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I'm not afraid of her shooting me. It'd probably just make me fall more head over heels for her. I do love a difficult female.
Jade just shakes her head at me. "Are you ever serious?" "Not if I can help it. That's Mathiras's job." "One of your brothers?" "Tallest one," I agree. "Looks constipated." "Probably because he's dealing with your shit," she quips. Aaaaand I'm in love all over again.
"That cat might be out of the bag. I don't know if I can trust you." "So…" I continue, not willing to give up. "How do I put that cat back in the bag? Also, what's a cat?"
Maybe what Jade has needed all her life is a big goofy idiot like myself who doesn't take anything too seriously and loves a good time. Maybe she needs someone like me so she can have a good time, too. So she can relax a little bit because she knows I've got her back. Yep. I think I'm exactly what this female needs. Now to make her realize it.
I forgot to ask him to show me that the gun works. I just took it on his word. God, I really am bad at being a badass.
"So where's my gun?" "You don't get one," Lord Straik snaps at her. "I don't even know if that keffing idiot should have one." "Probably not," Adiron says cheerily. He steers me around the long table and pulls out a chair for me, just like we're on a weird date of some kind. "I can't be trusted around weapons…or laundry." "Oddly specific," I murmur as I sit down.
"Mathiras didn't sex me, no," she says cheerily. "I asked him to tongue kiss me, but he declined. But if I feel a sexual urge, I'll probably ask him to service me." Now Mathiras is the one making strangled noises. He shifts in his seat, looking distinctly uncomfortable. "Uh. I would never touch her without her permission. Let's just set that on the table."
"Well shit, I didn't ask for tongue kisses," Adiron chimes in. "I should have asked." "You wouldn't have received," I say tartly and turn back to Helen.
A few years ago, the stupid Earth people caused a temporal rift to open up in their planet's atmosphere and everything got all keffed up. There's no “Earth” to return to…at least, not how she thinks it is. The planet's still there…just the people aren't.
The cities have fallen, the humans have more or less disappeared, and rumor has it that a few misplaced drakoni just run around burning everything.
"Is this your room?" "Why would I let you stay in my room?" "Because I let you stay in mine?" There's a boyish eagerness to his expression that turns my irritation into laughter. It's hard to get mad at a man who approaches the world with such puppyish enthusiasm. "Nice try, but no." "Can't blame me for trying." He shrugs, still
You're…" "If you say ‘family,’ I'm going to be very sad." "…like a really pesky neighbor." "I'll take that. You can get romantic with a neighbor." And he winks at me.
He makes me smile, even when I want to throw my hands up in frustration at another one of his cracks.
You never know unless you ask, and I'm a big fan of asking.
As I turn down another shadowy hallway, something appears out of the corner of my eye. I could have sworn I saw a figure moving, disappearing the moment I came around the corner. Ghosts? Kef me. I knew this place was haunted.
Ghosts. I hate that this ship has ghosts. That should be against the rules, shouldn't it? If a ship already has bad luck, adding ghosts on top of things is just adding insult to injury.
Do I wake up Jade and tell her that her ship is haunted? Or do I try to hunt down the ghost and protect my female?
"He's just sad because he doesn't know what to do so he ran away." "Like a little bitch," Alice mutters. "Helen's got a point," I admit,
"She's really going to make him regret leaving us behind," I say with a chuckle. "Can you imagine?"
I wonder if he's found Ruth yet…and I wonder how much hell she's giving him. I hope it's a lot. A whole fuckton of hell. It's the only thing that makes me feel better about knowing that she's gone…that she's going to make him absolutely, utterly miserable.
There's one thing I'm learning about Adiron. He plays stupid, but he's absolutely not.
"Are you crying because you're stuck with me for the next month? I promise I'll be a good roommate. I might even pick up after myself." She sob-laughs. "Liar. I saw your quarters. You're a pig." "That's an earth animal, right? Are they handsome?"
"Is this your equivalent of 'Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?'" "Huh?" "Just a tech support thing on Earth."
"Did you spill something?" "No. That's for you." I nudge it toward her, waiting. "Am I…supposed to eat it?" "It's a message. Spelled out in noodles." Her lips twitch. "Adiron, I can't read your language, remember?"
"It says, ‘will you please be my date tonight for a special dinner so we can get to know each other better?’"
"Well, yeah. If you're not interested, I'd just be a keffing monster if I pushed myself on you. My sister Zoey would beat the shit out of me with her puny fists the next time she saw me if I pulled anything. And just between you and me, she's a dirty fighter. Goes right for the balls."
She heads for the door and then pauses. "What time tonight?" Hot damn. "Twenty-two hundred hours." A little smile curves her mouth. "Wear something sexy for me." Me? I laugh, amazed and delighted again by this female.
I wonder if I should have worn something warmer. Too late now. I spent all afternoon making this awful-looking dress, and I'm going to wear it, damn it.
I wonder if it'd be too forward of me to ask her to sit on my plate and be my dinner? Probably.
"And after that, you stopped trusting people?" I ask quietly. He looks over at me and grins. "No, of course not. One bad seed doesn't ruin the entire orchard." What a remarkably positive outlook.
bad shit happens to everyone. I just prefer to live my life with pleasure instead of dealing with the pain. I can let the bad things swamp me or I can learn from my mistakes."
"Sa zhedli iska mroda shanal vru tali? I am naughty girl, spank me?" I can't help it, I chortle. "If you're asking, I'll gladly spank you." "Adiron!" Her expression is utterly exasperated. "Are you ever serious?" "Never," I admit.
"I want to grab you and flip you over onto this counter and pound into your tight cunt until you cream."
"I want to bury myself so deep inside you that you take every bit of my cock and beg for more. I want to tongue that pretty cunt of yours—because I know it'd be pretty—and have you drench my face with your honey."
"You tell me how far you want to go tonight, Jade. If you just want a kiss, I'll end right here. If you want to sit on my nose and grind until you come, I'll get on the floor right now." He tugs at the hem of my top. "And if you want everything, I just need to ask—your bed or mine?"
"I'm going to sit in the captain's chair, and I'm going to lay you down on the control panel in front of me. I'm going to hike those skirts up, and I'm going to lick that pussy into the next galaxy. Because you deserve something far more exciting than just a simple bed. I figure what's more exciting than the captain's chair?"
Kef me, she's a cuddler. I'm such a goner. The only thing I love more than licking cunt is cuddling. Okay, I also love getting my rocks off, but I'm also happy to put that third on the list, like any good male should when it comes to his female.
Oh man. Keffing Straik is gonna shit when he realizes he's stuck with the human female version of himself. I wish I could be there to watch when he finds out she's hiding on his ship.
"I could lick your pussy on every surface in this ship and no one would know but the two of us, and yet you blush and look shy."
When Adiron took his pants off, I expected his dick to be magnificent in size. I didn't expect it to be pierced. That's…new.
Perhaps this is the universe's way of apologizing to me for all the bad shit that's happened. I imagine some celestial deity pushing Adiron my way. Here, it says. Have this. It'll make you happy.
"My goddess," Adiron tells me again, and kisses his way down my rounded belly. "Now let me worship at your altar again." And he goes between my thighs once more.
Kef me, I love licking Jade’s cunt. I’m there for what feels like hours, and I love every moment of it. My new favorite flavor is Jade. My new favorite dessert? Jade. I would happily feast between her legs for three meals a day, tasting her sweetness and letting her coat my tongue.
She could squeeze me in a headlock for hours with those legs and I'd be giddy.
"You're not going to grow any tentacles or anything weird when we fuck, are you? No goofy alien shit?" I give her an odd look. "Do humans really think we grow tentacles out of our cocks?"
Adiron is an absolute bed hog. This comes as no surprise to me. If I've ever met someone who takes full advantage of the space given them, it's Adiron. He unapologetically hogs the covers, sprawls his limbs over every inch of surface, and basically takes all the room. I'm left scrunched up against the wall, no blankets, and I wake up early because my ass is cold and my neck aches from my contorted sleeping position. Next to me, Adiron snores. His head is tilted back, which doesn't look all that comfortable given his horns, but he's happily sleeping.
I don't know if I'm amused or irritated, and then I decide I can be both.
"Do you know how long it's been since I slept? Really slept?" I play with his damp hair, smoothing it back from his face. "Judging by your excitement, I'd say a while?" "Years," he agrees. "But I figured out the cure for insomnia." He looks up at me and winks. "It's between your thighs."
"But I liked it the old way, too. I don't want you to change for me. I like you in all your human-ness, extra fingers and random tufts of hair and all." "Wow. Extra fingers and random hair. So flattering."
"I guess this means you won't suck on my toes?" "Oh, I'll suck on them." He lifts his head and grins up at me. "If that's what turns you on, I'll lick them all day long. But I will question your tastes, considering you have these delicious breasts just waiting to be nibbled on, and this juicy, sweet cunt that's just begging to be licked."
