CHAPTER FIVE
Three hundred cyborgs in stasis? They just left them there?Kydel exclaimed.
That was my conclusion. Vyken said through their private link.Black is going to let us take care of them, but I think we should bring them all onto the ship. Do we want to take them out of stasis or bring them aboard in their stasis modules?
I think we should get them out of those modules as soon as possible. Then they can move to the ship under their own power. Kydel said.
All at once or in groups?
If we bring out a group of thirty, we can orient them to help us orient and finish training the rest. Kydel said.
Star can upgrade their databanks.
The other three cyborgs agreed.
We will do our recon in the city, then come back and get the first group of cyborgs out of the lab. Vyken said.
Have you claimed your female yet?Jolt asked.
I have not. Vyken admitted.She is still considering it.
How do you stand it? She isyourfemale.
It is her right to choose to mate or not. But she is mine, and she feels it. She wishes more time to bond non-sexually before breeding.
Do you think we will find our mates here, too?Matix asked. Females will be scarce on Phantom.
We’re going to be here awhile. There is always a chance you will all find more mates as we work our way through old Chicago and the suburbs, even with the other cyborgs. Vyken said.I will go get Danya and James and meet you in the cargo bay.
The whole conversation took only seconds through their internal network. It was almost like telepathy. It had been an extreme advantage on the battlefield. Vyken wished he could share such a connection with Danya. Then she would know what she meant to him. She was his heart; she had always been. Vyken just didn’t know who she was until he found her. If it took a while to get her to see that, he would wait.
As they left the first level conference room, Vyken walked to the lift to the second level to get Danya. When her door opened, she stepped aside and gestured for him to enter. He stepped inside and picked her up in his arms, holding her chest to chest, and took her mouth in a deep, passionate kiss. Danya wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his narrow hips, moaning softly in her throat at the sensations surging through her with his erection pressing against her core.
Her nipples tightened into hard sensitive peaks as she pressed them against his hard chest. She wanted nothing more than to get naked with him and fuck him until they both screamed their pleasure. It was just as clear that Vyken wanted the same thing.
“Vyken,” she whispered when their lips parted. Danya stared into his eyes and caressed his face with her fingers. He was so handsome, but it was his heart in his eyes when he looked back at her that told her all she needed to know.
Vyken, we’re waiting.Matix said.
He groaned as he looked into Danya’s sparkling green eyes. “We have to go, they’re waiting. I’d much rather finish what we started.”
Danya sighed and kissed him lightly on the mouth.Mine!“Okay, there’s lots to do, that’s for sure.” Reluctantly, she unfolded her legs from around him, and he lowered her until her feet were on the floor. She felt just a little shaky, fighting down her arousal. She gave Vyken a weak smile as he was apparently having the same problem.
“I better use the lav,” she said and hurried to take care of business. She needed a quick clean up because she didn’t want to get in the transport with three other cyborgs scenting her desire. They were not Vyken even though they would know it was for him.
Vyken gave her a knowing look when she came back out but didn’t say anything. While he was waiting, he had signaled James who was waiting in the hallway when they emerged from Danya’s cabin. He also gave his daughter a look but didn’t say anything. It wasn’t hard to figure out what they had been doing with one look at her kiss-swollen lips.
Actually, she thought her father seemed content with Vyken wooing her. He was powerful and capable of protecting her and enamored. Danya smiled. She was smitten too. They walked to the lift together with Vyken resting his hand on Danya’s back.
On their way to the landing bay, they stopped at the storeroom, and Vyken went inside and brought out two side arms with belts and holsters for Danya and James. He handed one to each of them.
“We’ll just go outside for a few minutes, and I will show you how to used them,” Vyken said. “Jolt and Brekar set up a target for you to practice.” James and Danya put on the belts and went out into the grassy field beside the ship. Vyken showed Danya the settings and how to sight it while Brekar showed James. It didn’t take long for then both to get the hang of shooting the beam weapon. Neither was a crack shot, but a broad beam setting could be used if necessary.
It made Vyken feel better for them to be armed in case they got separated and he couldn’t protect Danya or her father. He and his brothers would protect them with their lives, but they all knew how things could go wrong in a battle situation.
Half an hour later, they were headed back to Chicago. James directed them to a section where he knew of people who would jump at the chance for a better life with food and shelter for their children.
Matix set the transport down in an open lot near where Danya and her father had lived for the last three months. Three other families lived in the same building that was just a hovel. It didn’t look safe to enter with only two stories, and the basement left. The windows were gone.
