Page 15 of Sevan

Sevan brought his mouth to her neck and let his hot breath move over her skin as he spoke. “Is that really what it feels like to be inside you? I gotta tell you, baby, you are all that I think about. Tell me that I’m not the only one having the dreams.”

Lorelei averted her gaze. “You’re not.”

The feel of his warm lips on her neck made her sigh as her breasts heaved upwards. “What’s happening to me? Is it your doing? Did you invade my head so I’d come here and help you?”

“No,” Lorelei said quickly, hurt that Sevan would suggest such a thing. She tried to pull away but he held tight to her. “Let go. None of this was my doing. I would never lure anyone into this situation. Especially not someone that I…”

“That you let sample every inch of your body? That you let fuck you so many ways I lost count? Is that it, Lorelei?”

“Stop it.” She pushed lightly on him, not wanting to harm him in any way but disliking the topic greatly. Knowing it was for the best, Lorelei focused on putting a wall between them, hardening herself to him so she could send Sevan on his way and not die of a broken heart. Finding out he was real only to have to send him away already ripped at her gut. Letting him love her in the flesh would kill her. “Get away from me. They were just dreams. They meant nothing. I need to see to it my people are safe. Go back to your own kind, fix your ship and leave.”

“Don’t,” he whispered, brushing his lips over her neck. “I’m not sure what to think. My ship, which has passed every inspection with flying colors, suddenly has more problems than I can count when we’re passing by your planet. I radio for assistance, only to find the woman who has invaded my dreams staring back at me. Now, I’m told I might be used by some madman to hurt her. This is too much for any one person to absorb. Don’t pull away from me just because I questioned it aloud. I need to understand what’s going on.”

Lorelei shook her head slightly, still needing to put distance between them. “How can I give you answers to things I don’t even understand? All I know is that he believes your vessel contains our mates, or potential mates.”

She glanced towards the gray wall, not wanting to reveal it all to him, but finding it hard to leave important pieces of information out.

“Stegian believes you are my mate. He made sure to leak that to me when he was scanning the facility to pinpoint our location. That means he will either attack you to draw me out, or use you to attack me.”

Sevan snorted. “I won’t hurt you.”

He didn’t go into detail on the subject of her being his mate, and that scared her. Did he not mean his vows? Did he want to take his claim back? He was human, so he could. And why would the fates give her a human mate? Why not a supernatural to match her strength and speed?

Lorelei closed her eyes and thought hard about all of the human customs, words and phrases she’d been taught as a child. “Umm, he thinks you’re my soul mate. I can’t change that, and trust me, Sevan. If he decides to use you to hurt me, there will be nothing you can do to stop him.”

“What? Some insane guy believes there is this one perfect person for everyone, and that I’m yours?” Disbelief laced his voice, causing Lorelei’s heart to feel heavy. “That’s it. I’m heading back to my ship. This is a little too convenient for my taste. You show up out of the blue. Invade my dreams. Let me claim you and make me fall in love with you. Whatever game you’re playing ends here, baby.”

He loves me? He really does?

Lorelei took a moment to collect herself, knowing she had to send Sevan away for his own good. “Wonderful, go. I’m almost sorry you aren’t here to loot us. At least then I’d have started out with low expectations.”

Something howled loudly, signifying just how close it truly was to them. The compound walls were thick. That meant it was just outside of it.

The second Sevan stopped dead in his tracks, Lorelei’s body tensed. “Go. You’re sick of my game and I’m sick of you. I’m glad the nightmares of you have ended.” It was harsh and a lie, but she needed him to go for his own safety.

Sevan glanced back over his shoulder at her. He was worried, and her powers allowed her to sense his concern was for her. As heartwarming as that was, he couldn’t be allowed to stay.

Aiming her weapon directly at him, Lorelei drew in a deep breath as she stared down the barrel. “Captain, you are to report back to your vessel immediately. I hereby revoke your status of honorable guest. You are no longer permitted to roam freely. Do as I say or…”

“Or what? You’ll shoot me in the back?” he asked, his voice low, his eyes still locked on her. “Is that what you do to someone you’ve spent how many nights with? Is that what you do to a man you allowed to take you as his wife, even if it was only in a dream? Is that how you return affection, Lorelei? The second we meet in the flesh you threaten to shoot me?”

Closing her eyes, Lorelei thought of all the nights they’d spent together. The memory of Sevan declaring his love for her, claiming her, had plagued her for two weeks straight. Every second of not being with him had chipped away at her heart. Now, as she held a weapon on him, shame filled her. She couldn’t shoot him. Raising her weapon high, she let off the trigger and sighed. “Sevan.”

“Was it all a lie, Lorelei?” His green eyes stayed locked on her. “I have to know.”

“No,” she said, shocked by her own admission.

A wolfish grin appeared on his face. It faded away as another howl filled the air. Sevan moved to her quickly and pulled her behind him. “Stay close.”

The thought of Sevan going up against an enemy such as the one waiting for them made her smile. “Excuse me, Captain, but I think it’s you who had better stay close to me.”

Lorelei didn’t wait for his comeback. Putting in the code to open the exterior door, she shook her head. The door opened. Sevan tried to push in front of her, thinking some sort of animal would be there, but she held her weapon out towards him and arched a brow. No threat was immediately there. “Want to see if your charm works two times in a row? I should warn you that I have no problem setting my weapon to knock you out rather than watch you kill yourself by running headfirst into a situation you have not been briefed on.”

He froze.

Smart man.

She handed the weapon to him butt first and nodded. Shaking his head no, he touched his own sidearm. It was a cute thought, but unless he was packing ammunition with liquid silver nitrate in it, he might as well walk out unarmed. Her people had spent years synthesizing it for protective purposes since it had first arrived with the humans long ago. Lorelei thrust her weapon into his hand. He tried to hand it back to her. She growled. He smiled.

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