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“Come on,” he said to Dark. “Let’s get back to the ship!”
His brother walked ahead of him, making a way through the crowds and allowing Light to cradle Lili to his chest. Her head lolled limply, which worried him. But she was still breathing. Maybe she had just fainted from the pain—or from shock, he thought. He and Dark had seen many horrible wounds and killings during their combat years, but he doubted Lili had ever seen much. Possibly watching her attacker get punished had upset her.
At last they reached the ship, which Dark had parked in an empty lot on the edge of the human entertainment district. Dark slapped the silver side and the ship recognized his print and heat signature. A hatchway opened and steps descended.
“Come the fuck on.” He frowned at Light. “What are you waiting for—get her inside and fucking check her out!”
Light frowned at him.
“I just turned your emotion damper to its maximum setting. Are you having emotions anyway?”
Dark shrugged.
“So what if I am? I didn’t let The Fury take me—I’m fine. It’s little Lili I’m worried about.”
Light was worried about her too. He decided to let the concern over his twin’s emotion damper go—Lilibet had to be his first priority right now.
Carefully, he carried her into the ship.
7
DARK
Dark watched anxiously as his brother examined Lili’s hurt arm and shook his head.
“Broken, I think. I’ll need to wrap it tightly until we can get her to the Mother Ship.”
“That fucker!” Dark felt The Fury rising in him again. But it wasn’t just the Fury this time—it was Rage—the extreme anger that any Kindred warrior feels when his female is hurt or threatened. He knew Lili wasn’t technically theirs—they had just met her. But that didn’t stop the feelings of protective possessiveness which churned inside him.
He stood up and paced back and forth, clenching his fists as the angry emotions swelled like waves of lava, threatening to boil over.
“I should have fucking killed him,” he growled at Light, who was still kneeling at Lili’s side as she lay on the couch. “You should have let me fucking kill him!”
“I didn’t know he’d broken her arm!” Light protested. “I only knew he hadn’t succeeded in raping her!”
“Doesn’t matter if he succeeded or not—he tried. That’s enough—I should have ripped off his head and bathed in his fucking blood!” Dark could imagine the scene—it wouldn’t be the first time he had bathed in the blood of his enemies. It gave the savage Berserker part of him deep, visceral satisfaction to picture the attacker’s death.
“Get hold of yourself, Dark!” Light said sharply. “I don’t know if something is wrong with your emotion damper but you can’t go back there. We need to avoid trouble with the humans. And even more important, we need to get Lili to the Med Center!”
Dark took a deep breath and then another and another. He remembered what Yipper, the Tolleg surgeon, had told him about controlling The Fury that stemmed from his Berserker DNA if he wished to stop using his emotion damper.
“You should think calm thoughts—yes, you should, yes, you should!” he had told Dark. “Don’t feed The Fury—calm it.”
Closing his eyes, Dark took another deep breath and imagined the cold, calm, darkness of space. There were places out in the universe where the stars were so distant from each other that there was nothing but deep, velvety blackness. He imagined himself drifting in the silent dark as he breathed and tried to tamp down the dark and angry emotions that threatened to consume him.
For a wonder, it worked. Little by little the waves of boiling lava inside him retreated to a manageable level. When he opened his eyes, he saw Light was looking at him.
“Better?” he asked.
Dark nodded.
“I think so.”
“Good. Then get us back to the Mother Ship. I’ll stay here with Lilibet and treat her arm.”
Dark nodded again.
“Got it. I’ll plot a course and let them know we’re coming.”
