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“Welcome back, my love.” Dez brushed her hair back from her face.
“Was I gone?”
“I think we hit the wormhole as we were completing the ritual. It overloaded you completely.”
Cyra glanced around her quarters as if something would look different. “We already went through it?”
Dez nodded once his eyes locked on hers.
“We’re having sex every time we travel through one of those.”
“As you wish, my queen.” He smiled at her.
She arched up to kiss his beautiful mouth. “Your mate.”
“My love.” He gazed right into her soul.
“That too.” Always.
Chapter44
Varik rolled awayfrom the blond. They were no Jarn. The novelty of the hybrid had been fun, but Varik missed his lover. What should have been a journey to takeThe Treasureback as its rightful owner and captain had only led to the loss of his dear boy and the fucking gash, Cyra, still had his ship.The Treasurewas his.
Knuckles rapped on the flimsy so-called door of the fuckroom. “Captain?”
“What?” Varik barked at Karnek. The escort shifted, putting their back to Varik.
“Ship’s ready.”
Varik hopped off the soiled mattress and yanked back the thin partition. “Repainted too?”
Karnek grunted. “New title, too.”
A spark of possibility arced through Varik. “What’d you name it?”
His man puffed up, exactly why Varik had let him name the ship. That and he didn’t care what the name was since the only name that mattered wasThe Treasure.
“Cain’s Alibi.”
“Excellent,” Varik said, barely registering the new moniker. “What did the new title cost?”
Even braced for Karnek’s answer, the number punched Varik in the gut. That cut a sizable chunk out of the funds Auvi had left him. “Are we fueled up?”
“Doing it now.” Karnek tilted his head, clearly trying to see into the room.
Varik filled the open gap. It was none of Karnek’s business who Varik poked in his spare time. “Let me put on some clothes and we can go.”
“Sure we can’t invite that one with us?” Karnek jutted his chin toward the room. “They’d please everyone based on what I heard.”
Oh sure, invite the toy but tire of playing with it. Then Varik would have to be the one to shoot the fucker out the airlock.
“Over rated. We’ll find new toys on the next stop.”
“Good idea, Captain.” Pointed yellow teeth filled the gap between Karnek’s lips in what was probably meant to be a smile but only left Varik with a slightly sick feeling.
Before Varik could close the panel, Karnek turned back. “Where we headed next, Captain?”
“Cassan, to secure more crew. Then we go in search ofTheTreasure.”
