Free The Power of Fate (The Triad Series Book 5) by Kate Pearce

seen together for a while.” She sat next to him and stroked his golden hair. “Will you be okay?”
    “If you leave me a weapon with which to defend myself, I will contrive.” He took her hand, the pale green of her skin stark against his more golden tones. “What do you need to do?”
    “Get us some new clothes for one. We both look and smell like we’ve been in an explosion.”
    He chuckled, the sound so rich it made her nipples harden. His gaze dropped to her T-shirt and he cupped her breast. “Are you quite certain that you have to go right now?”
    She removed his hand. “Yes. I’ll be a quick as I can.”
    Rekk contemplated the locked door and whether it was worth getting up before Mya returned. He was strangely reluctant to wash her scent from his skin and hoped to lure her back into bed anyway. He fingered the weapon she had given him and ran through the list of instructions to make it work. Apparently, now she had tuned it to his frequencies, it would only fire for him and for her. He should perhaps have mentioned that he had never used such a weapon before… The idea that you could kill so many times and so quickly didn’t sit well with him. Where was the honor in that?
    A sound outside made him sit up. Before he had a chance to do much more, the door opened and a dark-haired man came through, his weapon pointed right as Rekk’s head. He looked like he knew exactly how to kill a man.
    “What have you done with my mate?”
    Rekk put his weapon on the pillow. There was no point in pretending he would fire it now, and the male in front of him was far too intriguing to kill. “I will not harm you.”
    “As if you could. I’ll give you ten seconds to give me some answers, and then I’ll start shooting bits off—starting with your cock, seeing as I can smell my woman all over you.”
    Rekk put one hand over himself. “I am rather partial to my cock, and Mya seems to like it as well.”
    “Which makes no sense, seeing as she’s mine.”
    “A Pavlovan citizen can mate with whomever he or she pleases until a permanent Triad is formed. Has that changed?” Rekk raised an eyebrow. “Has she erred?”
    The male didn’t even react as he shut the door behind him. “Your opinion isn’t required. Where’s Mya?”
    “She will be back momentarily.” Rekk gestured at the chair beside the desk. “Perhaps you should take a seat and await her return?”
    “Perhaps I should shoot you in the head and walk away.”
    “And leave Mya to find me dead? That would not reflect well on either of us.”
    “Particularly you.” The male sat down and glared at Rekk. He had hard eyes and a lean face with slanting cheekbones. “Why are you being so calm and reasonable?”
    “You would prefer it if I panicked and attempted to shoot you ?” Rekk shrugged. “I have to assume you are telling the truth, and that I have nothing to fear from you.”
    “Then you’re wrong.”
    “If you had been sent by the Etruscans to end my existence, I would be dead by now. You came for Mya’s sake.” He paused, his eye on the weapon that was still leveled at his head. “You must be Orin.”
    “She told you about me?”
    “She said she was mated to a male called Orin. That is all.” Rekk swung his legs over the side of the bed, and his guest tensed. “I am not going to do anything more threatening than take a shower. If that is permitted.”
    “You can stay right there until Mya gets back. If she doesn’t get back, we’ll be talking again. Otherwise shut the heeze up.”
    “As you wish.”
    Gods…
    Orin tried not to gawk as the most beautiful man he had ever seen outside a porn vidscreen sank back onto the bed and clasped his hands in his lap. His skin was golden, as was his hair; his muscle definition was that of a pro athlete, and Orin reckoned he was way taller than average.
    No wonder Mya had fucked him.
    He shifted restlessly on the hard seat. And it wasn’t just that the male was stunning, his mind was… Orin