Marked Mate by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-20T18:30:00+00:00

5

Stark

I should have told her the moment she woke. But she’d already been panicked, breaking the ReGen pod and injuring her leg.

I’d touched her then. Gods help me, I hadn’t been able to resist taking her. Claiming her. Making sure she could never escape our bond, even after she discovered the truth. I was an Elite Hunter. I had a duty to my people and several more years on my enlistment. I had a duty to the Coalition, to the billions we protected on hundreds of member planets. I could not remain on Earth with her. And I could not live without her. Be alone. Not now that I knew she existed.

She would need to leave her home, her world and everyone she loved to be with me. I’d been a coward, terrified of her choice.

“Are we…are we in space?” Rebecca turned to me, her dark eyes wide with shock. Lilah nudged her, offering comfort. My mate did not respond to her beloved pet. That alone told me I’d made a mistake.

A huge fucking mistake.

“Rebecca, let me explain.”

“You took me into outer space?” She clenched her hands into fists at her sides as she stared out at a sight all to familiar to me. Blackest night sprinkled with stars. Planets that twinkled light years away. Emptiness. Loneliness. Cold, black nothing.

“You carried me to your little spaceship, stuck me in that pod and took me into outer freaking space?” Her voice grew louder and higher pitched with each word.

“The criminals from Siren legion remain on Earth. I could not protect you and hunt them at the same time. I am taking you home. Once you are safe, I will resume my hunt.”

“What?”

“There is that word again.” I truly must check in with the NPU techs once back on Everis.

“Taking me home?” She pointed outside the ship to what lay beyond the energy shield protecting us. “Does that look like home to you?”

It did. I’d spent years out here hunting. Tracking. Killing. I’d never truly felt alone until I met her. Now that emptiness made a mockery of the expanse outside this ship. Inside me, a yawning pit grew in my gut, twisting and pinching my insides until I fought to breathe.

I stared at her long legs, the tops of her thighs barely covered by my shirt. I loved seeing her wearing nothing else, covered in my scent, her hair in total disarray from the wildness of her passion. Her breasts were full and round and tempted me to lift the garment, kneel before her and take them into my mouth. To rouse her passion so that this conversation could be forgotten and begun anew.

“Well?” She put her hands on her hips, an oddly adorable huff passing her lips. “What were you thinking?”

I had only one answer. “You are my home now. I cannot lose you, and I could not protect you on Earth, not the way I should.”

“So where are you taking me?”

“Home, to Everis.”

“Mmm-hmm.” She stared out into deep space for another few moments before lifting her hand to the sensor and closing the door.

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