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    Maxim & Ivy's Story: Alien Warrior Mates V, #6
    Maxim & Ivy's Story: Alien Warrior Mates V, #6
    Maxim & Ivy's Story: Alien Warrior Mates V, #6
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    Maxim & Ivy's Story: Alien Warrior Mates V, #6

    By Grace Kensington

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    Still separated by the planets where they are, Maxim and Ivy long for one another as they face some of the greatest challenges of their lives.

    On Penthos, a discovery on the ship creates chaos and causes Maxim to reach out to Avery for help, hoping he can rely on the knowledge of the human pilot to keep everyone safe. It is the words of his father, however, that remind him that his greatest priority is still the woman he loves and the life that they are building together. When he sets out on a mission by himself, he encounters danger that might take all of it away forever.

    On Uoria, Ivy is still trying to understand the patient file page that she found hidden in the wall of the war room. As they try to unravel this mystery, she struggles with strange feelings that make her question the progress of her pregnancy. When emergency strikes, she must rely on her own inner strength and the courage that thoughts of Maxim gives her to persevere.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Kensington
    Release dateMay 7, 2020
    ISBN9781393097365
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      Maxim & Ivy's Story - Grace Kensington

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      A ubrey.

      It sounded almost as though Ellora were tasting the name on her lips, trying it out and letting it float through her thoughts to evaluate it. Ivy nodded, looking at the name again. She wished that it meant something to her, that it would spark something in her mind and help her to better understand what might be happening.

      It doesn’t sound familiar, she finally admitted. I don’t know anyone named Aubrey.

      You said that this file is from a long time ago, though. You wouldn’t know her.

      That’s true. But it doesn’t sound familiar at all. I can’t think of anyone in any of the programs or records who was significant with the name Aubrey. None of the buildings of the University were named after her. She wasn’t on any of the crews for the important missions.

      Like Nyx 23.

      Ivy nodded.

      All of the significant space missions are extensively recorded. They are taught in schools, especially to people who are going into the same types of fields as the discoveries that were made on those missions. We read crew lists and learn about the achievements of each of those people. I don’t remember anyone in any of the missions that would have occurred during her time with this name.

      Then why did someone save it? Ellora asked. Why was it preserved and hidden in the wall of my husband’s war room?

      She was getting angry, Ivy could hear it in the older woman’s voice, but she could also hear another emotion, a hint of something that was even more difficult for Ivy to accept. There was sadness and doubt in her voice, strain that stemmed from all of the questions and emptiness that had existed within her for so many years. Ivy wanted to do anything that she could to reassure her, to comfort her and help her to feel confident that there was nothing more to the presence of this strange piece of glass in the wall than another piece of the war, another element of the complex, tangled web that they were clawing through.

      There’s a reason, Ellora, Ivy said. There is, and we’re going to find it. I can’t tell you right now what it means or why it’s here, but I can assure you that we will eventually understand. This is all part of something that Aegeus knew, something that he had figured out and was trying to resolve to protect Uoria and all of the Universe. We have to just trust him. I know that that’s hard. Harder than I can even imagine, I would guess, but it’s all that we can do right now. We have to trust him and strive to follow his lead in any way that we can to help him finish what he started so long ago.

      Some of the darkness seemed to dissipate from Ellora’s eyes and she nodded, looking back at the page.

      What else can you tell me about this woman from this page? she asked.

      Ivy let out a breath, hoping to focus herself. Her mind was starting to feel cloudy and she couldn’t understand why. It was as if a fog was settling in, muting everything that was going through it and making it difficult for her to process through anything. Shaking her head slightly, she lifted the piece of glass closer to her face so that she could carefully look at every word that was on it.

      I’m not completely familiar with all of the abbreviations and codes that are used in these files. There are some that look like ones that are still used, but there are some that I don’t understand. These, she said, pointing to a few of the notations on the page, are her vital signs. Her height. Her weight. Her blood pressure. There isn’t anything remarkable about them. She’s not a very big person, but not tiny either. Her blood pressure is a little bit elevated, but nothing that I would say is alarming. There’s a note here that says that her signs are consistent with previous visits.

      So, she went to the doctor before, Ellora said.

      Ivy nodded.

      With a note like that, I would think that that means that her previous visits were relatively close to this one.

      Why would she visit the doctor so frequently, especially if there isn’t anything seriously wrong with her?

      Ivy shook her head.

      I don’t know. It doesn’t make much sense. There are no notes about any type of chronic condition that she had or any tests that she might have undergone that would justify her going back to the doctor to get results or anything.

      So, what you’re telling me is that there is absolutely nothing on this piece of glass that gives any indication that this woman is important in any way.

      Ivy let out a long sigh.

      I wish that there was something more that I could tell you. I just don’t see any reason at all why this particular woman would be important or why Aegeus would think it was important to hang on to a page from her patient file.

      I don’t even understand how he would get it. This is from Earth. It came from well after the first waves of humans were stopped from visiting the Denynso and a few years after the Nyx 23 crew disappeared. There wouldn’t be any way for it to get here other than one of the human women who came here carrying it with them.

      No, Ellora said. That can’t be.

      Why?

      The human women who came here only went to the Denynso compound. All of you traveled with the Denynso when they left to cross the planet. You are the first human I’ve ever encountered, and you didn’t know anything about the war room. That section of the wall hasn’t been disturbed in some time. That has been here since Aegeus was still here, which means that somehow he was able to get something from Earth.

      Ivy felt like there were links missing in the chain of events and their understanding of all that was happening. It was as if they kept learning more, but with everything that they learned, they realized countless other elements that they didn’t understand. It just all seemed like so much, like too much, to make sense. She looked at Ellora pointedly, wanting the older woman to see her eyes and recognize the sincerity and seriousness there.

      Are you absolutely certain that there is nothing else that you know about any of this that might make sense? she asked.

      Yes, Ellora told her. Everything that I know, you know.

      You’re sure?

      Ivy, I’m sure, Ellora said firmly. I know that before I was holding things back from you thinking that that was the right thing to do and that I was protecting you, but I’m not doing that anymore. I know that you deserve to know everything that’s going on, and your connection with Maxim means that you are a very important part of this. You have to trust me that I have now told you everything that I know and that I’m not going to hold anything else from you.

      I just don’t understand how you could be married to Aegeus, spend every day with him, and yet somehow miss so much. How could you not know about a war room that was built right in your own home and that he was filling it with weapons? How could you not know that he had the connections with the other species that he had, and that he was working with them to create such a complex plan? How did he not say something to you, anything, that might tell you that he was up to something and that you would go through everything that you did?

      As soon as the deluge of words came out of her mouth, Ivy

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