Chapter 12:
Blade’s hands ran over her skin, starting up desire. Tara caught her breath, her body arcing upward slightly as his mouth fastened to her nipples and tugged them gently into his mouth. His tongue ran across the surfaces of her nipples as they tightened to a pebble-hard texture under his not too gentle ministrations.
The feel of his body on top of hers, one of his tightly muscled thighs pressed up against her crotch, and his free hand tangled deeply into her hair, all mingled together to create desire so heated it felt like she was being dipped in fire.
Her legs spread a little further, and her lower body moved, her bottom leaving the grass and dirt and her pussy pressing against that thigh of his. She rubbed against it, moving up and down in long slow strokes that made her clit tingle and her breath catch.
Blade’s mouth left her nipples and captured her lips in a kiss so demanding that she could barely breathe and didn’t care if she never did again.
He positioned himself above her, his hand guiding his swollen member to her slippery outer lips. He rubbed the head of his cock into the slick oils there and then used those oils to lubricate the hard and fast thrust of his prick into her tight tunnel.
The feel of him, hot and hard thick long, filled her senses. His mouth was still on hers, and his fingernails left small, burning trails in her scalp as he tugged her head upward so that he could ravish her lips further.
Passion exploded through her body as his hips worked, thrusting him deeper within her dripping inner folds. He withdrew, and she felt an immediate sense of loss. Then he pistoned his hips forward again and that sense of being filled until she could not be filled anymore came back, titillating her senses and making low moans break from her lips.
Her legs wrapped around his waist, her heels locking tightly together as she sought to keep him closer to her. The smell of their sex and sweat met her nostrils, an aphrodisiac that was so heady it edged her closer to an orgasm with every second. Blade slid his fingers between their bodies and manipulated her clit, adding a fresh layer of sensation to their lovemaking that tipped her right into climax.
Her cry rose and rose again as the first waves of fluid gushed from her body, covering his cock as he pushed past her constricting and loosening walls to the very end of her ability to contain his enormous girth and length. Aftershocks came hard on the heels of that orgasm, sending shivers all up and down her spine and making her cry out yet again.
She felt the jerking of his member inside her swollen walls, a signal he was close to his own climax. His head burrowed into the hollow between her neck and shoulder. His breath came in hard and ragged gasps as he moved faster still, pinning her to the ground with his weight as he rode out his own need to the very end.
He braced himself above her with one hand as his body went rigid. His organ pulsed and throbbed inside her and his sticky, heated seed splashed over her walls and mingled with her own juices.
They lay there like that, neither of them speaking for long moments. Blade withdrew from her slowly, his member flaccid now. He left a thin dribble of fluid across her upper thigh as he rolled carefully away from her and then pulled her into the shelter of his strong arms. He spoke into her hair. “How did you know?”
She let her fingers rest against the perspiration-damp skin of his broad chest. “I didn’t really. I just… Promise me you won’t laugh?”
His fingers tilted her chin so that she was looking into his eyes. His face wore a serious expression. “I would never laugh at you.”
She said, “I used to pilfer the standing library. I know it was wrong. The books there are sacred. They are made of paper, you know.”
Blade dragged in a breath. “The Newport library is among the finest in the universe. And yes, the books are sacred because paper does not exist like that anymore. What do you mean you pilfered them?”
Her face burned. “I would not have you think me a thief.”
The expression on his face turned to one of amusement. “You steal priceless books, and you would not be called a thief?”
Her defenses came up, and she spoke tartly. “I always put them back.”
The look of shock and awe on his face made giggles erupt from her lips. “You don’t have to look at me like that!”
He shook his head as if to clear it. “Let me get this right. First, you stole priceless books from the Newport freestanding library, one of the most heavily guarded places in the universe, and then you put them back?”
She nodded. “I only wanted to read them.”
He said, “I would never call you a thief. That’s a skill that goes beyond simple thievery. I know people who would give anything to have the kind of skill it takes just to be able to remove one from the library, much less the skill it must’ve taken to put it back without it being noticed. How did you manage that?”
She snuggled in closer. “I always took them at the end of the day and I always returned them at opening. Before they had a chance to check every exhibit. I read them in a single night.”
His laughter was both hearty and free. “Every time I think I know you well, and every time I think I know everything about you, you tell me something new. But that doesn’t explain how you knew about all of us sort of being fated to be together.”
She traced the shape of his nipples with one finger. To her delight, his nipples tightened and hardened beneath her touch. “The library had these books, very ancient. They spoke of the old days. Or maybe they were just books that people from the old days wrote about days even older. I’m not sure. But in those books, people always had to go on some sort of quest to find things. And somehow or another, the people who were necessary for that quest to succeed always just seemed to turn up.”
“I see. Actually, I don’t see, but I can see how you would’ve said that now.” His hand captured her fingers but didn’t move them away from his nipple. “I’m afraid that this is just some foolish errand that will do nothing but take us away from where we are needed most.”
She shook her head. “We all know that the Federation is currently firing upon other planets. They’ve been beaten here and they’re in full retreat. Even if they do return here to fight, there are plenty of ground troops and aircraft troops here. They can make do without us for a little while.”
His hand stroked across the top of her head, smoothing her hair. “We?”
