head.”
“Ass,” Deke muttered, but the tension was already leaving his body. It was odd, because most elites she’d known, including her fathers and brothers, were generally quick to anger and slow to calm down. It was a side effect of the genetic enhancements, which tended to amplify all aspects of the recipient’s nature. The men grew bigger, stronger and more dominant. Her oldest brother, Nikolai, wasn’t nicknamed Griz for his teddy bear-like personality. When he was unhappy he was as growly and dangerous as a grizzly bear, and damned near as big.
Deke was different from any other elite she’d ever met. For that matter so was Trevar, with his shaggy locks and easy charm. They weren’t cut from the same cloth as the spit and polished officers she’d been introduced to at countless social functions. If any of those types had been the ones to find her passed out in their cargo bay, Sonja imagined that her grand escape would have ended far differently. Thank the stars above that wasn’t how it turned out.
Sonja glanced out the view screen and laughed inwardly. She was going to have to change her vocabulary. The stars weren’t above her any more. They were all around her.
Trevar didn’t know what was hitting him harder, the emotional impact of finally feeling Deke let go of his control, even for a minute, or the physical effects of watching Sonja enjoy herself in the other man’s arms. He hadn’t expected to feel anything really. Not envy, and certainly not a fresh wave of lust. He’d thought those days were behind him.
He and his former partner, Cory, had chased more than their share of tail around the galaxy in their time, laughingly calling it training against the day they claimed a scroll of their own.
Cory had been dead ten years though, and in all that time Trevar had never shared a woman with anyone else, or looked for a new claiming partner. Now here he was, his cock hard enough to hammer steel as he watched an unclaimed scroll nearly half his age offer herself to his best friend while he could still taste her on his lips.
The universe was a whimsical fucking mood tonight, that was for damned sure.
“You two might want to hang on to each other a little tighter. I’ve suddenly got a strong urge to get out of hailing distance before anyone dirt side puts two and two together and figures out we might know something about a runaway scroll.” Trevar touched a finger to his lips and waited for both of them to nod before activating communications, audio only. He received permission to launch less than ten seconds later, and he had the docking clamps retracted and the thrusters engaged before he even got around to wishing the controller a good night.
As the orbital launch array fell away, Sonja gasped softly and he took a second confirm she was okay.
“It’s amazing,” she breathed, and he realized that she wasn’t talking about the planet, but the expanse of space that was unfolding in front of them. Stars filled the inky void, brilliant lights that shone with a clarity no one on Earth could ever experience. The blackness between the stars was absolute, making every speck of light seem even more precious.
“Give me a second, and I’ll show you something even better,” he said and tapped out a brief sequence of commands. The lights in the cockpit dimmed and the ship rolled as it altered trajectory. The three of them watched in silence as the vista changed, and then the river of blue and white light that was the Milky Way galaxy flowed into sight, highlighted against the curve of the Earth below. Stars without count blurred together into an ethereal glow with dazzling spots of blue, violet and indigo shining through here and there.
“No matter how many times I see that, it always takes my breath away,” Deke confessed quietly and Trevar had to agree with him. The cosmos was full of beauty on a scale that defied comprehension, but this was one of his favorite vie ws. It had been since the
“Ass,” Deke muttered, but the tension was already leaving his body. It was odd, because most elites she’d known, including her fathers and brothers, were generally quick to anger and slow to calm down. It was a side effect of the genetic enhancements, which tended to amplify all aspects of the recipient’s nature. The men grew bigger, stronger and more dominant. Her oldest brother, Nikolai, wasn’t nicknamed Griz for his teddy bear-like personality. When he was unhappy he was as growly and dangerous as a grizzly bear, and damned near as big.
Deke was different from any other elite she’d ever met. For that matter so was Trevar, with his shaggy locks and easy charm. They weren’t cut from the same cloth as the spit and polished officers she’d been introduced to at countless social functions. If any of those types had been the ones to find her passed out in their cargo bay, Sonja imagined that her grand escape would have ended far differently. Thank the stars above that wasn’t how it turned out.
Sonja glanced out the view screen and laughed inwardly. She was going to have to change her vocabulary. The stars weren’t above her any more. They were all around her.
Trevar didn’t know what was hitting him harder, the emotional impact of finally feeling Deke let go of his control, even for a minute, or the physical effects of watching Sonja enjoy herself in the other man’s arms. He hadn’t expected to feel anything really. Not envy, and certainly not a fresh wave of lust. He’d thought those days were behind him.
He and his former partner, Cory, had chased more than their share of tail around the galaxy in their time, laughingly calling it training against the day they claimed a scroll of their own.
Cory had been dead ten years though, and in all that time Trevar had never shared a woman with anyone else, or looked for a new claiming partner. Now here he was, his cock hard enough to hammer steel as he watched an unclaimed scroll nearly half his age offer herself to his best friend while he could still taste her on his lips.
The universe was a whimsical fucking mood tonight, that was for damned sure.
“You two might want to hang on to each other a little tighter. I’ve suddenly got a strong urge to get out of hailing distance before anyone dirt side puts two and two together and figures out we might know something about a runaway scroll.” Trevar touched a finger to his lips and waited for both of them to nod before activating communications, audio only. He received permission to launch less than ten seconds later, and he had the docking clamps retracted and the thrusters engaged before he even got around to wishing the controller a good night.
As the orbital launch array fell away, Sonja gasped softly and he took a second confirm she was okay.
“It’s amazing,” she breathed, and he realized that she wasn’t talking about the planet, but the expanse of space that was unfolding in front of them. Stars filled the inky void, brilliant lights that shone with a clarity no one on Earth could ever experience. The blackness between the stars was absolute, making every speck of light seem even more precious.
“Give me a second, and I’ll show you something even better,” he said and tapped out a brief sequence of commands. The lights in the cockpit dimmed and the ship rolled as it altered trajectory. The three of them watched in silence as the vista changed, and then the river of blue and white light that was the Milky Way galaxy flowed into sight, highlighted against the curve of the Earth below. Stars without count blurred together into an ethereal glow with dazzling spots of blue, violet and indigo shining through here and there.
“No matter how many times I see that, it always takes my breath away,” Deke confessed quietly and Trevar had to agree with him. The cosmos was full of beauty on a scale that defied comprehension, but this was one of his favorite vie ws. It had been since the
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