Ascension Saga: 2. Grace Goodwin

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      Just like Prime Nial had used the forgotten technology buried in my skull to make contact with me, request my assistance in protecting Trinity and her sisters. I owed Nial a life debt, but he hadn’t needed to call in that favor. He was my friend. Protecting innocents was what I did. I would have helped them regardless. But thank fuck, he’d called on me. I never would have met my mate otherwise.

      I turned my head slowly, reluctant to look away from her, half afraid she would vanish into thin air. A frowning Prillon warrior dressed in medical green was looming over her. The blue glow came from a ReGen wand in his hand, as well as that of a young assistant in a lighter green uniform, who was trying to heal the broken bones in my hand.

      The doctor spoke. “Your majesty, he needs a ReGen pod immediately.”

      “Yes, of course.” I felt the squeeze of her hand as I was lifted onto a gurney, wheeled down a hallway. I held onto her. She was here. She was safe. For now, that was enough.

      “Were you really in that cell with me?” I was half convinced I’d been hallucinating. Was still hallucinating.

      She walked quickly beside me, along with others who were still waving ReGen wands as we moved. The familiar walls of a Coalition battleship zoomed past, the colors changing from blue to cream to green as we neared the medical station. Others talked around us, but their voices blurred. Nothing was clear. Nothing but Trinity.

      “Yes. Jessica gave me a miniature transport beacon and had her team send me directly into that prison cell to rescue you.”

      I tried to sit up then, but big hands held me down. The doctor. Make that Prillon warrior. Huge Prillon warrior. “Lie down. Rest. Or you’ll cause additional injury.”

      “You were transported into the cell to rescue me?” I asked.

      “Yes, can you believe it?” A booming voice cut through everyone else’s as we continued down the hallway.

      “Prime Nial,” I replied. The hands were still on me. I couldn’t sit up to bow or offer him deference of any kind.

      “I’m glad to see you alive, friend. Your injuries are grave but will heal with a few hours in a ReGen pod.”

      “Trinity,” I replied, squeezing her hand.

      Prime Nial understood my request. “She will be under my personal protection while you are healing,” he vowed.

      “As if I’m going to leave his side,” Trinity countered.

      “You are well. Not injured?” I asked her.

      “I’m fine. And I’m so sorry, Leo. If I’d known what they were going to do to you, I never would have—” Her voice cracked and I couldn’t bear to see her in pain.

      “You were right to leave me,” I reassured. “I would never have allowed you to enter the citadel if you had told me your plan. It was reckless. Dangerous. There are better ways. Safer ways. You should have told me the truth.”

      “I’m sorry. We had a plan, and I tried to keep you out of it. I didn’t think they would hurt you.”

      “You are mine. My mate. When I get out of the ReGen pod, I am going to take you over my knee and spank your ass for lying to me. And for the risk you took to free me. You should have let me be, Trinity. Never risk yourself. Never.”

      “I agree.” Prime Nial sighed. “Jessica has already felt the sting of my palm for her complicity in the rescue operation.”

      “You were in a meeting! Ander was off killing things,” Lady Deston countered. “Like Trinity was going to wait for you big guys to get your butts in gear.”

      “And your butt has paid the price,” Nial rejoined.

      Trinity’s lips thinned, clearly not pleased with the direction the conversation was going. “I don’t need a man to save me. Jessica and I handled things.”

      “You should have come to me,” Prime Nial said, gently pulling Lady Deston to his side and wrapping a protective arm around her. “I would have sent in a team of warriors to free him. Not one, small female.”

      “Small, but mighty,” Lady Deston added, winking at my mate, despite Prime Nial’s discussion of her recent punishment.

      Apparently, Earth females were very difficult to tame.

      I might be headed into a ReGen pod, but my mate clearly needed a reminder of who was in charge of her safety. A reminder I would be happy to supply once I could get up off my back.

      The medical team pushed the gurney into the medical station, and I took in the long row of ReGen pods, a few currently in use.

      I was carefully lifted and settled into one at the Prillon doctor’s direction, but I held my hand up to keep the lid from lowering.

      “Mate,” I said.

      Trinity leaned down and her pale eyes met mine. Clear, honest, open. Yes, she was a dream I’d never dared even hope for.

      “Yes, Leo?”

      “When I wake, I will spank your ass, then I’m going to fuck you from behind until you scream my name.” I kept my voice low so none of the technicians could hear. “If you’re not in line by then, I’ll spank you again as I fuck that tight, perfect pussy of yours over and over until you know who you belong to.”

      She stared at me, her mouth open, her cheeks flaming pink, a color I’d learned to love. She was mine.

      “You are mine, Trinity. I will die to protect you. But no more secrets.”

      She bit her lip and stood, backing away as the technicians closed the ReGen pod’s clear covering over me as if I were dead. But she didn’t agree to my demand.

      We’d been open and crude in our sex talk with each other, especially when it came to pleasure. But I’d never vowed to punish her before. Never demanded her secrets. Her complete trust and total surrender.

      But she wasn’t an assignment any longer. A job. A mission.

      She was mine. My mate. Mine to love. Mine to protect. Mine to fuck and pleasure and care for.

      I grinned then, the first time since we’d been separated.

      Prime Nial would keep her safe while the ReGen pod took care of my injuries. Which was good. Because when I was healed, I wanted my mate rested and prepared to scream my name.

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