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Joe growled. “I need to check her wound.”
“Check it on board. We need to leave now before the soldiers arrive, or would you prefer she end up
with a few more holes?”
“I’m fine,” Chloe gasped from behind her makeshift mask.
Since logic appeared to have completely left him, Joe did as his friend suggested. He let Chloe stand
as he quickly buckled himself into the harness. Secured, he took her back into his arms.
“Hold on tight,” he ordered before the rope began to pul them up through the hole his brothers
created. And back to freedom — which contained a much-needed shower and a real y big bed.
*
Hold on indeed. Chloe clamped her eyes tight as she and the cyborg went flying up through a ragged
hole she knew hadn’t existed that morning. It seemed the machines brought some heavy artil ery to
free their comrade. Even with her face buried against the machine’s bare flesh, she could hear the
rumble of gunfire, the strident alarms, the shril screams of men dying, the rapid thump of the escaped
prisoner’s heart as it beat.
For the mil ionth time since he’d carted her caveman style from the restricted area, she wondered that
she didn’t fight his abduction of her.
Didn’t even want to. She wished she could blame it on the soldier who tried to rape her. Hoped to
perhaps excuse it as shock, but the truth was, when Joe declared she was going with him, she’d never
heard something that sounded so right. How it made any sense she didn’t know.
How could being kidnapped by a cyborg, a known kil er of humans, be the right thing to do? Where
was her sense of outrage over her dilemma? Her panic and fear over what would happen to her?
Wrapped in his muscular arms, the steady thump of his heart the only sound she focused on, she
decided it didn’t matter. For the first time in a long time, she felt alive and, even stranger, safe. Oh
and a tad bit excited, and not entirely from the adrenaline rush of the escape. Some of it, actual y a lot
of it, had to do with him. He made her tingle in a way she didn’t recal experiencing before. With her
cheek pressed to his skin, it would be so easy to press her lips against him and taste. Lick. Touch…
Okay, she’d completely lost her mind. Talk about the worst time and place to get horny. A jolt
snapped her from her naughty meanderings, and she opened her eyes to see she stood in some sort of
docking bay. Before she could take in any details, her cyborg was pul ing her after him as he strode
over the metal perforated flooring.
“Where are we going?” she asked, but he didn’t reply. What she could glimpse of his face showed
him alert, and yet distant, as if in deep thought.
Despite his lack of communication, he seemed to know where he wanted to go. He tugged her through
several doors before halting in a large stateroom.
“Can your wound wait a little longer?” he asked suddenly, startling her from her contemplation of the
overly large bed taking up most of the space.
She’d actual y forgotten it. His reminder had her looking down to see her sleeve covered in blood,
but while her arm felt a touch tender, she didn’t seem to be in any great pain.
“I’m fine.”
“I am needed on the bridge. You may want to strap in. We wil be leaving the atmosphere in one
minute, five seconds. Once we’ve cleared the moon and shaken our pursuers, we wil adopt a more
sedate pace, and you wil be able to unbuckle. I wil return shortly.” She nodded and headed for the
jumpseat jutting from the wal , but before she’d gone two steps, she found herself spun and encased in
a pair of familiar arms. Hard lips crushed hers in a kiss that was both hungry yet sensual. And total y
unexpected.
Gasping in surprise, her open mouth al owed him to latch his lips around her lower one and tug it, an
erotic pul that she felt right down to her pussy. A sensual heat crept through her limbs, and she opened
wider, inviting him to deepen the kiss. Instead, he groaned as he pul ed away.
“My brothers are cal ing me, little one. Later.” Spinning on his heel, he strode away, stil only clad in
his loincloth, the back of him a mass of rippling muscles, just as enticing as his front. She sighed as
the door slid shut behind him, her lips tingling from their short embrace.
I think I’ve just discovered why he brought me along. As absurd as it seemed, he’d kidnapped her
for sex. And hopefully not parts. The womanly side of her couldn’t help a warm pleasure that he
found her appealing enough to bring along. While the rationale portion of her mind cal ed herself al
kinds of crazy.
The ship lurched, and she put aside her musings to scramble to the jumpseat and strap in. Too late
now to wonder at her current situation.
She obviously wasn’t going home any time soon, and she doubted the military would exert itself
rescuing her.
For some reason, the fact she was stuck on board with cyborgs, more specifical y hers, made her
smile even when her stomach lurched as they shot through the atmosphere.
Chapter Four
“Status.” He spoke aloud. Having reached the bridge and most of his brothers who’d volunteered to
come on this mission, the need for wireless, BCI-to-BCI, communication disappeared.
“No signs of pursuit. The diversion we set in motion has kept their air troops occupied. And Krag has
entertained himself picking off their ground artil ery. Leaving the atmosphere in twenty-nine seconds.” [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]