Cormac CormacStay behind. Protect my mate. I hated every word. Gods be damned; I knew Ruk was right. My first duty was to Abby. I would have offered him one of my rifles, but I knew he would have laughed at me, that low, rolling laugh that had always reminded me of wild things and thick forest. Many of the people on Rogue 5 had forgotten our ancestors, at least the Hyperion half. The savage half. The stronger half. Trying to use one of my weapons would only slow him down. He could move even faster than an Elite Hunter from Everis when in a fight. I’d seen it many times during my visits to Hyperion. It was the reason he was the heir to his clan’s chieftain and the reason he had his choice of s*x partners among their females. He rarely turned down any female’s invitation, yet he had not

