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had the thought that he’d been in a constant state of
amazement since this passenger arrived.
    She turned to the doctor
“You can release him now.”
    “Not until someone
tells me what the hell just happened,” the captain said, and the doctor nodded.
    “She broke the link,”
Mac said, the amazement in his voice clear.  He was looking around as if he had
never seen anything before today.  “Let me out of this.”  He was laughing.
    “What link?”
    “I’ll explain it all,
just let me up.  I’m not going to hurt anyone.”
    “Truth,” she said
meeting the captain’s eyes.
    “Let him up.”
    The doctor did, and
then stepped back when Mac whirled around the room.  Laughing.  No one had ever
seen anything like it.  He kissed the girl, kissed the doctor, and then tried
to kiss the captain, and thought better of it.  He stood at attention instead. 
“Sir, you know I have been hiding from Warrung for years.”
    “I am aware that you go
into a rage every time you hear his name, yes.”
    “Fucking bastard hired
me to do a job for him, I was injured and he found out I was half Bruha.” He
bowed to the girl who bowed her head back.  “Piece of shit had the doctor adjust
my DNA so that he was imprinted on me.  When I woke up, he tried to make me his
goddamn sex toy.  I fought him off before he could fuck me and complete the
claiming, cut his pretty face for him, too.”  He looked more than satisfied at
the thought.  “I’ve been running ever since, and I’ve felt him inside my head
all this time, laughing because he knows he’ll eventually find me and finish
what he started.  But whatever she did,” he looked at her again, “it changed,
cut the cord.  I could feel his fury and then nothing.  He’s gone.”  He laughed
again, picking her up and twirling her around before smacking his lips to hers
again.  Then he put her down.  “I owe you big.”
    “You owe me nothing, but
you do owe her.”  She looked beyond them and all eyes turned to Sera who was
once again standing in the doorway.  She wiped at her tears, quickly hiding her
pain behind a smile and then she turned and walked away.  He looked from the
girl to Sera and back again.  Then he twirled her around again.  Placing her on
the floor, he turned and bolted down the hallway yelling Sera’s name.
    “I am extremely
confused,” the doctor said, rubbing his head and looking first at the captain
and then the girl.
    “Sera is Mac’s mate. 
He knows it; that’s why he stayed on this ship, but he kept his distance
because of this Warrung.  Now he does not have to,” she explained, a smile on
her face.
    “Shit.  I don’t think I
like this,” the captain grumbled.
    “You don’t,” she said,
making the doctor laugh, “but once they have had sex, Mac will be her mate. 
Her Bruha mate and nothing short of death will separate them, now that the
imprint is gone.”
    “How do you know this?”
the doctor asked.
    “I know what Mac knows.” 
She shrugged.  “Unlike your computer, he seems to have a great deal of
information on the Bruha.”
    “Being one himself.”
    “Yes.”
    “Can you cut your own
connection the same way?”
    “I cannot even see the
connection you speak of, how would I cut it?”
    The captain was looking
at her, his eyes as usual giving nothing away. His mind was closed to her as
well; since he was the only one on the ship who was, she assumed there was
something about him specifically.  It was calming, but at the same time, it
left too many possibilities open.
    Lore’s voice came over
the line.  “Captain, please report to the bridge.”
    He tapped his icom
device.  “What is it now?”
    “We just received a
subspace warrant.”
    “Fuck!”  The captain
turned and headed for the bridge without a word to anyone else.  “Direct?”
    “No, sir, on the
general.”
    “That’s something
anyway.”
    “Not really.”
    “I’m on my way.”

CHAPTER FOUR
    The meeting took place
an hour later