Tansy's Titan: Cosmos' Gateway Book 3 Read Free Page B

“You think she could be your bond mate, don’t you?”
    “I hate it when you do that, you know?” Mak grunted out. “Yes, I know she is my bond mate. It is the only explanation for my reaction to her image.”
    “How can you know?” Terra asked curiously. “Borj felt the same way about the female he has gone to retrieve. How do you know without the mating rite ceremony?”
    Mak shrugged his shoulder before glancing out the window again. “I cannot stop thinking of her. I see her in my dreams and there is an ache deep inside me to see her, touch her that is eating me alive,” Mak turned to look at his younger sister tenderly. “I need her and I plan to have her.”
    Terra shivered as she heard the thread of cold determination in Mak’s voice. She wondered vaguely if a male would ever feel that same cold determination to need and want her. She had attended several mating rites ceremonies over the last few years hoping to meet her own bond mate without success. She often wondered if she was destined to remain alone.
    It would not be a great sacrifice as long as I have my research, Terra thought.
    It was just that since she met Tink, her brother’s bond mate, she was more curious. Tink was so different from any female Terra had met before and her physical responses to J’kar often made Terra blush when she was around them. Terra had even noticed a difference in her parents since J’kar brought Tink to their world. Her mother seemed to have a glow about her and her father… Terra shook her head in frustration. She did not understand what was happening and as a healer and a scientist it was very frustrating to have so many questions and so few answers.
    “Then, you must bring her here,” Terra finally said.
    “Father and the council have denied my request. That is why I am here. I am going to tell father I am going to retrieve the female, with or without his permission,” Mak practically snarled out.
    Terra laughed, shaking her head. “That is not the right way to approach father.”
    “What do you suggest then?” Mak bit out in frustration.
    “Ask for mother’s help,” Terra said with a gleam in her eye. “She is learning much from Tink. That is how Borj was able to go. Mother ‘persuaded’ father,” Terra said softly laying an understanding hand on Mak’s arm. “Ask her. She will help you.”
    Mak hated having to rely on anyone for help. He normally just did what he wanted but in this case he knew he would need assistance. If he did not have his father and the council’s permission than even if Tansy was his bond mate, they could deny his claim which would be a death sentence to both him and the female he wanted. Mak ran his hand over the back of his neck and looked out the window again. His eyes widened as he saw his mother coming out from under one of the huge trees. She faltered a little, her hair was half up and half down and her dress was… ripped? Mak jerked up closer to the window thinking his mother had been violated by another when he saw his father hurrying out from under the same trees. He was fastening the front of his pants and his shirt looked like it was inside out. Mak watched in wonder as his father came up behind his mother grabbing her and pressing passionate kisses to her neck. His wonder turned to outright astonishment when he saw one of his mother’s hands stroke the front of his father while the other brought his head down to hers.
    “I told you,” Terra said with a curious smile on her face. “Ever since Tink came here they have been acting different.”
    Mak realized he was hard as a rock suddenly. Embarrassed for the first time in his life, he didn’t want his sister to see that he was extremely turned on by watching his parent's passionate embrace. Instead, he gritted his teeth and nodded to her before leaving quickly.
    He would need to go beat the shit out of some of the new warriors in a long training session, he thought as he ground his teeth together at the