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    Warrior Mine: Interstellar Portals, #1
    Warrior Mine: Interstellar Portals, #1
    Warrior Mine: Interstellar Portals, #1
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    Warrior Mine: Interstellar Portals, #1

    By Jinx Layne

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    Leah

     

    It's hard to reflect and move on with your newly single life when you're clinging to the side of a mountain in a rainstorm. 

    And even harder when you're falling off said mountain to your death.

    But somehow I don't die. I think.

    For I wake up in the gigantic, scaly arms of… a creature. A thing that looks like a koi fish and a human man…combined. 

    No joke.

    I should be terrified of the way he looks at me—like he wants to devour me. 

    Am I out of my mind to find that kinda hot? Yep, completely nutso.

     

    Ax'ryon

     

    I expect the Cave of Unmei to show me my destiny as a warrior, not hand me my mate.

    Especially not one from another planet. 

    But she is absolutely breathtaking. And I can barely control myself when I look into her mossy green eyes.

    I'd give my life to protect this woman. To love her.

    Yet, once we are safe, will she agree to stay with me here in my world…forever?

     

    This book was previously published in the Wolves and Warriors anthology.


    Warrior Mine is a short, steamy, fated mates romance. It's the first book in the Interstellar Portals series, which features alien heroes and the human women they're destined to love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNo Regerts Press, LLC
    Release dateJan 16, 2024
    ISBN9781957933092
    Warrior Mine: Interstellar Portals, #1

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      Warrior Mine - Jinx Layne

      1

      LEAH

      Don’t look back, just keep moving forward! Our guide, Stream (yes…Stream…I know, I know), shouted encouragements at us through the pouring rain as I gripped the side of the mountain for dear life. Let the healing rain wash away your negative self-talk and misconceptions. You can do anything!

      I pictured him writing all of this in his hemp-covered meditation journal, thinking he’d hit profound paydirt, then packing up the artisanal cheese he’d made in his roommate’s pottery-studio-slash-potato-pantry and biking over to the farmers’ market to barter.

      Too much? Maybe. I tend to get snarky when staring death in the face. The trail before me was quickly disintegrating, now more mud than anything else. Still, I took Stream’s clichéd advice, bravely stepped forward⁠—

      And slid! Shit!

      I pushed my back flat against the wall of wet dirt and tangled roots, struggling to regain my footing.

      What the hell was I doing here, again? Finding myself? That’s what my friends had told me I should do after my fiancé, Darren, dumped me for his new secretary—sorry, executive assistant.

      Go on one of those adventure hikes in Kaua`i and figure out who you want to be! Shawna, my fitness-obsessed friend, had suggested with a wild look in her eyes. "The Kalalau Trail is amaaaazing!"

      Funny, with how excited she seemed, not to mention how supportive my other friends were about this ridiculous idea, every single one of them had found some excuse why they couldn’t join me.

      Were they really too busy? Or was it that they weren’t interested in risking their lives with their basket case of a friend?

      Either way, I guess I didn’t blame them, but as the wind picked up and slapped my hair across my face, I wondered why I couldn’t just have been pampered for five days in the hotel spa.

      Did my friends not know me at all?

      Darren had claimed he didn’t know me, either.

      You’re not who I thought you were, babe, he’d told me with a sigh after I’d spent yet another long day at the office. You’re holding me back from my true potential. He’d wanted me to quit my job once we were married, but I liked working and earning my own money. I wasn’t about to give up my independence to help him become head asshole—sorry, CEO. But he’d assumed I’d be on board with being a trophy wife, so no, he really didn’t know me. When his perky assistant with the even perkier tits, Jenna, made it clear she was more than happy to live that life, he sealed the deal with his dick, and I was history.

      Ugh. He was the last person I should be thinking about right now.

      The rain pelted me as I prepared to take another step. I glanced around, but no one was nearby. I must’ve fallen behind the group.

      I stepped, but my foot never found solid ground. My boot merely grazed the muddy gravel, and I started to slide.

      No! I scrambled to find purchase on the slippery rocks with any available limb.

      My hands latched onto a handlebar-sized root, and I stopped sliding momentarily, dangling there as I felt about with my toes to find something stable and firm.

      Help! I screamed. Nothing. All I could see above me was mountain, brush, and rock, blurred by the rain in my eyes.

      If anyone replied, the wind swallowed their voices.

      I yelled again, hoping someone would hear, or notice I was gone.

      Then the root I held onto suddenly jerked. I yelled again. Was someone above trying to rescue me? Or was the root giving⁠—

      Snap!

      I screamed as I fell straight down, cursing Stream, my friends, and my douchebag ex as I went.

      2

      AX’RYON

      The sky water was loud and thick on the coast this day during my twenty-fifth star cycle alive. I glanced up to thank the gods for it. Sky water meant good things to come. Bounty. Abundance. Fortune.

      The wet sand crunched under my webbed toes as I made my way around Elder Rock toward the Cave of Unmei. It was tradition in the clans of the Rex’ulti for a warrior to visit the cave when they reached adulthood. The cave would show the warrior their destiny, and then they were obliged to follow the path of truth

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