How the hell he was still alive and breathing after showing up with enough bodily damage to take down a small bear, she had no idea. How he was able to have sex with her through it all was confounding, and her belly fluttered with butterflies.
He’s unkillable and I’m safe with him.It made her giddy.
And even through the burning pain, she wanted him again.
Elodie bit down on her tongue and dragged her gaze away from their bodies to land on the lavatory door.
Three yards.Three painstaking yards were between her and water. And cleanliness.
She placed a hand on Gunner’s muscled chest to start the horrible process of maneuvering her way over to the bathroom just as his eyes shot open—glazed and white—to look right at her. Elodie tensed as they skidded over her face to fall down to the rest of her marked body, and as he searched her, his cock jerked, enlarging further, where she sat on it.
She licked her lips. “Trying to get to the lavatory.” Her voice weak and raspy.
“Why?” His hands settled on her thighs.
“Because I look and feel like death.”
“Death looks pretty fucking spectacular then.” Gunner’s lips curled smugly. Elodie scrunched her face and frowned, wanting to hide from him, but instead rested her other hand on his chest for support. He continued, “Death suits you.”
He eyed her with hunger and she crossed her arms over her chest.
“Don’t,” he said.
She grumbled a response and he grabbed her arms, pinning them to her sides.
“You look like you’re mine,” he told her, rising up. Elodie grimaced anew. “You are mine.” Gunner rubbed his nose between her breasts. “You smell like you’re mine.”
“That’s because your spunk is all over me,” she huffed dryly. But her heart fluttered. “It’s disgusting and sticky and it makes me not want to move with how it feels.”
“And... good.” His nose trailed over her skin in circles and toward her nipple. His mouth brushed over it until it peaked. “I like sticky. Why ever would you want to wash it off?”
Gunner lifted her before she could answer and carried her to the bathroom. She clung to his chest as he hefted her up and wound one of his arms under her butt to keep her from falling.
Even if I did, I wouldn’t make it far.So sticky,she thought to herself, unamused. The air was colder here but the shower sounded soon behind her, and as the water warmed, Gunner walked them both into the tight, single person stall. They barely fit. He managed to make it happen.
Gunner washed her with the same attention he gave her the night before, worshiping every inch of her skin. His hands held her upright as his fingers drew the strain from her muscles. It didn’t matter that the water never rose above warm, because he warmed her in ways temperature-controlling technology never could.
Elodie slicked back the wet hair that fell over his brow. “We’ve got the bare minimum. There’s not even a soap dispensary in here,” she told him, having searched earlier.
“Wait here.” Suddenly, Gunner stepped out of the bathroom and vanished through the door, leaving a trail of water behind him. She slid down the wall like a puppet with its strings cut to curl up at the bottom, groaning from the strain, and nestled up into herself. He returned a short time later, holding a kit in one hand and a blanket and the other.
She didn’t argue when he lifted her off the floor and out of the stall and pulled her on his lap as he sat on a stool he’d dragged in. Gunner wrapped the blanket around her shoulders to soak up the excess water dripping from her skin. Elodie leaned lethargically into his chest.
“Where did you find this stuff?” she asked as he opened the kit in front of her, revealing emergency supplies and aid.
“There is storage container on the other side of the brig with supplies and there’s a crew lounge outside the machine room and before the elevator. I pilfered what was stored in the lounge, and unlike you humans, I don’t need to watch my step while skirting through the maze of steam and heated metal. Here, take this.” He handed her a booster and a water gel. She swallowed them both without argument.
Elodie moaned the moment they hit her stomach. The pain immediately began to fade. Boosters could ravage a system if used too often but when they were used correctly they did wonders. Gunner held her as energy surged through her body, and within minutes, her head cleared and the lighter wounds she sustained had already begun to heal.
“Thank you,” she choked out. He opened up her blanket, baring her naked flesh to his view again and took out an aerosol can next, spraying a cool clear mist all over her exposed flesh. Her skin darkened into a blush when he spread her legs open and misted her cunt thoroughly. It numbed and tickled. He finished off the can.
She sighed happily.I’ll be brand-new by the end of the day.
“You’re welcome. But I’m selfish and my intentions are too.” Gunner tossed the empty can across the room. “The sooner you’re healed, the sooner I can be inside you again.”
Elodie clenched. “I’m not ready.”
He laughed. “You will be soon.” His voice teased, but he re-tucked the blanket around her as he said it. “I haven’t given you everything yet.”
