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“Hold on. You’re tossing me out over this?” He sniffed after jerking his hand away. Yep. I had broken his nose. What a shame.
“Yep. I am.”
“I thought you were going to be late,” he said, adding insult to injury.
“I was. Just not late enough to avoid the festivities. Somehow, I think you were just involved with Ms. Plucky over there and ignored the time.” Marriage. What the hell had I been thinking? I hadn’t been. This was… the worst thing that could happen to me.
No, it was for the best.
When he was stupid enough to walk closer, I made a single clucking sound, the one Thor knew meant ‘get his butt by my side or else.’ My pup flew off the bed where he’d been jumping several feet in the air to my side in a split second, almost knocking Skyler down in the process.
“Sweetie. This isn’t what it looks like. I can explain. She was just leaving.”
“No, I wasn’t!” the girl snapped. Whew. She obviously wasn’t too bright.
It didn’t matter what century sack of shit cheating men came from, they were still lying sons of bitches who used the same crappy excuses.
As if women were that stupid.
“Oh, I’m sure you think you can explain the little filthy event I walked in on. Why don’t I do it for you? You were caught with your pants down, your dick in another chick’s twat and one of my personal sex toys in her asshole in the bed I paid for. You’re lucky I didn’t burn you and the fire hydrant here in the middle of it.”
Skyler guffawed while the girl blew bubbles from her mouth.
“Don’t be this way,” he whined.
God, I did so hate whiny men. Why couldn’t they be strong, alpha types who were possessive with their women, taking what they wanted? Neanderthal he-men. My mother had told me the stories of sexy heroes from days gone by. I longed to find a rugged man who would exterminate anyone who dared look at me crossly. Suddenly the sinful vision in the back of my mind wasn’t attached to a scrawny boy like Skyler. “What way, Sky? Huh? I come home expecting a surprise. Oh, I got one. My problem was trusting you and thinking you cared. You didn’t. You never did.”
“That’s not true.”
“Ri-ight. You know what? I think the real truth is that you’re a twisted fuck who didn’t deserve me.” I could feel the anger rising from deep within. My mother would tell me that it was time to go somewhere reflective, finding my center, a moment of peace before I acted out uncontrollably. I took a deep breath as a compromise, almost feeling cleansed of evil spirits, as she would call it.
Then the stupid bastard made another mistake.
“If you weren’t so much of an ice queen then maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Work. Work. Work. That’s all that matters to you. If you cared about my needs, then I wouldn’t have found someone who cared about me. You obviously didn’t.”
In that moment I didn’t care if I would be sentenced to a penal planet.
I cold-cocked him, knocking him flat out.
CHAPTER8
Zatan
Exhaustion.
I’d never thought traveling the universe could be so debilitating. So much so, I found it difficult to keep my eyes open even inside this garish interstellar bar. I loathed everything about the colony, a goldmine operation for galaxy pirates. Almost fifty percent of facilities of this nature were owned by marauding alien beasts who’d banded together to form various corporations over the last few centuries.
Their criminal activities were well known, their control over the recreational industry broader than most species comprehended. The outlying stations like this one were rife with crime and sex, but my ships had been coasting on fumes, my navigational engineer making a tactical error in calculating distances. That had led to the stop being mandatory and expensive.
So, I sat while I’d tasked the man responsible for the debacle to be the one who waited in line for service, which could take two Earth nights if not more.
And my brother had called.
“How’s the hunt going, brother?” Ravat asked through the portable communications device.
“Fair. And yours?”
“Fabulous. I’ve enjoyed dozens of beautiful creatures. And not a single one of them gave me anything but hives.”
