Shattered Silence (Darkstar Mercenaries Book 2) by Anna Carven

Author:Anna Carven [Carven, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Drifting amongst the stars, waiting for the rescue ship to arrive, Enki finally found his silence.

There were no voices out here, and the Tharian seemed to have given up on trying to take over his body—for now.

With his claws embedded firmly into the outer walls, he clung to the escape pod, watching her through the small window. He wanted to open his comm and speak to her through the pod’s internal communicator, but it wasn’t synced to him, and he didn’t want to risk fumbling about and having his signal detected by the techs on the Ristval V.

They had only just narrowly escaped getting blown to particle dust by the ship’s powerful lasers. He had known the Rysor would immediately become a target, hence why he’d gotten Layla into the pod as soon as the flyer’s velocity had stabilized. Then they’d ejected, and a moment later, the Rysor had been obliterated.

Everything had been done with the narrowest of margins, with the most precise of calculations—the retrieval, the escape, the time taken to get Layla into the pod and eject—but Enki hadn’t been worried about failure.

He did this sort of shit all the time.

Layla didn’t.

But she was smart enough to trust him, and now he was watching her sublime face through the window as she mouthed something at him.

This time, he couldn’t understand the sounds her lips and tongue formed. Perhaps she was speaking in Earth-language, or perhaps he just wasn’t that good at lip-reading.

So he just shook his head slightly and watched her, a sense of contentment coming over him as he observed the slight flush in her cheeks, the dark cascade of her hair as it framed her face, the flutter of her eyelids, the appealing curve of her lips as they parted, revealing her pink tongue…

And those deep, searching brown eyes, so bright in the darkness.

She was life itself; pure, vibrant, vulnerable… everything that he was not.

A prize, as Nythian had called her.

In this rare moment of silence, a powerful feeling came over Enki. It began in his barely beating heart, which had slowed in response to the lack of oxygen in his lungs. It spread through his body, his limbs, his chest, right up to the throbbing bases of his sawn-off horns.

It made him dig his claws deeper into the thick metal walls of the escape-pod, his body filled with tension and desire.

Mine.

In that moment, he realized he didn’t want to let this human go.

Mine.

He would fight for her, kill for her, maybe even die for her.

Mine.

His erect cock strained against his armor-plate, and he was glad for the exo-helm that covered his face, because he didn’t want her to see his expression right now.

Not yet.

“Found you, brother.”

Lodan’s voice filtered through Enki’s comm, tearing him out of his lust-filled thoughts. The bastard had the most irritating sense of timing, but in truth, Enki was glad for the interruption, because he couldn’t get Layla out of here quickly enough.

Only when she was on the Fleet Station with him would he be satisfied that she was truly safe.

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