“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.” I set the controls to autopilot and set the alarms to sound through every level of the ship. Free of the harness, I stomped into the corridor and closed my eyes, allowed my ancient Everian Hunter blood to surge to life inside me like a wild thing. Normally, I equated this feeling with a need for battle. To hunt. Track. Kill.

Not this time.

I stumbled into the wall as the primal urge to find and claim my mate made my head spin. She had challenged me to a hunt, which I now realized was the most dangerous thing she could have done. I wasn’t sure I could maintain control once I found her, not with the Hyperion savagery tearing at me to…take what was mine.

Several seconds passed as I gained a modicum of control, fought off the dizziness and the shock.

I stood, breathing in her scent, already searching for her as I did what she had asked and counted out to twenty in a loud voice.

I would find her.

I would strip her naked.

I would fuck her until she knew exactly who she belonged to, who she taunted.

My fangs dripped in anticipation.

7

Abby

Biting my lip to hold back a giggle—half glee, half fear—I watched through the ceiling’s air duct panel as Cormac reached under a storage chest and found the panties I’d left there for him, smeared with wet goodness from my very aroused body.

His roar of frustration made my eardrums rattle, and I barely held back a full-blown laugh.

“I know you are in the ducts, female! Get out of there now!”

Nope. Not going to happen. He was too small to fit, and I had access to almost every room on the ship. I’d left my shirt in what was obviously a bedroom—and borrowed a very large t-shirt from a drawer so I didn’t have to crawl through the ducts naked. My bra I abandoned in a storage room filled with big boxes strapped to the floor with harnesses that made the one I’d been wearing look like it was for a baby. I’d left one sock in a second smaller sleeping area with stacked beds that looked like crew quarters and the other in a room full of weapons.

I was headed toward the engine or power area now. The buzzing sound caused by whatever made this ship run was getting louder the farther I went.

Cormac growled. I didn’t dare move as he lifted my pale purple panties to his nose and breathed deep.

My pussy clenched at his obvious pleasure. I dared a glance at his lower half and saw that his cock was rock hard and the bulge clearly visible beneath his black uniform pants.

God. He was going to ravish me.

Hell yeah. He was going to RAVISH me.