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An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication
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Ral’s Woman
ISBN 9781419924064
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Ral’s Woman Copyright © 2009 Laurann Dohner
Edited by Shannon Combs
Cover art by Syneca
Electronic book Publication September 2009
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Laurann Dohner
Dedication
To the love of my life, David. He’s always supportive in every way imaginable,
always reminds me that true love really does exist, and is always eager to conduct
“research” with me.
Ral’s Woman
Chapter One
Ariel kept her eyes down. She’d learned to not look up. Her left cheek still hurt
from the bruises she was sure marred her face. She knew help would never come. She
was still in deep shock and it was hard to function as the hours passed. Her life was
over, changed forever, and death would probably greet her really damn soon. This
couldn’t be happening. How many times had that thought crossed her mind in the days
since she’d been taken?
Her gaze drifted around the cave floor. Someone had painstakingly swept up the
dirt and debris until it was almost clean. There were lights along the ceiling so the room
was well lit.
She heard shoes striking the stones, and fear gripped her. What now? The thought
barely surfaced before she heard one of the men who’d grabbed her enter the room.
“Useless,” he said softly.
She lifted her gaze. The man wasn’t human. The shock of someone not being
human hadn’t started to dim yet. Days ago if she had been told other races existed she
would have laughed and asked them what movie they had watched too much. It wasn’t
funny anymore. Her gaze swept the man’s bluish pale skin and then dropped. His eyes
were yellow. They were serpent-like and his voice was wispy in a creepy way that sent
bad chills down her spine.
“Did you hear me, Earthling? You’re useless.”
She nodded. She didn’t speak. She knew if she looked at him too long or if she
spoke, it would warrant another blow to her face. They were Anzons. That’s what she’d
been told when they had grabbed her from the woods by her home. The days she’d
been captive felt like forever to her.
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