Of course he placed a tracker on my ship. I would have done the same to him, were our situations reversed. Shade was always one to protect an investment or leave himself options if things didn’t go as planned.
“You know this guy?” Breanna stepped up next to my shoulder, blaster aimed at Shade’s head. She glared at Shade like he was an insect to be crushed under her shoe. Gods help me, if I wasn’t obsessed with her already, that look would have sealed my fate. My mate was magnificent.
“I do.”
“Should I kill him?”
Shade burst out laughing. “You’ll need more than that blaster.”
“Try me.”
His gaze turned serious and assessing in a way I did not appreciate. “You are human, are you not? From Earth?”
She titled her head but didn’t lower her weapon. “I am. What about it?”
“Fascinating females.” Shade was far too interested for my liking. “I have decided I want one.”
“Want one what?”
“A human female.”
Breanna scoffed. “For what? A slave?”
“My mate.”
“Oh.” Her surprise made him laugh.
“If Mikos’s scent was not all over you, I’d keep you for myself.”
Breanna’s cheeks blushed a deep rose under her soft brown skin. I didn’t even try to hide the pride and primal satisfaction Shade’s statement made me feel. She did smell like me. Everywhere, as my mate should. I was in her blood, in the breath that left her body as she exhaled, in the top layers of her skin where we touched.
Deep in her pussy, where I’d given her my seed and made her come all over my cock.
Shade studied her for a few seconds and apparently dismissed the idea, and my female, from his mind as he returned his attention to me. “You coming quietly or are you going to make me hurt you?”
My laugh was like thunder in the small transport room and the two Coalition officers at the transport room’s controls, Prillon warriors judging by their bronze and golden skin tones and sharp features, stepped away from their station, weapons drawn.
I didn’t know what type of message Commander Karter had sent ahead, but apparently, they weren’t going to stay out of this fight.
Inclining my head to the two Prillon warriors, I nudged Breanna in their direction. “Go, stand with them. I’ll take care of this.”
“Five of them?” Breanna didn’t budge even though all five of the Hyperion hybrids confronting us were twice her size and a hundred times meaner.
Unable to resist, I leaned down and kissed her. Hard. Deep.
“Gods be damned, Mikos. What the fuck are you doing?” Shade’s irritation made me smile as I lifted my head. My gaze locked with Breanna’s and we both smiled.
“Do you truly believe these males can do what the Hive could not?” I whispered the question to her, needed to know my mate trusted me to care for her and keep her safe.
“What’s the bounty for? What did you do?” She whispered back.
“Does it matter?”
She answered at once and my heart resumed beating. “No.” She turned her head and glared at Shade. “You’re about to get yourself killed. You know that, right?”
Shade’s grin was that of a feral, bored male looking forward to a good fight. “There are five of us.”
She snorted in obvious dismissal and I wanted to pull her into my arms and kiss her again. “Won’t be enough.” With a mockery of a salute, I was sure she intended to irritate the male, she backed away and stepped off the transport platform to join the Prillon warriors at the control stations. Fools that they were, Siren Legion let her walk away without considering her a threat.
