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    Foresworn Hope

    By Severine Wolfe

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    Sometimes it’s as simple as walking into a room...

    Taka Ogata had one goal and that was to get back to Earth and her Laurel. It didn’t matter that she didn’t know how to fly, or where she was in the universe, her path was unswerving, to the point where she always had a guard assigned to her to keep her from killing herself in the attempt. She had suffered greatly from The Accord and wanted nothing to do with it. Everything in her was desperate to get back home.

    Oras had seen Taka walking into the room at his friend’s house and immediately knew she was his bond mate. When she attempted to steal a state-of-the-art shuttle, he could not let her harm herself, and he agrees to take her back to Earth, putting his career and life at risk.

    Taka trusts no one, so Oras is fighting a losing battle from the very beginning. They must both confront what has happened to her when they face her ultimate goal even foreswearing promises he’s made. The only promise he will not foreswear is to protect her to the very end.

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    PublisherSeverine Wolfe
    Release dateJun 7, 2019
    ISBN9780463554944
    Foresworn Hope
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    Severine Wolfe

    Severine Wolfe is a pen name. It's also a name I've used across the gaming world for nearly 20 years. I answer to, "Hey, Sev!" just as easily as my birth name.I am married and have four grown children and three grandchildren. I love to read and I read everything from treatises on philosophy to theories on the speed of light to the most bawdy of bodice rippers. My interests are varied but reading, knitting and gardening are my top three. Extreme knitting, not for the faint of heart.I've had stories running around my head for years and I'm just now letting them out to put themselves on the virtual page. I hope you enjoy the characters as much as I have over the years. You can contact me at sevwolfe@gmail.com.

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      Foresworn Hope - Severine Wolfe

      FORESWORN Hope

      Shifting Alliances Book 7

      Severine Wolfe

      Science Fiction Romance

      Unexpected Hope

      Copyright © 2019 by Severine Wolfe

      First E-Book Published jUNE 2019

      Cover design by Melody Simmons

      e-book ISBN:

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: This literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction, in whole or in part, without express written permission from the author.

      All characters, places, and events in this book are fictitious or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, actual events, locales, or organizations are strictly coincidental.

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      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Sometimes it’s as simple as walking into a room…

      Taka Ogata had one goal and that was to get back to Earth and her Laurel. It didn’t matter that she didn’t know how to fly, or where she was in the universe, her path was unswerving, to the point where she always had a guard assigned to her to keep her from killing herself in the attempt. She had suffered greatly from The Accord and wanted nothing to do with it. Everything in her was desperate to get back home.

      Oras had seen Taka walking into the room at his friend’s house and immediately knew she was his bond mate. When she attempted to steal a state-of-the-art shuttle, he could not let her harm herself, and he agrees to take her back to Earth, putting his career and life at risk.

      Taka trusts no one, so Oras is fighting a losing battle from the very beginning. They must both confront what has happened to her when they face her ultimate goal even foreswearing promises he’s made. The only promise he will not foreswear is to protect her to the very end.

      Dedication

      This is for you. You know who you are. Thank you for reading.

      ONE

      She had finally gotten her hands on a ship. There was now the chance of getting back home. Back to Laurel. That baby had remained her ONLY focus since she'd been abducted and sent into horror almost a year ago. Taka Ogata had a single-minded purpose and that was to get back to earth, to Laurel. She had fought and nearly been killed in the pursuit of that one goal.

      She sat down in the cockpit pilot's seat and looked at the dashboard. She should have, perhaps, tried to learn how to pilot one of these things. Maybe? She didn't even know how to turn the engines on. She began breathing quickly in her panic. She would be killed this time for sure. This was not a military ship, it was a private shuttle, owned by one of the pink guys who'd brought them here.

      What the hell are you doing? That question was yelled from the doorway by an Olygian woman, another pink being, who was supposed to be guarding against the very thing Taka was now attempting.

      Taka snapped her head to look at Nome. Go away! I must get back to Laurel.

      Nome rolled her expressive eyes. Taka, she said with faux patience, you don't even know how to fly a shuttle. You could kill yourself trying and then where would Laurel be?

      Taka had the grace to look ashamed as she hadn't really thought about that part. The only thing she could think about was getting back to Laurel. If she didn't concentrate solely on that she would be forced to think about what had happened to her and she couldn't do that. Not yet. Maybe never.

      I can fly this, she stubbornly said, setting her jaw.

      Nome sighed again. That sign appeared to be universal, as far as Taka had seen.

      I can, came a voice from behind Nome. Taka was shocked to hear someone not immediately screaming at her for trying to escape.

      She stood up, stiff and watched a man with greyish silvery skin walk onto the shuttle. He had platinum white hair and his huge eyes were swirling silver. He scared her as he looked a lot like the scientist who had kidnapped her from a street in Tokyo. She'd been in the Harajuku zone, getting some ideas for new clothes to design. Seeing him forced her to take a step back and fall back into the pilot's chair. The man just stood staring at her.

      What? Oras, no! Nome shouted.

      The man turned on Nome immediately.

      I must, was all the man, Oras, said as he stepped into the doorway of the cockpit. You may take the navigator seat and I will get us out of here.

      Oras, Sailosh will gut you with a very dull knife, if you steal his mate's ship, Nome said in a dire tone.

      Then leave if you don't wish to go with us, he said, flipping switches and putting on his harness. You might want to get secured into a seat. We're taking off in a minute. He looked at some gauge and smiled. Engines are still warm… good.

      Nome ran back to the third seat in the cockpit and Taka could hear her putting on her seat harness. Taka was securing herself, meanwhile keeping a close eye on the man seated next to her, ready to defend herself if necessary. Suddenly, the shuttle began to vibrate and lift, then they were achieving escape velocity and punched through the Lyxosian atmosphere.

      Nome I am going to shut down our codes so they can't follow us, he called back. I can drop you off at a station.

      No, came her resigned answer. My task is to stay with her no matter what. She sighed, not daring to take her harness off until the artificial gravity field was turned on after they plotted their course and were heading towards a jump gate. They will drum you out of the Security Forces, Oras.

      Taka saw the man shrug and smile. They will do what they must. As I will do as I must.

      Nome grumbled something about addle-pated males and Taka wondered what that was all about. Were they lovers? Was this part of some spat they were having? If they were lovers, there was a good chance he would not be looking to her to satisfy his needs on their trip. She never took her eyes off the man. You could not trust him. She couldn’t trust anyone.

      Where are we going? She finally heard him say in a very loud voice, as if he was speaking to an elderly aunt who wouldn't use her hearing aid.

      I'm not stupid, she spat at him. Taka was used to being considered an all-around failure of the scientists sent to study Earth to determine whether they were ready for being approached by The Accord for inclusion into their kidnapping/rapist ranks.

      Taka had been kidnapped by a Lyxosian and had fought him tooth and nail on board his ship. He had gifted her to another being who had had no patience for her continued escape attempts and fighting her rapes. He had sold her to an unlicensed pleasure house where they had eventually put her to work as the cleaning lady because she would seriously harm males that would try to fuck her. She had been liberated and it had just been assumed she'd been working there as a sex-worker and she had not disabused them of that notion, figuring that being a victim would get her a ticket home.

      No such luck. As a matter of fact, it had made the Security Forces more determined that she never return to Earth. They knew how horrible humans could be in their fear of the unknown, and they were not ruining their years of observation. She had cried for her return to Laurel every hour of every day, demanding to be returned to her child. No one had cared.

      She did not care about their rules. She had spent a very long time looking for any chance to escape and get back to Earth. Back to Laurel. Landing on the planet they’d just left had given her that very opportunity.

      She flinched as the grey-silver man reached out to draw a screen over to him.

      I am only charting our course and planning our jumps. We can make the trip in this ship without having to commandeer a larger transport.

      She said nothing but did not take her eyes off him. He smiled at her and turned his head to look over his shoulder.

      Are you sure, Nome? We're about to leave the system and head to the next jump gate.

      I cannot leave her, Oras. Punch away.

      The man chuckled and Taka felt the vibration as the thrusters burned.

      He was looking at his personal communication device and nodding his head. Taka looked up at the viewing screen and saw them approaching a jump gate. The man punched some code into the command terminal and the gate began to light up.

      Let's hope Sailosh knows his acceptance codes... He looked over at her. He looked into her eyes and he appeared to lose focus for a moment then his weird, swirling eyes seemed to come back into focus. Yes, we will do this the hard way.

      Then Taka blinked and they were stopped on the other side of the jump gate. She shook her head. She'd felt an odd pressure in her head just before the jump.

      The man was mumbling to himself and he had a huge smile on his face. It was odd, but he was almost handsome, in an Alpine chiseled sort of way. He happened to glance her way and he stopped and smiled at her.

      I wish I could peek inside your mind with that look on your face. But I will have to muddle about, as Alana says.

      Taka had no idea what he was talking about, but he was making no move toward her, then she felt herself sink into her seat and her hair fell into her face.

      Gravity is on, he chuckled. Please feel free to move about the shuttle.

      Taka just stared at him. What was his game?

      *****

      Oras felt like his entire being was being lit from some powerhouse within his body. He'd felt like that from the moment he had laid eyes on the small woman now seated next to him. She was his mate. He knew nothing about her other than she did not resemble any other human female he had seen.

      She had dark black, straight hair, porcelain skin with just a hint of… not quite yellow underneath, and dark, almond shaped eyes. She was so tiny, but he suspected she packed a lot of power into her small frame. She was like a punch to his stomach and had left him breathless when he'd recognized what she was to him. He'd been very surprised to find that she had barriers even stronger than Alana's had been.

      He frowned realizing he knew nothing of her abduction or capture. He got out his personal comm unit and called up the information. Sailosh said he kept the server on the shuttle updated in Accord space so he should have all of her pertinent information and would not have to risk a ping on his comm unit this far out in the black.

      The woman would not speak to him, so he looked at her, still staring at him. You can get up and move around now. You might want to get a tube of water.

      She looked at him and yelled back at Nome.

      Come up here and make sure he stays on course!

      Nome chuckled as she moved past the woman and sat down in the vacated chair. As if I could stop that now.

      Oras looked down at the file he'd just opened on his comm unit. His lips thinned and he took a deep, deliberate breath. Great. She'd been originally abducted by a Lyxosian. Oras had actually worked with that scientist years ago on a botany expedition in a near lifeless system that had a few plants that had a medicinal use. He had seemed like a dedicated botanist... wait... botanist? How had he gotten an Earth visit? He would look into that later, right now he was concerned about knowing more about his mate. He looked over at Nome.

      She was kidnapped by a Lyxosian, he said quietly, and his fellow Security Forces officer looked sad.

      You have a very fast ride through a crowded asteroid field, my friend. Nome shot back at him.

      He nodded and continued to read.

      His mate had been kidnapped by a Lyxosian, sold to a Skelosian and then discovered in an unlicensed pleasure house on the outer rim, where it was assumed, she was forced to be mounted by countless miners who could afford the disease infested station. Physical examination showed that she had scarring from rape and he closed his eyes, pain filling him. Who had raped her? The Lyxosian or the Skelosian? How many rapes had she had to endure at the pleasure house?

      I am glad I cannot get past her natural shields, he said quietly and continued to read.

      His mate, Taka Ogata, from a place called Japan on Earth, had been unceasing in her demands to be taken back to earth to get her daughter, a female named Laurel. However, physical examination showed she'd never given birth and that the woman was perhaps, delusional, and mentally ill, broken by her captivity. They were supposed to be looking at her blood chemistry to determine the best treatment for her, but since it had come up Earth standard, they had wanted her to talk to a Human on Olyg, named Tasha, the woman who had been the catalyst for the exposure of the criminal nature of the scientists sent to study primitive worlds.

      Taka had not gotten that chance yet, as Tasha had mated a Selusian and they had recently had their first child, a girl.

      Fast ride through an asteroid field? Try being thrust past the la grange point of the nearest star.

      He thought about his friend Rylan and his mate Alana and how they had been treated on Lyxosia. His last information from just before the gate was, they were headed to Olyg, taking Rylan's family fortune with them. The male’s family had wanted his social position, but now they had no money to support their theft of it. Oras chuckled and thanked his lucky star that he had been born to the middle-class so that no one in his family was waiting to stab him in the back to steal the family manufacturing business. No, he'd left home to join The Security Forces and make his way through the universe. Up until he had run into a beautiful Human female named Marion as she refused to give up on her Olygian mate, he’d been happy with his lot. At that point, he had walked into a whole grey area of the Security Forces he had ignored his entire career.

      Now, he was abandoning his post and illegally transporting his mate back to her home planet to get her daughter, real or imagined. He was technically on leave and could go where he pleased, yet this would not enter into consideration when he was eventually caught and dragged back to Prime for trial.

      How was he ever going to convince her to mate with him, since he could not determine her feelings other than the way all non-telepathic and non-empathic races did? He had no idea how one did that.

      How do I do this? He asked the universe out loud. It was one thing to try to advise Rylan, but Alana had already been so ready to mate with him that not much coaching was needed. Alana had nothing like the experience of Taka.

      Nome chuckled as she stood up. She patted his shoulder on her way out of the cockpit. You stumble around just like everyone else, Oras.

      Oras continued to read the report. Taka. His mate had such a lovely name. She had tried almost non-stop to escape and steal transports. To the best of their knowledge she had no knowledge of how to fly any of the ones she'd managed to make her way into. She was very determined. The Security Forces who guarded the Human females at The Center on Olyg were advised to allow her to gain access to the transports to try to cause a break with her delusion that she had a young back on Earth. It had not managed to destroy her delusion, and in fact, had reinforced it. Their human expert had suggested that perhaps Taka did have a young on Earth and that what they thought they knew was wrong. That was such an impossible thought for The Accord, so it had been discarded immediately.

      Oras was not so accepting. This Laurel young was real to Taka.

      That would be the way to win her heart. He would get her young back to her.

      TWO

      How many more jumps? Taka heard Nome moan after their last jump through space. Space was big. Really, really huge. This was much longer than a flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles. At least the appointments were a little more comfortable. There was a little room to move around.

      Two more, Nome, Oras had told her as he headed back into the cockpit.

      They had been inside this shuttle, which actually had two sleeping units, for three weeks. Taka admitted, only to herself, that perhaps, she had not thought this through. They were rationing the provisions on the shuttle so they would have enough to get back home.

      I hate space travel, Nome huffed out as she threw herself into a chair in the back of the shuttle. This is why I volunteered to work at The Center.

      Taka almost giggled. Nome was basically a Space Ranger who didn't like space travel. Go figure, as Alana would say.

      May I ask you a question, Nome? Taka asked politely. That much of her Japanese culture had been drilled into her since birth. A personal question.

      Nome nodded and took her personal comm unit out, hoping that

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