After Teclis had watched Luke kick Crimson’s back and heard her crying out in pain for the third time—once was enough, let alone three!—he’d zapped from the pod straight into the cabin on the boat and punched the male in the nose and sent him flying across the room.

  Although Hover had said he could mend all of Crimson’s injuries that Luke had caused, Amelia had reminded them through the comms that if the police showed up to find Crimson well and with no injuries, everything she had gone through would be worthless. So she had advised that rather than healing all of Crimson’s injuries Hover just make sure that none of them would end up being permanent.

  In all the yarns Teclis had known Hover, the medic had been calm, collected, and somewhat testy, but he had never seen him so red-faced and angry as he was when he ran the healing wand over Crimson’s back, only partially healing it.

  After getting looked over by Hover, Crimson was transferred onto their boat and rested on one of the double beds while Sharan called the police. Meanwhile, Jikel and a few warriors made sure to insert the right equipment on Luke’s boat needed to capture the filming of Luke and Crimson. No one cared how Luke tried to explain the equipment or why it was there. Once the human security turned up, Tec and Coil were ordered to zap back to the mansion before being seen.

  Even now, Teclis and Coil’s presence was unknown to the police officer guarding the door. Whenever someone approached Crimson’s room, Ausk, who was watching the images on the Gemorph through the many shielded cameras surrounding the room, warned Teclis and Coil, giving them time to zap out before they were discovered.

  Amelia rolled over on the tiny bed, her eyes opening and scanning the room. “Is she still not awake?” she asked quietly.

  Both Teclis and Coil shook their heads.

  Amelia sighed, sitting up. “I guess being you guys are still here, a doctor hasn’t been in yet?”

  “No.” Teclis sighed himself. “How long are we going to have to wait until we can get her out of here?”

  He was anxious to get Crimson back on the Gemorph and to Hover. From what he’d been told, Crimson had several broken ribs and a punctured lung, along with two fracture-dislocations in her spine. Once Hover had informed Amelia of Crimson’s injuries, Amelia had asked the medic several questions before suggesting he fix the dislocations so Crimson wouldn’t have to go through a lengthy human operation. Hover had said they didn’t have to worry about her iungos or new comm showing up in any of the human’s scanners because they were made of a certain material that wouldn’t be seen.

  “I don’t know, but the quicker she’s out of the hospital, the better,” Amelia said. “I want to get back to the ship too. I miss my family.”

  All three of their attentions quickly shifted to Crimson when she groaned in her sleep. Teclis ran a hand lovingly over her red hair that adorned the pillow.

  “Open your eyes for me, me unum. Let us see your beautiful green orbs.” Teclis stood and leaned over Crimson, silently urging his spark to hear him, for her to do as he asked.

  “Just a little longer,” Crimson mumbled. “Sooo tired.”

  The bruises Hover had made were mixed with new ones, including a large, purple one that covered her cheek. Teclis wanted to hunt the male down that gave it to her and beat him to a pulp.

  “Come on, open your eyes.”

  “Oh, why?” She moaned. Crimson raised a shaky hand and ran it over her face.

  Teclis’s initial happiness when she opened her eyes disappeared when all he could see was her pain. Great big tears began to fall down the side of her face, disappearing into her hair. It broke Teclis a little seeing her tears.

  “I’m so sorry,” she said. She looked into his eyes before searching out Coil’s. “I didn’t think he would hurt me like that being he was still docked at the pier. I thought he’d wait until he got away from anybody who might hear what was said and done.”

  “Why are you sorry?” Teclis frowned. “What do you mean?” he asked, confused. Hadn’t the whole reason for Crimson going back to Luke—against everyone’s suggestion—been to get evidence so she could be free of her husband?

  “The last thing I remember before I blacked out was the heartache on both of your faces because of what Luke had done. I saw your pain and sorrow. I caused that.” She hiccupped.

  Before either he or Coil could say anything, Amelia shoved herself in front of Coil and leaned over the bed.

  “Don’t you dare blame yourself,” Amelia growled quietly, chastising his spark. “If anything, we are the ones accountable for going along with the plan.” Amelia suddenly shook her head. “No. In fact, all the responsibility for this goes to that fuckwad of a husband of yours. Let me tell you this, as much as I hate that you got hurt, everything is going to turn out okay. As soon as we get you back to the Gemorph, Hover will be waiting to heal you, so no more pain. And as for that dirtbag who’s currently wondering how the fuck all that equipment got aboard his boat and recorded everything, he is languishing in jail—without bail, I might add—and having lost his punching bag. One other benefit from all this though is that since his family is very much in the public eye, he can’t hide what he did to you anymore. Reporters, television crews, and paparazzi are everywhere, trying to get the news on him. It helped, of course, that some unknown individual leaked our little film to the papers and news stations.” Amelia grinned. “You will be able to get your divorce and be free of him, just as you wished.”

  “But…” Crimson looked toward Teclis quickly and then Coil before staring back at Amelia. “It was my fault that I may not be able to walk again. I think Luke broke my back.”

  Amelia snorted. “Easily rectified. Hover already partially healed you before you were brought to the hospital.”

  Crimson looked down her body and moved her legs. “Oh God. I was so worried in case I wouldn’t be able to feel…to, umm… That I…” Her eyes flew from Teclis to Coil and then back to Amelia again. “I’m okay?” she asked.

  “You will be once we get you home,” Teclis said, hoping to reassure her.

  A look of relief flooded her face. “And you two? You aren’t mad at me?”

  “Why would we be angry?” Coil asked.

  “Because I allowed Luke to hit me and made you watch it?”

  “Crimson, it’s all over. No more will that male be able to touch you, harm you, or criticize you.” Teclis raised her left hand and touched the gold band on her finger. With a slight tug, he pulled it off and held it up in front of her eyes. “He has no power over you.”

  “You are free. We aren’t just asking you to be ours, we are wanting to be yours,” Coil said, his eyes swirling fast with his emotions.

  Fresh tears welled in Crimson’s eyes.

  “But only if that is what you want,” Teclis added. If he had to beg Crimson to want him and Coil, he would, if only to give them a chance at making her happy, to make her see just how loved she could really be in a relationship. His heart pounded in his chest as he waited for Crimson to speak. It was only a few moments, but it felt like a lifetime.

  “I want to be yours.” Crimson smiled up at them both.

  Teclis wanted to whoop with joy, to slap a fist against his chest in happiness. Instead, he cupped her cheeks carefully between his hands and kissed her long and slow.

  “Teclis, you have incoming, in five…four…”

  Upon hearing Ausk’s warning, Teclis immediately went on alert.

  “Incoming,” Ausk warned the room. “Three…”

  Teclis bent, pecked Crimson on the lips, and visualized the pod on the roof.

  “Two…” Just as Ausk hit one, both Tec and Coil were aboard the pod.

  Teclis sighed, hating the fact he had to leave Crimson again. The longer he and Coil were away from her, the more chance the pain of them being apart grew stronger. He couldn’t wait until they were all together again.

  “Thanks for the warning,” Teclis said, pressing his comm. “Perhaps a little longer next time?” he complained.

  “You try being on this end of the camera. That doctor of Crimson’s is rather annoying. She’s rather…using one of Amelia’s words…scatterbrained. She kept leaving the nurses station and then heading back for something. Three times she forgot something.” Ausk sighed.

  “Thank you. As usual, let us know when the room is clear for us to return.”

  “Will do. Ausk out.”

  “That was close.” Coil exhaled heavily and sat down on one of the seats.

  “She’s going to be fine.” Teclis grinned at his friend. “I can’t wait to get her home and in our arms.”

  “Me either.” Coil smiled, closing his eyes and resting his head against the pod wall. “Each time I touch her, I think of us all together. I don’t think my cock can get any harder.”

  “My exact thoughts.” Teclis said, taking the two steps needed to stand in front of his lover.

  When Teclis nudged his spark’s knees apart Coil’s eyes shot open and raised up to meet his. Teclis cupped the back of Coil’s neck, then he bent and took Coil’s lips with his. Coil opened his mouth on a gasp when Teclis squeezed his fingers a touch tighter, causing a little pain—not too much, but just enough that Coil could handle it. Tec lowered his free hand to his lover’s crotch and rubbed the hardness hidden inside his clothing. Coil bucked his hips and groaned.

  “Get them off,” Teclis ordered. “I want you, but we’ll have to make this quick.”

  Teclis stood to his full height as Coil stood and opened his pants. Tec’s mouth watered upon seeing his mate’s long, thick cock bob and twitch against Coil’s abs as if excited to be free.

  “Computer, a tube of lube,” Teclis barked out. He raised his eyes toward Coil’s, wishing he could see his eyes rather than the human contacts.

  Coil turned around and reached for the lube that sat in the replicator. Before he had time to turn back around, Teclis pounced. He opened his own pants, allowing them to drop to his knees, and gripped hold of Coil’s hips and held him still. He leaned over, his chest laying over Coil’s back.

  “Let me,” he said, nipping Coil’s ear gently. Tec didn’t miss the slight shiver that went through Coil.

  Grabbing the tube, Teclis opened the lid and squeezed a small amount into his palm. Lowering his hand, he grabbed hold of Coil’s hard shaft and slid his hand up and down. Coil groaned and jerked his hips in rhythm with Tec’s movement as his breathing began to get choppy.

  Tec slid his hand up and down Coil’s long, thick, hard shaft. Coil wiggled his hips more and more. “Tecccc.” Coil groaned. “Please. I’m so close already.”

  Tec’s lips raised to one side in a crooked grin. “You want to come, spark?” he asked.

  “Yes. Yes. Yes.”

  Teclis reached his other hand around and cupped Coil’s heavy sac and gently caressed it, all the while beginning to pump the hardness in his hands a little faster. He nibbled and kissed Coil’s shoulder, listening to Coil’s pants.

  “Shall I tell you what we will do with our little female?” Tec whispered into Coil’s ear. Even to his own ears, his voice was deep and gravelly. “We will suck her tiny clit into our mouths. Press our fingers deep into her tight holes and pump them in and out of her honey until she begs us to let her come. Then, while you take her pussy, I’m going to fuck her from behind, just like you’re going to let me do in a moment. We’re going to spread our seed deep inside her womb until it takes and she carries our youngling. We will have yarns of fucking our sweet, little mate, hard and deep, until we all come over and over, expelling our energy into each other. Every. Single. Time.”

  Coil groaned even louder, and his hands reached out behind him, cupping Teclis’s butt. Teclis knew his mate was close to coming, his shaft impossibly hard in his hand. He cupped the end of Coil’s dick and moved his hand faster. Coil’s balls tightened in Tec’s hand as Coil let out a long moan and shoved his pelvis forward. Coil’s cock twitched, and warm semen filled Tec’s hand.

  “Remain still,” Teclis ordered Coil when his spark made to move.

  Teclis cupped his own erection and lubricated his shaft with Coil’s semen. Once he was lubed enough, Teclis pushed his hips forward and lined his cock up with Coil’s backside. Slowly, he nudged inside of Coil’s hole, pushing past his lover’s tight ring of muscle. Once the head of his dick was inside, Teclis propelled forward until his hips bumped against Coil’s arse

  Tec closed his eyes briefly at the delectable feeling of his dick sliding inside of Coil’s tight backside. Both of them groaned.

  Teclis was too far gone to take things slowly. Opening his eyes, he watched himself thrust in and out of Coil’s arse. Over and over. Again and again. The sound of skin belting against skin filled the air. Two males’ grunts and groans joined it.

  “She wants us,” Teclis moaned. Happiness filled him knowing Crimson wanted them. “She’s coming home to be ours.”

  Coil raised a hand over his head. Knowing what he was seeking, Teclis once again lowered over Coil’s back and aided his friend’s hand to the back of his neck. Teclis touched his own iungo to Coil’s and thrust his hips hard and fast against Coil’s body and came. His seed jetted out of his cock, along with his energy through his iungo. Teclis shot his seed deep inside his long-time friend and lover.

  Together, they groaned. Spent and relieved, Teclis slumped over Coil’s back, laying light kisses across his damp skin.

  “We need to find a bathroom and get cleaned up.” Coil chuckled. “How long do you think that doctor will be?”

  Chapter 13

  For the next few days, Teclis and Coil remained hidden from the humans’ sight, only appearing at Crimson’s side when they disappeared. Two female detectives came and went after obtaining Crimson’s statement and details about her relationship with Luke. They asked about the equipment that Luke had said he had no idea was on his boat, but Crimson simply played the ‘I have no idea, he kept me in the dark on everything’ card. They departed seemingly happy enough that everything was in order. They left with a contact number Crimson could be reached at in case they needed to talk to her again. The police guard, however, remained until it was time for Crimson to leave the hospital because of all the reporters outside.

  Eventually, much to everybody’s relief, the doctors released Crimson into her sister’s care, and she was allowed to go home. A plan had to be set in place because so many nosey parkers were still camped outside the hospital waiting for news on Crimson. So, when finally, Crimson was discharged both she and Amelia walked into their designated pick-up spot—a disabled toilet. Pressing her comm, Amelia told the men in the pod on the roof that they were ready to leave. There wasn’t much room for the two of them let alone Teclis and Trian who zapped in a moment later.

  “You ready to go home?” Teclis asked, wrapping an arm around her waist and pulling her to him. He cringed when she winced. “Sorry,” he said, releasing her. In his eyes she could see his fear that he might have injured her more. “I can’t wait for Hover to heal you,” he said and placed a light kiss on her lips.

  “Me either.” She chuckled but stopped with a wince when a sharp pain shot through her.

  “So, are you ready?”

  “Am I ever.” She grinned up at him. She couldn’t wait to get out of the damn hospital with its terrible food and smell.

  Trian already had Amelia in his arms and was kissing her like there was no tomorrow. Crimson ached for Teclis to do the same with her, but with her ribs still broken, she knew if she so much as cringed, he’d release her.

  “I’m so glad you came down with them,” Amelia said to Trian, cupping his face. “I’ve missed you so much.”

  “As I you, me unum. And before you ask, Faith is fine.”

  Crimson didn’t miss the brief flash of sadness that flickered through Amelia’s eyes. Trian’s own eyes swirled with his emotion; he didn’t wear the human contacts that Teclis and Coil wore in case they were seen by anybody while they were on Earth.

  “I’ve missed her too. It’s a shame she couldn’t be with me, but with her being able to zap already, she could have ended up anywhere looking for you. Plus, we couldn’t take the risk of her being seen doing it.”

  While Crimson had been in the hospital she and Amelia had gotten to know each other really well. And Amelia had also shared quite a bit of additional information about the Gracians. Including the day Faith surprised them when, at only a few weeks old, she had zapped for the first time. Apparently, children weren’t normally able to do that until they were at least two years old. One morning, Amelia had fallen asleep after feeding Faith only to be woken by a surprise comm from Trian, who had received the shock of his life when Faith had suddenly appeared in his arms. It would seem their little girl was going to be a daddy’s girl being several times after her initial zap, she’d done it again and again.

  “You will see her soon. I think she has missed you just as much.”

  “As I said before, you didn’t have to stay with me,” Crimson said as guilt washed over her from keeping mother and daughter apart.

  “Don’t,” Amelia said, pointing a finger at Crimson. “We have gone through this. I wanted to be here for you. So shush.”

  Crimson sighed, knowing full well she wouldn’t win the fight.

  “Let’s get our females home. It would be unwise to be seen and even harder to explain why we are all standing in this bathroom,” the captain said before zapping from the room to the waiting pod sitting on the hospital roof.

  “Ready?” Teclis asked Crimson again.

  “This is going to make me either sick or pass out, right?” she asked, wincing at the thought.

  “Yes, I’m afraid so.”

  She blew out a breath. “I’ve had worse I suppose.”

  Teclis carefully scooped her up. Everything went dark for a second with a feeling of weightlessness before the white walls of the pod appeared. She could see Trian sat with an unconscious Amelia in his arms with Hover waving a wand over her, concentration filling his face. It suddenly dawned on Crimson that not only was she not feeling sick, but she was awake too. Looking up at Teclis, she could see his shock.