Warrick's Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Two)

By R.E. Butler

Warrick Riya, captain in the Norlanian army, is betting everything that medical officer Sloan wants him as much as he wants her. He arranges for her abduction according to the traditions of their people, and takes her into the mountains to convince her that nothing would make him happier than spending the rest of his life as her husband.

Sloan Atarn has known for years that, like most Norlanian females, she’ll never be able to have children. She’s accepted that because of her faulty genetics, she’ll also never get married. When she wakes up in the mountains with the sexy Warrick telling her that he’s risking everything to make her his forever, she knows the right thing to do is to leave and let him live his life without her. If she can only bring herself to walk away from the only man she’s ever truly loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.E. Butler
• Release date: Feb 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311810519

R.E. Butler

A Midwesterner by birth, R.E. spent much of her childhood rewriting her favorite books to include herself as the main character. Later, she graduated on to writing her own books after "retiring" from her day job as a secretary to become a stay-at-home mom.When not playing with her kids, wrestling her dogs out the door, or cooking dinner for her family, you'll find her typing furiously and growling obscenities to the characters on the screen.Her best-selling series Wiccan-Were-Bear, The Necklace Chronicles, Hyena Heat, Wilde Creek, Were-Zoo, Arctic Shifters, Norlanian Brides, Saber Chronicles, and Ashland Pride are available now.

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Warrick’s Bride

Norlanian Brides Book Two

By R. E. Butler

Copyright 2016 R. E. Butler

Warrick’s Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Two)

By R. E. Butler

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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Warrick’s Bride (Norlanian Brides Book Two)

By R. E. Butler

Warrick Riya, captain in the Norlanian army, is betting everything that medical officer Sloan wants him as much as he wants her. He arranges for her abduction according to the traditions of their people, and takes her into the mountains to convince her that nothing would make him happier than spending the rest of his life as her husband.

Sloan Atarn has known for years that, like most Norlanian females, she’ll never be able to have children. She’s accepted that because of her faulty genetics, she’ll also never get married. When she wakes up in the mountains with the sexy Warrick telling her that he’s risking everything to make her his forever, she knows the right thing to do is to leave and let him live his life without her. If she can only bring herself to walk away from the only man she’s ever truly loved.

Chapter 1

Kyvern City, Military Headquarters

Norlan Home World

Warrick Riya paced in the hall outside his commander’s office. Commander Hirsi was discussing Warrick’s leave-of-absence request with six other members of the military governing board. It wasn’t that asking for time off was such an unusual thing; Warrick had taken his share of leave since he joined the military at sixteen. It was that he’d had to indicate what his vacation was going to entail and that had turned a simple request into an all-day affair.

Before Norlanian females had become sterile many years before, males would choose their bride through the soul-walk. Now, the soul-walk didn’t search for females within their own world, but looked to other planets and galaxies to find fertile matches for their males. When he was a young male, Warrick had watched his father put his mother out of his home in preparation for his new, fertile bride, who was coming from another world. Warrick had always looked up to his father, but seeing the look on his mother’s face when she realized she was being replaced due to something she had no control over had changed how Warrick felt about him. For the last twenty years, he had worked hard, rising through the ranks of the military until he had reached captain.

Lately, he had grown tired of his solitary life. Living in the barracks had appealed to him when he was a young male, but now that he was approaching thirty-six years, he began to yearn for a female to share his bed. Many of his men had taken the government’s strongly worded suggestion that they complete the soul-walk to find a female for themselves, but Warrick knew that the only female for him was not going to be found on a distant planet in another galaxy. She was right here on Norlan, one of the sterile females – a beautiful, kind medical officer named Sloan.

Their people were so concerned with the females’ sterility, that a male choosing an infertile mate was practically unheard of. Some females were only partially sterile, able to have male children but not female, but Sloan was unable to have children of either sex.

The door to the meeting room opened and Warrick was called inside by his commander. Seven males were seated around the oval table. Four were generals and three were commanders, the ruling body of the military. The head of the committee, General Kizgin, sat at the head of the table, drumming his fingers along the glossy top. Warrick was not asked to sit, so he didn’t, clasping his hands together behind his back and straightening his spine. None of the males looked happy. He wondered, briefly, what he would do if they turned down his request.

General Kizgin cleared his throat noisily. Captain Riya, we are having difficulty understanding your request. You are one of our finest soldiers. Isn’t it your desire to have children to carry on your legacy?

Warrick bit back the scathing retort involving his father abandoning his suddenly sterile mother in an attempt to continue fathering children, and instead calmly said, I have no desire to search the galaxies for a mate when my heart has already chosen the right female for me. It simply does not matter to me that we can never have children. What I want is a life with the female I love.

The room grew silent as the males looked at each other and him with differing emotions. Curiosity. Wariness. Fear.

Commander Hirsi, the male who had trained him, ran his finger along his square jaw. "And you would take one of our medical officers away from her duties for fifteen dins so that you can...what? Convince her that, unlike every other unmated male on our world, you don’t care about having children?"

Warrick ground his teeth together until the urge to punch his mentor in the face passed. My choices are my own to make, Sir. I’m not asking for your understanding, only your acceptance of my request for time off.

General Ofeli frowned in thought. You will have to sign a waiver that you will never go on a soul-walk, even if Miss Atarn refuses to mate with you.

"I already have, Sir. I understand the risk I take with abducting