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“No.” She shook her head and stepped back away from him. A rueful smile played across her perfect lips. He felt the loss of her touch immediately. “No.” She put her palms up. “I need to keep my head in the game.”
“Game?”
“Mission. Sorry. I mean I need to focus on this mission…We can’t allow T’Antor to hurt or kill anyone else.”
“I have him cornered here. My tablet will alert me if he leaves the confines of this domicile. I have been slowed considerably by the symptoms of my pigment transformation. Without that, he’d already be dead. But still, I will eliminate him by the time the sun sets on this side of your planet.”
“How are you going to kill him?”
Heriot snorted. He knew twenty ways to kill this waster. It would take five seconds. He could do it bare-handed or with one of the weapons he hid in his uniform. He just needed a situation to not startle or alert the humans. T’Antor was smart to stick with another tour, hiding his scouting of the grounds and the domiciles amongst a group of humans. He knew Heriot couldn’t take him out with the humans so near.
Every time he’d checked T’Antor’s location—minus the time Heriot had spent seeking relief with his mate—he’d seen the asshole’s bio-signature mingled within a group of fifty humans. The waster was making it impossible for him to complete this hit with total privacy.
Although in the end, if the choice was the humans discovering the existence of aliens and Heriot receiving zero payout for this contract, and T’Antor getting his hands on Illibrium and taking it back to R’Etor to kill millions of citizens, Heriot’s choice would be clear. He would eliminate T’Antor no matter how many humans were there to witness. But, until that difficult situation presented itself, he’d still leave time for taking T’Antor out, the humans none the wiser.
“What’s our plan?” his mate asked.
“Ourplan?”
“Yes, I’m helping you.”
He smiled. This was most unusual. His brother was his partner. Maybe he could train his mate to work in the family business, too. This would be acceptable.
“Oh, we are definitely taking that fucker out. He hurt Ron and Daisy and would’ve killed them if you hadn’t stopped him. He would have raped me if you hadn’t shown up. And he just raped and murdered someone here on the hilltop. And God only knows how many others he’s hurt and murdered since he’s been here on Earth. He’s not getting off this planet alive. I’ll cut his heart out myself if I have to. We have to stop him, here, on this hilltop. We’re the only ones who can.”
He smiled. His female was bloodthirsty. She would fit in perfectly at Heriot & Jadzion.
“I want a weapon, too,” she stated. “I’m not totally weak, you know. I exercise five days a week to stay strong.”
He could believe this. Heriot looked her up and down. Her curves were generous, but she also had a tight strength to her soft form that he appreciated. He reached into his jacket and quickly unsnapped and pulled out a blade and sheath for his mate. It was his smallest weapon, it would fit her perfectly.
“Oh wow,” she breathed.
He smiled. “When we return to R’Etor I’ll show you my main collection and train you. You can choose what weapon you prefer. This will do for now.”
“Heriot…”
He gave her a sharp glance, challenging her to contradict him.
“We’ll talk about it later,” she sighed.
He pulled her close and ran his palms along her stomach and around her waist as he reached behind her, securing the stealth blade’s sheath against her back, underneath her outer clothing.
“Thank you.” She smiled. “I love it.”
9
Hannah glanced at her cell phone and frowned. It was two o’clock in the afternoon. This made sense, considering she was so freaking hungry she’d gladly fight off a pack of hyenas to gnaw at a pile of dirty bones.
She’d missed breakfast that morning because she’d overslept and never ate in her mad dash out the front door. But…Hannah patted her pockets…
Aha!
There is was. Perfect. The protein bar she usually kept around just for emergency situations such as this. She pulled it out and waved it in front of Heriot. “You want some? We could share.”
He glanced over and shook his head, muttering something about “unclean Earth ingredients.”
She shrugged.His loss.
