by KD Jones
“I can only reveal that to the rebel leader in person.”
RolAN thought it over. “Fine, you come with us. We need to leave immediately.”
“What do you do with this female?” The man standing next to Rose called out.
RolAN gave Rose one disgusted look before he said, “Kill her. She’s no good to us.”
Oh shit! Rose had to act quickly. While everyone else was looking at StrykER she head moved her arms out of the arms of the coat. She gripped the edges of the coat and swung it at the male holding the weapon towards her. She caught him by surprise and he fell backwards. She took off running. She glanced back once and saw StrykER stick his foot out causing one of the rebels to trip when he tried to run after Rose.
“Sorry.” StrykER said as he bent down to try to help the male up.
“Get her!” RolAN called out.
The male that was knocked down by Rose got up and took off after her. “I’m going to enjoy killing that female!”
HarvEY pointed to the opening of the tunnel. “We have to get out of here now!”
*****
JadEN heard the male threatening his mate and went into protective mode. He took off in the direction that he spotted Rose running to. He didn’t care what happened with the rest, he had to get to his mate and protect her.
His heart raced as he watched helplessly as Rose fell over some rocks. The male chasing her jumped at her and landed on her. He had to get to her. He had to kill the other male.
*****
Rose felt the air leave her lungs as the man chasing her landed on top of her. She tried to shove him off of her. He was too heavy and too strong. He took her wrists in a bruising grip with one hand and held them trapped above her head.
“Let me go!”
“You have been nothing but trouble since we took you. I’m still furious over you fooling us into believing you were the prima. You will pay for it. I had planned to use your body while traveling to the meeting place.” He ground himself against her.
True fear spread through her entire system making her freeze. He was going to rape her. She could see it in his eyes. When she felt him stiffen against her she thought she was going to throw up.
“Rose!” She heard JadEN calling her name.
Rose watched in shock as JadEN attacked the man on top of her, throwing him in the air away from her. She sat up but didn’t try to stand. She was rooted to the spot as she watched JadEN, in a crazed state, begin to pound on the guy. She did throw up when she heard a crunching sound when JadEN twisted the guy’s head until he broke his neck.
“JadEN.” She called his name right before she passed out.
Chapter 19
“Rose?” JadEN her his name and let go of the head he had in his hands. He looked down at the dead body. He had done that. He had killed a male with his own hands. He turned to look for his mate and saw that she wasn’t moving. He rushed to her side avoiding where she had vomited. What in Kitana had the male done to her?
He knelt on the ground and pulled her into his lap. “Come on beautiful, wake up for me.” He didn’t like how cold she felt to him. He shrugged out of his coat and wrapped her in it. Then he took his shirt off and used it to clean her face. His pants pocket he pulled out the medical scope and scanned her. She had a low temperature and a few bruises on her face and arms. Other wise she was unharmed. Thank the Goddess.
“Is your mate okay?”
JadEN looked up to find CristOF watching him. “She is unconscious but fine.” Their attention was caught when shuttles flew overhead.
CristOF smiled. “Commander TylOR and the reinforcements have arrived.”
JadEN lifted Rose up into his arms and began walking back towards the cave. When they got closer they paused as they watched StrykER knock the other security guard out. Then HarvEY, StrykER and the other Rebel ran to get inside the shuttle partially hidden inside the cave
“Stop them! They’re going to get away!” JadEN yelled out. But it was too late, the shuttle took off and somehow evaded being shot down.
“JadEN?” Rose started to wake. “What happened? I feel like I fell from high up. I hurt all over and I can barely move. Are you okay?”
“Easy my love. I’ve got you.” He kissed her forehead. She still felt chilled. Wearing wet clothes was not helping matters. He turned to Commander TylOR as he approached them. “We need to get her back to the medic wing and into dry warm clothing.”
“I have spare warrior clothes on board my shuttle. It might be too big for her but it is dry.” TylOR told him.
“Yes she needs to bring her temperature up.” He didn’t wait but headed for the shuttle. He walked up the ramp and waited for TylOR to come on board.
“Sit, I’ll get the clothes.” TylOR opened a compartment on the wall and pulled out a pair of flight suit. He placed it in the seat next to JadEN. “I’ll close the door and give you privacy.” He then turned and left the shuttle closing the shuttle door behind him.
He helped Rose to lay her hid on his shoulder. She was shivering and she rubbing herself against his warm skin. He wanted to warm her with his body, but they needed to be skin to skin.
“Come on my love. Let’s get you out of these wet clothes.”
She giggled. “You are always trying to get me out of my clothes.” Her giggles turned into hysterical laughter then turned into tears.
He held her close against him. “Shhh... it’s okay. I have you now. Please my love, I can’t take your tears.”
“I was so scared that I would never get to see you again. I thought that I was going to die. I knew I was prepared to fight to the death before letting them take me off the planet.”
“I am so proud of you for staying strong and for fighting for your freedom. You are very brave.”
“I didn’t feel brave. I was scared the whole time.”
He kissed her forehead. “You helped to protect Prima Lindsey but getting her up that tree.”
“Lindsey! Is she okay? I hated leaving her but I had to try to lead the rebels away from her.”
“She is safe. I treated her before I came after you. I feared for your safety after seeing some of your clothing in the water tunnel.”
“You went into the tunnel after me?”
“Absolutely. I will always come for you. You are my mate, the love of my life, the other half of my soul. I will give my life for you to keep you safe.” He wanted nothing more than to make love to her slowly so that she knew exactly how much she meant to him. But her shivering reminded him of where they were. “Let’s get you dressed in some warm clothes.”
“Yes please. I can’t stop shivering.” She let him help remove the buttons to her shirt and push it off her shoulders.
He watched her as she hesitated about removing her bra, she finally made the decision to take it off. He helped her remove her underwear as well. He had to fight every impulse not to take her right then.
She looked up at JadEN. “I need to feel your touch JadEN.” She lifted his hands and had him cup her breasts. He hesitated at first His hands were very warm. “JadEN.”
JadEN reluctantly released her breasts but the look he gave her was full of concern. “This isn’t the time or place. Let me get you home so that I can take care of you properly,” He held up the flight suit.
“You’re right.” She took off her pants and underwear and got into the flight suite. She laughed at how long the legs and sleeves were. “I must look like some kind of rag doll.”
“You always look beautiful to me. If there weren’t warrior outside this shuttle, I would take you right now.”
“It’s not hard, you are beautiful. Here, sit back down. You are still shaking.” He took her into his arms and held her in his lap.
“What’s happening? Did they catch the rebels?”
“One is dead, one I saw being secured, and the prisoner and other rebel along with that traitorous StrykER have evaded capture.”
“StrykER left with the other rebel leader?”
“I don’t think he did. He motioned for me not to act like I knew him and when I ran off, I think he delayed the others from chasing after me.”
“Well he didn’t do a good job because you were still hunted down and hurt. Then you had to witness me killing the male.”
She cupped his cheek. “I’m so sorry you had to do that.”
“I’ve never killed anyone before.” JadEN admitted the emotions running through him. The biggest was fear that she would not see him the same way.
“Sometimes we have to do things to protect ourselves; it’s instinct, self-preservation.”
“I was protecting you. I had gone into protective mode. I couldn’t think of anything else except getting to you and keeping the other male from hurting you. I didn’t even think about what I was doing except I would not let him hurt you again. I saw him on top of you and...he had to die. That bothers me greatly.” Kitana. Why had he confessed that to her? She would surely fear him now, think him a murderer.
“You saved me, JadEN. He would have raped then killed me. You have nothing to feel guilty for.”
He pulled her tighter against him at the thought of what the male would have done. It made him glad for killing him. He knew that was what would have happened. He hated that Rose had to face that terrifying moment before he showed up.
“I wish you never have had to face that kind of danger.”
“You can’t protect me from life. Bad stuff happens to people all the time. I survived and that is the most important thing. I survived because of you.”
“You are my heart.”
“Can we go home now?” She laid her head on his shoulder.
“Yes of course.” Jaden pulled her tight against her. If his people had not brought Rose here, she would never have been in this danger, or hurt like this. He swore he would make sure nothing like this happened to her again.
Chapter 20
Rose was ready to scream. It had been almost a week since the attempted kidnapping of Prima Lindsey. JadEN had not let her out of his sight. Not even for ten minutes. He acted like she was traumatized. Other than a few nightmares, she felt fine. But he hadn’t made love to her. He held her in his arms every night as they lay together in bed. But he didn’t touch her sexually and whenever she tried to touch him he would get up and say he had somewhere to go. He was pushing her away and she had had enough.
It hurt to have someone she loved and trusted turn their back on her. She experienced that with her mother when she chose to take her step dad’s side over Rose’s. People who love you should never betray you like that. It took her years to get over that. But having JadEN pull away from her like this brought it all back. Not only was she hurt, she was now angry.
She stormed her way to the medic wing. JadEN had been spending a lot of his time there. Lead Medic TorIS had been shipped off to a mining colony. She didn’t know why except that Lindsey had commented once that she hated the guy and could tell he felt the same towards her. JadEN was asked to help take over some of the lead medic’s responsibilities. He used that as his excuse every time he put distance from her. Well his days of hiding from her were over.
She walked through the medic wing’s open door and yelled out. “JadEN!” She looked around at the round room that had about ten hospital beds and about three desks. There was a hallway that led to four private med rooms for examinations and a couple of offices.
All the other medics in the room looked shocked at the small angry Earth female. They shuffled and clamored to get out of the room. JadEN was in one of the back offices and walked out to see what was happening.
“Rose? Are you feeling well?” He approached with caution.
“I’m sick of this.”
He frowned. “You are sick? What are your symptoms? Do you need to sit down?”
She waved her hand at him as she stomped closer to him. “I’m not physically sick. I’m sick and tired of you ignoring me.”
He blinked. “I’m not ignoring you. I’m talking right to you.”
“You don’t touch me!”
“I hold you every night Rose.”
She stomped her foot. She couldn’t help herself. She was angry and it was coming out in the most unusual ways. “I want more than you holding me while I sleep. I want you to touch me, kiss me, I want your cock deep inside me driving me crazy with desire!”
“I was giving you time.”
“Time for what? To go damn near crazy with need?” She crossed her arms over her chest.
“I thought that after what that male tried to do to you, you wouldn’t want anything physical.”
“I am alive. He’s dead. I want to live my life not be put away in a bubble untouched.”
He raised his hands up to look at them. “He’s dead because I killed him. You saw me kill him with these hands. How could I touch you with hands that have taken a life?” His voice choked.
Rose’s anger left her as the need to comfort filled her. She had been complaining about how she felt neglected but she had never thought about what JadEN might be feeling. He was suffering because he went against everything he believed in and killed a man to protect her. Some therapist she was. She completely didn’t see him suffering.
She reached out and grabbed his hands. She brought them to her lips and she kissed them. “These hands saved me. I will be forever grateful to you for that. If the situation was reversed and I had killed him to protect you, would you hate me for it?”
“Of course not.”
“Then don’t be so hard on yourself.”
“You have nightmares about it, you call out my name. When I wake you from the dream you cringe from my touch.”
Shit! She hadn’t realized that she did that. She knew about the nightmares, but she didn’t know that she pulled away from him like that.
“I’m sorry. When I first wake from the nightmare I’m still caught up in the images. I will probably have nightmares for a long time. But I’m not afraid of you. That is not why I pull away it is just a reaction from disorientation. I want you touch me. I crave it.”
*****
JadEN felt relief and the tension left his body. When she first came in to the medic wing he could not help but note her angry glare and hands propped on her hips. The stance made the silky blouse she was wearing stretch across her breasts. He licked his lips at the sight of her. She was sexy.
His cock was all for that. Keeping his distance from her these last few days had been torture for him. But he had done it for her, to give her time to recover from her kidnapping, recover from what that male was going to do to her. He pulled her to him.
“You crave me? Only me?” He nibbled her earlobe which was very sensitive erogenous zone.
She moaned tilting her head to give him more room. “Only you JadEN.”
“Will you mate me, officially in a ceremony?”
“Any day any time.”
“Where do you want to live? Here on Kiljor or on Katiera?” His fingers unbuttoned her shirt and pulled the edges over her shoulders.
“I know that your friends on Katiera would like you to come back home.” Rose said it with wariness in her voice. He wanted to remove that wariness once and for all.
“My home is wherever you are. I was offered the lead medic position here on Kiljor. It is a great opportunity and it will actually help pull Kiljorns and Katierans together to see us exchanging like this. But would you feel safe and happy here?”
She nodded her head. “I like Kiljor. Lindsey and Lizzie have become good friends to me. I’m as safe here as I would be anywhere else. Now we know what security measure to take. But like you said, home is anywhere where you are.”
He kissed her taking her lips in a demanding way. She submitted to him which made him growl with pleasure. Mine. He thought as he snapped her bra exposing her sweet breasts to his eager hands.
“JadEN, someone could walk in on us.” She glanced over to the o
pen door.
He pulled away and walked over to the door to the medic wing closing it and locking it. Then he turned back and gave her a look that made her panties wet with her juice. Holy shit he was hot.
JadEN gripped his shirt and ripped it open popping the fasteners off and onto the floor. Next he shucked out of his pants kicking his boots off. He stood before her completely naked and fully aroused.
“You are mine Rose. My mate. Now I’m going to give us both what we have been needing for days.”
“Yes please.” Rose tried to get the skirt zipper down but her fingers were shaking so bad that she couldn’t manage it but halfway. JadEN reached for her skirt and ripped it open throwing the material across the floor.
He dropped to his knees and placed his face at her lace covered crotch. He inhaled deeply. “Goddess knows how much I want you right now. I don’t want to scare you.”
“You don’t scare me. I want you so much JadEN.”
He hooked his fingers in the waistband of her panties and dragged it down her legs slowly. She stepped out of them and laughed as he tossed it over his shoulders. “Hope I don’t forget those when we leave. I would hate to have one of the other medics find them.” All other thoughts fled her mind as he lifted her leg up over his shoulder opening her up to him.
“What are you doing?”
“I need your taste more than the air I breathe. I want your juices on my lips, smeared across my face, and sliding down my throat.”
“Okay, yeah, that sounds good…” she moaned as he licked her seam.
“Mmm…delicious. I want more.” He continued to lick and suck on her. He used his fingers to spread her open and give him more of her juice.
“JadEN I’m going to fall.
He lifted her up and brought her down gently on the floor. She should be made love to on a bed but he couldn’t get himself to stop tasting her for nothing. He had to have more of her, all of her.
Having her lay flat on her back on the floor allowed him to spread both her legs higher and wider, opened her pussy up more to him. He cupped her ass with both hands and lifted her to his mouth. He didn’t waste any more time. He plunged deep inside her channel. He moved in and out, fucking her with his tongue. He paid special attention to the areas she seemed most responsive to. She gripped his hair with her fingers tightly which brought a sort of pleasure mixed with pain. He growled with a primal need to take her, mark her, make her his again.