Chapter Twenty
“She saved your life, Pakua. We are in her debt.”
Pakua shifted onto his side, trying to turn away from his brother, but the wound that gaped open at his hip was still tender. “I did not ask anything of that female.”
Pakua had kept his distance from all three of the new females the moment they came aboard the ship. He’d been doing just that when the younglings had ventured down into the belly of the ship. When Ngai, Niao and Nse’s marred father, had reached for the girl Pakua’s instincts kicked in. He’d dashed in to save the human youngling, yanking her out of harm’s way.
He was not upset that he’d fallen into harm’s way in the protection of another. It was in his nature to protect life, especially when that life was attached to a womb. What rankled him now was that he w
