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by Guardian Of Paradise (lit)

  Images! Images swept through her memory. Shana fought hard to hold onto them. She saw herself on a ship. She was looking through some type of file. She held a picture in her hands. A picture of Kai.

  Kai looked down at Shana. He knew the moment that something changed and her mind was suddenly on something else. She was no longer responding to his touch. Shana suddenly shook her head as if to clear it.

  “What is it? Did you remember something?” Kai asked as he looked down at her. His hands worked fast as he re-buttoned her shirt. While she stood there looking stunned at him, Kai worked at a fast pace redressing himself.

  “I remembered something. I was lying on a bunk on a ship reading a file. It was a file on you. Why is that?” Shana looked inquiringly at him. Kai looked away from her.

  He closed his eyes and worked hard to get his breathing back under control. He gulped several times before he opened his eyes again, then turned to look at her as she touched his shoulder.

  “Do you remember what it said in that file?” he asked. Then thought to himself, I would like to know that one myself.

  “No, I don’t remember.” Shana said sadly, turned from him and sat down.

  ~ * ~

  “So, Lieutenant Moon crashed landed on Paradise after all,” President Grogan mumbled as he turned to face his Advisor, Delia Marcus.

  “That is what was reported. The reports also stated that ship she was on exploded on impact. It is unknown whether she made it out of the ship or not,” Delia said sadly. Even though she did not know Shana personally, it saddened about the report on Shana Moon.

  She glanced up at the President. He did not seem too happy that his plans to assassinate the Guardian of Paradise were thwarted.

  “I have to send someone else to take her place. Send me Mikla Haze,” Grogan said, his hard gaze on Delia.

  “I am sorry, sir. Her status says that she is breeding,” Delia said, not bothering to look at him.

  “Then find me someone who can do the job without crash-landing on the planet.” He turned to her once more. “Does your Reports say what caused Shana’s ship to crash on that planet?” he asked as he turned to look out the window and watch the swirling clouds below him.

  “The Report states that her ship contracted a virus.” Delia watched him nod his head.

  ~ * ~

  “Why did I have a file on you?” Shana asked as she stood up and walked over to him, placing a hand on his shoulder.

  Kai turned to her and covered her hand with his. “You don’t remember what was in that file?” His eyes stared down at hers. He removed his hand from hers and wrapped his arms around her waist, bringing her closer to him as his heart thudded against his chest. He waited for her answer as she stared up at him.

  “I’m sorry, I don’t remember. Was it important?” Shana asked as she searched his eyes for the answer. His blue eyes seemed to sadden while hers were questioning and appeared to be trusting him.

  Kai inhaled sharply. He searched his brain for the answer to her question. He wanted to know what was in that file and the reason why she was sent here. His hand reached up and combed through her disheveled hair, feeling the silky texture of it through his fingers.

  “You do know what was in that file, don’t you?” Shana asked as she continued to search his sad eyes.

  Kai inhaled sharply again and closed his eyes. He leaned his forehead against hers, wishing he knew what he could tell her. He could tell her the truth and say that he didn’t know what was in that file. He opened his mouth to tell her just that but instead he told her, “It was our marriage documents.” He turned his gaze from hers wondering, Where in the hell did that come from?

  “Are we married?” Shana asked him in confusion. She stepped back from him.

  Kai nodded his head. “You are my bride. You were on Earth when we spoke our vows. You were coming here to live.” The lies were growing by the minute. When she regains her memory, there will be hell to pay. He gulped at the thought.

  Her head was nodding as Shana turned away from him. Suddenly, she turned back to him and jumped into his arms, claiming his lips in a passionate kiss.

  Kai stiffened at first, surprised by her sudden move. With a growl, he wrapped his arms around her and turned and left his study.

  Shana’s legs wrapped around his hips as he carried her down the hall. She raked her nails down his back. She heard him moan out loud as he walked into his bedroom, kicking the door closed behind him with his bare foot. She felt the mattress on her back when he lowered her down to the bed, his lips never leaving hers.

  Kai couldn’t believe his luck. He unbuttoned his shirt as he felt his shaft harden even more. His lips moved from hers as they traveled down the side of her neck, down to her breasts and suckling hard on a nipple as she bucked underneath him. Shana moaned out loud at the sensations that he was triggering in her as he moved over to her other breast. His hands unbuttoned the fly on his jeans and he shucked them off quickly.

  His hands slid down her stomach and paused.

  “Shana,” he whispered as his gazed drifted up from her breasts and stared down at her eyes. They were wide and glazed with desire. She stared up at him with wonder in her eyes. His hands drifted lower until he cupped her mound in his hand. With slowly tender movements, Kai slowly moved his hand in a circle. He felt her damp heat in his palm as she grew even more wet and hotter.

  Shana jerked up from the bed at the feel of his hands on her hot core and at the feeling of his finger as he entered into her wet depths. She closed her eyes as sensations washed over her. She raised her head and nipped at his shoulder. He shivered as she continued to nibble at the side of his neck. She felt his shaft rubbing along the inside of her thigh. She cried out as he pulled his fingers out of her moist folds.

  “Kai!” She cried out as he claimed her lips with his. He moaned into her mouth as he slowly entered her.

  “So wet and tight.” He felt her tight sheath around him. Kai rose up onto his elbows and looked down into her eyes.

  “You are mine,” he whispered as he moved deeper into her. He paused at her barrier and gazed deeply into her eyes. He wrapped his arms tightly around her. His eyes never left hers.

  “From this day forward we will be one. Only death can part us. From this day forward we shall live as one,” Kai muttered as he took the final plunge into her, filling her with his hardness.

  Shana stiffened and cried out softly. She wrapped her arms around him, holding him to her. Kai paused in his movements, letting her get used to him being inside of her. Letting the tremors subside.

  Minutes later, he began to move within her once again. Shana lessened her hold on him and began to raise her hips, meeting his strokes with her own. Kai grunted and raised his head from her shoulder and gazed down into her eyes. He raised a hand and cupped her cheek with his palm as he increased the tempo.

  Shana felt herself begin to tremble. She closed her eyes and tightened her hold on Kai.

  She cried out his name as she began to shake. She felt his lips on hers and kissed him back with everything in her.

  Kai felt her climax over his shaft. He pumped into her hard and fast as a red haze filled his vision. He rose up on his hands and pumped into her harder, feeling himself let go.

  “Shana!” he cried out as he exploded inside of her.

  Five

  It was still dark outside when Kai was called away by his friend, Prix. Kai leaned over Shana.

  “I have to go,” he whispered and placed a deep and tender kiss on her lips before he rose from the bed and quietly dressed. He gave her one last lingering look of hunger as he went out the door. Kai made sure that the door was locked before he walked over and jumped into the hovercraft. The quiet engine lifted the hovercraft into the air and took him in the direction of the hospital where Prix’s mate, Sira, was having their first child.

  Shana heard Kai whispered something to her. She didn’t hear him. A dream had a grip on her.

  Once more Shana was runnin
g for her life.

  Laser fire surrounded her. She leaned back against a wall breathing hard as she looked up at the nighttime sky, searching for familiar lights. “Come on,” she whispered.

  “Where are they?” A blonde haired woman cried out beside her. She reached up and wiped the sweat from her forehead before returning fire from her laser against the enemies.

  “I don’t know,” Shana said crouching against the wall. Her breathing was hard and fast. She was also sweating and the air around them was cold. Shana shivered slightly as she glanced up at the dark sky.

  “Hurry up, please,” Shana whispered.

  Shana’s eyes were tightly closed as she tried to remember who was the woman in the dream.

  Why were they being fired on?

  A scream pierced the air, Shana looked down at her friend. There was a gaping hole in her chest. Blood began to spill from the hole onto the ground.

  “No!” Shana screamed out tearfully. She bent over the woman. Shana tore her shirt off and pressed down on the wound, trying to stop the flow of blood.

  “Leave me,” the woman whispered, her eyes glazed from the pain.

  “No. I can’t leave you behind to these animals,” Shana snarled as she lifted her laser and fired a couple of rounds. She laid the laser beside her and looked up at the dark sky. “I see them. Help’s on the way, Mikla.” She smiled down at her friend.

  Mikla’s eyes were closed. A look of pain filled her features. “Mikla,” Shana whispered and reached for hand. “Help is on the way,” she told her once more. The bleeding wouldn’t stop, she pressed down harder on Mikla’s wound.

  “Tell Gregor that I love him with all my heart,” Mikla whispered as her eyes closed and her head dropped to the side.

  Shana screamed, she gripped Mikla’s shoulders and shook her. “Don’t leave me! Stay with me! Help is here.” Shana waved her arms at the rescue team.

  “Mikla!” Shana yelled out as she jerked herself up in the bed. Trembling, she held the blanket to her chest. Sweat beaded on her forehead. Shana reached up and wiped it away with a shaking hand. She looked down at the pillow beside her and noticed that it was empty. Shana frowned as she tossed the covers to the side.

  She shivered as she got out of the bed. Her bare feet padded over to the window, and she gazed out at the pre-dawn sky. The stars twinkled brightly. Shana crossed her arms over her chest as she shivered in the cool air.

  “Who is Mikla?” Shana asked at the pre-dawn sky. The three moons still hung in the barely lighted sky. The air was cool to her overheated skin, and she shivered once more.

  “Who am I? Who was that woman and who is Gregor?” So many questions running through her mind gave her a headache. She rubbed at the sore spot on her head.

  A whir sounded at her side and Shana looked down at the Bot with its flashing lights and beeps.

  “I wish that I could understand what you’re trying to tell me,” Shana muttered, turning back to the window as the sun began its ascent into the sky from the faraway mountains.

  There is something about those mountains, she thought to herself.

  ~ * ~

  “Sira’s okay now. Everything went fine,” Kai said as he placed a comforting arm around Prix, who stood next to him with a pale face.

  “I know, Kai. After everything that we went through to be together. I just couldn’t...” Prix’s throat closed up with strong emotions. His lips tightened as he gulped down a bundle of raw feelings.

  “I know, Prix, I was there, remember?” Kai said softly as he led Prix down the hall to the waiting room.

  Prix tossed aside his mask. “One would think that with the technology that we have we could predict any type of problem when they deliver babies. I almost lost her, Kai,” he said in a hoarse voice.

  Kai sat down in a waiting room chair and held his hands between his knees. He looked down at the floor while they waited for an emergency c-section that was being performed on Sira.

  Kai remembered a time when Sira had walked away from Prix when her family hadn’t approved of her relationship with him. Prix almost killed himself over her.

  When Sira had discovered that she was pregnant, she searched Prix out on Lunar Seven. The couple had returned. Happily.

  Prix sat in the empty seat next to Kai. “I am glad that you’re here, though. When you finally find your mate then you’ll know what I’m going through right now.” Prix shook his head slowly and glanced down at the ground.

  “I am mated. As of last night,” Kai muttered in a soft voice. Then he wished that he hadn’t stated that fact to his most trusted friend so soon.

  “You’re what?” Prix sputtered as he turned to Kai. Then he said in a low voice. “Tell me that you didn’t...” Prix didn’t complete the question as he shook his head.

  Kai swallowed a lump in his throat as he nodded his head.

  “You don’t even know where she’s from,” Prix said. “Or what her name is.” Prix was amazed at his friend. He shook his head. “What were you thinking of? Never mind, I can guess. It wasn’t with your head that is sitting on your shoulders, that’s for sure. You were thinking with your other head. The one that sits between your legs.”

  “Her name is Shana Moon, she is from Earth,” Kai said in a low, rough voice while his gaze turned hard as he stared down at the floor. He lifted his head to look at Prix. “She also happens to be a government agent from Earth. I found out just recently.”

  “You were definitely ruled by the head between your legs,” Prix muttered as he leaned back against the seat. His head banged against the wall and he muttered a few choice curse words that were banned on Paradise a hundred years ago. Prix whistled between his teeth.

  “You know I can hang you for saying those words. But I won’t,” Kai muttered. He leaned back against his seat just as Prix had done moments earlier. His head banged against the wall, too. Kai squeezed his eyes shut.

  “Did she get her memory back?” Prix asked.

  Kai shook his head. He placed his hands behind his neck.

  “Man, why?” Prix asked as he turned his gaze to Kai.

  “I don’t know. I have these emotions running through me every time I see her. She is constantly on my mind when I’m away from her. And you know the other reason, what we men go through before we find our mates and what happens when we do,” Kai confessed and turned to look at Prix. “You know it was time for me to find my mate. She was meant to be mine.” Kai opened his eyes and looked at Prix with a hard look.

  Prix opened his mouth to say something else to Kai, only to have Sira’s doctor interrupt them. He stood up to face the doctor along with Kai. “How is she?” Prix asked in a concern filled voice.

  “She is fine. Along with your son,” Dr. Mediriors said.

  Kai turned to Prix. He caught his friend as he slumped to the floor.

  ~ * ~

  “Who did you find for me to take Shana’s place on this mission?” President Grogan asked Delia as she stepped into the room.

  “I found the perfect person for you,” Delia said as she slid a file across the desk with ease. She took a step back and waited for his approval.

  Jim opened the file and took a long look at the picture. Then the President turned his gaze to the dossier and read what was written there. He grinned as he closed the file.

  “Perfect. This person is the perfect choice. I should have picked this one instead of Shana.” He looked up at Delia who stood there awaiting her next orders.

  Delia walked out of the office and sat down at her desk. She picked the phone and dialed the person’s number that the President had agreed to for this mission, before putting the call through to the President.

  “This is the President. I have a mission for you,” he said into the com-link. After a brief exchange, the call was disconnected. Grogan sat back in his chair and placed his arms behind his head. He had a smug look on his face.

  ~ * ~

  Mikla sat on the couch, her hands around her stomach as she gazed at the
wall with unseeing eyes. The hurt of loss was expressed on her face. Gregor stood in the doorway with his hands on his hips as he watched his mate. There was nothing that he could do to help the pain that she was feeling.

  She sighed, and her hand pressed deeper into her side. She rubbed at the spot where the baby had kicked.

  “Is the baby kicking you too hard?” Gregor asked in a soft voice as he walked over to her and sat down. He placed his hand over her extended stomach and circled the spot with his thumb.

  “I miss her,” Mikla said in a sad voice. Tears formed in the corner of her eyes. She reached up and rubbed them away.

  “It was a nice ceremony.” Gregor made the mistake of speaking the words about the loss of her friend.

  Mikla pushed to her feet slowly and turned to face her mate. “I will not believe that she is dead. She is out there somewhere. She can be hurt for all that we know.” Mikla let the tears fall freely down her face. She turned and waddled out of the living room, leaving a bewildered Gregor staring after her on the couch.

  “Hormones. That must be it. She’s still having all these mixed hormones in her system.” He rubbed his face with the heels of his hands.

  ~ * ~

  It was late in the evening when Kai finally arrived home. He stood next to Shana as she slept peacefully. He knew that Prix was right--when she regained her memory there would be hell to pay for lying to her. Kai tugged his hands into his pockets as he stood gazing down at her with his heart beating at a fast pace.

  I have spoken the vows of binding, he told himself. Kai tugged his lower lip between his teeth. I should have told her the truth in the beginning, but I didn’t want to lose her. He turned on his heel and quietly walked out of the bedroom.

  Kai walked down the hallway and entered the gym thinking a good workout would help to settle his nerves. He stripped off his shirt and pants, followed by his briefs, and tossed them into the corner. A Robo cleaner came out and picked up the discarded clothes and carried them out of the room.