Mikos of Astra legion is a cursed Rogue 5 enforcer, exiled by his own legion and hunted for a vicious crime, with none of a Coalition fighter’s honor.
He expected to die under Hive torture aboard a prison ship until a Coalition ReCon team stormed it, bringing a beautiful, fragile human woman who should never have come near him.
Fearless, she touched him and later saved his life, and her scent told him she was his mate even as he meant to walk away rather than burden her.
After she nearly died in his arms, his hybrid bite put his essence in her blood, and that cursed venom is killing her; the antidote lies on Rogue 5, where an executioner’s blade waits for him.
He will take her off Battleship Karter and eliminate every Prillon warrior, fighter, and Atlan beast in his way if he must, without ever telling her the price.
What he cannot resist is the primal need to touch her, taste her, and make her remember screaming his name long after he is gone.
