devour her lips. And that was what turned him on: being wanted, her eyes hunting him out, as if he was her prey. Garth had never been prey, to anyone.
“Sit there,” he said, pointing to the chair she had sat in to travel here. He would have let her in the control deck, but he was worried he might not be able to concentrate fully.
“OK.” She did as he told her to, and sat down, and he watched while she buckled her seat belt up.
“Everything OK?” Okil asked as he entered the control deck and took his seat.
“Yes, why wouldn’t it be?” he asked abruptly.
“Oh, I don’t know, maybe because I have been here waiting for a full ten minutes.”
“I reprogrammed the decon’. She had sand in her body.” Garth powered up the engines.
“Ahh, so your compassionate side is unleashed at last, Garth. Good to know, I always worry about you warriors taking a female into deep space with you.”
“I am sure she will keep me sufficiently entertained on the voyage,” Garth said, wiping the images of her lying naked in his bed aboard the deep space cruiser from his head, as he launched them down towards Karal.
Okil laughed. “My, you have got it bad.”
“No, I have not. It is the prime, it is making me want to make a new life with her, a son, which means I have to mate with her.”
Okil laughed again. “Tell yourself what you have to, just make sure you look after her, and find the planet we need. I don’t care how much time you spend with your cock inside her as long as you fulfil your duty.”
“Don’t worry Okil. I will remember how much this mission and the humans mean to you.”
“And once you understand Tamzin, it will mean more to you too. Garth, they bring something to our lives which we never knew we were missing.” Okil fell silent and then said, “There is something more I should tell you.”
“You are in the mood for spilling secrets, aren’t you?”
“All the other deep space warriors know, so it’s only right I tell you before you begin this missions so that you know exactly what is at stake.”
Garth put his full attention on Okil now, sensing that he was about to give Garth the key to the mystery as to why the Hier Ruler and the Council were willing to accommodate these females, and allow them to be free on Karal.”
“Our species is about to become whole again. A female child will be born and our sons won’t have to search the universe for females when their prime comes. And that is thanks to the humans. So I cannot turn my back on them and simply take what we need.”
“How?”
“An accident in decon’. Or fate, as the humans like to believe in. Whatever it is, it is real. So please, Garth, find us a planet.”
Karal loomed large in front of them and he let his attention return to his job, making sure they landed safely. But all the time he thought of the female in the back, and that his people would no longer have to search the universe, they could become self-sufficient again.
“We won’t need them anymore, if what you say is true.” His words were spoken quietly, as though he were saying them to himself.
“Believe me, we do, Garth. They are our backup plan. If the females are infertile, then we will still need breeding stock. Humans can provide that. Think of it as a farm for Karal.”
Garth burst out laughing. “Now, that is how the Hier Ruler must see it, a farm for breeding females.”
“It is, Garth, but I don’t care how we look at it. It’s the right thing to do.”
“OK. You know, enough of this. I don’t need to know all the details, this is a mission for me, and I want to get my head straight. It’s bad enough not being able to get her out of my head.” He jerked his head back towards Tamzin.
“My advice, Garth, is to get her out of your head, out of your system, tonight.”
“You mean go back to my rooms now?”
“Not right away. You need to get Darl to give her something for her skin, the rain marked her badly.”
“You’re right.”