The Royal Mate (Space Wars) by April Zyon Read Free Book Online

going to dunk her or not. When he surfaced, she had that grin on her face, the one that made him want to do very, very bad things to her. “I see you found me.”
    Wiping a hand over his face to get rid of the water, he eased closer to her. “I did, the trail to the map was extremely helpful.” With care, he leaned in enough to press a kiss to her lips. “You were wearing an awful lot of clothing. Some that I don’t recall actually seeing on your body this morning. Did you by chance grab a few extra pieces to help with the trail?”
    “Maybe I did.” She moved in closer to him, and he wrapped his arms around her. “I wanted to make sure that you could find me. So…” she trailed off and wrapped her legs around his hips.
    Markus quickly adjusted his movements to keep them both above water and started to work them toward the shallow end. He didn’t want them ending up under the water and that would be much easier with his feet on solid ground. “Thank you for doing that, little one. Even though it was not entirely selfless, was it?” he teased.
    “No, not in the least. I wanted you to find me. Heck, I needed you to find me. I needed to feel your body on mine.” Her hands were moving over his shoulders but he noticed that she was not going lower. “Touch me, Markus? Let’s get out of the pool and into the hot springs or even dry off?”
    “Let’s dry off. I don’t want either of us to drown before we can complete the bond. Can you hold out until we get to our bed?”
    “I can wait. I just wanted you to be able to find your way to the gym and pool in case you needed it after you left me exhausted and sleeping.” The little minx was teasing him. “Think you can hold onto your needs long enough for us to make it to our bed?”
    “I definitely can wait since I know what the reward is. You,” he told her. Cupping her face, he pressed a kiss to her lips. Then he worked at getting them to the edge of the pool so that they could get out. While he could hold on for a little while, he was at the end of his rope.
    Once they were at the edge, she moved away from him and passed him a towel before taking one herself. They watched each other drying off. He wondered what she thought of his tattoos and scars but then chose to ignore it and instead looked her over. She turned and glanced over her shoulder at him. “I had this inked onto my back when I graduated. What do you think?”
    Moving closer to her, he trailed his fingertips down her spine before tracing a wing of the design. “It’s beautiful and befitting the one who wears it.” He dropped a light kiss to her shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her waist to hug her to him.
    Her lips curved, and that smile was enough to make his cock hard. He did appreciate the ink on her body. The angel wings that spread from shoulder to shoulder with the DNA strand running down her spine took time and pain, two things that not a great deal of Craegin women would have done. “Come on. I’ll show you the shortcut now.” She tugged his hand and pulled him toward the wall. He wasn’t sure where they were going but she obviously knew the place inside and out, so he was trusting her. When her hand slapped on the wall and the concrete parted he had to admit it was pretty cool, as was the elevator that was inside of it. “This leads to each floor and ends in the master suite that you and I occupy. It would be a way out if we ever needed it,” she said.
    He followed her into the elevator and watched her key it to their floor. It was a slightly different system than on the destroyers, a little more simple, but other than that easy enough to operate from what he could tell. The ride was short and, like she had said, put them right in the master suite. He scooped her up when the doors fully opened. He headed straight for the bed to toss her onto it, quickly following her down.
    She reached up and pulled him closer to her body. “I want everything with you, Markus. I want the full