Starlight Complete by Astrid Cooper

Author:Astrid Cooper
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Ecstasy, Shapeshifter, Romance, Science Fiction, extasy books, Erotica
ISBN: 9781554874354
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Published: 2009-11-18T06:00:00+00:00

Lying side by side on the grassy bank beside the stream, Sam and John watched the shadows of late afternoon lengthen over the sacred ground.

John’s hand caressed her stomach, slipping lower to tease.

“When we go to Broome, kitten, I promise you, I’ll love you properly in the water. The dolphins and whales will sing for you.”

She raised her head to study him and smiled.

“I’ve kept something for when we reach home. Except,” he said, frowning, “for the first time in my life, I can call Chizan home, too.”

“That is the mutatis gift. We are part of the whole. Never parted, never alone.”

His eyes misted. “I knew you would understand, beloved wife.”

“I’m hungry,” Sam said.

“You want me again?”

“Later. I mean hungry. Food hungry.”

“You do need replenishing. Stay there.”

“I couldn’t move if my life depended on it.”

“My wife is replete with her husband’s passion?”

“Satiated.”

“You think?” He pushed himself to his knees and exhaled over her, his warm breath making her skin pucker.

Her stomach rumbled.

He laughed. “I see you are hungry and not for me at this moment.” John stood up.

She watched him walk away, his hair swishing across his shoulder blades.

John bent down to collect his robe. A twig snapped in the undergrowth. He turned. No one was permitted in the grove while he and Sam were completing mutatis. The steps were too heavy for an animal. Then he caught the scent of human. And…machine.

Moments later, the bushes parted and six dark figures hurtled across the clearing. They slammed into John, bringing him to the ground.

“Sam, run!”

Samantha, on the river bank turned at the sound, felt John’s alarm, his fear. She vaulted to her feet.

John was struggling in the grasp of two human-droid creatures. He tore free and faced them, a blur of speed, his hands extended, like claws.

He growled. Pure felinus. Enraged.

A male figure emerged from the forest, dressed from head to toe in a grey spacer-suit. The helmet visor was down.

He leveled a laser at John’s head. “Hold still, kitty-cat!”

“No!” Sam cried, racing across the clearing.

The helmeted intruder looked at her and then slowly, deliberately, lowered his pistol and fired point blank against John’s chest. Kuno crumpled to the ground.

Sam dropped to her knees at John’s side, sobbing, trying to stem the tide of blood from his wound.

John. Kuno. Mind to mind dearest! There was no response. Just black, a void. She touched his chest. No heart beat. She lay over his body and wept.

Harsh fingers bit into her skin, dragging her to her feet.

The touch galvanized her. She launched herself at John’s killer, clawing ineffectually at his suit. The ferocity of her attack sent him reeling; he dropped his gun and Sam dove for it. The man grappled with her, and they both fell in a tangle of arms and legs to the ground. Sitting astride her, he grasped her throat and her pearl necklace broke. She bit into his hand.

Weeping, Sam kicked and punched, finally bucking off her assailant. Her freedom was short-lived as other hands held her immobile, spread-eagled against the ground.

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