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Darius, Titan Tycho
I watched Lily climb inside her borrowed Titan and breathed a sigh of relief that she had not sought me out. Well, not me, but Dea, the Starfighter who was supposed to be on this mission.
Dea herself had helped me sneak on board the shuttle in the dark hours of the night. We’d swapped Titans so she could take Intrepidus on her newly assigned mission on Velerion while Tycho and I took her place out here. With Lily. My stubborn, beautiful pair-bonded female.
The launch sequence commenced and the Titan shot off the rail system as fast as I’d ever seen. I stood in the view room and waited until she’d confirmed her coordinates and fired her boosters.
There was no turning back now. For either of us.
She was mine. I was a fool. I’d humiliated her without realizing my
