Free Rebellion (A Titan Romance Book 1) by Rowan Bishop Page A

yours?”
    Never had he felt this urge to press himself onto a woman before. In truth, he never knew this type urge was so powerful. “That’s what I was thinking. I’m going out with the first one.”
    “Funny, I was planning on doing the same thing.”
    “Okay.”
    “Okay.”
    “Feel clean?”
    Akyra laughed awkwardly. “Captain?”
    “Yes?”
    “Excuse me, I’m going to get a squad together. If… if I could get… around you?”
    This is what it’s like to be horny for someone, is it! From her red face, it seems she feels it, too.

    * * *
    B y the time they were in the lanes of the squalid ghetto, armed to the teeth and ready for action, Raemus was simply furious at himself.
    What am I, a young Titan pledge at indoctrination? I’ve seen naked women before! I’ve shared showers with women before. Many women! I’ve been aroused… But this!
    He groaned to himself and slapped his helmet a few times.
    Levi cut into his thoughts over the comm. “Captain? Banshees want to move up and take the lead.”
    Raemus held up a fist to halt his squad along a row of squat broken-down shop fronts. “What? No way.”
    “Captain, they say it’s their mission. They take the lead.”
    “Noble. But no. We provide protection. We take the lead.”
    There was a pause, and Raemus motioned for the group to begin moving forward again. Before moving himself, he peaked back down the narrow lane to see the six Banshees in their red armor, also hugging the shopfronts, behind his own guys.
    Akyra’s voice broke in just as he saw one of the red Banshees lean out into the lane to see him. It was Akyra, of course, breaking radio discipline to get her point across. “Hey Raemus! I don’t need any macho tactics. We can take lead just fine.”
    “Akyra, I know this town a little more than you.”
    “Maybe that’s a fault. It’s my mission, big guy .”
    Raemus actually gulped at her emphasis on big .
    Comical. Back in the showers I was trying to tease her, but I’ve only gotten myself worked up. Fuck. I’m such a dumb bast—
    Just then a rocket streamed down the uneven lane and exploded against the ground halfway down their patrol line.
    Which meant it exploded right next to Akyra.
    “Get inside! Get inside!” Raemus shouted to everyone, and no one wasted time following his orders. Titans and Banshees kicked in doors and windows, diving out of the open area.
    Raemus waited just long enough to activate his visor scanners and make an immediate reconnaissance of the shops further down the way. His equipment highlighted the faint residual stream of heat the rocket left behind. His eyes followed that line right to a dark, open window forty meters away.
    Do the unexpected. That’s the Titan way.
    He shouldered his weapon, activated his exo-muscle system mid-stride, and began a mad sprint toward the window. He attempted to zigzag as he ran, but his focus on destroying whoever was in that window muddled his ability to follow basic tactics.
    Instead, he fired continually as he ran, round after round of explosives in and around the window.
    Metal, glass, and dust flew about the rising firestorm he created, and by the time he arrived, there was no longer a window. Or a wall.
    He realized he might have just ran into a trap, but he was experiencing a fury greater than he’d ever felt before. Someone almost killed Akyra! And this someone needed to die. Right now. By me.
    He did swivel his head around, looking for signs of other hostiles poking out of doors or windows, but the lane seemed clear. For the moment.
    By the time he edged his helmet around the burning exterior of the crumbling shop, Levi, Tomohiko, and Aejax had raced to him, giving him the cover he needed.
    Inside, the place was destroyed, flames covering all the broken and scattered furniture. Among countless shoes and sandals, all blackened and ablaze, lay the broken, burning body of a man still clinging to a rocket launcher. His body was bent horribly and his lips were tight in