He moved her over and got up. “Save the females.” He paced behind the couch. His claws came out and retracted several times as he struggled with what happened next.
“It was our jobs. We are trained to put everyone else in front of our lives, our safety because we were just weapons. If a part malfunctioned, it could be replaced. It should have been easy to drop their craft, but it wasn’t. While they were selflessly willing to give up their lives, the females on the other craft were screaming at me to save them even though it meant killing my brothers.
“We had plans. There was a whole list of things we planned to do after the war. Once we had our freedom, we would leave the planet and never look back. My brothers cared. They cared about every life on the other craft, but I was only one that cared about the lives on their craft.”
Quinn blinked trying to hold back her tears. She didn’t want to cry. She didn’t want to show weakness when he was holding it together. It didn’t matter she cried for the brothers she would never know, and she cried for Mekhi’s pain.
He sat down and picked up her. Her tears wet his shirt and calmed him down.
“They begged me to save the females because that was who they were. Time was running out, and I needed to decide. In the end, I honored their request. I broke that day. My ability doesn’t work on most days. I thought I lost Tee when I operated. Somehow she lived and so did you.”
“What happened next?”
“The Scientists told me that since I was such a good weapon, they would reward me by allowing me to live another day.”
“Do you know the coordinates of the planet?”
“Why?”
“So, we can blow it up.”
He laid his head on top off hers as she leached some of the poison from him.
They sat there watching the sun lower in the sky, just holding each other.
“I still want to be your mate Mekhi. The sacrifice you made only makes me love you more. I love you.”
He sat back and stared at her.
“I love you.” She went to her knees and straddled his lap looking him in the eyes. “You’re not broken. You’re exactly what you were meant to be, mine.”
“Are you sure?”
“I am.”
He picked her up and carried her to the bedroom before she changed her mind.
She smiled up at him; he laid her down like she was precious. Her hand lifted inviting him to join her. He slid next to her catching her up in his arms. He lowered his head and took her mouth in such a tender kiss her heart surrendered to his.
“Tiny warrior I’m not wired for love. I’m not even sure I know what it is. If I could love, then I would love you over all others. It’s all I have to give.”
“I’ll take it.” Her hands went to the bottom of his shirt pulling it. “You have on too many clothes.”
He moved back and pulled his shirt over his head before his hands went to his pants. She licked her lips when he stood and pushed his pants down.
She looked over the edge of the bed and shook her head. “You know what I hate?”
“What?”
“When a guy’s feet are nicer looking than mine.”
He gave a bark of laughter and caught her foot. “Your feet are beautiful and hardworking. I love them; they brought you to me.” He rubbed the bottom of them relaxing her before he kissed the sole. “Everything about you is beautiful.”
“Now who’s wearing too many clothes?” He put a knee on the bed stalking her.
She gave a soft scream and rolled off the other side laughing. She placed her hands on the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head slowly while giving him air kisses. Then she turned around wiggling her hips as she took her pants off.
He gave her growls as she pushed her pants down revealing her thong. His fingers traveled over the cheeks of her ass making her jump.
“You move so silently.”
He moved even closer and placed a kiss on each cheek before he took her hand and brought her back to the bed.
She fell onto the bed and rolled until she laid to him. Taking her finger, she walked it down his chest.
“What is it about you that makes me so warm?”
“My body temperature is higher than yours.”
She smiled and shook her head. “That’s not it. I’m warm right here.” She took his hand and placed it over her heart.
He kissed her taking over her mouth as she gasped. His hand went down her back stroking her until she was moving wanting more.
“Mekhi, what are you doing?”
“Preparing you to be mine.” He said against her ear.
His teeth nipped at her throat making her sensitive. Her hands were caressing his arms as her heart beat faster. He pulled the straps of her bra down trapping her arms. Then he pulled the cups down just enough to see her rosy nipples.
“I love the way they look, and they taste so much better.” He took one in his mouth and sucked.
She yelled as she felt the pleasure hit her in her pussy. Her arm tried to move, but the bra strap and his hand kept her immobilized. Her head moved back and forth on the bed as he took the other one in his mouth. His nipped it before pulled on the tight bud. She felt her body cream; her hips went up bucking against the air.
“I want to touch you.” Her voice was strained with need.
He took her bra off releasing her arms. She pushed, and he laid on his back. Her hands roamed his body. She wanted to know him so well that when she closed her eyes, she could feel his hard planes under her hand.
She caressed him watching as his eyes became a darker blue. “I love the way you breathe when I touch you. It’s as if your next breath depends on the touch of my hand.”
She leaned forward and licked the edge of his ear before she blew into it and moved down to kiss the base of his throat. His hands held her waist to keep from turning her over.
She kissed until she reached his waist. His thick cock was standing up tempting her. She reached out and licked the tip. His breath left his body in a hard sound before he had her on her back.
“Tasty.” She smiled up at him. Her green eyes were bright and inviting.
He leaned over and took her smile in a deep kiss making it his forever. His hand went between her legs stroking her slit. She was so wet he could slip one finger in and then another. He looked at her as he worked his fingers in deep. Her mouth opened on a moan asking for more.
“I want you in me.”
It was all he needed. He withdrew his fingers and sucked each clean as she watched him, her eyes growing bigger. Then he couldn’t help himself and stuck his head between her legs and took a deep breath allowing her scent to stroke all his senses.
“Delicious.”
He widened her legs and settled between them. He lifted and took her with one stroke. Her head went back, and her throat worked as he pounded into her. Pleasure speared through her as her fingers gripped his arms holding tight as she met him stroke for stroke.
She felt like she was riding on a wave with nothing to hold onto. The world swirled around her taking her in so many directions she couldn’t think. All she had was Mekhi, and she hung on as he took her higher. She screamed with pleasure as she felt her body trembling around him.
His teeth grew, and she waited for him to make them one. He bit her on the shoulder sending her over the edge. Every color of the rainbow assaulted her, but he kept her safe as she shouted and went over the edge with him.
When she settled down, she could feel his mind stroking her. She smiled content and fell asleep.
Chapter Twenty
The sound of a growl and a thump against the door made Quinn jump. Mekhi reached out and pulled her into his arms.
“That’s Tee expressing her displeasure of being locked out last night.”
“Oh.” She relaxed against him. Tee growled again. “We hear you. I think we need a cat door.”
“Maybe.” He got up and walked across the room naked.
Her eyes went
wide as she watched his ass cheeks flex. Score one for me. She licked her finger and put a one on her imaginary chalkboard.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing.” She flushed from being caught. He chuckled and left the bedroom.
Big feet thumped against the tile as Tee ran into the room. She launched her body at the bed becoming small before she landed on Quinn. She gave her loud meows discussing her displeasure with her.
“You could at least give me snuggles before you tell me off.”
Tee relented and snuggled into her arms.
“That’s my girl. Remember how I told you I was never getting married? I changed my mind. Mekhi is the one for me.”
Tee turned her head and looked at him.
“This is home for both of you. Think one day there will be a baby for you to protect.”
She gave a loud growl of approval and snuggled deeper into Quinn’s arms.
He took them both in his arms and held them close. “I have a family.”
The awe in his voice made her stomach flip with love.
“Someone promised us cooking lessons,” Thrice yelled up the stairs.
“Are we supposed to starve because the beast is keeping her tied to the bed?” Phoenix yelled after him.
She turned to look at Mekhi and shrugged. “They’re your brothers.”
“All right happy family, time for me to take a shower.” She gave Tee a kiss on the head then turned around and gave Mekhi one on the lips. She moved to the edge of the bed and got off dropping Tee on the floor. Tee jumped back on the bed and went to sit on Mekhi’s chest.
“Looks like she has a new home.” Quinn walked into the bathroom and did a twirl. She winced a little, he was hung. One look into the mirror told her she couldn’t stop smiling. The dream she gave up on had reached out and pulled her in without her realizing it. She was mated, which was like being married. Right?
“It’s more than being married. We will stay together and work out whatever problems we have. I’ll never leave you.”
She was stepping into the shower and turned around looking for him.
“Are you in my head?”
“Yes. This way, we can communicate without having to talk out loud.”
“Oh. I don’t know if I like this or not. I mean I like being able to have my private thoughts. What if I want to buy you a birthday present? You will know before I do it.”
“No, I won’t. Do you know what I’m thinking?”
She stopped to concentrate. “No, I don’t.”
“We can talk to each other and even share thoughts, but your mind is still your own. If you want to keep something hidden, you can. I don’t want to be or need to be a part of everything you think. I have a connection with my brothers can you imagine us knowing each other’s thoughts?”
“I can’t imagine. We’ll be together forever?”
“We’re tied together mentally and physically.”
“And spiritually.”
“I have no soul, I’m a created being.”
“Whoever told you that lied. You have a beautiful soul.”
He growled at her but left it alone.
How had her life gone from one of fear to one of happiness? She didn’t know, but she would not question it. All she wanted to do was enjoy the love and peace that surrounded her.
She walked back in the room to find Mekhi up and dressed. She grabbed a pair of jeans and a cami before she met him and Tee at the door. They walked in to find Akron and Thrice on the floor.
“So hungry, need to eat.” Akron stretched his arm towards the fridge.
“Can’t feel my legs.” Thrice smacked at his thigh.
She shook her head and laughed at them. “They’re your brothers.”
“Actually.” Akron stood up. “We are now your brothers too.”
She stopped with the door to the fridge hanging open.
“You’re my family?”
“We are.” Slade awkwardly petted her hair.
“Thank you, thank you for giving me brothers.” She threw herself at Mekhi and kissed him.
“No kissing until after we’re fed.”
She went back to the kitchen and pulled out eggs and sausage. “The only thing easier than this is cereal or hot cereal, and I can tell by your faces you’re not interested in that.”
“Pay attention, I need two huge frying pans.” She pulled out a dozen eggs then pulled out another dozen. She added cheese and taught them how to make scrambled eggs and sausage for breakfast.
“Isn’t this better than eating out or making steak for breakfast?”
They turned to look at each other. “No,” they said in one voice, and she closed her eyes trying to fight the laughter.
“Too bad we’re eating more meals at home.” Her eyes widened. This was home, and they were her family.
“I can’t wait for my mom to meet all of you. She’ll love you.”
“What’s it like having a mother?” Akron asked.
“Every body's experience is different. My mom is the best. She loved and worried about me. She will do anything to help me like secretly pay for my television ads without telling me. Now she’s older, all I want to do is take care of her, but she’s still taking care of me.”
“We’ll take care of her.” Mekhi placed his hand on her thigh and gave it a squeeze.
“Thanks. I can tell you will spoil me.”
“Like meat?” Thrice asked her.
“Not quite. It means to treat me so well that I would be surprised if you hurt me or hit me.”
Each of them growled. “No one will hurt you,” Slade told her.
“And live to talk about it,” Mekhi added.
They finished eating and cleaned up the kitchen. She fit right in with them.
“Do you have plans for today or do you go your separate ways on Saturdays?”
They looked at each other.
“If you have plans, I can Netflix and chill. That’s what I usually do.”
“You can what?”
“Spend the day being lazy and watch Netflix.”
“I don’t know what that is. We are going to liberate a few gems from the Aba.”
“Aren’t those the ones that…”
“They are. I make them pay every chance I get. Would you like to come along? It should be easy.”
“I… Yes, I want to go. How are we going to get there?”
“Spaceship.”
“You’re serious?” She looked around the room. “OMG, you are serious.” She danced around. “I always wanted to go to space, but I knew I’d never make it as an astronaut, and now I’m going to space.
“What do I have to do? Will I have to wear a mask? I wish Mila was here so I could tell her.”
“Mila?”
“My best friend. You’ll love her. Will we be back before tomorrow? I promised mom we were coming to lunch.”
“We’ll be back. You need an outfit and a weapon. We’ll get you one on the ship.”
She nodded and followed them down to the basement. They opened the door to what she was sure used to be a closet. They all walked in, and the light went out.
When she could see, she was standing on the bridge of the ship.
“How did we get here?”
“We use the closet as a transporter. We leave the ship high in the atmosphere instead of grounding it since we like to go other places. The governments of earth are not sophisticated enough to locate it.” Slade told her as he moved to the captain’s chair.
“Let’s go get you dressed properly. The trip will only take about an hour.”
“How’s that possible?”
“Jabari and Phoenix developed a new model for traveling through space. We won’t be sharing it with others. It only takes a day to cross the galaxy when it used to take over a month.”
“That knowledge would make you super rich.”
“We’re already rich, and if we need more, we steal it from our enemies.”
“There�
�s a lecture somewhere in there.” She told him as she walked onto the lift behind him.
“I’ve never been on a spaceship before, but this seems grand.”
“It’s one of the newest models around in our time. In this time, it’s still waiting to be built.”
“There’s a story there, but it will have to wait, I can only take so much.” He led her into his cabin. She stopped inside the door and stood staring. The beauty of it overwhelmed her, but it was the realization that the galaxy was so far ahead of Earth that did her in.
He came out dressed in black pants that reminded her of leather but more exotic with a matching shirt.
“The clothes will change with my body, so I won’t lose my weapon.” He was wearing a knife almost as large as her lower body on both thighs. Across his back were several guns. Not that she would recognize them as any gun she had ever seen before.
“I laid an outfit on the bed for you. I know it’s too big, but it will conform to you.”
She went into the bedroom and stopped to stare at the size of the bed. His other side could sleep there comfortably. That brought up images that both intrigued her and made her afraid.
She slipped on the pants that hung on her. They tightened until they fit every curve she had. The shirt did the same. She picked up the weapons and put them on like he was wearing his. When she looked into the mirror, she saw a different Quinn. One who was a bad ass and not afraid to show it. Where had this side of her been hiding?
“What do you think?” She walked into the other room.
“You look beautiful and deadly. The weapons will work because they are linked to me, and you are linked to me.” He sat down and gave her lessons until the all call whistled.
They returned to the bridge to find a brown planet on the view screen.
“That's the Aba homeworld.”
Chapter Twenty-0ne
“Why are we taking a shuttle down?”
“They don’t have a transfer yet. It will be invented in the future, technically we are in the past, so it’s safer for us to travel this way.”
That made a little sense. Mekhi strapped her into a chair on the shuttle, and now she watched as the brown planet got closer and closer to the view screen. She wasn’t sure how astronauts did it. But watching a planet come at you like it was hurtling was enough to make her stomach swear off food for the next month.
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