Marcy looked ready to swoon with excitement. “In. I’m in. Let’s do this. I want to find my alien suitor. Come on, John, let’s pack our things.”
Kat laughed as the woman began to close down the shop before her words left her.
“You don’t have an alien suitor.” Earning him a slap of a scarf. “But what about the Tea stand? We can’t justleave.We have shipments on the way, customers with orders, bills we have to pay.”
“We’ll buy it, everything, and it will be here when you come back. If you want to come back,” Dommik interjected.
Kat placed her bag on the counter and handed it over, all of the money she had left from her grandmother. She couldn’t stop laughing as Marcy and John blundered and packed, being hit over their heads with an adventure on the horizon.
“Mia’s going to be so pissed.” Her third-part spider, third-part Cyborg, and third-part man wrapped her up into his embrace. They shared a grin.
She turned into Dommik’s arms and kissed him with everything she had to give.
Epilogue:
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Dommik sat back, unsure on how to move forward. The report sat like a dead weight on his screen, another obstacle, another possible stab at Kat’s heart.
They had left Earth several days prior and were now heading to Ghost City where he heard a rumor that Stryker was there and laying low. He still had his shipment loaded for him. Metal, Pyzian metal, enough to create one impenetrable mask.
He tried to hail him, tried to hail the other Monster Hunters but so far he was only able to reach Netto, and Netto was not much of a talker.
Dommik looked at his security feed. It showed Marcy and John within his empty menagerie. His stress typically equated to how many beasts he had housed on his ship but not this time.
He was going to be a father soon.
The news that sat before him would only bring up Kat’s past and that was something he didn’t want to do nor dwell on. Not when she was still recovering from the recent life changes he inflicted on her. Why shoot a dead horse? It’s not like it would die again.
Dommik rubbed his thumb across his lips.
No secrets.They would keep nothing from each other. No matter how hard it was to share. No matter who it hurt.
He called Bin-One to his side. He and Kat took down the ropes that had bled out into the hallway, leaving them in coils in the captain’s chamber, where he had begun to spin anew. Where they now both slept and designed the new space into a home befitting a Cyborg’s family.
It still caught him off-guard. He had a family, a mate and a baby on the way and hopefully many more in the years to come. Little monsters of his own making, little insects of his own. He hoped for a daughter. An Arachne to fill his heart.
Dommik felt himself evolve into something more than just a bestial machine.
“Tell Kat to meet me in the bridge,” he mumbled as he watched the stars fly by.
“Yes, Master.”
It wasn’t long before her scent reached his nose, breezing through the small corridor, he was addicted to it and still wanted to bottle it up for his own personal use. Her footsteps sounded next, light and quick, heading toward him without fear. It was her voice that had him swiveling around.
“Hey,” she breathed and smiled. “You called?” Her eyes laughed at him, wild and bright and filled with so much life, enough to feed the both of them.
Dommik grabbed her wildness and settled it in his lap. “I did.” He buried his nose in her hair. “I missed you but I also have something to show you.”
Kat turned in his lap and straddled him. “Oh? Is it something frightening? I’m beginning to like your scary.” She moved against him and he got caught up in her cute seduction.
“Is that so?”
“Yeah, that’s so.” She brushed her fingers through his hair, releasing it from its band to twirl and tug it. He closed his eyes.
“I’ll have to find more reasons to be scary, you’ve already seen the worst parts of me.”
“The best parts of you.” He felt the brush of her lips settle over his to place a silky kiss. Soft and sweet and everything he wasn’t.
