Page 40 of Darken
“Did you think it was prudent to take your mate on that operation?”
“She trained so hard, and she was ready. The five thugs we were after were only armed with projectile weapons,” Darken explained. “I had no reason to expect they had accomplices with an armor-piercing weapon of that magnitude. I already had that conversation with her. No more dangerous missions. But she is good with the people we encounter making contact with the villages.”
“What about the cities?”
“I will need a team to sweep the city before we bring in the demolition crews. We’ve done a few flyovers, and I could see many people still living in the city ruins. We will need teams of aid workers to rehome them,” said Blaze.
“The Enclave is assembling and training them now. Your protectors will finish their field training by the end of this month. Then we send them to you rangers,” said Vyken. “Is that everything?”
The six rangers answered affirmative, and Commander Vyken Dark ended the transmission.
While Gina regained her strength, Darken mostly worked from home, calling his town and village contacts for updates. He only went out when needed to settle a dispute or track down a perpetrator. Their home was the one place he felt confident Gina was safe alone. It didn’t hurt that their wolf pack had found a den in a cave on his and Gina’s Mountain.
She still didn’t remember getting shot, but he did. The memory could still give Darken the shakes, so he pushed it to the back of his mind and ran his internal PTSD program. It helped remind him that the danger was past and Gina was safe.
But, he needed more time to work through it. Gina was a strong, capable woman. He couldn’t expect her to relinquish her freedom to maintain her safety. The nanites in her system would repair most injuries without further intervention. The odds were good; she would never face a modified weapon like that again. The Federation pulled out all stops in finding the source. If anyone was going to have that tech, they were making sure only they had it.
Gina woke in the bed alone, but she was not alarmed. As a cyborg, Darken was engineered to go days without sleep. During the war, he frequently went more than a week at a time without it. She smiled when she checked the time. He’d let her sleep in late, which was only partly for her benefit.
He had yet to fulfill his tender threat/promise of what he planned to do to her when she recovered. Well, she was completely ready. Just thinking about it made her inner walls clench.
Darken would appear eventually. Meanwhile, she took the time to use the bathroom and shower. Afterward, she put on a light robe tied at the waist and padded barefoot out to the kitchen for tea and breakfast.
“Incoming call,” the house AI announced.
“Go ahead,” Gina responded.
“Good morning, sweetheart. I will be there in ten minutes. I flew out on patrol.”
“That’s great, Darken. I’m just having a little breakfast. Shall I make you some?”
“All I want is you.” His tone was low and sexy.
“I’ll be waiting.”
Gina had finished eating when the AI signaled Darken’s arrival, so she got up and went to the door, waiting for him to enter. The door slid open, and the big cyborg gave her his best sexy smirk.
One step forward, she was in his arms, her body pressed to his and her arms around his neck. He lifted her easily, so they were chest to chest, and his lips found hers. Her robe fell open, so she was naked against him, and he could feel the heat of her pussy against his abdomen as she wrapped her legs around him.
Gina loved the feel of him against her as he held her tightly but not too tight. He always made her feel precious to him in how he held her, kissed her, and fucked her. And she was no longer shy about letting him know that she wanted him.
They kissed and caressed for several minutes before Darken carried her into their bedroom. There he set her to stand and pushed off the robe, letting it pool in a pile behind her.
Toeing off his boots, he pulled off his t-shirt, dropping it on the floor, followed by his pants. His cock was hard and erect as she knew it would be. Turning back the sheet, he waited for Gina to climb onto the bed. He left the sheet, turned back, and followed her.
Her nipples had tightened and peaked even before his arrival, and her whole body clamored for his attention. It seemed that he would take the entire tour as he lay over her and kissed her lips at length, stroking and swirling his tongue with hers.
Darken held most of his weight off her and managed to rub his thumbs back and forth over her beaded nipples, adding his forefingers to pinch and pluck at them. Gina moaned into his mouth as the sensations shot to her clit. Soon he moved lower to lave and suck them until she came for the first time.
She murmured his name and told him how good he made her feel. “I love you so much!” she crooned, although the words hardly covered it. Darken was everything to her, the other half of her soul.
“And I love you, my mate. You are my heart and the air that I breathe.” He dragged his mouth over her flesh, kissing, nibbling, and licking his way down her chest and abdomen.
She panted as her body tightened in anticipation of his destination. Her hips bucked of their own accord as his lips brushed her clit as he went to draw his tongue up her wet slit and clit.
Gina wailed and crooned inarticulately, stroking his head as he feasted on her pussy until she could only claw at the bed as he took her through multiple orgasms until she screamed his name, and he knew she’d had enough. She was nearly incoherent with the pleasure that rippled through her body after he stopped.
After tonguing her clit one more time, Darken wiped his mouth and moved up to kiss her lips. Her body still shook with the aftershocks of climax as her hands stroked his back, head, and face.
