I turned to find the human males both pointed their electrical weapons at me.
“Don’t move.” The guard who had not spoken before held his comm device to the side of his head. He was speaking to someone, telling them the name of the street where we stood. His name. The name of the neighborhood that had been etched into the large stone someone had placed on the corner.
Were we to reside here, that stone would need to be removed. The gate would also need to be improved. This was not secure. Not even close.
Perhaps I could hire a group of Elite Hunters to replace these ineffective human males. Nothing so pathetic and weak as these humans would guard the entrance to my mate’s home.
A revving engine approached. A much larger vehicle by the sound. Beyond that, police sirens, additional sirens adding to the discordant total each minute I stood, looking at the guards.
The male nearest me shook. Definitely needed to find some Everians for the job. When the male did not speak again, I turned and resumed my walk.
The sharp pain of two little stingers pierced my back. I recognized the bite of the electrical weapon. I sighed.
I did not want to kill the humans. The beast, however, would not allow them to keep us from our mate. Just like the officers at the airport who had insisted I stay in their interrogation room once I walked off their aircraft. I had no need for any of these idiots. Were I not connected to the small human by wires, I could have kept walking, just as I had at the airport.
I turned around, wrapped one hand around the wires connecting me to the small weapon, and yanked the stingers from my flesh. The angle was not the best. I would need to use a ReGen wand on my back. Or not. The wounds were small.
I would allow my mate to tend me. She would decide.
I tossed the wires back toward the guard.
“Fuck!” the guard yelled. His friend fired his weapon at me. This time the stingers hit me in the chest.
That was it. I tried not to kill them. They insisted.
Two steps. The front end of a large vehicle skidded to a stop, mere inches from my hip. The warmth of the engine radiated toward me. The heat irritated my beast almost as much as the stench of the fuel it burned.
With a growl, I jerked the stingers from my chest and threw them on the ground. My beast roared a warning.
I heard the door of the vehicle open, but my beast had focused on the guard, on removing his head.
“Velik! Stop!”
My mate’s voice invaded my body. My cock hardened. The sound of my own heartbeat became thunder in my ears. The urge to kill shifted to lust. Need.
I turned to find her running toward me. Instead of throwing herself in my arms—as I had hoped—she grabbed one arm and tugged. “Come on! Jesus. Every time, you’re in trouble.”
“I am not in danger. They are no threat.” I growled at the guards, somewhat hurt and offended that my mate thought so little of my skill. Both of them stumbled backward, one landing on his ass and scooting away like a frightened child. “I will kill them quickly. Then I will claim you, mate.”
“You’re not killing anyone. God.” She pulled as hard as she could. I relented, needing to please her more than I needed to kill the inept and foolish human males. “Hurry up! The cops are going to be here any minute.”
“I do not fear humans.”
“No kidding. Just shut up and get in the car.”
I allowed her to pull me along, my beast pleased to have her hands on us. Her scent drove me—us—to distraction. Every breath made my cock harder, my need stronger.
Fuck. Claim. Mine!
I told the beast to fuck off. He was not helping. This was not the place.
She was ours. Soon, I promised him. Soon our cock would be buried deep, her cries of pleasure would reach our ears. The taste of her sweet pussy would coat our lips. We would touch every part of her, kiss her everywhere. Make her come over and over as her pussy clamped down on our hard cock.
Stefani led me to her vehicle, a large SUV. She shoved at my shoulders until I sat in the passenger seat. I looked over to find a female I recognized behind the wheel.
“Carmen.”
“Asshole.”
