The Power of Fate (The Triad Series Book 5) (3 page)

“
Can we try something
?”

He didn’t answer, but she took his silence as agreement.

“
Can we use our combined power to break through the lock on this place?
”

“
It won’t work
.”

“
Have you ever tried it with another telepath?”

“
No
.”

“
Then can we just make an attempt?”

He sighed and slowed the thrust of his hips even more. “
If you wish
.”

“
I’ll project if you could just add your power to mine?”

He lowered his head and sucked her nipple into his mouth, making her arch up against him and come around his cock in a series of slow, clenching bursts of excitement.

When she’d regained her breath, she focused on her second-in-command Roberts who was an unusual kind of telepath from planet Earth. If anyone could pick up her distress signal and get back to her it would be him.

“
Now.”

He added his power, and she almost blacked out as the force of it went through her and then rebounded. He tried to shield her as she writhed in shock.

“
I told you it wouldn’t work.”

“
We don’t know that. Something could’ve gotten through
,” Mya replied. “
And even if it hasn’t, I have another plan.”

Mya was dozing on Rekk’s chest, his cock still a stiff presence inside her. She had no idea how long she’d been locked up with him, but knew the longer they stayed, the more likely it was that whoever was in charge of the security unit would turn up. She had a strong sense that she didn’t want to meet them.

Beneath her, Rekk stirred, his fingers combing through her hair.

“
Mya?”

“Yes?”

“If we do attempt to escape and we are recaptured, there is something I would ask you to do for me.”

Mya raised herself up on one elbow so that she could look into his beautiful golden eyes. There was nothing there to reassure her.

“
What is it?”

She had a feeling she already knew the answer.

“
Kill me. I’d rather die than end up back here
.” He traced the line of her jaw with his fingertip. “
I… cannot do this anymore. I’ve been trying to shut myself down over the past few months, but they insist on keeping me alive. I think that’s why they captured you, to force me to keep living.
” His mouth twisted. “
I’ll go mad.”

“I understand.”

“Then will you promise me?”

“Yes. If I can, I will make sure you aren’t recaptured.”

“
Thank you.”
He slowly exhaled.
“And I will do the same for you.”

“
Do you think they would try and keep me like this? And who exactly has the power to imprison you?”

“Aye, they would keep you. They’d rather have both of us, of course, but one telepath is enough to amuse an Etruscan or two.”
He shivered. “
They enjoy…dissecting me. They love my pain. I would not leave you alive to endure what I have suffered.”

“How did you get here?”

He frowned
. “I’m not sure. I think there was a crash and I was the only survivor. It was many years ago.”

Mya kissed his nose and switched into the spoken word. “Is there a bathroom?”

“Yes.” His golden eyes looked puzzled at her abrupt change of subject.

“Can you take me there?”

“Of course.” He hesitated. “You can go alone if you want to. There is no way out.”

She forced a smile. “I’d rather you came with me. I’m frightened.”

He raised an eyebrow. “If you wish.”

He took her hand and walked with her to a concealed door at the back of the room, which slid open as they approached. “
There are cameras in here as well.”

She nodded as he went to wash his face and hands, leaving her free to pee. She finished up and turned toward him, her gaze fixed on his erect cock.

“I want you.”

“Then come back to bed.”

“No, here. Where I can watch you touch me in the mirror.”

His pupils dilated until they were almost black and he reached for her, setting his hands around her waist, lifting her and bringing her feet flat on the countertop. She allowed her knees to fall open, giving him the perfect view of her sex in the mirror that hung over the washbasin.

“Touch me.”

His cock was a hard rod against her spine and buttocks. He reached a hand around to play with her already sensitive clit and the slick folds of her sex, spreading her wide with his fingers until she moaned.

“Yes, just like that.” she murmured, reaching back to brace her left hand on his massive biceps and placing her right palm flat on the wall.

“
Help me. Put your hand over mine on the wall.”

He complied, and she focused not on the pleasure, but on sucking out the plans for the power circuits controlling their prison. It was a useful telepathic skill she had learned from Major Esca’s Female, Soreya. With Rekk’s extraordinary telepathic abilities, it took just seconds.

Just as she was about to break off the connection, a faint voice registered in her mind.

“
Captain. I have pinpointed your signal. Regret due to current political situation, cannot storm building. Team in position to help the moment you escape. Roberts over and out.”

“Thank the Gods,”
Mya breathed as Rekk’s fingers sank deep inside her and she climaxed, her whole body arching like a Hakron bow.

With a growl, Rekk picked her up turned her around to face him and dropped her down over his cock in one slick motion. Mya clung to him, her feet digging into the jut of his hips as he walked her back to the bed and fucked her hard. She took every thrust and gave it back to him until his smooth rhythm disappeared and he just rocked and held deep.

“
I’m… going to come.”

He sounded as desperate as she felt.

“
Please…”
She urged him on with her heel pounding into his buttock. “
Please.”

He increased his ragged pace, his breathing uneven as he drilled into her, making the whole bed rock.

“
Not supposed to do this… haven’t—Gods!”

The heat of him shocked her as he pumped her full of come and kept coming and thrusting until she forgot her own name and just joined him in a stream of consciousness that fused them together like two strands of melted wire. She didn’t care whether this was real or not. Whatever happened, she would never forget how he’d made her feel.

“
We’ll have to leave soon.”

Mya opened her eyes as he collapsed over her.

“
Why
?”

“
Because I am not supposed to be able to do that. Mayhap they really do want us to procreate.”

There was a grim note in his thoughts, which made Mya instantly revert into battle mode.

“
Then let’s do this
.” She focused on the plans she’d absorbed of the various power systems. “
I’ll take out the power if you can work on the alarm systems and send any pursuit off in the wrong direction.”

Their minds were working in such perfect harmony that he immediately understood. He rolled off her, grabbed her hand and went toward the door.

“Let’s go.”

Mya took a deep breath, placed her hand on the wall beside the exit, and blasted everything she and Rekk had through the power circuit. Alarms started to blare as the door slid open to reveal Amar sitting half-asleep in a chair. Even as he struggled to his feet, Rekk was on him and Mya heard the crack of Amar’s neck snapping. Rekk threw Amar’s weapon to her, and she checked it over as they ran.

“Lead us away from the alarms, Rekk. All the doors are now unlocked except the outer security ones, which run on a more complex circuit. I’ll have to get closer to make them open.”

“Understood.”

Ignoring the strident alarms, they sprinted down mostly deserted hallways, moving in a northerly direction away from the front of the building. As they ran, Mya kept reaching out to Roberts, hoping he’d be there as promised if things got rough.

“What the frek?” Kane stepped out of a doorway, his weapon half-raised. Mya didn’t hesitate to shoot to kill. He dropped like a stone, blocking the passageway, but they jumped over him and kept moving.

“Approaching outside exit,” Rekk said.

“
Stand back, Captain Jong.”
Lieutenant Roberts’s voice came through loud and clear.

Mya dragged Rekk to a halt as the exterior door blew inward, sending a cloud of debris toward them. Coughing and half-blinded by the smoke, she kept moving, pushing Rekk ahead of her and aiming all her energy toward the unique telepathic signal of Roberts.

“
Five more meters up the slope, Captain. We’ve got you covered.”

She put her head down and just slogged onward until she hit something solid. Roberts had already taken off his T-shirt and was shoving it down over her head.

“This is Rekk,” she said breathlessly. “He’s coming, too.”

Roberts stared at the big man beside her and nodded. “Whatever you say. But let’s go.”

Chapter 3

He didn’t like the ship any more than he’d liked his Etruscan prison. They’d put him in “Medical,” but it was just another name for a secure cage he couldn’t escape. Rekk paced the small space, his mind in turmoil as the engines of the ship thrummed around him. The entire crew was telepathic, so thoughts were flying around like a rainstorm, making his head hurt.

Raising his fist, he punched the door hard enough to leave a dent. He obviously set off a silent alarm because moments later a white-coated female came through the door accompanied by the hard-faced man who had met them on the perimeter of his prison. This man’s mind was
different
, his thoughts far less emotional than the typical telepath’s, and his ability to block Rekk’s power unexpected.

“My name is Lieutenant Roberts. I appreciate that you are disoriented and distressed, sir, but we are doing our best to get you back to Pavlovan as fast as possible.”

“Where is the Female?”

“Are you referring to Captain Jong, sir?”

“Mya, aye.”
My Female.

“She is currently being processed by our medical staff.”

“Get her.”

“I will inform her that you wish to see her, sir,” Roberts said.

“
Now
,” Rekk growled, “or I will destroy this room and anyone who comes near me.”

“If you refuse to cooperate, I will instruct the medical staff to knock you out for the duration of the journey.”

Rekk bared his teeth at the medical tech who shrank behind Roberts. “If you touch me, I will kill you.”

“If you touch her,
sir,
or anyone on this ship, I will fucking kill
you
. I don’t care who you are. We rescued you. The least you can do is be grateful.” Roberts’s voice hardened. “There is no need for this. I will ask Captain Jong to come and see you when she is cleared by medical. Until then, I suggest you keep your temper.”

He ushered the tech out of the room, leaving Rekk alone once more. With a groan, he sank down on the side of the bed.

Roberts was right. He was behaving like an animal driven by fear. He had no idea how long he’d been in that cell or how he had gotten there. All he knew was his name was Rekk. Or, at least he thought that was his name. Everything else came and went like a Pavlovan desert wind.

He took a deep steadying breath. These people were not his enemies. Mya had saved him, and he was going home. Home to an unknown future amongst a people who had obviously abandoned him.

Mya put on her uniform and studied her reflection in the mirror. Outwardly, she looked composed. Inwardly, she was still a mass of raging hormones who wanted to find her mate and fuck him. Yeah, that’s what she’d been reduced to.

“Captain Jong?” The medic tapped on the door. “Lieutenant Roberts needs to speak to you urgently.”

“I’m just coming.”

Mya went out into the main room of the medical center where Roberts awaited her, his expression grim.

“What’s the problem?” she asked, but she already knew from the horrendous pressure in her mind.

“Our guest is getting a little restless.”

“I’m not surprised. He’s been imprisoned in one room for years, and now we’ve stuck him in another one.”

“Which he’s currently threatening to destroy if he doesn’t get to see you.”

Mya winced. “Then I’ll go and see him. How long until we get back to Pavlovan?”

“About four hours. I’ve been ordered to take us to Trenrick on the other side of the planet.”

“The most secure base. That makes sense seeing as we’re carrying an unknown entity on our ship. Did you manage to get a blood sample from him?”

“Yes and DNA. I haven’t sent them. I assumed it might be better not to advertise our unexpected guest’s presence on the open space channels.”

“Good thought. We can hand them over when we land.” Mya took a deep breath. “Can you make sure that all transmissions from medical are blocked?”

Roberts paused. “But what if he attempts to hurt you?”

“He won’t.”

Roberts inhaled. Did his enhanced senses mean he could tell that she was in a mating phase? “Are you quite sure you want to go in there, in your present physical state, Captain?”

“I don’t think I have any choice.” Mya straightened her spine. “If there is any problem, I promise I’ll shout out.”

Roberts reluctantly stepped aside, and she punched in the security code for the medical lab and went inside. Rekk sat on the bed, staring down at his clasped hands between his knees. He wore loose pants that Mya assumed were surgical scrubs and his chest was bare.

He slowly looked up. “He is a fool if he thinks I would hurt you.”

“He’s just being super careful.”

Mya leaned back against the door as his scent reached her. Smelling him was like taking some mind-inducing drug that made her lose all her inhibitions. For someone who prided herself on being in control, even with her mate, it was frightening. She couldn’t believe he was still affecting her like this. After giving her the counteragent, the medics had assured her the drugs were clear of her system.