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“Be back on board in twenty taps!” The captain’s voice booms into the cargo hold. Most of the crew get right to work grabbing anything they can before running for the door.
I offer my hand. “Come with me. This hold will be left to drift. I cannot leave you here.”
Her eyes dart toward the doorway where the two holds’ entrances are attached. She can clearly see that it’s her only escape, but still, she doubts me.
“There’s no time—”
She leaps forward, rolling toward the ground in an attempt to dodge my wingspan. She misjudges my quickness, an assumption that many make based on my overall size. I snap down to catch her, scooping her up with an arm under her waist. She shrieks and fights me, ready to stab any part of me she can reach. I hold her well away from my body until I’ve disarmed her.
My mate is in survival mode, and she will not stop panicking until I bring her to safety.
I toss her over my shoulder, ignoring her colorful screams and the blows of her little fists on my back.
“Fucking pirate! I’ll kill you. I’ll fucking kill you! Let me go, you perverted motherfucker!”
Great Ka, her energy seems unending. I imagine she’s aggressive in the bedroom as well.
I glance over at the pile of overturned crates where Varger fell, wanting to keep my eye on him. There’s always the chance he would make one last effort to steal my female or take his revenge on her. A clatter and some shifting rubble reveals him. He makes angry snarls and clatters around as he gets to his feet and limps toward the doorway.
“This is not over, Kar’Kali,” he vows to me as he holds his oozing eye.
I am the last crew member to join the line for accounting, and thankfully, Varger has disappeared, no doubt heading straight to the medbot station to fix his injuries. I wince at the thought, realizing that not only did my mate maim him, but he must not have ended up with any loot at all. Personally, I couldn’t care less, but I can’t imagine the captain will let this slip. There will be complaints filed against me.
Meanwhile, my mate is spewing hardly translatable curses and raining her tiny fists down on my back. She tried to kick her legs at me, but I’m now holding them steady. I try not to look at her backside and thighs squirming in my grip; the sight is too erotic to bear. The crew members in front of me keep their eyes facing forward, but I can tell that everyone is curious about my female.
“I’m going to kill you,” she cries venomously. “I swear to God I am going to cut out your insides and stuff your face with your fucking organs!”
“Do you have such a violent god on your planet?” I ask her.
She pulls at my shirt and sinks her teeth into my skin.
“Ow,” I complain, shifting my grip on her legs to reach behind and pull her jaw off me like a feralkaiapup. She tries to chomp down on my fingers too.
“Fuck you! Let me go or I swear to God—”
“Yes, yes, you’ll . . . cut off my ears and wear them on a necklace? What other fascinating threats do you have in store?”
She becomes dangerously silent, so I assume she’s very angry. Either that or she’s finally tired herself out. She reaches down my side, patting me. Her little hands feel like a gentle tickle as she roams down my hips.
“There’s nothing in my pockets,” I tell the sneaky female. She huffs in response and stops touching me.
I finally reach the accountant’s table. He stares at the shapely legs draped over my chest.
“I don’t have a take,” I say. “Charge me based on my average take.”
It’s a standard practice for coming back from a raid empty handed.
“Do I look blind to you?” He snaps.
“This female is not loot,” I reply. My mate is silent. She must be listening in on this conversation.
“Then why do you have it?” He asks, narrowing his eyes.
“She ismine,” I growl at him. “I am keeping her with me.”
“Don’t play games of intimidation with me, Kar’Kali. You went on the raid and returned with this creature, so you must pay your tribute just like everyone else.”
“I am not acreature,you fucking bastard!” She starts up her punches again, struggling against my hold and clawing at my back. “Disgusting pirate scum—”
