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to do that. If he pushed too much and messed things up, then his people would suffer, and it wasn’t worth it to have that happen.
    No matter how much he wanted to see how pretty she would be under him.
    Apparently luck was in his favor, though because heat flared in her eyes and she leaned down a bit, searching his face. “I don’t do this either,” Kayla murmured. “Almost never, in fact.”
    “First time for everything?” Khaos tried, mouth curving into a smile as he looked at her.
    A lovely flush colored her cheeks, and he was pleased to feel it under his hand, thumb stroking across her cheekbone.
    “That’s really tempting,” she breathed back, and he could see her struggling with the decision. Honestly, it was flattering that she was even considering it, since she definitely didn’t seem to be the type to jump into bed (or onto the couch) with just anyone.
    They didn’t know each other all that well yet, but Khaos was definitely hoping that there was a way he could change that.
    Even if nothing happened right away, or at all, she was definitely the kind of person that he wanted to get closer to, which was surprising because usually he wasn’t the kind of person who was interested in things like that at all. Flings and casual affairs were easier for him in general, and more fun, usually, but there was something about Kayla that just made him want to keep her close and keep her safe.
    To make her his.
    “I shouldn’t… I have to work in the morning,” she murmured, and there was real regret in her voice. “Can we...take a rain check on this?”
    He frowned, turning the unfamiliar term over in his head, and his arched eyebrow seemed to be enough to let her know that she had no idea what he was talking about.
    Kayla smiled and shook her head. “It means that we’ll come back to this. When I don’t have to get up in a few hours and go into the office. I have Saturday off, and we can do something that isn’t work for a change. If you want?”
    “I want,” Khaos said, and before she could pull away he was tugging her down into a kiss. It was just a brushing of their lips against each other, warm breath mingling for a few seconds before he let her go and she pulled back.
    “Oh,” she breathed.
    “Yeah,” Khaos echoed because there wasn’t much else to say.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter 6: In the Shadows
     
    “Sir, we’ve located him.”
    The voice was cold and almost metallic sounding, consonants clipped and sharp in the gloom of the room.
    The home of the Vekosh was harsh and dark, located just on the edge of the desert and dark most of the day. It was perfect for a race of creatures who skulked in shadows and thrived in darkness, hunting and hurting those who needed the light to flourish.
    “Where?” rasped the king of them, a large creature with scaled skin and red eyes. His bulk was squeezed onto his throne, a chair made of iron and bone, as cold and harsh as the man himself. Clawed fingers dug into the armrests of the throne as he surveyed the minion who had come bowing and scraping in.
    The Kaspersi were like a plague to his people. Taking all of the more fertile areas and turning them into havens of technology and growth. They spread like fungus, growing faster than the Vekosh could wipe them out and leaving only the ruins of what they left behind for his people to try to salvage into something worth having.
    The only way to overcome it would be to wipe out the Kaspersi, the most populous of all the races that called Blessini home, and Nambroc, the king, was salivating at the chance to do it.
    But first he had to hunt down their so called champion. Perhaps killing their beacon of hope would do wonders for lowering the morale of the Kaspersi and make them easier to pick off. Once they were all wiped out, no one would be able to stop the Vekosh from claiming whatever land they wanted.
    Nambroc looked down his nose at his underling, waiting for him to report on the whereabouts of the