A medic was a doctor or sometimes even a scientist. “I’m fine.” She wouldn’t do that again.
She suddenly whirled past him, momentarily confusing his sense of direction, and jumped on his back. She tried to hold his neck with her elbow, only his neck was too wide.Ha! Gotcha!
With one hand, he reached behind him, grabbed her shirt, and threw her over his head and onto the ground. She landed on her back. All the air left her body for a moment. She lay there for a moment, stunned. With one hand, he did that.
“Do you want to end this session to rest?”
She really hated that smug expression on his face. “No.” She slowly got to her feet, feeling a little dizzy, but she straightened herself. “I’ll take it easy on you, Commander.”
He lifted an eyebrow in surprise. “I appreciate that, Miss Task.”
As they circled each other, she knew he was going slowly to take it easy on her, which only infuriated her. Her father and grandfather had been teaching her how to fight since she was a little girl. Their favorite advice was “if you can’t go high, go low.”
She didn’t wait for him to come at her this time. She ran at him and at the last moment went down like she was sliding to home base between his legs. She used her clasped hands to form a large fist and slammed his male package —hard. She came out of the slide and turned to watch the commander fall to his knees, clutching himself.
The men watching were frozen for a moment, clearly unable to believe she could have caught their commander off guard; then, they cheered her on. She stood up, feeling the vibrations in her hand from the hard impact. Even the guy’s balls felt like a sack of rocks.
He stood up slowly and faced her. She was shocked to see a smile on his face. “Well done, Miss Task. I think Prime Leader KadEN is ready to speak with you about the mission now.”
“Do you need to see a medic?” she asked as they both walked slowly toward the prime building.
“No, I’ll live. Hopefully my breeding ability has not been damaged, my mate wants another young.”
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be. Of course, you know not to remain if you do that to a male threatening you. Either take him out or get as far away as possible.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“I must say, your military trained you well.”
“Actually, I learned a lot of my fighting skills from my father and grandfather. They were both military men and wanted to make sure I could take care of myself.”
“Well, they did an admirable job. I can use this to show my mate that our daughter should be taking lessons as soon as she walks.”
Sharon smiled, “I can recommend it to her if you need me to. It’s good for females to know how to protect themselves.”
“Yes, it is.”
*****
Lindsey patted her daughter on the back, burping her. “Did he have to be so rough with Miss Task?”
Her mate KadEN came to the balcony and kissed her and their daughter. “He has to make sure she is equipped to handle whatever she may come across.”
“I don’t like this, KadEN. That rebel leader contacts RendEL on Katiera wanting to talk about a truce. Then we get this encrypted signal from someone who says they are friends of StrykER and that the whole thing is a trap. Why are we sending anyone there at all?”
“There’s more going on, and now with the Morinians on the Colonial planet, we have to see if this had to do with them as well. Who knew that the Morinians were a different part of the Morin people and that most of those who survived were women and children. Our medics are looking into the possibility they could have the answer to the breeding issues and the mutations.”
“From what you said the encrypted message told you to not send a female.”
“OrIN won’t agree unless a female is present. Finding one that could handle herself in a battle was crucial and Sharon took down the toughest warrior on Kiljor and Katiera. She’ll have protectors with her at all times.”
“I just don’t like this.”
“Neither do I, but if there is a way to bring OrIN in and get the other rebels under control, we’ll have a better chance to fight off anything that the Morins throw at us. They are still our biggest threat.”
“I hope you’re right about this.”
“Me too, honey, me too.”
