Chapter 6:
Talon strode through the ship and to his chamber. His hands worked at his clothing, releasing it from his body in long smooth motions. The door whirred open again, and he moved fast, a laser fit neatly into his hand, and his body already turned to the door.
Jessica stood there. Her mouth turned upward into a smile. “I need to wash off this blood.”
One minute she was fully dressed, the next she was naked, her pale body glowing like a pearl in the dimness of the chamber. His body hardened. Desire hit hard. He spoke in a husky voice, “We could wash together, save time.”
She walked toward him, her lean hips leading her body. Her pale pink nipples stiffened and poked upward, firing his lust yet again. She said, “We could.”
His hands caught in her hair, fisted it. His mouth slanted down on hers. He tasted salt, evidence of her life, in the corners of her mouth. Whether that salt was from tears or sweat, he did not know, and he didn’t care either.
They aimed toward the small tube-like cleansing chamber. They smashed into it, and their skin came into contact yet again, inflaming his senses and causing his erection to lengthen and thicken.
Her legs wrapped around his waist and he lifted her, his hands going below her thighs and then to her ass. Her inner folds took him in, milked him as they stood beneath the steam and scented ions pouring down from the ceiling.
His mouth found hers again as her wetness and tightness caressed his flesh, and his hips arched upward to go deeper still. Her fingers tangled in his hair and his teeth sank into her bottom lip. His back scrubbed against the wall, and her body shivered as she lifted herself a little then glided down upon his cock again.
Time stood still. There was just the two of them now; the world outside was gone. There was just flesh and bone and blood, sex and pleasure.
Life.
Her inner walls fluttered around his organ. He came as well, his body arching and shivering as his hot seed splattered into her body.
They slowly moved away from each other. The cleansing stream ended and they stepped out. Talon said, “I have to get back onto that bridge.”
“I know.” She smiled. “I have to go get some clean clothes, and then I’ll be up.”
She gave him one more kiss and then started out, her body gleaming and still nude, a thing that made him smile. Jessica had no shame, and he loved that about her.
He loved her.
He loved her so very much, and he did not want to see her die.
He could tell her she has to get off the ship. He could take her back to Revant Two and strand her there, but he knew her. She would steal the first ship she came across and head right for Old Earth, consequences be damned.
That was one more thing he loved about her.
He loved that she was fierce and wild and a warrior. He loved every inch of her skin and her body and her heart, and he wanted, badly, to just give all of that warring up and settle down, leave the skies to the rest and the Federation and its problems to someone else too. But he could not do that.
He couldn’t. He knew what the Gorlites would do, and he knew too well that the Federation was willing to send its people into the mines that they too controlled.
Talon walked onto the bridge and stood there, watching as the ship was turned on his order and headed toward Old Earth. His gut tightened. This was stupid, and he knew it. If Jessica was right, this was a fight that they could not win. They would be battling not just the Gorlites but also the Federation.
The Federation was in on this takeover, and the ones who were behind it, the ones planning to overthrow the Federation, no way were they going to let their plans go awry.
Too much rode on every part of their plan going perfectly.
“Bad news: I am here to ruin your day.”
The words came from his mouth on a sharp exhale of breath.
Old Earth came up in the windows just as Jessica stepped up beside him.
