Ilana may have been on her knees but she was driving Gabriel’s world, his body at the mercy of her tongue swirling around his cock. He let out a tortured groan and spread his fingers through the wet hair at the nape of her neck. Ilana enjoyed the pressure as he tightened his grip – encouraging, not overpowering. If anything it …
Gabriel hadn’t realized the ship’s time had grown late until he’d looked up from their conversation and the rest of the dining hall was empty. Their table looked like a war zone, the boat and carcass picked ragged over the course of a couple of hours. Gabriel had come with an appetite but Ilana had kept pace. They stacked all …
Asya guided Ilana and Gabriel to their rooms, taking them through wide, brightly lit corridors and malls busy with foot and hoverboard traffic. “How many people are on this ship?” Ilana asked. “Between staff, families, diplomats and other civilians, just over five thousand.” Asya gestured towards a plaza as Ilana caught the scent of food. She hadn’t realized how hungry …
Gabriel thrummed his fingers on the arm of his chair, his pose deceptively relaxed under the Admiral’s commanding eye. She was sharp – and interested in Elder tech. Gabriel didn’t blame her. Who wasn’t? Whether you loved or hated the idea, everyone had an opinion about whether extra-species technology had a place in human society. The Admiral hadn’t said as much …
Once Gabriel had explained the nature of their situation to the rescue party, Ilana helped coordinate their extraction from inside the bubble. Figuring out the logistics of her own rescue called on every one of her professional skills and then some. The fact that they were exposed to the vacuum of space had complicated the effort. They spoke with Admiral …
Gabriel was glad the woman had the sense to pull away from him when she did. Because all of his sense had clearly left him if he was considering kissing someone he’d just met over the body of a man he’d just killed. Unintentionally killed, but still. He was trying not to think about the attendant and the weight of …
Nothing Ilana had done up to that point in her life had prepared her to fly a small spacecraft into the void of space, and yet here she was. Facing the doors to the outside, now closing fast. “Go, go, go!” Exclaimed her partner in crime, or whatever this was they were doing. But her stomach seized up. Her body …
Gabriel had never imagined he’d know what it felt like to cave in another person’s head. But when he saw the attendant overpowering the woman he’d just met, he grabbed the nearest blunt object he could find – an oxygen tank – and felled the aggressor to the ground. A blow to the head was the most efficient way to …
Ilana leaned over the sink and rinsed out her mouth. The shuttle bathroom was spacious and pristine, with individual wash closets that self-cleaned after each user and sounded way fancier than a restroom had any right to be. The bathroom also happened to be the only place in the shuttle cabin without windows. Every time she looked out into space, …
Gabriel frowned at the data in his contacts. “Reroute power to the dark matter stabilizers by a factor of three and run the simulation again.” The figures adjusted under his instructions and began their new calculations. Gabriel was annoyed and that annoyed him. Annoyance was a distraction. He’d come Earthside to do some on-planet product testing. Somehow his father had …