Kaelen’s stunned expression was priceless.“You think you can destroy my warbird with this bomb?”
“I amnotyour enemy, but that bomb has destroyed eleven Tai-Kok ships.”
Everyone on the bridge was suddenly covered in head-to-toe body armor. I snorted. Like that would help.
An armored warrior with a metal box in his hands appeared next to Kaelen.
The battle commander placed my bomb in the box.
The warrior vanished.
Huh? How did he do that?
Kaelen’s helmet retracted.“You will tell me how you got through our shields.”
My temper flared to life. I was so done with arrogant males who refused to listen to me.“When the muscle spasms stop, I’m so kicking your ass.”
Kaelen’s eyebrows rose in surprise. “You are not afraid of me.”
“Should I be?”
His warriors laughed.
“Only a fool challenges me.”
“I’ve been playing Russian roulette with the Tai-Kok for months now. And surprise, surprise, not much scares me anymore.”
Elevator doors whooshed open and out walked a Coletti wearing some kind of medical smock.He stared at me in surprise.“Where did the female come from?”
“Earth. A small planet in a galaxy far, far away,”I replied.
“Is your world in a nearby system?”The medic asked, running some kind of scanner over me.
I gritted my teeth as another wave of muscle cramps hit me.
“I want a full scan, Andor,”Kaelen ordered.
Andor nodded.“I need to remove her suit.”
“No!”I struggled to control my flailing limbs.
The medic patted my shoulder.“I will not harm you.”He removed my helmet and injected something into my neck.
Cold fear skittered up my back.“What did you give me?”
“Something to stop the spasms,”Andor replied.
A sigh of relief escaped me as the painful muscle cramps stopped.“Thank you.”
Kaelen abruptly lifted me and between the two of them, they removed my spacesuit. They both seemed surprised at my sweatpants and bright red T-shirt with the one-fingered salute logo on the front.
Dammit! Uncle Ben was going to be pissed that I lost another suit.
Andor uttered a bunch of gobbledygook.
Kaelen tilted my head up and sniffed my neck.“Who is your sire?”
“My father is human, my mother wasn’t.”If he kept sniffing me, I was going to introduce my knee to his groin.
