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kicked in. He could feel the adrenaline running through his veins.
    “Ten is plenty.” A different female
spoke this time. Her voice filled with relief.
    So there were at least ten guards.
    “I think even the large one would
have trouble with ten Cestori security guards,” the first female spoke again.
    He could sense movement in the room
and knew it was time to act. The medical unit he was attached to started making
noises, along with others on either side of him. His friends must be here as
well. Jumping up he landed on the end of an exam bed. He took in the fact that
Dak, Tae, and Arik were also here with him. Where was Drake? They’d been on the
bridge of The Maxon together.
    A golden blur swept past him. Dak was on the move. Then the red shirt of Tae
blurred past him and the blue one of Arik. He heard fighting coming from the
other room. Still, he remained where he
stood. There was something here in this room drawing him, calming him. What
could it be?
    His gaze swept around. A small
brown-haired female had screamed and collapsed on the floor. That left a
platinum-haired, buxom figured, small female and …her.
    “Computer transmit,” the blonde
yelled. “This is the Captain—”
    The small one was the captain? He
almost laughed but wanted her to stop transmitting so he moved toward her. He
knew his eyes would be glowing an electric shade of blue and hoped this would
intimidate her. Growling menacingly, he reached for her.
    “Leave her alone,” The taller,
black-haired hellcat jumped between him and the blonde.
    “Vareen. Don’t—” the blonde had
stumbled and fallen. From her prone spot on the ground, she tried to intervene.
    “I wouldn’t hurt the small female.”
Mica couldn’t help that his voice came out deep and rumbled around this small
room. Seeing his friends return through the doorway he asked, “Dak? Tae? Arik? Is
this area secured?”
      “Yes, Mica. There were only ten guards.” Dak
found this amusing.
    “How many dead Tae?”
    “You even need to ask? No need to
be insulting.”
    “I only got to watch.” Arik grumped
with laughter in his voice.
    “How is it insulting?” the one
named Vareen snapped at him.
    Mica had never seen eyes this
purple color before. They flashed with anger and an answering spark flared to life inside him.
    “You’ve killed innocent guards.
They were only protecting us.” The black-haired beauty wanted to strike out at
him, he could sense it.
    Before she’d finished her sentence,
Mica stepped up until he was pressed against her. To his delight, she didn’t back away. Instead, the
little fireball stood her ground and glared up at him. Mica wanted to laugh. At
his most easygoing he was intimidating, when trying to get others to back down,
it had always worked. Here was one small female standing up to him. It was
unheard of.
    “I like this one, ” he announced, and then bent his head to
breathe deeply at Vareen’s neck. Her scent filled his lungs and imprinted on
every cell in his body. He couldn’t get enough.
    Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her friend draw her weapon up. The
weapon would be useless. He snatched Vareen as if weightless and tossed her over
his shoulder.
    “Let me go,” she yelled.
    Mica put a hand against her back to
keep her from falling in her struggles against his shoulder.
    The small blonde jumped up and
pointed her weapon at him.
    “Cali, No. Don’t shoot,” Vareen begged
her friend.
    His friends simply growled low in their throats at the weapon but didn’t move.
      “Let my friend go or I will kill you.”
    Mica had to hand it to her. She was
almost as brave as her friend. If not for the shaking in her hands, he almost
believed she’d do it.
    Another flash entered the room and Mica
tensed.
    “Leave this one.”
    So Drake had survived as well. This
was a good day.
    His friend’s stance over the small
blonde told all of them that this was someone special to him. Mica didn’t stick
around to find out the details.