Watched and Claimed on Consortium Prime
(2026)(The fifth book in the Bonded by the Star-Gene series)
A Story by Zola Vale
For three years I have been a ghost in the Consortium's own capital. No name. No lists. Nobody watching.
I was wrong about the last part.
I'm Beati Rhone. I live in the dead levels beneath Consortium Prime, and I pull names from collection queues before the trucks come for them. Sixty saved this year. Maybe seventy. Never the one I'm looking for. My little sister carried the Star-Gene, and the month I put our names on a list, they took her off a dock market with flour still on her hands.
So I learned the one rule this city teaches. Visibility kills.
Then the enforcement tower locks down with me inside it, and the Velori waiting in the dark says my name.
His name is Jarek var Ennex. He was the only witness to my life. And the second we stood in one room together, a door opened between our minds, and something woke behind it; his masters would burn this city down to own.
Six foot seven of mineral-smooth calm, iridescent light moving inside him like the inside of a shell. Obsidian eyes with a star-field shifting behind the black. Rooms go dim where he stands. He could walk into my mind through any touch, and he asks first. Every time. It's the hottest thing anyone has ever done to me.
To get my sister's trail out of that tower, the ghost has to trust the watcher. And the man who only ever watched has to finally act.
Watched and Claimed on Consortium Prime is an alien romance featuring:
I was wrong about the last part.
I'm Beati Rhone. I live in the dead levels beneath Consortium Prime, and I pull names from collection queues before the trucks come for them. Sixty saved this year. Maybe seventy. Never the one I'm looking for. My little sister carried the Star-Gene, and the month I put our names on a list, they took her off a dock market with flour still on her hands.
So I learned the one rule this city teaches. Visibility kills.
Then the enforcement tower locks down with me inside it, and the Velori waiting in the dark says my name.
His name is Jarek var Ennex. He was the only witness to my life. And the second we stood in one room together, a door opened between our minds, and something woke behind it; his masters would burn this city down to own.
Six foot seven of mineral-smooth calm, iridescent light moving inside him like the inside of a shell. Obsidian eyes with a star-field shifting behind the black. Rooms go dim where he stands. He could walk into my mind through any touch, and he asks first. Every time. It's the hottest thing anyone has ever done to me.
To get my sister's trail out of that tower, the ghost has to trust the watcher. And the man who only ever watched has to finally act.
Watched and Claimed on Consortium Prime is an alien romance featuring:
- A Consortium enforcer and the hacker he was supposed to hunt, sealed in one tower under lockdown
A watcher hero who knows her tells before she knows his name
Touch-her-and-die protection (he turns a building's own security into a weapon), primal heat, and a fated bond the couple chooses on purpose
Every book in the Bonded by the Star-Gene series is a complete steamy romance.4/5 open door heat.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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