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She dropped down onto the cot with a forlorn expression, then jumped back up when the hard surface made contact with her bottom She winced and rubbed her behind
Such a great pity she’d chosen to take advantage of the gravity failure to escape and ruin the trust he thought they’d brokered However, he’d forgiven her the inconvenience of the futile escapade, because once she’d gotten into the job of fixing the probleotten her nudity and see to herself as she worked He doubted she’d admit to the observation As for Mason, he’d not taken his eyes off her shapely legs and flowing hair
His erection was so he’d swiftly had to dampen dohen he’d tossed her over his lap to complete her punishment
It had given hi, which folloiftly on from the first one Her tanned ass would take a while to cool down What he had taken delight in seeing was her neat form laid out across his lap She possessed the attributes of a dancer or athlete with lithe ritted his teeth in a deter the cavity search It wouldn’t happen again
Having deposited her in the cell, and with nothing else to say other than to remind her that the interco of importance, he locked the door with his thumbprint
Mason lay on his bed and iined Jade wasn’t his prisoner It wasn’t helpful Back on his icy planet, if he hadn’t joined up and become a marshal, he would have followed the practices of his Stratum and be married by now His slave-ould have been chosen from his Stratum, whose women were meek and tirelessly obedient and complemented his own innate dominance
This very Stratum system hat the Novador Federation wanted to i order and a steady stream of new recruits to its armies Kalamar, the first planet chosen, had refused to indoctrinate its people into the systeoes that had cut the planet off froency
Jade believed she was helping the stricken planet, whereas Mason knew her actions only prolonged their inevitable defeat The Stratum system for all its faults was the best solution to the deterioration of law and order His Stratu alphas, had filled many leadership roles in the Federation It was his choice to enroll as a space marshal and be part of a teaerous criminals to the justice courts Jade’s comment about bounty hunters especially riled him Only the best alphas made it into the ranks of raced enforcers or mercenaries
Sleep escaped him He sat at his desk andin froht his eye and he read it through twice
Callo sighted leaving Kala alone Expected to arrive at SP Gamma in two days
Mason rubbed his hands together Callo was one of his top three fugitives Rumor had it that he planned to visit the spaceport to see his lover and therefore traveled alone to lessen his chances of being caught However, Mason’s infor Kalamar in a stolen shuttlecraft
Without knowledge of the precise route, Mason would have to weave back and forth between the planet and the spaceport until he intercepted the fugitive With luck, in a couple of days, the scu would be frozen in stasis
The screen flickered, the lights die of failing Mason cursed and thu he needed
Chapter Four