He raised an eyebrow. “You feel the need to clean yourself?”
“Sorry, no. Bathroom is what we call the place you go to release body waste.”
“Oh, the refresher! Yes, it is through there.”
She started to roll over and look at the room. “Uh, well…”
“Do you know how to use one?”
She shook her head.
This did make him grin. “Well, come then, I’ll show you the way they function.”
“Thank you.”
11
Phares woke the next morning feeling warm and cozy and generally content. More than he had in a while.
He stretched and realized why.
Jana was curled around him in the bed. At some point in the night, she must have rolled into him, and he accepted the touch and put his arm around her.
Though with his hand on her back and feeling the way her hip curved and the lines of her side, his Fever roared to life with a desperate need.
He groaned. His head started to throb.
Both of them.
If this was how they would be waking every day, he will have a difficult time controlling his urges for very long. He forced himself to unwrap her, and as he rolled her over, she groaned and shivered, so he tucked a blanket around her to keep her warm before getting up and heading into the refresher.
He stripped down and entered the sonic cleanser. As soon as he stepped inside, the device scanned him and started the pulsing waves. They ran over him from top to bottom, vibrating off the dirt and debris from his skin.
He always thought it was like polishing a stone—shaving off the rough spots to reveal the beauty underneath. Not that he was a beauty, but the concept was there.
As it cleaned him, he ran his hand over his body. Not that the touch did anything to help the refresher from doing its job, but he liked to think he was doing something to assist the process.
Truly, though, the biggest issue he had was how hard and throbbing his cock had become. The Fever truly was making his desires painful. He ached so bad this morning cycle that he felt he had little choice but to take matters into his own hands if only to relieve the pressure.
Maybe it would also relieve the pain in his head as well.
Waking next to Jana like that, he feared he would take advantage if he didn’t attempt to control his own needs. Did he know if she had similar desires? She hadn’t said, but he had noticed over their evening together that she got closer to him. Her hand would linger against his occasionally. And even when they first went to bed, she stretched so some part of her touched him.
He slid his hand over his member, his eyes closed, letting the thoughts run free.
And they brought into view, Jana.
Perfectly, and clearly.
In his mind’s eye, he saw her. Felt her body, as he had this morning. Imagined how she would feel beneath him.
On top of him.
Her lips.
Her skin.
The desire came hard and fast, and in a moment, he’d released his seed with a gasp. He leaned into the wall and opened his eyes.
