Viper's Defiant Mate by S. E. Smith

Author:S. E. Smith [Smith, S. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: S. E. Smith
Published: 2015-05-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Viper reached out for Tina the moment the transporter released him. He steadied her when she swayed in disorientation. His eyes swept down over her face in a searching assessment. His lips twisted when he saw the dark bruising on her right cheek. A wave of concern flooded him when he saw the blood staining her fingers.

He ignored her gasp as he bent to sweep her up into his arms. Stepping down off the transporter, he growled at the warrior standing near the console to warn Medical that he was on his way. He strode through the doors as they opened and turned left without breaking stride.

“Where are you hurt?” He demanded.

Tina blinked up at him in confusion. “What?” She mumbled, turning her head to stare at the warriors that moved to the side to allow them to pass. “Hurt? Where are we? What happened? Pearl?”

“There is blood,” Viper snarled under his breath. “On your hands. We are on the Horizon, a Valdier Warship. Your grandmother is fine. I did not scent any other males except those that I killed in the transport and the bar.”

He heard Tina’s loud gasp. “Just how many men did you… kill tonight?” She asked in a barely audible voice. “I saw that man shoot you. How can you not be hurt?”

Concern washed through him when he saw her close her eyes and lay her head against his chest as the lift that he had stepped into started to move. His eyes flickered to where Ruby quietly laid in Tina’s arms. He couldn’t quite keep his nose from wrinkling. He couldn’t ever remember seeing a more unusual pet, though he remembered Zebulon telling him that Mandra Reykill’s mate, Ariel Hamm, had a large variety of them.

“Four,” he replied as the lift slowed. “The metal balls the male fired could not penetrate the thick fur of my cat.”

“Four!” Tina repeated in horror, opening her eyes to stare at him. “You killed four people tonight? What if you had killed someone you shouldn’t? What if... ? How can your coat be thick enough to stop a speeding bullet, but not rock salt?”

Viper glanced down at Tina with an amused look in his eyes. Truthfully, he didn’t know the answer to her last question. It would be something he would ask his twin brothers, Gable and Qadir. They loved anything that involved a mystery and experimentation and would see this as a challenge to go around shooting his other brothers, Walkyr and Pallu in the ass; All in the name of science, of course.

“How bad is she?” Tandor, the healer aboard the Horizon, asked, moving to the side as Viper entered the room. He immediately pressed a translation injector against Tina’s neck so she could understand him. He smiled reassuringly down at her. “I will help you.”

“I don’t know,” Viper replied as he lowered Tina onto the bed. “Her face is bruised and she has blood on her hands.”

“I’m not…,” Tina interrupted when she realized that she could understand the new man towering over.

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