“What do you mean she wants nothing more to do with us?” Lewan raged as he looked at Dwaain, confused. They had been trying for days to reach Myla only to have every attempt thwarted. They had been whisked off by the physicians as soon as the rescue ship landed on the planet. They were all immediately separated and taken to be examined. When they were released by the medical team Myla was gone. All they were told was that she had returned to her home planet and her fiancé.

They sent message after message with only one response. “Please do not bother me again. I have returned home and am happily planning my upcoming bonding.” That was it. Nothing more. No further explanation.

When he and Dwaain had tried to land on her planet to talk to her, they were informed that if they didn’t leave Xwrest space immediately they would be fired upon. It didn’t feel right to Dwaain or Lewan, so they returned to Xylan to come up with a plan. A plan to find the woman they loved and make sure they would never lose her again.

Lewan wasn’t sure Dwaain’s plan would work, but he didn’t have a better one. It had been weeks at this point since he had seen Myla. His heart hurt from missing her so much.

“Do you think it will work?” Dwaain asked, looking at him intently.

“It’s better than anything I can come up with.

It was a few days before they could put Dwaain’s plot into action and they had a lot to do to prepare for it. The quicker it was done the sooner Myla would be back in their arms where she belonged.

* * *

Myla moped around the palace. She had been trying to contact Dwaain and Lewan for days with no reply. Her father assured her that the ban on communications had been removed and couldn’t understand why she wasn’t getting a reply.

Finally, she decided that she wasn’t going to wait any longer. She was going to take a ship and go to Xwrest herself and find them. If she had to search the entire solar system, she would find them. Her father protested and tried to deny her, but when he saw her determination, he gave in as always. “I will go with you,” he told her as she prepared to depart.

Myla felt a sense of déjà vu as she and her father prepared to board the transship to start their journey to Xylan. This was the same ship that she had first seen Dwaain and Lewan on. Maybe it would bring her good luck. She needed some.

She had spent hours talking with her father about how she saw the future of their planet. What she thought would be best and how to make it happen. Once she and Knowlan sat down and really started talking he was impressed with her ideas and how much time and study she had put into implementing them. “You know there will be some resistance, but in all, I believe your ideas are what is needed to push our planet forward. It will make us a leader in the system. I’m proud of you daughter.”

Myla steered the ship onto the course that would take them to Xylan and her men. She hoped they still wanted her. She wasn’t sure how she would have reacted if she had been in their place. To be told that they wanted nothing to do with her and banned from seeing them. It would destroy her. She should hate her father for what he had done, but she couldn’t. He was only trying to do what he thought was best, even if it was a huge mistake. Myla let her mind drift back to the time she had spent with Dwaain and Lewan stranded. She had wasted so much time denying her feelings and not worrying about things that should have never mattered. She hadn’t even taken the chance to tell them she loved them. If she ever saw them again, she would make sure they knew how she felt about them.

“Did you receive permission to land, father?” Myla asked anxiously. What if they had banned her from their planet out of vengeance? She didn’t think they would be like that but wasn’t sure.

“Myla, you know we aren’t close enough to send a signal yet. Be patient, my daughter. If they care for you the way you care for them, they will try to find a way to see you. I’m sure of it. Although I loved your mother dearly, I wish I would have had the courage to explore life. Maybe I still would have found your mother. I don’t know. Losing her was like losing a piece of my soul. I grew to love your mother over the years, as much or more than you do your men.”

Myla looked at her father with tears in her eyes. “I know mama loved you also, papa. Wherever she is in the heavens, she waits for you.”

Her father clasped her hand with a tight squeeze. “I’m sure she does, daughter.”

Myla watched him wipe a tear from his eye and focused on navigating the ship. They would soon be close enough to transmit the signal requesting a landing on Xylan. She watched as the distance slowly decreased until they were within range to send a communication. Their request to land was approved, but she was informed that commander Moreson and his second were off planet, but they had left instructions that she was to be allowed to land and stay in their home. “We will inform Commander Moreson that you are awaiting his arrival.”

Myla was so excited. She didn’t know how long it would be, but she would soon be in the arms of her beloveds. She hugged her father in her excitement. “I will return home and leave you with your men daughter. Good luck,” he told her giving her a swift hug.

* * *

Dwaain terminated the communication and changed the course of the ship. “She’s there. She’s waiting for us. I don’t know what happened, but she’s asked for permission to land. They’ve given her our instructions. She will be in our home when we arrive.”

Dwaain didn’t know what had happened, but soon his love would be in his arms. He was never going to let her go. There would be no separating them this time. He would see to it. Being the ruler of the planet did have its advantages, and he would make sure of it.

He had lain awake at night remembering the feel of sinking into her warm heat. The little noises she made when she was aroused. How her face looked when she came. The smell of her arousal, everything about her. This time he would make sure she knew how he felt about her. Whatever had happened to cause her to deny their claim and ban them was in the past. All that mattered now was the fact that she wanted them and they wanted her. Everything else was of no consequence. She would belong to them.

“Commander, I have calculated our course, and we can intercept her transport if we take this course.” Lewan interrupted his thoughts. Perfect. That would put her in their arms even sooner.

“Do it.” He commanded. Their love was waiting on them.