Ka'Cit's Haven - Page 200

That seemed to confuse them and they paused.

Good, he’d gotten their attention.

As the energy barrier around his property stopped zinging and he walked through, he glanced back at Nee-ya.

She was watching with wide eyes, but she didn’t seem afraid.

“I have a deal for you,” he said when he was close enough to the Hedgeruds for them to hear.

They glanced at each other before the one in front snorted and began to laugh.

“A deal? You think you can make a deal with us?”

Ka’Cit waited for them to finish and after a few moments, the laughter died as they glanced at each other, their gazes flicking nervously to him.

“You see that?” Ka’Cit jerked his head in the direction of the bodies of their dead comrades.

He’d taken down three before he’d realized that if he killed them all they would send a whole horde out to find Nee-ya.

So he’d let them capture him…but now…now she was here…she was his…and she was going to be safe.

The Hedgeruds’ eyes darted to the bodies.

“What about them?”

He’d always been surprised at the lack of remorse these beings had.

That’s why they were the perfect soldiers.

Ka’Cit gestured toward the dead Hedgeruds.

“I can guarantee you, if you even so much as look in my female’s direction, you’ll end up like that.”

They glanced at each other, their yellow gazes becoming filled with mirth, before they looked back at him.

“You’ve mated the hoo-man? You fool.” The Hedgerud in front looked down the path and at Nee-ya in the hover car. “She is property of the High Tas—.”

The blast was silent but it hit its mark.

Straight in the head.

The Hedgerud fell to his knees before he toppled over.

The other two glanced at each other as they pointed their weapons at him.

“Two against one, idiot,” one of them said.

Ka’Cit couldn’t help it. He chuckled.

“Do I look like I care?”

They glanced at the weapons then at each other again.

“I dare you to fire. You’ll be dead before you pull the trigger.”

They were clearly contemplating it, and it was apparent when they made their decision.

One guard’s finger flexed on the trigger and Ka’Cit fired, launching himself in the air as he did.