Hannah's Warrior: Cosmos' Gateway Book 2 (9 page)

Borj shuddered at the first touch of Hannah’s
tongue against his lips. Borj press deeper letting Hannah’s tongue
bridge the gap between them making them one. His arms tightened
even more, crushing her breasts against his chest and causing a
painful groan to escape as the need to claim her filled his cock
until it was straining against the confines of his pants. Is this
what his brother felt when he was with his bond mate? To have a
female respond without the need for stimulus from the chemicals in
his bite was more arousing than anything he had ever experienced
before. Never in all his years did he ever expect for a female to
respond with unrestrained passion.

The sound of a throat clearing behind them
finally filtered through Hannah’s brain. Pulling back, she let her
hands drop to Borj’s shoulders. Hannah let her head drop until her
forehead rested against his right shoulder. She used the brief
respite from looking at Borj to attempt to get her raging hormones
back under control.

“
Wow.” Hannah murmured just soft enough
for Borj to hear.

Borj chuckled as he wrapped his arms tighter
around Hannah drawing her close against the warm strength of his
body. “I do not know this word but I think I agree.”

Hannah looked up puzzled at Borj not
understanding what he said. “Huh?”

Borj closed his eyes in frustration. He
needed to implant the translator he brought with him. Borj turned
to Cosmos who was staring at Hannah with a bemused expression on
his face.

“
I have a translator I brought for
Hannah. Can you ask her if it would be permissible to her to
implant it so she may understand what I am saying?” Borj asked
Cosmos.

“
Uh, sure. Hannah?” Cosmos said from
the doorway. “Borj has a translator like they put in me. He wants
to know if he can implant one in you so you can understand him. It
doesn’t hurt. Hell, I didn’t even know they did it. It takes a
little while though to get used to the words coming out of their
mouths and the words forming in your head to sync,
though.”

Hannah looked at Cosmos doubtfully for a
moment before nodding. It would help if she could understand
everything that was going on and not have to rely on Cosmos to
translate. After all, some things do get lost in translation. She
had learned that the hard way more than once.

“
Okay.” Hannah said looking at Borj for
the first time since kissing him.

Borj smiled tenderly and brushed a stray
strand of hair back behind her ear. He loved the way her cheeks
warmed to a light pink color at his touch. He reached into the
front pocket of his pants and pulled out a small square container
about the size of a dime. Hannah watched as he pushed a small
button and the box transformed into a long, skinny cylinder with a
tiny dot that shimmered like a diamond in the bathroom light. Borj
gently cupped Hannah’s chin turning it so he could place the device
in her ear. Hannah felt a brief rush of air then nothing. Borj
turned her head the other way and did the same thing to her other
ear.

“Having a translator in both
ears will make it easier for you,
Ku
Lei
.” Borj said softly against her
ear.

Hannah’s eyes widened as she gasped. She
understood what he just said. He called her ‘my beloved’.

“
So, tell me about your world?” Hannah
asked several hours later as she sat curled up on Cosmos couch.
Borj was sitting next to her while they waited for Cosmos to come
back upstairs. He was checking some updates in his lab.

After Borj implanted the translator into
Hannah’s ears RITA came over the intercom system to let them know
they had a visitor at the door. RITA ran a security check and
informed Cosmos and Hannah the visitor was a private detective
hired by Senator Bachman. By the time Cosmos got to the downstairs
entrance way, he knew the man’s life history. Borj listened in,
impressed with RITA’s thoroughness and her somewhat amusing
suggestions should the man become less than pleasant. Cosmos
refused to let the man beyond the entrance foyer. He answered all
the man’s questions, repeating verbatim the same answers he gave
the FBI and local police. Hannah had to hold Borj back when the man
threatened Cosmos if he refused to let him look around the
warehouse. Since neither the FBI nor the police could obtain a
search warrant due to lack of evidence, Cosmos was not concerned.
Even if they were able to get one, they wouldn’t have found
anything. Cosmos had set up safety protocols with RITA to delete
all files and erase the programming for the gateway should anyone
try to access it without his authorization. That was one of the
reasons RITA had been offline when Borj showed up.

Borj couldn’t resist touching Hannah at every
opportunity. He bit back the small smile of satisfaction as he
noticed that every time he touched her, she seemed to let his hand
stay a little longer before pulling away. It would take
considerable restraint on his part and a lot of patience but he was
determined she would grow to trust him.

“My people are called the
Prime. We are a proud warrior people who live in a galaxy that has
several habitable planets.” Borj answered as he wound a long strand
of Hannah’s hair that had come loose around one of his fingers.
“There are three planets in the Prime system that can support life
comfortably. Only one is fully inhabited, though. My planet is
called Baade. It is the home world of the Prime. There are two
smaller planets, Lacertae and Carafe, as well. They are small and
used primarily as cargo ports, mining facilities, and military. Our
most important resource is base crystals. It is used to help power
our world and our warships.” Borj said distractedly as the silky
strand he was playing with caressed the circles against his left
palm.

“You are so beautiful. I
can’t wait to claim you as my own.”
Borj
thought as he watched the colors in her hair dance as the sunlight
from the windows hit it.

“
What the…” Hannah jerked in surprise
as she heard Borj’s voice in her head.

Borj’s own eyes widened as he realized the
bond was getting stronger. He knew that in bond mates a telepathic
link developed between the male and the female. This evolved as a
way for the males to protect their mates from other males who might
try to take or harm them. He had never heard of it forming without
the mating ceremony being complete and the male’s claim on the
female sealed through his claiming of her.

“You can hear me?”
Borj thought cautiously.

“I can hear him in my
mind.”
Hannah thought at the same time as
she nodded her head. “What…what’s going on?”

Borj was unable to resist
pulling Hannah over onto his lap and crushing his mouth down onto
hers in a passionate kiss. There was no denying she was his bond
mate.
Their bond must be incredible strong
for them to be able to communicate like this before his
claiming,
Borj thought in awe.

“
God, you two need to get a room.”
Cosmos said breaking the mood.

Hannah flushed a deep red and scrambled off
of Borj’s lap. She moved away from Borj to stand next to the bank
of windows overlooking the river and turned her back to both men.
Hannah muttered a curse as she straightened her shirt with a
frown.

“When did it ride
up?”
She wondered.

“I think when my hand was
moving towards your breast.”
Borj replied
with a chuckle.

“
Stop that!” Hannah said crossly
looking over her shoulder at Borj who just grinned at
her.

“
Stop what?” Cosmos said looking back
and forth between Hannah and Borj.

“
He’s talking in my head now.” Hannah
said with a pout towards Borj. Turning, she looked at Cosmos with a
determined expression on her face. “Cosmos, you said you would try
to see if you could get rid of the circles on my hand. What are you
planning to do?”

Borj surged off the couch with a low,
dangerous growl. Hannah squealed as Borj wrapped his arms around
her. She didn’t even see him move! Borj jerked Hannah up against
his body holding her tight and turned so that his body was between
her and Cosmos.

“
Never!” Borj snarled in a deep voice.
“She is mine.”

“
Whoa! Come down, man. I won’t touch
her.” Cosmos said with a laugh.

“
COSMOS! You promised!” Hannah cried
out as she tried to wiggle out of Borj’s arms. “You…” Hannah’s
words ended in a gasp as her lips were covered by a set of very
determined ones.

“Never, Hannah. Never can
you break our bond.”
Borj said
fiercely.

“
Come on, guys! Give a guy a break! I
haven’t been laid in almost six months and you two are making it
really, really difficult here.” Cosmos complained as he threw up
his hands in frustration.

Hannah jerked back and
looked at Cosmos in shock. “That is
way
too much information for me,
Cosmos!”

Cosmos grinned before replying. “Yeah, I
know. But I figured it might douse the flames burning in here.”

Borj shook his head as he looked at Cosmos.
“Is he always like this?”

"Unfortunately I've seen him worse." Hannah
replied relaxing in Borj's arms.

Borj let Hannah slide down his body making
sure she could feel his body's reaction to her. He knew the minute
she felt his arousal by the way she froze and a wild, panic look
came into her eyes. Borj frowned when he felt Hannah's hands
immediately go between them and she pushed herself back away from
him.

"It is
so
not going to happen." Hannah
hissed out in a low voice at him.

Borj's eyes lit with determination. Bending
forward until his mouth was almost touching hers again, Borj
whispered back huskily. "Yes, it is."

"Cosmos, there is someone else at the door."
RITA's voice came over the line. "Oh! It's Tilly and Angus! Land
sakes, I wasn't expecting them."

Hannah groaned out loud at the same time as
Cosmos did. "You have to hide him.” Hannah said frantically as she
started pushing Borj towards the stairs leading to Tink’s living
quarters. “You have to hide! If my parents see you there will be no
end to the questions.”

Pushing Borj was like pushing a solid
concrete wall. He wouldn’t budge. “Come on, you have to move,
dammit. Faster!” Hannah said desperately.

“
She’s right, Borj. If Tink’s mom and
dad get a look at you, it is all over, man.” Cosmos said grabbing
Playboy and Penthouse magazines and shoving them under the cushions
of the couch, under the couch itself, and in the drawer of the
coffee table. He was shoving them anywhere he could with the hope
that Tink’s parents wouldn’t see them. God, he was feeling like
when he was a teenager again!

“
RITA, don’t you dare let them in yet!”
Hannah called out over her shoulder as she dragged a reluctant Borj
behind her.

“
Sorry, dear. I already did. They are
headed up the stairs. But don’t worry, the stairwell is kind-of
dark and I think your dad just grabbed your mom’s butt. The heat
signatures are definitely increasing!” RITA said with a
chuckle.

“
Oh God! Talk about too much
information.” Hannah groaned. “When are they ever going to get
enough of each other?”

Cosmos picked up a stack of
Sports Illustrated magazines and thrust them under some of the
wildlife magazines laying on the end table. “Knowing your
folks…never. Even I don’t know how your dad does it at his age and
I’m the scientist of the bunch.” Cosmos called out as he picked up
the empty cups, plates, and plastic bags filled with water from the
melted ice and hurried to carry them into the kitchen. “Go hide
him. I’ll try to distract your folks for a little
while.”

Hannah yanked on Borj’s arm
trying to get him to move faster. He really, really didn’t
understand how serious this was. If her parents discovered there
was an eligible man besides Cosmos in the same building as Hannah,
she was doomed. They would have her married to him by this
afternoon! Her parents had both made up their minds that it was
high time Hannah worked through her phobia of men and
relationships. For the past three years her mom regularly sent her
emails of matchmaking web sites, emails of eligible male children
of their friends, and even hired a relationship advisor for Hannah.
That was the number one reason she had avoided her family for the
past two years. Her mom was worse than a dog in a dinosaur exhibit.
She would have made T-Rex sit down and weep. But, if you threw her
dad into the mix as well…Hannah shuddered and looked at Borj who
had an amazingly cute look of pure confusion on his
face.

“
Why are you so frightened of your
parents? Do they hurt you? Tink seemed to think your parents were
wonderful? Did they not love you?” Borj asked confused.

“
Ohhh, be quiet! I don’t want them to
hear you.” Hannah whispered fiercely pushing Borj further into
Tink’s living area and looking down the stairs fearfully. “If they
see you, especially the way you look at me, we’ll be married before
the end of the day! My parents want me to meet a guy so badly
they’ve thrown every Tom, Dick, and Harry in my face.” Hannah
muttered peering down the staircase and listening as Cosmos talked
to her dad.

“
You mean if your parents see you with
me they will want me to claim you?” Borj asked quietly looking
intently at Hannah’s flushed face as she looked around the corner
of the staircase.