Prime Deliverance (Katieran Prime Series (Book Five)) Read Free

shot down through a tunnel and then the pod was ejected out the side of the ship.
    “May Goddess KatieRI watch over you, my daughter,” ConEL whispered with tears in his eyes. He knew it would be divine intervention for him to be reunited with his first-born. Right now he needed to try to fight his way to his mate and unborn child, but he had a sinking feeling that it would be a hopeless battle.
    AriELa beat on the side of the escape pod trying to open it but once the ejection codes were entered, she couldn’t open the door until reaching the programmed destination. She didn’t know where that was.
    She sat down in one of the two seats and buckled herself in. She had no sooner clicked herself in when she felt the jolt of the pod moving through the ejector tunnel. She could see what was happening from the viewing screen above her seat.
    As the pod was shot out into the black space, AriELa could see everything. Including the two Morin Transport ships that surrounded her family’s ship. She watched Morin shuttles board the smaller ship. A few minutes later the Morin shuttles departed. Then she watched in horror as the transport with her family on board blew up into tiny burning particles. One moment her family was there, and then the next, they were suddenly gone.
     
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    Twelve hours later
     
    “Where is the escape pod?” Prime Commander KydEL yelled at his Lieutenants. Having taken over as Prime Commander in his uncle’s absence.
    “Sir, the beacon indicates the pod landed on the east side of the Luna.”
    “Why in Kitana are we on the wrong side?” KydEL was beyond angry. He received the distress call from his uncle, who was the Prime Commander for Katiera, stating that their ship was under attack. His uncle, aunt, and cousin were missing and he was desperate to find them. Now he had to step up and take over as Prime Commander until his uncle was found. He wasn’t sure he was ready for all the responsibility. He worried that only one pod had been released. One pod could only hold two people. That did not bode well.
    “Take it easy, the pod is not far and our sensors detect at least one life form inside,” his brother, Prime SydEL, told him.
    Only one? Oh sweet Goddess KatieRI. His family was going to be devastated over this loss.
    “Sir, over here!” the son of the chief of security, MarAK, called out. The young male was around eighteen years old. He had started training as a security officer.
    “TarAK, wait till we get there before opening the pod!” MarAK yelled after his son. Unfortunately, his son was not the most obedient.
    TarAK would not wait. When he found out that Prima AriELa’s ship was under attack, he begged his father to bring him along. They were midway there when they received the beacon call announcing that an escape pod had been ejected.
    He met the Prima a few years ago when she and her family moved to the City of Katiera. His father, as chief of security for the Prime family, was teaching him how to work security. The young female followed him around. He knew she was too young for him, but he liked having her around. She was sweet and funny. She was a quick study with things and she asked really good questions. He just liked hearing her gentle voice. She calmed him when she was near.
    The thought that she might not have made it off the transport before it had been blown up tore at him. Everything male in him demanded that he find and protect her. He reached the pod before everyone else and quickly entered the security code to open the door.
    AriELa was curled up in the seat and she had her head leaning down against her arm. She didn’t even look up when the door opened. He thought she might be dead at first, until he heard her sobs.
    “AriELa?” He leaned inside the small pod awkwardly. She didn’t respond to him, she just kept crying. Something broke inside him to see her like that. He reached inside and picked her up. He pulled her out of the pod and started walking back