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But first he had to make sure there would be no more fighting between them. “I admire your spirit,”which has somehow made me even harder, “but you’ll only hurt yourself, pumpkin.”
Her nostrils flared, but she did not renew her futile struggles. “I’ll never stop fighting you. Not until you take me home.”
Dargus sighed. “If I take you home, all the work I’ve done on the case will have been for nothing. If I miss the gala, it’s all over. You’re my last chance to make things right, Lia!” Couldn’t she see the truth in his eyes, hear it in his voice? “The gala is my only chance to shut down the top slave-trading organization for good. If I fail, it will not only continue to abduct intelligent beings but will also expand into new territories. Won’t you help me stop that from happening?”
Lia didn’t say anything for a while but thanks to his serious speech, he had managed to get his erections under control. Staying in full contact with her body and not doing anything about it was more bearable now. He could wait.
“What will I have to do?” she asked tentatively.
“Just walk beside me. Your exotic beauty will do the rest.”
Her eyebrows arched. Then she burst out laughing.
Dargus hissed as the shaking of her body resulted in her center stimulating his primary cock yet again. There went his control over things down sought.
“You really believe that?”
“What?” he said through gritted teeth.Keep it in your pants, keep it in your pants…
“That I’m beautiful?”
He frowned at how incredulous she sounded. “Yes, I just said it.”
Lia looked down at where their lower bodies were locked together. And said nothing.
She had tofeeljust how attractive he found her, though.
“You might have to wear a revealing outfit and dance,” Dargus added to take his mind off the slight change in her scent, which was now sweeter. As well as to get all the info out of the way, so that she would give up on fighting and be released. “But the dancing bit is not certain.”
Lia rested her head back on the cooking island, shaking her head in what he thought was disbelief. “You’ve really abducted the wrong woman, Dargus. I don’t do dancing.”
“No problem. We could always have my brother’s true mate give you a hololesson; she’s a dancer at a nightclub. Or at least, she was until Bargus took her off the stage… literally.” Realizing the female dancer was his true mate, Bargus had thrown T’kala over his shoulder like some cave-dwelling Luvian and had taken her where they could talk in peace about their upcoming mating ceremony. He had later asked her her name.
“Then why didn’t you simply use that dancer as your armpiece?”
“First off, T’kala is not the right species for the job. Second, I don’t want my brother to rip my auxiliary brain out.”
“And why would he do that to hislittle bro? Let me guess: because you’d be taking histrue mate– which my translator says is like a wife – to a suicide mission!”
Dargus shook his head. “Because I can’t get Bargus an invite, and his instinct to protect her at all times will not allow him to part with her.” Bargus and T’kala were joined at the tails like that, just like every truly-mated couple in the galaxy.
“And who will protectme?” Lia insisted.
He blinked. “I will, of course. Cubbie too.”
She looked pointedly to his right.
Dargus twisted just enough to look over his shoulder in that direction.
There, sprawled on the table like a puddle of fluff, was a peacefully sleeping Cubbie.
Dargus smiled. The furball could sleep through anything.
Lia cleared her throat. “You were saying?”
His gaze met hers. “I will protect you. You have my word.”
“But who will protect me fromyou?” This time, she looked pointedly at his erection nestled between her thighs.
