Coletti Warlords: Just Desserts (16 page)

“Some pleasure?”
Hank snorted.
“I gave you the best sex you’ve ever had.”

I rolled my eyes in disgust. This guy had been the commander of Earth First, the organization dedicated to stopping the Colettis from taking over our world?

“My memory is a little hazy,”
Soulet said, fluttering her eyelashes.

Oh my God, was she flirting?

“Maybe this will refresh it.”
Hank grabbed the back of Soulet’s head and crushed her lips with urgent, greedy kisses.

Soulet spun violently. Seconds later, clothes went flying in every direction.

Hoo-boy. It was like they were in heat.

Hank shoved Soulet up against the wall and thrust into her over and over again.

Yikes. I quickly turned my back. I did not need to see that. Ever. Again.

Their hoarse, throaty noises were driving me nuts. Covering my ears, I chanted, “La, la, la, la, la.”

Soulet howled as she came.

Were they finally done? I peeked over my shoulder. Of course not.

Skin slapped against skin.
“You like that, kitten?”

“Yes!”
Soulet shrieked.

“How about this?”

Her ragged, desperate cries filled the cavern.

Hank demanded
, “Do you want me to stop?”

“Noooo!”

I yelled in English, “Yes! Stop. Now! You’re supposed to be guarding us, not fucking your brains out. Do you want to piss off Zarek? Well, do ya?”

They both ignored me.

“Arrgh!” Maybe I should stun them. It might put them off sex for a while. I pulled my laser pistol and aimed. Shit! I couldn’t do it. I’d probably fry something important.

A guttural moan tore from Hank.

Damn. I fanned myself. Was it getting hot in here? I’d love a little horizontal mambo with my Warlord. Who was I kidding? I just wanted to feel his arms around me.

The grunting got louder and louder.

Ugh. How did Thor and Haki sleep through that? Picking my kids up from the makeshift bed, I walked to the cavern entrance, wincing at the sounds of Hank’s penis going deep into Soulet.

After carefully surveying the island, I plopped down on an outcropping of rock. Grandpa had fled the area.

The need to touch Talree was overwhelming. I reached out mentally. My Warlord was in the middle of a vicious dogfight with a Tai-Kok marauder. A fierce salvo rocked his ship.

He returned fire. Ribbons of dazzling energy flashed from Talree’s Talon fighter. The blackness of space was abruptly filled with the brilliant yellow flames of a disintegrating spacecraft.

“Good shootin’, sweetie.”
I soaked up his mental essence. It reminded me of his scent. Spicy with a touch of mint.

Talree’s mental fingers brushed my mind in an intimate caress.
“I did not mean for you to deliver our son alone.”

“Shit happens.”

“Your ability to attract chaos never ceases to amaze me.”

“Yep, it certainly makes life interesting,”
I responded with a laugh.

“Our son is well?”

I flashed him a picture of Thor.
“He’s perfect. Your father said he’s a mirror image of you at that age.”

“You are my heart, Teka.”

“I love you too.”

A huge explosion filled the Talon’s view screens. The ship pitched radically.

“Aft shield is failing,” a computerized voice warned.

Cold fear knotted my stomach.
“How bad is the damage?”

“My father blew up the
Donkal,
the Tai-Kok high commander’s prized battle cruiser. A piece of the debris hit my ship.”

My Warlord was definitely gloating. Losing the
Donkal
was a major blow to the Tai-Kok.
“The only damage is to your aft shield?”

“Yes.”

Phantom hands massaged my stiff neck. I groaned in pleasure.
“Thanks, sweetie, but shouldn’t you be concentrating on the battle?”

“The battle is won.”

“The Queen Mother has finally paid for killing millions of innocent species? For kidnapping Hank, Thor, and me?”

Talree’s tone was one of extreme annoyance.
“No. She escaped.”

I looked around nervously. With her ability to open wormholes, she could be anywhere.
“She’ll try to grab us again.”

“The fleet will be in orbit shortly, and Commander Zan brought a UR generator.”

“Which does what?”

“It generates a magnetic field that blocks wormholes from forming.”
Talree stroked my back soothingly.

“Best news I’ve had all day.”

Soulet screamed in ecstasy.

“Who is making that noise?”

“Believe it or not, Hank and Soulet have mated. They’re either trying to kill each other, or they’re fornicating. Loudly. Continuously,”
I grumbled.

Talree let out a low whistle. Something he had picked up from my brothers.
“The mating frenzy can go on for weeks. My father is aware of this?”

“Oh yeah. He was doing a happy dance over adding Soulet to the family.”

“It does strengthen our ties to the Askole,”
Talree said thoughtfully.

“Kall, Soulet’s intended, might not feel that way.”

“He’d be a fool to contest the mating.”

I snorted.
“Ha. The sick old pervert has been lusting after her for years. He’ll do something stupid.”

“Then he dies,”
my Warlord promised.

“I like the way you think.”
I pressed a kiss to his sinful, hot mouth.

Talree’s magic fingers moved south, his caresses delicate and unhurried. A delicious warmth danced over my body.
“Shouldn’t you be looking for the Queen Mother?”

He gave my right nipple a rasping kiss.
“Commander Zan and my father are overseeing the search.”

“Good. That’s good.”
I squeaked as Talree’s teeth scored my left breast.

“I told him I needed time with my mate.”
He nibbled on my neck.

My core pulsed with a sudden moist hunger.
“Wise decision.”

“I even brought chocolate.”
Talree’s hands skimmed my ass in a blatantly possessive move.

“Cerreta’s French Mint?”

“Yes.”
He licked his way down my stomach.

“Smart man.”

“I am.”
Talree’s hot mouth closed over my throbbing clit, and his ghostly tongue lapped and savored me. With one lightning-fast move, he spread my legs and thrust into me, the tip of his cock hitting deep inside my womb, creating a delicious friction.

The mind-melting cataclysm of bliss had me writhing wildly. “Oh God. Oh God.”

“Ack. Ack.” It sounded like someone was trying to hack up a hairball.

My eyes popped open.
“Bey?”

The eight-legged freak was perched next to me.
“This is not the time or place to engage in sex. The snake queen is still free.”

“I know that. How’d you get here?”

“The Askole transported him from one of their fighters,”
Talree answered, kissing me like a starving man.

“Ack. Ack.”

“Give it a rest, Bey.”

“I should not be subjected to your peculiar sexual appetites.”

“Then you better stay out of the cavern.”

Talree chuckled.
“They’re still going at it?”

“Is the pope Catholic?”

Right on cue, Soulet screeched loudly.

Bey’s fur stood on end.
“What kind of alien creature makes that horrible noise?”

“An Askole in heat.”

“I do not understand,”
Bey responded.

“Go ahead and take a look.”

Bey scurried into the cavern.
Splat! Splat! Splat!

“What the fuck?” Hank roared.

I burst out laughing.

Talree joined in.

Soulet hissed furiously,
“Release us.”

“All humanoids will cease sex acts,”
Bey rumbled in disgust.

“You have no authority over us!”
Hank bellowed.

Splat! Splat! Splat!

It got quiet. Too quiet.

Exhaling a long breath, I asked,
“You think he killed them?”

“No, but they might be in danger of suffocating,”
Talree answered.

“Guess I’d better go check on them.”
I wanted to cling to Talree, but duty called.

Talree tightened his grip and kissed me hungrily.

“Ack. Ack.”

Yippee. Bey was back. I gave him the one-finger salute.

A web ball splattered my boot.
“Not funny.”

“Uncle Bey,”
Haki and Thor cried in unison.

He had to wake the kids.

“Hatchlings.”
Bey ran his leg over them in greeting.

Haki wiggled in excitement.
“We go home?”

“Soon, little ones,”
Talree reassured them.

Thor crowed proudly,
“Daddy, me hatched.”

Talree mentally stroked Thor’s head.
“Yes, you did, and I’m very proud of the way you helped your mother.”

“Me did good.”

“Want go home,”
Haki whined.

I sighed.
“We all do, Haki.”

“Me wet,”
Thor complained, squirming in my arms.

“If you’re finished with the family reunion, it’s getting a little hard to breathe,”
Hank groused.

Sometimes families could be a real pain in the ass. Drawing my knife, I cut my boot free of the webbing and checked Thor’s diaper. The poor kid was soaking wet.
“Bey, could you please free Hank and Soulet?
”

“Only if they stop poking each other.”

“Bey,”
Talree growled in warning.

“I will release them immediately.”
Bey skittered off.

The second the pesky Tabor disappeared inside the cavern, I turned my attention to the love of my life.
“I knew there was a reason I kept you around.”

“Other than my ability to keep you in chocolate?”
Talree’s firm lips closed over mine in a deep, drugging kiss.

“You’re a very talented man.”

Zarek announced abruptly,
“A wormhole just opened on the island.”

Talree and I asked at the same time,
“Where?”

“One click from the cavern,”
Zarek responded tersely.

“We protect Momma,”
Thor promised.

“That won’t be necessary, sweetie. Daddy’s here,”
I said a second before Talree abruptly severed our link.

“Someone activated the transporter on Sariel’s ship,”
Zarek warned.

Not good. Did we have a traitor aboard the Askole’s battle cruiser too?

A hoarse, abrasive voice demanded,
“Where is she?”

Spinning around, I gaped in horror at Kall. The old fart was armed to the teeth and had two hulking brutes with him. Talk about bad timing.
“Where’s who?”

Kall’s expression twisted into something nasty.
“Soulet. You will bring her to me immediately.”

My hand automatically dropped to the butt of my laser pistol. Like hell.
“Sorry, no can do.”

“Insolent female, do you know who I am?”

A thousand fire ants tromped across my mind. The Queen Bitch was close.
“Look, buddy, I’ve got more important things to deal with right now. Go away before I hurt you.”

“You dare to threaten me?”

Jeez Louise. I didn’t have time for this.
“Soulet is no longer yours. Deal with it.”

“So it is true.”
Kall’s eyes burned with hatred.

“Yes, she’s mated to a Coletti warrior.”
I turned to leave, and Kall grabbed my right arm.
“Let go of me.”

“The whore must die. Where is she?”

Fuck. I couldn’t draw my weapon without dropping Thor.
“I don’t know.”

He bared his rotting fangs.
“Liar. Take me to her, or you will be punished.”
Kall yanked out a stun stick and triggered it. An electric-blue current flared brightly.

“Daddy, help!”
Thor called urgently.

Talree’s mind blast of rage struck Kall.
“You dare threaten my mate and child.”

Shrieking in agony, Kall fell to his knees and gasped,
“I came for Soulet. As is my right.”

A surge of tremendous power flared around us. Yikes! The boss was making his presence known too.

“Return to your ship, Kall. The Queen Mother is on the island, and this is not the time or place to discuss your grievances.”
Zarek’s lethal fury would have had most rational people running for the hills.

“Take her to the ship,”
Kall ordered his thugs defiantly.

They grabbed my arms and tried to wrestle Thor away from me.

“No! You’re not taking my baby.”

Energy crackled wildly. Ten seconds later, the thugs and Kall toppled over, deader than doornails. Brain matter leaked from their ears.

Hank shouted, “Run, Kaylee!”

A loud hiss came from the cavern.

I tightened my grip on Thor and pulled my laser pistol. That bitch was so going down.

There was a flash of black, and poof, I was standing on top of a small mesa.

“I will deal with the Queen Mother,”
Talree stated firmly in my head.

“But—”

“Your job is to keep our son safe.”

I hated when he was right.
“Kill the bitch.”

“With pleasure.”
Talree broke the link.

The noisy cries of baby birds floated on the breeze.

What the hell? Opening up my Siren senses, I scanned the area and quickly ducked under a nearby tree. Shit! Less than a click away, the gargoyles had a rookery in a towering monolith of stunning white. Hundreds of black stocking nests hung from the rock walls.

“Babies, Momma.”
Thor gurgled happily.

Lots of babies and way too close.

Haki bounced up and down on my shoulder.
“Can I eat them?”

“No. We don’t eat babies.”

“Why not?”

“’Cause it’s not right.”

The always-curious Haki asked,
“Why?”

“Because I say so.”
My radar went on red alert. Crap, now what?