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She smiled back up at him, though weakness fought to drag her under into a deep sleep. “I knew you wouldn’t let me die.”
He shuddered a little and closed his eyes, as though hiding his traumatic thoughts. “I would never have forgiven myself if that had happened.”
She frowned. Did he always take on so much responsibility as his own? “Even if I’d died, it wouldn’t have been your fault. You asked me to stay at home where I’d be safe and I refused.”
“I could have forced you to stay.”
“Except you knew I would never have forgiven you. We’re a team now—you wouldn’t have marked me, otherwise! Like it or not, we face our enemies together.” She added in a teasing tone, “Does this mean I share your bounty for the honor of eliminating the Dronians?”
He blinked down at her, one of his hands absently stroking her fin. “There is no bounty to share. I’m not getting paid.”
She frowned, her head throbbing as every truth she thought she’d known turned into something twisted and distorted.
His eyes narrowed as he read her too open expression. “No amount of credit in the universe would be enough to save my world and its people.”
“So you’re saying you volunteered?”
He shrugged. “Does that seem so hard to believe?”
“You’re a bounty hunter.”
“And my payment is saving my world and its people.” His smile twisted a little. “Loving you is just a bonus.”
She looked up at him as she curled her arms around his neck, the toy gun dangling from one hand. “I really misjudged you, didn’t I?”
Whatever he was about to say died on his lips as he looked up at the now bright morning sky, where the mothership now hovered within range. His whole body tensed. “Stay in the water,” he growled.
She unhooked her arms from around his neck, and said, “Wait!” When he glanced back at her she proffered him the water gun. “You’ll need this.”
He smiled and nodded, his white teeth glinting. “Thank you.”
He flipped the cap off the tank, filled it with river water, then pushed the cap back on before he pumped it a couple of times and pulled the trigger, testing how far the water would jet to hit its target.
Sienna was too weak to do anything but lie in the water, soaking in as many nutrients as possible while she watched the man she loved walk toward an enemy she couldn’t even see. Not just one enemy. She had no doubt the Dronains would have sent many soldiers to try and extinguish the last seven of her kind.
Gray would just be another casualty in the war no one wanted except the cold-blooded Dronians.
She couldn’t panic, couldn’t allow her mind to get carried away with things that might never be. She needed to control her emotions, and therefore her powers. It was all too easy to allow panic to destabilize arare’sability. She needed to focus, to put all her strength into exploding the soldiers that would do everything possible to kill Gray and then her.
The mothership lifted into the air, then zipped at a right-angle into the sky before it disappeared within seconds from sight. No doubt the Dronians on board didn’t want to be in this atmosphere for any longer than necessary.
Gray stayed knee-deep in water as he raised his water gun.Smart.If the Dronians did indeed hate the water, they wouldn’t enter it to kill him. They’d probably resort to using theirwelpto snare him, and then drag him to shore where they’d kill him.
She glanced around at their sunny patch of the river. Thankfully this area was remote, with no humans around to be caught in the crossfire. Not that a water gun would hurt anyone, but the Dronians would make certain they’d kill anyone in the vicinity who might question any strange goings-on.
She immersed herself in the water for just a handful of seconds, absorbing every minute particle of energy she possibly could. When she emerged from the river once again, Gray aimed and fired the water gun at what must be a Dronian.
The jet of water hit an invisible wall that had to be her enemy, a foul smell immediately hitting her nostrils, followed right after by a sharp hiss and a heavy thud as that same Dronian hit the ground.
Holy shit! It had worked! The Dronians reallywereallergic to Earth’s water!
Gray soon sent jets of water flying through the air in all directions, flipping the cap off quickly and dunking the tank underwater before pushing the cap back on and pumping the gun before squeezing the trigger yet again.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
The distinctive noise of falling Dronians filled the air like the sweetest music, it was just a pity their dying scent was so revoltingly rotten.
She shivered. Her planet had been all but covered in water. How easy would it have been to overcome their enemy if only they’d known their weakness? Gray’s emperor had been right. Theraresswimming in the Great Waters hadn’t been attacked because they’d been protected!
