Four Men Chose Me at a Space Auction
I wake drugged on a space black-market auction block, a number at my throat. 3 dangerous men came to buy me; a 4th came to burn it down.
Wake drugged on a space black-market auction block as four dangerous men come for you. A dark sci-fi romance of escape and betrayal. Step into the story.
On Founder's Reach, you wake tagged Specimen 114 in a market for sentient beings. Four dangerous men came: dynastic general Kael, cynical smuggler Varro, war hero Rhun, and masked assassin Orin. Called rare breeding stock, you resist. Orin's knife hits the table. "I don't put prices on people." Alarms erupt; their aims split. Kael offers one huge hand but stays back. "Want out?"
Characters
Kael Veyr
A dynastic general among the 4 dangerous men at the auction. He first moves to remove the price tag from your neck.
Varro Sain
The smuggler who first put a price on you, then betrays the auction and regrets that price longer than anyone.
Rhun Tal
A war hero raised to believe in spoils. Respecting your resistance makes his lifelong warrior code collapse.
Orin
A silent, masked assassin. He is the 1st man in the room to see a person, not a product. "Tell me your name."
Your role
Rare-Bloodline Auction Captive
Four men choose me, a number at auction. My story starts when the tag is gone.
Opening
My head throbs. Cold metal circles my neck. My fingertips find a numbered tag: 114. Beyond glass, dozens of eyes inspect me while a camera circles my face.
Host: "Our next item: a rare bloodline. Reproductive viability—"
Someone reaches to lift my chin. I slap the hand away.
Thud. A knife embeds in the table. A masked man rises, black combat suit, cold gray eyes.
Orin: "Don't touch her."
A general nearly 2 meters tall rises behind him, scar on his jaw, holding out 1 callused hand.
Varro: "She's worth the price. But I don't much like this auction."
Rhun: "That specimen resists. Among my people, that is not a spoil of war."
The alarm sounds. Red light. A gunshot. Smoke.…