Fate Unexpected (Earth Defender Book 1) by Marisa Chenery

the mountain. And they’d made love at least three times a day.
Rune couldn’t seem to get enough of her, and she felt the same way about him.
Being in his arms with his cock buried deep inside her made her feel whole. He
was the best thing to have happened to her after the red rain.
    “Very true,” she said with a smile. “I guess I need to learn about
you Dracans. Though right now isn’t the time.” Kylah nodded toward the turned,
who still bounced off the field while snarling and growling.
    “Will you give me my gun so I can help?”
    “Fine. You win. You can have it and take some out. I want to lead
them away from the camp before we do, though. Let’s keep the mess away from
where we live. I guess we’ll have to burn the bodies afterward. I’m not burying
them. And leaving them where they fall isn’t an option.”
    “I agree.”
    Kylah took off Rune’s gun belt and handed it to him, which he
strapped around his waist. She handed him the wrist control too. “You might as
well have all your things back. I have another option to make you stay at camp
besides keeping you inside the perimeter field.”
    “And that would be?”
    “Making love to you until you can’t move.”
    Rune chuckled. “I think I prefer that.”
    She unsheathed her sword and then gently slapped him on the ass with
the flat of it. “I figured you would. Now let’s get rid of these turned so we
can go hunting. I want to try out my new bow and arrows and see if I can bag us
a deer. I’m getting sick of the canned food.”
    Rune drew his gun. “I’m ready whenever you are.”
    “Okay. Once you drop the field, I’m going to grab you and take off
running at my speed to lure them away from the camp. They’ll follow us.”
    “I know you’re stronger than me, but it’s still a bit of a blow to
my pride to have a small thing like you literally pick me up and run away with
me. I’m used to being the strong one.”
    “You’ll get over it.” Kylah led Rune a little farther down the
perimeter line. “Drop the field now.”
    Rune pushed the button on the wrist control to do as she said. Kylah
quickly wrapped her arm around his waist and set off at a fast run, but not too
fast that the turned wouldn’t try to follow. She smiled at the sound of them
giving chase.
    She slowed and then came to a stop after they were well away from
the camp. Rune had to catch his balance as she let him go. Kylah turned and
kept her focus on where the turned would appear. She didn’t have very long to
wait for them to catch up.
    Kylah closed the distance between the first turned to appear and
herself. She didn’t hesitate to stab him through the heart with her sword. As
she closed in on the second one, she heard the sound of Rune firing his alien
gun. A beam of light shot past her and hit a third turned. The woman jerked,
then was instantly turned to ash.
    She put on a burst of speed and eliminated two more as he ended the
final one with a blast from his gun. Kylah looked around to make sure no more
turned were around. There weren’t any. It’d just been the six who’d ended up at
the camp.
    Kylah crossed over to Rune. “You never told me your gun could do
that. Kill and make the target into ash at the same time.”
    He smiled. “You never asked. I’ll take care of the ones you killed
this time, but I’ll have to watch how many times I use that setting. It uses up
a lot of power, and I have no way of recharging the cell inside. My charger is
back at the other camp with Gada.”
    “Understood. Well, clean up my mess and then we’ll do some other
hunting.”
    After Rune finished with the four turned bodies, Kylah held on to
him and ran him to their camp. She released him in front of the fire pit. He
had to catch his balance again.
    “Next time, give me some warning,” Rune said with a shake of his
head.
    She shrugged. “I figured it’d be faster. I’ll get my bow and arrows,
then we can go.”
    Kylah went to the tent and ducked inside. She