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footage his brethren had relayed to him, the cyborg homeland was more crowded and more noisy than Earth Minor. Structures reached into the sky.
    On this planet, trees softened the horizon, swaying in the wind. This was the place he’d envisioned when he was enslaved by the Humanoid Alliance. Peaceful and quiet.
    His female was more than he’d ever dared to dream of. He sat beside her on a great rock and watched, bemused, as she mumbled to herself, expressing her concerns about how much of the ash they should add to Windy’s soil, if the quality of ash was the same, what would happen if it wasn’t. She’d worry as much about their offspring.
    Green hooked one of his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him. He wanted to make those offspring immediately. Shelby’s beautiful face was lit by the flames. Her brown curls caressed her cheeks. The stars shining above them were reflected in her green eyes.
    His gaze dropped to her lips. Their first kiss had almost shorted his circuits. Would their second kiss do the same?
    “Is that your ship?” She pointed to a bright light in the sky. Her fingers were calloused, rough, fingers a male could trust to hold his family safe.
    Green looked upward. “Yes.”
    “They must expect you to return soon.” The sadness in her voice warmed his chest. She wanted him. He smelled her arousal. And she wished for him to stay with her.
    “They know why I’m here.” Green rubbed her arm, savoring her softness, her proximity. “Barrel and Zip envy me. You’re beautiful and intelligent and strong.”
    “They haven’t seen me.”
    “My friends saw you during our first transmission.” She didn’t know that. Barrel and Zip had remained silent while they spoke.
    “That transmission was scrambled.”
    Frag. She’d scrambled it intentionally. Knowing her intelligence level, he should have realized that. “We thought it was a malfunction and fixed it.”
    “Oh.” Her cheeks turned pink. She stared into the fire.
    Silence stretched. He continued to touch her, exploring the dimple near her elbow, the curve of her forearm, her delicate wrists.
    “I thought scrambling the transmission would keep me safe,” she whispered.
    “I will keep you safe,” he vowed.
    His little female had taken some precautions, but not enough. Her only defenses against attackers were a scrambled signal and the gun she’d used on him.
    Green understood why. She feared the future, refused to plan for it. His Shelby lived in the past, maintaining the ecosystem her predecessor had built, following his planting schedules, working the same fields. The elderly human male hadn’t considered the possibility of invasion.
    That responsibility was now Green’s.
    He’d spent most of his lifespan in battle, had once wondered if that would be all he’d experience. He’d considered ending his life.
    Now, he knew why he had fought, why he had endured the killing and the pain. The battles had prepared him to safeguard his female, her plants, her planet. His past suffering would ensure their future happiness.
    “I’d die before I allowed you to be harmed.”
    She turned her head and stared at him. “You’d risk death for the possibility of breeding with me?”
    “I’d battle the world for you and I want more than to breed with you.” Green traced each of her fingers from her pinkie to her thumb. “I want to fall asleep inside you, wake with you in my arms. I long to watch your seedlings grow into mature plants, harvest their bounty, enjoy another meal like the one you created this planet rotation.” The experience of eating food gathered straight from the source, ripened by the sun, had been wondrous, the flavors distinct. “I seek to be the male you choose to stand by your side, to assist you, to love you.”
    “Love?” She blinked, her eyelashes long and dark. “We met, in person, for the first time this planet rotation.”
    “I knew the moment I saw you.” He placed one of her palms over his heart.