by Ivy Barrett
She quickly straightened her hair and washed her face, then returned to the outer room. “Will we be able to see each other or just talk?”
Belton sat at the workstation, manipulating some sort of three-dimensional control matrix. “I’ll activate the holo-display, but you have to make this quick,” Belton stressed. “I’m bouncing the signal all over the ship, but it won’t fool my team for long. I’ve trained them too well.”
“All right.” She smoothed down the front of her robe and tightened the belt. “I’m ready.”
Celeste’s image appeared as soon as Belton activated the connection. She was lying on the bunk, curled up on her side like a child. She saw Lorna’s holo-image and shot to her feet, looking around suspiciously as if she expected guards to rush into the room. “Are you all right? Where are you? Is Brianne with you?”
“I’m safe, and so is Brianne. Her return has been delayed, but—”
“Return? Return from where? How did you find her?”
“Celeste, I don’t have time to explain,” Lorna stressed, not wanting to run out of time before she eased the worst of Celeste’s fears. “If we keep this connection open, it will be detected. I just wanted to let you know I’ve found her, and she is on her way here.”
“Great,” she muttered. “Then, all we have to do is figure out how to escape the Yashonty.”
“I’m working on that too.” She managed to produce a smile but knew it didn’t quite reach her eyes. “I’ve developed a relationship—”
Don’t tell her about us, Moxtel insisted. It will make her mistrust you.
“What sort of a relationship?” As Moxtel predicted, Celeste sounded suspicious. “Oh, God, L. You haven’t fallen for one of those monsters, have you?”
The lump in Lorna’s throat was almost too large to force words past. Would Celeste ever see Lorna’s mates as anything other than monsters? “I meant a comfort-giver. She’s basically a slave, but she’s Yashonty, so she’s free to move about the ship. She’s been helping me with all of this. She wants things to change just as badly as we do.”
Say goodbye, Belton urged. We’re out of time.
“I have to go, but there’s a no-direct-contact order on you. No one will come near you, I promise.”
“What about you, L?” Celeste pressed her hand to her throat as tears filled her eyes. “What can I do to help you?”
“Don’t provoke Ram,” Lorna said firmly. “As long as you’re safe, I can deal with the rest.”
Before Celeste could argue, Belton terminated the connection.
And Lorna dissolved into tears. She didn’t struggle this time when Belton took her in his arms. It wasn’t his fault, and it wasn’t really hers. Ram clearly had an agenda, and none of them understood it. At least, Lorna hoped she didn’t understand.
“It will be okay, love,” Belton told her. “We’ll find a way to make this okay.”
She pushed back, tears streaming down her face, but anger pushed through her regret. “How? How the fuck do we make this better?” She wasn’t angry at Belton, just the situation in general.
She’d asked Belton, but Moxtel responded. “You don’t even realize what you’ve done, do you?”
Drying her eyes with the sleeve of her robe, she looked at Moxtel, semi-annoyed by the question. “What have I done?”
“You flipped Ram’s second in command, his closest advisor and trusted friend.” Moxtel paused, giving her time to absorb the significance. “Do you doubt the vow I made last night? I will do anything for you. That includes challenging Ram if I am unable to persuade him.”
“I know, but...” She averted her gaze with a sigh, not sure his good intentions were enough.
“But I failed with Brianne. Is that what you were about to say?”
“No,” she insisted. “I was about to remind you that your influence has limits. So much of this is beyond your control.”
“But it’s not beyond Ram’s,” he countered. “I know him better than anyone. He has the same doubts and frustrations that we all share. It might take some time, but he can be persuaded.”
She shook her head, frustrated by the concept. “And what am I supposed to do in the meantime?”
“King Eltor finally accepted my comm request this morning while you slept,” Moxtel told her. “He assured me that Brianne is well and he is nearly ready to release her. Celeste is protected by the no-contact order, and I’ve agreed to keep working on Ram until he changes our practices involving alien females. How much did you expect to accomplish with this one mission? I will use a human adage. Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
When he put it that way, it made her sound impatient and ungrateful—again. Trepidation tingled down her spine as she looked into Moxtel’s eyes.
“That leaves only your inappropriate behavior,” he told her sternly.
“What did I do wrong?” But she already knew, and she knew exactly where this was leading. Her body came alive at the thought of discipline. Wet heat flooded her core, and her other opening tingled.
“Belton risked punishment, even demotion, to let you speak with your sister, yet all you’ve done is complain.” She started to object, but he warned her into silence with a stern look. “Did you thank him?”
She lowered her gaze with a sigh. “No, Master. I was focused on Celeste—as usual—and didn’t think about Belton.”
“Then you agree that you’ve been ungrateful?” Moxtel persisted.
“Yes, Master,” she whispered, her heartbeat starting to race. “I’ve been a selfish and unappreciative mate.”
“Take off your gown and crawl into the training room.”
Her hands trembled as she unknotted the belt and slipped the robe off her shoulders, but it was excitement, not fear making her tremble. Moxtel looked angry, but she could sense the concern in his mind. His dark hunger was ravenous too, but the primary motivation for this sudden mood shift was to help distract her from thoughts of her sisters.
Comforted by the softer emotion threaded through his incendiary desire, she lowered herself to the floor and crawled across the living room floor. Her pride hated it when he humiliated her like this, but it never failed to make her sopping wet and desperate for their cocks.
Moxtel walked behind her, slapping her ass as she crawled. “Are you coming?” Moxtel called over his shoulder as he scanned open the training room door.
“Not yet,” Belton grinned at her and his emotions flowed into her mind. “But our naughty little mate will remedy that. Won’t you, love?”
“Of course, Sir.” She opened her mind to them both and greedily accepted their emotions in return. Enveloped by the loving strength of her mates, naked and on her knees, Lorna was finally home.
The End
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