Micah's Mate (Dark Sky) by Beverly Leahy Read Free Book Online Page A

drowning out all else. Running her hands up his chest Katlyn leaned over to kiss his neck softly. Immediately she felt a wave of pleasure from him and she smiled against his skin. He was right; this needed to be explored a little further.
    Slowly, she licked his neck and bit lightly gasping as the pleasure hit her moments later. She was playing with fire and it was going to consume her. How would it be to make love with him? Was that even possible? The thoughts alone made her moan against his skin in need.
                  “Kat.” he moved his hands to her hips and pulling her more tightly against him, pressing himself more fully against her causing her to moan. He was on the edge and barely able to keep himself from taking her right there on the kitchen table.
    Katlyn o pened her eyes and gasped, Micah’s eyes had gone from grey to glowing neon blue.
                  “Micah; your eyes.” She whispered amazed at how beautiful they were.
                  He closed them quickly and almost dumped her off of his lap in his hurry to stand. “I am sorry.” He stood with his head down hands on the table breathing deeply. “It is a reaction that I cannot control.” Damn, that probably scared the hell out of her.
                  Slowly, Katlyn began to button up her shirt with shaky hands, “I understand. It took me by surprise, I apologize for my reaction.”
                  Micah looked up and Katlyn found his beautiful eyes once again grey. “Let us sit; we have much to talk about.”
                  “Let me grab us some coffee.” Quickly Katlyn got two cups and sat in one of the chairs.
                  “It is a long story. I am not sure where to start.” He rubbed a hand down his face tiredly. Explaining this could very well push her away.
                  “How about the beginning? It's as good a place as any.” Katlyn took a sip of the coffee trying to control the need that was still running through her body and settled in for their talk.
                  “My people are not from here. We are from Teclit, about 300 light years away.” He hesitated and waited for her reaction. Getting nothing but a nod he continued. “Over the years we maintained our planet about the same as you have here. We had our wars, our pollution. We had our space expeditions, our technology growth. Where we differed from your world is in the technology growth. Ours was much broader, more detailed and we thought we were on a breakthrough when it came to space travel and weapons. One of these weapons we devised released a chemical into the air as a byproduct. It seemed harmless at first; it did not affect the biosphere to our knowledge; until we noticed that our females were not having children.”
                  “It caused sterility.” Katlyn glanced up and caught his grim nod.
                  He wrapped his fingers more tightly around the coffee cup as he stared off into space.
    “Yes , but only in us not in the animals that inhabited our planet; otherwise we may have caught it before it spread. Instead it was years before we realized it was an issue. By trying to become more advanced we in turn set our race on the path of extinction. This is why we are here.” He paused to look up at her guardedly. She was quick it wouldn’t take her long to connect the dots, he waited.
                  Katlyn took a deep breath her mind going over a million possibilities.
    She stilled a minute later and met his gaze in shock, “My God; you are here to collect females for breeding.” She set her cup down trying to keep from over reacting. In all honesty if it happened here, if it were their society faced with the same circumstances would they do anything differently? She knew as a race they would survive anyway possible, it was in their nature.
                  “Kat, it’s not like that.”