jonathon looked at his son, and his fifty-year-old son was looking uncomfortable.

The family watched as Wren left the room and Jonathon Junior immediately went to his grandmother’s wallet to withdraw all the cash. He tucked it into his own wallet, roused his grandmother from a nap and pretended he had just arrived.

As the family watched the withdrawal of money and drugs repeated with four other family members, Wren