Geared Up by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace [Grace, Viola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Shapeshifter, Space Opera
ISBN: 9781487408787
Publisher: Devine Destinies
Published: 2016-08-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“What did Madame Skarrow want to speak with you about?” Tauron’s voice was a low rumble in her ear.

She debated what to tell him. “I reminded her of someone she once knew. She just wanted to show me the design floor.”

“If you say so.”

She smiled.

“You two have very similar names, and you have features that echo hers. Is there something I should know?”

“Since I don’t even know your name, I think not.” She kept her lips tight.

“Remik. Remik Tauron.”

“Niad Wyfirth, daughter of Mlina Skarrow.”

“Skarrow, like the Skarrows that we just visited?”

“The same. My mother was disowned and blocked from contracting with my father. They had to make do with what didn’t require a magistrate.”

“So, that is why your grandfather and cousin didn’t recognize you.”

“How often do you recognize someone you have never met?”

“Fair point.”

They were nearly to the base when they got a distress call.

A tremor in the neighbouring province had caused a state of emergency. All Guardians on the continent were being called in.

Tauron changed their direction and asked her a truly important question. “Can you get into your suit while we fly?”

She reached for her suit. “I am willing to find out. Keep your eyes open and on the sky. I don’t want to ditch in a farmer’s field.”

He laughed. “I’ll be good.”

“Do you have a suit with you?” She loosely tied her Citadel suit around her neck and peeled out of the lighter suit.

“In the seat of the runner. I can change in seconds.”

She had her suit open, and she peeled it off, scooting it over her hips and pulling it off her legs and feet. Wearing nothing but her underwear, she wrapped the Guardian suit around her neck and removed the Citadel suit.

She wriggled into it the same way that she had removed the other suit, and Tauron was appreciative. With all that wiggling in his lap, he would have had to be dead not to be aroused. It was a lot of friction.

She sighed in relief as she sealed her suit. “Sorry about all of that.”

He cleared his throat. “Good timing. We are nearly there.”

He paused. “Niad, when we next have a free day at the same time, would you walk out with me?”

She blinked. “I... Yes, I suppose I would.”

He pressed a kiss to her temple. “Excellent. There are some great noodle places in my home province.”

She laughed. In the five days she had shared a base with him, his love of noodles was already well known. She tinkered with the vehicles to make herself feel at home, and he ate to supplement his rapid metabolism.

The kiss had her skin tingling, but she kept her mind on her work as she was called on to get generators up and running for the medical centre, and do emergency repairs on the vehicles that were bringing in the wounded. A sinkhole had trapped a number of people, and the others were working to get them out. Her work was with the inanimate and mechanical. She was support.

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