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“Wrin, stop! Please stop!”
The concern in her voice pierced the last of my rage, and I fell still but for the heaving of my chest.
She patted at my upper back, my shoulder, my arm as I crouched over him. “You did it. You got him.”
Max yowled.
“We got him,” she amended.
“Yes. We got him.” The words came out hoarse, my throat raw.
He lay unconscious, his shallow breaths whistling through his damaged nose.
I plucked the blaster from his palm, his fingers open and limp. As I’d thought, it was set to kill, not stun.
I pivoted and caught her eyes. “Thank you. You saved me. If you hadn’t stabbed him when you did, he’d have killed me.” And then who knew what he’d have done to her. My aching hand curled back into a fist, longing to strike again.
She walked around and delivered a solid kick to his side. “Asshole.”
I rummaged through his pockets, finding his comp. “He’s locked this down, so I can’t see if he called for backup.”
“We need to leave.” Her intelligent eyes met mine. “How’d he catch up to us so quickly?”
“Good question.” I stood and placed his comp on a small rock ledge inside the cave. Then I shot it with the blaster to short-circuit its systems. If they didn’t already know where he was, they wouldn’t be able to track him with it.
While I’d gathered all our things, Vivv recovered her dagger and cleaned it on the guard’s uniform, giving him one last kick for good measure.
We put our stealth cloaks back on, and I circled the stand of valoree trees, grateful for their bioluminescent glow as I found where he’d entered the grove. “Here.”
I tracked his trail back to a hoverspeeder. The elongated personal craft had one seat and handlebars for steering.
“It’s like a flying motorcycle!” Vivv eyed it appreciatively. “How fast does this thing go?”
“Up to sixty miles an hour.”
She gave a slow nod, her lips pursed. “I’ve got another question. If he flew that quickly, how’d he track us? I don’t know much about being in nature, but from what I’ve seen in old movies, I still think he’d need to be able to see to follow our trail. And flying that quickly would make the ground a blur.”
“You’re right.” I pulled the medical scanner from the pack and altered the settings, telling them to look for any non-organic material. This time, when I ran the wand slowly over her body, it beeped when I got to her thigh.
“Motherfucker,” she spat, her body vibrating with anger. “They put a tracker in me like I’m their property or something!”
Then her hands were shoving at the waistband of her pants, but she froze. “Shit, I don’t have on any underwear.”
The thought of her naked made my tail buzz to life. It rose into the air behind me as the heat of battle turned into a completely different kind of fire.
CHAPTER NINE
Vivian
Wrin’s intense purple eyes focused on me as if he had x-ray vision and could already see through my clothes.
I shivered, my clit tingling in a way I could no longer ignore. I wanted him.
“Here.” He opened the front of his shirt and peeled it off.
Oh, god. I’d known from seeing that little glimpse of his thigh that his skin color varied, but I’d never picturedthis. A gorgeous teal decorated the center of his chest, changing to blue as his skin moved outward to his arms and purple at his waist. Hard muscles carved to perfection flowed from his powerful shoulders and chest to narrow to washboard abs. My mouth went dry as I imagined running my tongue along all of those grooves, tracking them lower and lower until—
God, Viv, focus!
