Brocke: Alien Warlord's Conquest (Scifi Surprise Pregnancy Alien Military Romance) by Vi Voxley Page B

didn't know much else other than that they had been kidnapped.
    It seemed Condor wasn't as inept as she'd hoped.
    "Is there any name you heard mentioned?" Cora asked them all. "Any place your captors spoke about?"
    "Olyra," one of them finally said and Cora could tell it was important by how everyone near them winced. "I heard one of them talking about Olyra."
    "What is that?" Cora asked. "A person?"
    "It's a place," the young woman confessed, but she was avoiding Cora's eyes, saying that. "A horrible place."
    "If Condor's men mentioned it, he might be there," Cora argued. "I will check it out. Where is it?"
    "I don't know," the woman said. "None of us do or we would tell you. But the location wouldn't help you. Tell the guardian. Olyra is no place for a Terran."
    Cora asked more, but that was all she could get from the survivors. She wasn't going to press already traumatized people more, but they were being surprisingly unhelpful when it came to that odd name.
    She stayed in the factory until nightfall, checking over every place where they found even the slightest trace of the presence of Condor's men. They had been infuriatingly clean, but Cora supposed priests were supposed to know how to erase their traces. Still, she stayed until she was absolutely certain there was nothing new for her to see. Even then, Cora gave strict orders to be notified if anything new turned up.
    When Brocke returned to her, she didn't bring up Olyra just yet, wanting to confront the guardian in private.
    If Cora's hunch was correct, she had stumbled upon something that Corgans hadn't shared with the Union. Things like that required a delicate touch.
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    F or the first time , Cora barely noticed being on the speeder. Cold air rushed past her, ruffling her messy curly hair as she buried her face against Brocke’s armor.
    She was shaken, and Cora didn’t like it one bit. The day had been one big rollercoaster of emotions. First the horror of the bodies in the drain, then the absolute joy of finding survivors. Then the mysterious Olyra and hints of a secret Cora felt she had learned by accident.
    The mutilated bodies were the image hardest to shake. It seemed that some events and monsters were still able to bring her down. Ultimately, Cora knew it would only make her keener to find Condor and make sure he received justice with all of his crazed followers.
    Her hands were wrapped around Brocke’s firm, solid form. Cora had been raised and taught to obey the law. It was her job to enforce it, but every once in a while she was tempted to take matters into her own hands. Bastards, crooks, and killers who didn’t deserve to spend the rest of their days in some comfy cell, well-fed and cared for.
    She had never given in to that desire, but now Cora didn’t have to. Gaiya was a Corgan world, no matter what the Galactic Union wanted to believe or stated in official documents. Everything in that realm was a bit more Corgan than anything else. Even Brocke, a half-breed by his genetics, was more Corgan, and that had nothing to do with the organ transplants he’d received like all other warriors.
    There was something different in their spirit, the way they saw the world.
    Cora didn’t have to dirty her hands, she didn’t even need to do anything. In fact, her inactivity was what was needed. Brocke would slay all those responsible. She hadn’t asked him, but Cora was entirely sure that Gomor didn’t wait for any of the killers. Brocke’s blades were what lay ahead for them.
    The fact that Condor had pushed her so far bothered Cora the most.
    They had barely arrived in her quarters when the messages started pouring in. Ashby's image was blinking on her screen first. Cora answered her call, putting it on holodisplay so that Brocke could hear the news too.
    “Good news,” Ashby said at once. “Ambassador Swann has found the person who helped Condor. They are interrogating him now.”
    Cora noticed that the priestess' eyes flickered to Brocke, but she