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"You bitch," she fumed, coming at me at an astounding speed.
Garth stepped forward as if to shield me, but I was having none of that, I had had enough. I hadnever been in a physical fight, hit anybody, or pushed anybody, but Susan wasn't about to let it go.
We both sidestepped Garth, who wasn't prepared for two women to fight. Susan raised her fist and I dove underneath it, hitting her square in the jaw with mine just like Garth had taught me over the past few days.
There was an ugly sound of flesh hitting flesh followed by a thud as Susan went down. Part of me couldn’t believe I had done this, part of me wanted to cry out and say,I'm sorry. But there was another part inside me, that told me Susan had not only deserved this, but would have hit me had she had the chance.
"Are you done?" I called out, standing above her and watching her cringe back, and again part of me recoiled from myself, while the other half cheered.
Susan's hand moved to her chin, but there was no blood, I was sure my knuckles hurt more than her chin. She nodded, but screeched, "She's crazy."
Garth stepped forward, put his arm around me. "Just so that there are no more misunderstandings, Silla and I have bound ourselves to each other."
We had?
The man who had stopped Susan from toppling before helped her up while she glared hatefully at me. "You hit me."
I didn't say anything, only glared right back at her. The anger that had spread through me before was slowly simmering down. I had no idea where it had come from, and I wasn't sure how I felt about it, but somehow I was proud of myself for standing up for myself. Deep down, something still simmered inside me though, something that told me I would do it again, should anybody dare touch Garth. And it wasn'tjustjealousy, even though I had never experienced jealousy before, I knew that whatever I had felt went deeper.
MINE, came to my mind. The word Garth had cried out when we made love, but it seemed it equally applied to him in my mind. He was mine and I was his.
Out in the hallway Garth drew me into his arms and laughed. "I like your claws, cinna," he whispered into my ear.
"I don't know what came over me," I confessed. I had never been a violent person in my life. Under normal circumstances, if Garth had been a human and we had been on Earth and Susan had made a move on him, I would have stepped back, let him make the decision. If he had chosen her, I would have patted myself on the back,good riddance, glad to have found out sooner rather than later what kind of man I had picked.
Not here, though, not today. I still felt the echo of my anger inside me, still felt this incredible proprietary sense of Garth being mine.
He smiled and caressed my cheek with his hand. "You are feeling it too."
"Feeling what?"
"The mekarry bond," he said, his smile turning deeper, the arrogant line around his lips rose.
"I don't understand."
"It is said that a couple blessed by the mekarry bond brings out qualities in the other and previously unknown traits. If you reacted out of character today, it's because the bond inside you is growing."
Astounded I stared at him. Was he right?
Thankfully we were interrupted just then.
"Lord Protector," Ryggs called through the comm. "You need to see this."
"I didn't know you're this territorial." Garth smirked one more time.
"I don't share," I hissed back. He laughed again before he stopped and pinned me against a wall.
"I understand, because neither do I," he growled.
We stared into each other's eyes, then he leaned his head forward and kissed me, hard.
"I wish we had more time for me to show you how much you turned me on with your possessiveness, but Ryggs needs me," he said regretfully and we hurried down the corridor, took an elevator, and walked down another hallway until we reached the bridge.
I had never been on the bridge before, and impressed, I took in the large command center the moment we entered through two large sliding doors.
The bridge was a hive of activity, up front four triangular windows gave a view of Pandrax. We were a lot closer now, close enough for me to make out large floating space stations surrounding the giant planet. Spaceships like ours were coming and going, or docked at the space stations.
Pandrax itself gleamed purplishly and was close enough so I could make out large landmasses and oceans similar to Earth.
