Stark
Stark
I should have told her the moment she woke. But she’d already been panicked, breaking the ReGen pod and injuring her leg.
I’d touched her then. Gods help me, I hadn’t been able to resist taking her. Claiming her. Making sure she could never escape our bond, even after she discovered the truth. I was an Elite Hunter. I had a duty to my people and several more years on my enlistment. I had a duty to the Coalition, to the billions we protected on hundreds of member planets. I could not remain on Earth with her. And I could not live without her. Be alone. Not now that I knew she existed.
She would need to leave her home, her world and everyone she loved to be with me. I’d been a coward, terrified of her choice.
“Are we…are we in space?” Rebecca turned to me, her dark eyes wide
