DR. ADRIANA ADAMS
I walked into my living quarters on the base at Sala. I had been gone less than forty-eight hours, yet it seemed like a lifetime, because of everything that had happened. Not only had I coupled with Sentinel Vuna, but also the registration office had come through for me. I was going to be his wife. It was official. I no longer belonged to the criminal Captain Mordikye. I now belonged to my first choice husband, Land Sentinel Terik Vuna. I was astonished to find out that he had chosen me in return and he had done it before we had met. I knew that was why he knew me that day on the Beti, but I didn’t want to admit to myself that I would have such good luck with him. If I had known that he had chosen me in return things would have been so much easier. I began to wonder if I was a source of the very first fight between Mordikye and Terik that day when Terik nearly beat him to death. Was it because he was angry at seeing the one and only human female he had ever chosen as a wife, with the Captain? I smiled to think that I had that effect on Terik. I felt happy and complete. It was everything that I had hoped for the first time I saw his photo and read his biography, but there was something still very wrong. I was on a mission to find the flagion rocks. I had done it. I had reported it. Now, I felt like a big betrayer, not only to Terik but to the Drackon weredragons who had taken me in. The king and queen were so hospitable to me and trusted me and I had betrayed everyone. I wished that I had not made that communication line to Richard. But I did not foresee that I would actually be allowed to wed Sentinel Vuna. I assumed that I was going to be sent back to Earth, and I did not want to go back there without taking the chance to further my career with the flagion. Now, I had made the choice to marry Sentinel Vuna, because as soon as he told me the agency had contacted him I knew that I loved him. I knew that I had fucked up. I had to figure out a way to warn him about the plundering of the ravine without incriminating myself. Was it possible? I didn't even know what Richard would do with that information, if anything. What if I confessed to Terik and then Richard and Xander Black actually took no action on plundering Mooreah for flagion? Then I would have confessed for nothing and lost the love of my life. No, I couldn't do it.
I paced my living quarters feeling hot and flustered by this problem. I was going to ruin everything if I didn’t do this right. I opened the French doors to the outside to let in the cool night air to calm my anxiety. I stepped out onto the small balcony and looked up. There were billions of stars like glitter in the sky. It nearly took my breath away. I had been so preoccupied with my own drama that I had not looked up at the night sky since I arrived in the alien world of the Drackon. Suddenly it felt like everything would be okay.
Boom!
The doors caught on the wind and slammed against the wall. Suddenly, Mordikye was standing in front of me in dragon form.
"Mordikye? What are you doing here?!"
"No time to answer questions Adriana," he said as he picked me up in his arms and flew into the sky. I squirmed, "No! Put me down! What are you doing?! Ahhh!"
"Be quiet," he said as he put a hand over my mouth with his other arm around my waist. I did not know what was going on and I was frightened. Minutes later I was in the Beti and he was shouting orders. Lieutenant Rix strapped me into a seat. The engine roared to life and the Beti shot forward into space. I could not believe what was happening. Just when I was about to have happiness with Terik, it was suddenly taken away. This criminal had snatched me out of the night, and now I was floating into space. Did anyone even know I was gone? What if Terik thought I left with Mordikye on purpose? Shit. What if he didn’t find out I was missing until I was far away, never to be found? I was thinking these thoughts when suddenly the Beti was bumped hard. It was another ship.
That is how I found myself in the middle of a firefight between the ship Beti, commanded by Captain Mordikye, and a smaller speed ship that Terik was in as he tried to hunt down the captain and reclaim me. Now, the Beti was behind Terik’s ship, and Captain Mordikye yelled fire!
I grabbed onto the joystick that controlled the ship and with all my weight pulled it to the right. The entire ship quickly went diagonal and everyone went flying. The fire lasers that left the ship did not hit the ship in front of it. I had succeeded. Red lights alarmed everywhere!
"It's the engine! It's shutting down," Lieutenant Rix shouted. "They must have installed a disabler. They might have known we were going to steal the ship!"
"Shit!" Captain Mordikye shouted. Then he looked at me and growled "Were you with him? Were you with Terik? What did you do with him? You are mine!"
"No I am not! You do not own me! Let me go. Give it up! The ship is going nowhere. You have been caught," I said to him. He grinned a menacing grin and said, "Good, let me be caught. I want to see Terik face-to-face so that I can kill him."
"No!" I shouted.
"Take her away! Lock her up until I come get her. Prepare to be boarded by the enemy, fire at will!"
I kicked and screamed as they were taking me away. I could feel the ship being reeled in by a beam, tracking us in. I knew that any moment Terik and his guards would be boarding the ship and there would be an all out fight. Captain Mordikye was set to kill him.
Suddenly I heard the sound of blasters and battle. I was frightened. I was never going to see Terik again. It was all too much to handle. I had to get out of this locked room but it was no use, I was stuck. Then it became eerily quiet. Tears began to flow down my face, as I knew exactly what it meant.
The door opened. I was shocked by what I saw. There standing in the doorway, bloody from battle, was Terik. I ran into his arms.
"I thought I was never going to see you again, Terik!"
He placed kisses on my head. "I thought the same thing. I couldn't handle it. My heart couldn't handle i,t Adriana," he said, as he picked me up and carried me out of the Beti and into his ship. He gave orders for his guards to return both ships to Sala. The fight was over.
"I thought Mordikye was going to kill you. He said he was going to try to kill you."
"He tried. He failed. I killed him. It is a great loss. There was much information that I needed to get from him, but he gave me no choice. It was either him or I, and I had a wife waiting for me. So I had to do what I had to do," he said to me.
I kissed him hard and passionately. Moments before I had thought I would never kiss these lips again, so now I was going to cherish every sensation I was feeling. I would not take this for granted. He was the one; he was my number one, my first choice husband.