Variant: A Sci-Fi Romance (Variant Trilogy Book 1)

by J. Q. Baldwin

  “Yeah, I understand Mates,” he spat. “Now think how far you’d go for her daughter, or her daughter’s daughter. You have no idea what flesh and blood will drive you to rend.”

  I grabbed suddenly onto his forearm and skull fucked him in a vicious parody of the blanket I enfolded Delilah in when I devoured her.

  Real terror hinged from Spartan’s gaping concrete jaw and his eyes exploded aglow. For the first time in an epoch he discovered an adversary on this planet that could take from him the very thing he violently guarded: his freedom.

  We could fight bloody. Tear flesh off each other, but all we’d get from it would be pleasure. This disgusts me, brushing the violence and anger you harbour, but it scares you that I made it in. I see you Spartan and I warn you never to underestimate me again. Stay away from my Mate. You have caused enough damage!

  I slid free and Spartan jerked free as soon as he was able. He snorted like a bull with tunnel vision. I had no doubt all the man saw was red. All the man had in him was red; red anger; blood and revenge. All of him, etched in crimson and hate. Despite this, the giant winked.

  “Grown some balls Boy; maybe I did teach you something at last.” His chainsaw laugh turned heads in sudden trepidation as he strode away from me.

  “Don’t poke the bear,” Ven advised.

  “Huh,” I pffted. “You and Delilah with your bears. Spartan needs the occasional reminder that he’s not be the scariest thing in this world.”

  “Now is not the time and Delilah, not the subject. The Genetic Manipulation Tech is more important than your squabbles with Delilah. Let her fly. She will come home, of that we are certain. Our little gypsy might need to wander but she knows where home is.”

  I refused to listen on a level Ven understood. He put a hand to my shoulder, the muscle jumping at the physical reprimand I had not felt since adolescence.

  “Son, your relationship with Delilah has never been normal, let it outside the box. Take it from someone who learnt the hard way. The box is filled with dark matter, still bound to gravity, so you think you can hide it away but it escapes without notice because it is not bound by other matter. It filters through everything.

  Open the box before it moves on without you.”

  Like Spartan I might have just now had the scare of my life from a man who rarely uttered such abyssal truths. I opened my mind to drag a little of my mate in with me. She noticed immediately and struggled.

  I couldn’t ease my grip.

  She bent and let me wrap her up.

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