Fighting Kat by PJ Schnyder

Author:PJ Schnyder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Alone, the space between them was an awkward, tangible, thing. The others had left, taking Bharguest back to his holding cell before finding their bunks.

Rygard didn’t blame the captain for wanting to personally see the dangerous man back into a secure holding cell. He’d planned to have a word with the commanding officer about the complacent attitude of the military police escorting the prisoner, but having met Petrico-Calin, the Fourth, Rygard wasn’t sure it would do any good. Bharguest’s cooperation seemed to hinge on his interest in Kaitlyn more than his incarceration.

Not a comfortable situation.

Rygard looked over to where Kaitlyn stood, all the way on the other side of Med Bay. “We have a plan.”

“There should be a plan B developed sometime between now and when we execute plan A,” Kaitlyn commented.

With everyone else gone, her manner had turned shy.

He’d missed it about her, this special facet of her she never showed her crew, not her captain, not anyone. For the moment, she was his girl.

When he slid off the stretcher and started to walk toward her, she pushed away from the wall and met him halfway across the room. As he pulled her into his arms, she slid her own under his to encircle his waist.

“I missed you.” Her whisper in his ear made his heart expand painfully inside his chest and he crushed her close.

Damn, he couldn’t stand the thought of how close he’d come to watching her violated. He wanted to search her body for every bruise, kiss every hurt, erase the ghost of the scumbag’s touch from her skin. He couldn’t make himself let her go, not even the arm’s length he’d need to see her.

And she hugged him back, breathing deep and letting the warm air out slowly against his neck. Did she know what she was waking in him? It had been too long and he wanted to claim her in a way that had nothing to do with civilized behavior.

“Are you all right?” He asked the question instead, because it needed to be asked. She’d hold off on thinking about her fight with the jailer for as long as she could, but she needed to admit to him and to herself what had happened back on the planet.

She stilled in his arms for a long moment, and then nodded against his shoulder. “I remembered, while I was down there. It distracted me.”

More than distracted her. He’d seen the glazed look in her eyes. Torture victims sometimes withdrew so far within themselves they essentially became vegetables, the mind forever hiding from the pain and suffering of the body. He’d watched, tried to get to her, but he’d seen her disappear into herself before she’d somehow recovered.

He crushed her against him again. “You scared me, sweetness. Not gonna lie. I think I almost lost you down there.”

She didn’t argue with him, didn’t give him a false reassurance. “I’m here now.”

He nodded, rubbing his face in her silky hair. “And so am I.”

“You’re safe.

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