Jorik
While I wished to carry Gabriela all the way to our—f**k yes, our—quarters, I wrapped my arm about her shoulders and held her closely to me instead, allowing her to walk.
I was confident the ReGen pod had healed her body, but seeing the wounds, what she’d gone through at the hands of the barbaric doctors on Earth, to have our baby… I wanted to go there and rip off more heads.
She’d been in pain. She’d been cut open and left to heal with nominal pain suppressants. She’d been alone. The knowledge that she’d carried and delivered Jori all by herself made my beast lower his head in shame, but it also made him fiercer than ever.
Gabriela was here. She was mine. She wasn’t going f*****g anywhere, and she would never suffer again.
When we came upon my entry, there stood Governor Rone a
