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Annas let out a cry and clutched her stomach with her hands. She dropped her sword and it clattered to the floor.
She was the eldest of us, the most brainwashed and the most abused. We never had love for our foster father. We knew what he was but we were too afraid to speak up or fight back. His hold on us was absolute.
And now he was gone.
Annas threw her arms around Tus and buried her face into his bloodied armor. Rarr did the same on the other side, his huge bulging arms enveloping them both.
Tus cocked his head to one side and caught my eye.
“Go,” he said.
I felt uneasy leaving them behind. They were all the family I’d ever known. and I wondered if I would ever see them again.
I cast one glance back at Krial, one of the last of his kind—if not the last—and he had already turned to dust as that same invisible wind swept across him and disintegrated his body, turning even his bones to dust.
Harper carried me across the outstretched arm of the shuttlecraft launch pad. A stiff wind knocked us stumbling to one side and almost pitched us over the edge to the writhing sand dunes below.
I limped half a dozen steps toward the shuttlecraft before my bones cracked and snapped into place, the muscles reforming. I grunted at the pain and became too heavy for Harper to carry.
I eased her back and moved under my own strength as we crossed the final few yards to the shuttlecraft. I was almost my old self by the time I reached the shuttlecraft’s open hatch door.
I braced myself with a hand to its sturdy outer shell and peered back at the supervisor’s windows and the only trio of family members I had ever known.
Tus waved a hand and watched as we climbed aboard.
We might have had our differences but I wished them all the best in the future. They deserved it after everything we’d been through.
I slapped a hand on the controls and the hatch door drew shut.
Harper checked on the baby that sat nestled in a drawer she’d removed from the wall and placed a folded-up blanket beneath him as a cushion.
His skin was shiny with health and his fat flabby limbs flailed weakly with exhaustion.
I knew how he felt.
Harper sat in the co-pilot seat.
“You said you knew somewhere we could go?” she said.
I fell into the seat beside her. I gave Computer the coordinates to the one planet I had ever fallen in love with and the ship prepared for takeoff.
“Things are going to get a lot better now,” I said.
“They’d better,” Harper said with a small smile. “Or you’ll be in trouble.”
The ship took off and raced up into the sky, the igniting embers of a new morning giving way to the darkness of space and the infinite flickering lights of the universe spread before us.
I reached over and took Harper by the hand.
My rescuer, my love, my savior.
My fated mate.
