The Interdimensional Lord's Earthly Delight by Elsa Jade

Author:Elsa Jade [Jade, Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Since that burst of plasma fire and the threat to Lishelle, Tynan had been acting on reflex. His reflexes had served him well as a warlord, but only when balanced with stratagems.

The bold lady beside him made him forget strategy, forget everything except her presence and his urge to keep her close.

Although she didn’t seem to feel the same…

He sidelonged a glance at her. As tall and fierce as she was—like one of the battlemaids of Thorkon’s past—she looked young and lost, curled up in the copilot’s chair. And that was his fault. He’d dented her spirit with his high-handed ways—

“By the way,” she said casually. “You left the blaster on this seat, and I have it aimed at your guts. So you better stop jerking me around.”

He swiveled in his seat to face her, eyebrows arching. “And here I was worried that you would be thrown off course by all these revelations.”

She lifted one sculpted brow back at him. “Amazing how one’s nerves are steadied by holding the blaster.”

“You’d probably feel even more empowered if the converter was properly engaged for firing,” he suggested.

She hazarded a quick glance down at the weapon. “Which button is the converter?”

“No light means the weapon is not on. White indicates safety feature engaged and it will emit an audible warning to your target that they should stand down. Yellow is stun setting for most life forms within its parameters. Orange is lethal. Intermittent blinking light means the weapon is running low on power and should be set to ambient recharge or force powered from a compatible energy source. Solid red indicates that the weapon is overloading and an explosion is imminent.”

She frowned at him. “We’ll probably need to go over that again.”

He nodded solemnly. “Any time.”

With a sigh, she set the blaster down. On the side of her away from him, he noted wryly.

“You know I’m not going to shoot you,” she said. She rolled her eyes. “Not yet anyway.”

“My thankfulness knows no bounds,” he said.

She gave him a suspicious look, as if she thought he was being sarcastic. But then she nodded. “If there is a threat—”

“There is,” he interrupted.

She continued without pausing, “—to the station, the wedding, or my friends, I have to do something.”

“You are a brave lady,” he said.

Again, she shot him a disbelieving look before her glance slid away. “I…wasn’t brave last time. And I let Blackworm hurt people to save myself.”

“You couldn’t have stopped him,” Tynan said firmly. “You had nothing, no way to fight him.”

She trailed one fingertip over the blaster beside her, and his spine tingled as if he felt the caress.

“After what you went through, it is admirable that you’ve chosen to come with me.”

“Chosen?” She scoffed. “Let’s not overstate the case.” She put her feet back on the floor and leaned forward to stare out the viewport. The astral nav was charting their course through the Azthronos system. “Is that where we’re going?”

He zoomed in. “My stronghold, on the inner inhabitable planet.” He quickly tapped at the comm panel.

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