His to Keep

By Odessa Lynne

Brylan has spent the last three years inside the harems of New United R'H'ani, happy with his life of pleasure and duty, until his newest employer betrays his trust and sells him to an Ani'Hain smuggler. But once in Ani'Hain and up for auction, Brylan starts to realize nothing is as it seems...

Enjoy this exciting new story in the R'H'ani Chronicles that takes us across the Great Ani Ocean to Ani'Hain, where the people of another land follow a different set of rules...

HIS TO KEEP is the eighth story in The R'H'ani Chronicles. Although the series is best experienced in order, this story can be read as a stand-alone story. Novelette length.

Male/Male content. Romance for readers who like stories that are hot and sweet, and not of this world!

The R'H'ani Chronicles is a romance series made up of individual stories of novelette length that aim to tell a larger story over time. Each story can be read as a stand-alone story, but the series is best enjoyed in order.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Odessa Lynne
• Release date: Dec 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311163806

Odessa Lynne

Odessa Lynne is a romance author at heart, even though many of her books cross the science fiction, fantasy, and romance genres.After years of reading romance, fantasy, and science fiction novels, Odessa discovered she liked romance in her fantasy, sex in her science fiction, and love between her heroes best of all. So that’s exactly what she puts in all her own stories now, for readers who enjoy the same!Odessa lives in the southeastern United States.Visit odessalynne.com for information about current and upcoming releases or to sign up to her new releases email list.

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HIS TO KEEP

THE R’H’ANI CHRONICLES

#8

A Novelette

Odessa Lynne

ODELYN PUBLISHING

HIS TO KEEP

Copyright © 2015 by Odessa Lynne

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First Electronic Publication December 2015

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, events, and incidents portrayed in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales are entirely coincidental.

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright

About His To Keep

HIS TO KEEP

About The R’H’ani Chronicles

Also by Odessa Lynne

About the Author

About His to Keep

Brylan has spent the last three years inside the harems of New United R’H’ani, happy with his life of pleasure and duty, until his newest employer betrays his trust and sells him to an Ani’Hain smuggler. But once in Ani’Hain and up for auction, Brylan starts to realize nothing is as it seems . . .

Enjoy this exciting new story in the R’H’ani Chronicles that takes us across the Great Ani Ocean to Ani’Hain, where the people of another land follow a different set of rules . . .

HIS TO KEEP

"The division between the great R’H’ani Empire and its colonies started with a broken contract between my father and the faithless minister of Ani’Hain who refused to honor his signature." —Stephen Kardale, great grandson of the eighteenth R’H’anian Emperor Stephen Petyr Kardale, from the speech he gave before the announcement of the winners of the first New United R’H’ani election, 8018–8067

Ani’Hain

Four Years Ago

The auction was the most frightening thing Brylan had ever faced. Not even the weeks-long trip across the great Ani ocean had put such a churning in his stomach.

A tall man in a bright green long-sleeved shirt and skirt that ended at mid-calf hustled him forward, urging him to climb the granite slab stairs in front of him. Brylan rubbed sweaty palms against the much shorter fabric of his own skirt, the traditional mid-thigh length skirt that signified his working class in R’H’ani, and forced himself to take that first step.

Go on, the man said, shoving lightly between Brylan’s bare shoulders. The man’s hand was cold, and gooseflesh raced across Brylan’s already chilled skin. He’d gotten caught by the cold spray of ocean water coming off the ship, and although it had been half a day since he’d disembarked with the rest of the men and women who’d been on the ship with him, he hadn’t felt warm since.

Of all the misfortunes he could imagine befalling him in his life, the one facing him now had never crossed his mind as a real possibility.

His generous harem contract had been a trap. He’d been sold to an Ani’Hain smuggler by his employer.

Brylan swallowed hard and tried not to stare out at the crowd gathered at the foot of the wide steps.

A fresh batch! a man even taller than the tall man yelled out to the crowd. He had dark hair and a short beard and his voice carried with a certain twang that emphasized the differences between Hainian and R’H’ani pronunciations. Brylan had to listen closely to make sure he didn’t miss anything.

Once Brylan had reached the