Passionate Desire by Barbara Donlon Bradley Page B

you wish me to do this? The sooner I run them the better off we are.” He found Storm one of the most annoying men he had ever met.
    “Our ship has everything you need.” Storm scooped up his mate and headed out the door.
    “It’s her safety that makes him act this way,” said his sister. “I promise he can be quite charming when he’s not worried about her.”
    “I sure hope so because so far I’m not impressed. He’s rude and obnoxious and I don’t see what she sees in him.”
    “Trust me they belong together,” Toki laughed. “Come on, if we don’t keep up he just might come back after us.”
    “Let me make sure I have everything I need and wipe the computer clean so the grouch won’t want to blow up my place.”
    “Follow first, then gather your things.” She grabbed his hand and pulled him behind her. “Have no idea where he parked the ship and he could be just obnoxious enough not to tell us.”
    “But he needs me.”
    “I know my brother, believe me he knows ways around that.” She took off at a trot to catch up with him.
    He sighed and followed suit. The sleek black ship surprised him. He didn’t realize how close Storm and Heather had landed to his home without setting off a perimeter alarm. The interior was pretty simple, a large command chair, surrounded by consoles and screens. The screens were already on and Storm was barking out orders to the computer system.
    Heather didn’t look any better and that bothered him. She should have perked back up like she did the first time.
    This time Storm stayed out of his way, although he did glower at him and watch his every move. Everything he found centered around her mind. That seemed to be where the problem was. “Have you two been able to read each other’s thoughts?”
    Storm had been speaking to the doctor on the other ship. The moment Kuarto spoke he muted the sound and turned to face him. “Doctor, I know you don’t know Vespian protocol so I will let that go but please refrain from blurting any old thing out. We don’t know who we can trust.”
    “My heart.” Heather held up her hand which he took and placed on his heart. “You need to let him do his job his way. Remember how it was when you were trying to teach me all the little intricacies of Vespian protocol? It was a mess.”
    “Are you chastising me in front of people?” He said it with a smile, but Kuarto wasn’t sure how happy he was about it. His eyes had a hard edge.
    “You can punish me later, when we’re alone.”
    That brought a big smile to his face and all of his features softened. “Then I should let your brother get to work on healing you so I can have my way with you.” He turned back to the screen and finished his conversation with the doctor.
    She nodded. Keeping her voice soft so she wouldn’t be picked up by the communication system she answered, “Yes, we’ve been able to read each other’s minds to a point.”
    “Care to elaborate?” He gave her a shot which brought back the color to her face quickly.
    “We can sense what the other is feeling emotionally. Like I know when he’s really mad. We sense each other’s distress.” She paused for a moment as a soft blush filled her cheeks. “We’ve also have shared each other’s orgasm.”
    “But actually talked to each other?”
    “I don’t think so. I know I have said things to him and he seems to have heard me but we’ve never carried on a conversation except when I was kidnapped. Then he was able to enter my mind and be a part of the fake world Ialog had created for me.”
    “Really?” He looked up at Storm who had finished his conversation with the doctor and joined them. “How did you do that?”
    “My uncle. He’s our religious leader and he knew what to do. Drank some very rank potions he gave me and we had her ring to help me find her.” Storm gave the information under duress. “Why?”
    “I’m wondering if that will help us now. I’m not sure what is going on inside her head