Chapter 21
The suns were bright today as he lay on the sandy shores of Katiera. He heard his name and turned. Two figures were approaching him, a female and a small young who was holding her hand.
“You need to wake now, LemAN,” the woman said as her image became clearer.
“LoraLI?”
“You can’t remain here with us.”
He was confused as he looked from her to the little boy who was maybe five years old with light brown hair and eyes so familiar because they were his eyes, too. “LormAN?”
The little boy smiled and pointed at him. “Father.”
LoraLI smiled at the boy. “Yes.”
He heard someone else calling his name from a distance. The voice was so familiar to him it pulled at his heart.
“Go now, LemAN, and live a full and happy life with your true bond mate.”
He reached out for her but that voice calling him was Teagan’s. She needed him. “Teagan.”
*****
“Three days! I’ve been unconscious for three days?” LemAN yelled at the medics on board theHorizen. He tried to sit up but Teagan and the medics gently pushed him back down.
One of the medics responded to him. “Easy, Commander. The nanos are still working to repair all the damage. We had to keep you unconscious for most of it. You started bleeding out as the shuttle docked, and could have died. You would have died on the Colonial Planet if it had not been for the Morinian medic who stopped the bleeding.”
“Morinian medic? What about the attackers? Who were they?”
Second Commander BorIS answered. “Purist rebels and their sympathizers. Half are dead and we believe we have captured the rest. Leader LarIS and Commander AshOR are interrogating them as we speak.”
“I need to be there to question them.”
“The hell you do! You almost died, twice! You will sit here and let the medics heal you or…I’m going to get really pissed off!” Teagan was trembling by the time she finished yelling at him.
The other males took a step back from Teagan, unused to her anger. LemAN merely smiled up at her. “So bossy. Isn’t she amazing?”
BorIS looked at the medics with concern. “Are you sure he suffered no head injury?”
Teagan snorted and laughed, easing the tension in the room. She gave BorIS a glare. “I can’t wait for you to fall in love.”
BorIS winked at her. “I did but she decided she loved my best friend instead.”
LemAN growled. “Don’t you have something to do, like check on the Morinians?”
“We’re no longer orbiting the Colonial Planet. We are en route for Katiera.”
LemAN once more tried to sit up. “I did not give that order.”
“No, but Prime Commander KydEL did.” BorIS looked down at Teagan. “Miss White, perhaps you could go take your rest since the commander is awake. I need to update him on everything and the medics will monitor him now that he’s awake.”
She bit her bottom lip, something she did when she wasn’t sure of something. “I don’t want to leave him.”
“I’ll be fine, Teagan. You should go rest, shower, change, and eat. I’ll be here when you get back,” LemAN said.
“Okay, but only for a little while. If anything happens, I’ll expect a call immediately.”
The medics reassured her. “Miss White, we will call you first thing,” one said.
