“Ashley.” His whisper was full of desire and his breath tingled on her skin as he spoke. “You know I want this, but I don’t know…”
She gripped his hardness through his pants and stared intensely into his eyes. “You don’t know what?”
Jerno found he couldn’t speak. Her grip tightened. She licked her lips, his hands moved up the back of her neck, tangling in her hair.
Ashley broke the silence. “I want you.” Letting go and stepping back a few inches she continued. “And I know it’s the adrenaline, I know it’s the hormones and the death and the fear.” She unzipped her jacket, stepping further backwards towards the blanket. “I know this is the wrong time and the wrong situation but I don’t care.”
She dropped her jacket on the ground. “If we live, if we die, it doesn’t matter. All we have is now. If there’s more than that…” She unbuttoned her shirt, peeled the tight fitting fabric from her lithe body. “Then maybe we can do it again.”
Her boots came off, followed by her pants. She stood before him in her bra and panties, showing him her body, the gentle curves and toned lines. “But right now, I don’t want to talk about it.” She slinked back to him, taking off her bra as she moved. “I don’t want to think about it.” She removed her panties then, tossing them playfully to the ground. “And I don’t want to worry about it.”
She was against him again, her skin taunting him in the blue glow. She grabbed his belt buckle, ignoring the torn flesh of as she ran her fingers along the leather, coming to rest on the grip of his holstered pistol. “So?” She was smiling at him now, sure of herself. “Do you have anything to say about that?”
He did not.
Chapter 5
Their bodies collided with passion and longing and desperation. His hands were warm on her glistening skin, and she moaned as he kissed and licked her neck. Then she arched her back and began unfastening his belt.
Jerno explored her back as she worked, pleased that she moved with them, leaning into his touch. His belt off, she unzipped his pants and reached in.
He was thick in her hands, warm and pulsing. She gently squeezed and he grasped her ass in response. She released his cock and began taking off his shirt.
He picked her up and she squeal in delight. Lifting her easily, he strode to the blanket and laid her down. For a moment he just took in her body—her ripe pert breasts, her flat stomach with droplets of sweat glistening. And then he knelt beside her, kissed and nipped her breasts, her stomach and she moaned her pleasure at his attention.
Ashley pushed him back for a moment and scooted back on the blanket. Taking her cue, Jerno stood and smoothly removed his pants, throwing them behind him. Ashley devoured his body with her eyes. His legs were lean and muscular, his cock thick and long. Even in the dim light, his six-pack abs, strong arms, maroon skin, all of it was perfection.
He knelt at her feet, taking them in his rough hands, stroking them, massaging. He moved to her calves, up to her knees. She sighed and wriggled and spread her legs as he moved up further, unafraid, exposing herself to him.
She looked down as he made his way up her body and saw the hunger in his eyes as he looked at her wet opening and it excited her. She spread her legs wider and he ran his hands over her thighs, the front and back, caressing, stroking, moving up, up…
Oh… his finger touched her swollen lips, and her head lolled back, lost in the feeling. Yes… his finger brushed between her lips, moving up and down, parting them a little, then a little more. Yes…
His finger slid into her easily. She moaned as he moved in and out, as he leaned into her, bringing his mouth to hers, breath hot and heavy.
Ashley ran her hand down his body and grabbed his cock. She began working it, running her hand up and down his shaft in rhythm to his movement in her. She felt him lean against her more, his weight pressing her down. She bit and sucked the skin of his shoulders, rubbed his chest while her other hand continued tugging in tiny strokes.
Jerno seemed to want to devour her with his urgent, wet kisses, while he teased her with his fingers, rubbing along the outside of her vulva, then sliding a finger inside of her only to take it out and rub teasingly over her clitoris.
Ashley ran the fingertips of her free hand across his shoulders, chest, and arms, scratching him hard with her nails when he hit a particularly enjoyable spot down below.
Oh my god, oh, oh… His cock was so large in her hand, she couldn’t wait to feel it inside of her.
Jerno shifted his position, his kisses moving lower and lower. Her neck, her shoulders, her collarbone. When he got to her breasts, he lingered, licking all around them. He took her nipple in his mouth and sucked it hard, sending electric shocks through her arching body.
Further down he went, to her toned tummy, her hips, further down, the insides of her thighs, licking and tasting her. Between her legs, his mouth found her clitoris and he began to kiss and lick, manipulating her with fingers, lips, and tongue.
She sank her hand into his hair, urgently pulling his face against her mound as he continued pleasuring her. Yes, yes, yes….
He began licking her clit with firm, fast tongue strokes. She felt her body begin to tremble, warmth spreading through her entire being.
From between her thighs, Jerno glanced up, “You taste like honey,” he whispered.
She could not respond. The sensations coursing through her made it hard to even think let alone form words. Instead of speaking, she tightened her grip on his hair and pulled him up to her face, kissed her juice from his lips.
Ashley then pushed him onto his back and climbed between his legs. Taking his cock in both of her hands, she began to stroke him again. She teased him with little kisses on his stomach as she stroked. Then she moved her lips further down, kissed the hot bulb of the head of his cock and stroked.
She heard a low moan rumbling inside Jerno’s throat and it excited her more than she could stand. Ashley took him in her mouth, first the head, her lips wrapping firmly around it. As she took more of him into her wet, hot mouth, she ran her tongue along the sensitive underside of his cock, sucking and stroking, sucking and stroking.
Jerno’s entire body bucked in barely restrained pleasure. Unable to wait any longer, Ashley reluctantly removed her mouth and slid up Jerno’s body to look him in the eyes. “I want you inside me. Now.”
Jerno gazed at her beautiful body, every inch perfect and desirable to him. Without a word, he laid expectantly back on the blanket.
She understood. He wants me on top.
Ashley crawled forward, brushing her breasts along his chest as she moved up. They kissed, deep and long, as she straddled him, feeling the length of his cock pressing hot against her skin.
She straddled him now, teasing him with her wet lips against his hard shaft. Leaning back, she arched her back, raised her pelvis and touched the tip of his cock against the slick warmth of her lips.
It’s so big, it’s so… She lowered herself onto him slowly, feeling him enter her one delicious inch at a time. Feeling every sensation as he went deeper and deeper. When he was completely inside, she paused for a moment, getting used to the intense sensations.
Ashley began moving her hips up and down, taunting him. Then she began rocking forward and back, gently, slowly. Jerno cupped her breasts in his hands and she covered his hands with hers. She began to move harder and faster when he pinched her nipples.
Her hips gyrated, back and forth, side to side in the ecstatic dance. Sweat glistened on her heated skin and Ashley tossed her head back and shut her eyes, just feeling. Every sensation, every scent, every heavy breath, she took it all in. Reveling in the moment, in the sensation, she opened herself to him and he fucked her and fucked her and… oh my god…
He grabbed her hips guiding her faster and harder onto him. Raising his hips to meet her, thrusting harder.
Passion enveloped her and she responded in kind, working her hips and ass in tight circles as he plunged into her. Oh yes, please… She felt J
erno reach down and the pleasure intensified as he rubbed her clit, evoking waves of electricity.
She came hard and furious, arching her back and thrusting her body onto his and then slumping forward onto his slick, heaving chest, her body growing limp as her body washed with orgasmic release.
Jerno wrapped his arms around her, pulling her tightly against his body. His cock slipped from her warmth and hung spent beneath her. She pulled his arms tighter around her, enveloping herself in his warmth.
They lay like that together, arms and legs entwined, feeling the cool air of the cave on their naked skin. They did not sleep but they did relax, they did drift off into a pleasure-induced state of forgetfulness. Forgetting their lives were in danger, forgetting they were trapped in a cave, forgetting their friends were somewhere out there, hopefully alive.
Chapter 6
“Are you sure you don’t want to take a little break?” Ashley asked him this as she stood at the edge of the luminescent pool, the cold dusty water covering her ankles, the blue glow of the algae winking between her toes.
She was naked still, running her hands over her goose-pimpled flesh, warming herself before stepping further into the pool and splashing water up her legs, rinsing the dirt from her calves and thighs.
Jerno glanced over, enjoyed what he saw, but turned back to his work. “You go ahead.” He was digging around the contour of a medium-sized boulder. “I’ll join you later.”
She watched him methodically work at the rubble blocking the back tunnel where they had last seen Hunner, Deener, and Daniel disappear into the dark. His muscles strained and his expression was pained. He’s so beautiful.
The curve of the pool floor bowled deeper into the stone ground as Ashley tentatively took another step into the clear water. Moving in up to her knees, she noted the water’s golden glow was subdued by the layer of dust.
The intensity of the waterfall had slowed since the cave-in, but it still poured from the slash in the cave’s wall. She looked around, following the flow of water from the waterfall to the gurgling pool to the calm pool where she stood. Then it went on to the fat stream running off the far side of the calm pool and disappearing into a hole cut diagonally into the side of the cave.
She walked to the stream, took a few steps, being careful as the rock was smooth and slippery. Big enough to lie in. She stepped out of the stream and walked beside it, following it to its terminus in the rock wall.
Kneeling, she put her head close to the water as it disappeared into the sizeable opening it had carved for itself over the millennia. She could follow the glistening stream thirty feet or so until it disappeared into the black. A dim sloshing roar vibrated in the tunnel. Maybe another waterfall?
Ashley stood and stretched, letting her idea tumble around the clockworks of her mind. It could work. Maybe?
She turned to watch Jerno digging. For all of his efforts he was getting nowhere noticeable. It has to work.
“Hey,” she said, walking over to her clothes.
He turned from his work, pressing dirty, bleeding fingertips into his shirt, “What?” A look of playfulness came over him as he watched her dressing. “And why are you doing that?”
“We have bigger fish to fry.” Slipping on her boots, she continued, “No time for rolling around in the dirt right now.” A confidant smile touched her lips. “I may have found us a way out.”
On his belly, Jerno crawled a foot or so into the stream tunnel. “I barely fit,” he reported to Ashley, kneeling behind him in the stream.
He shifted his hands, crawling forward, but slipped on the mossy, algae covered rock bed. “Shit,” he cursed, regaining his hold. “One thing for sure, this rock is slick.”
“We can just lay in it and slide down.”
Jerno scanned the tunnel for a few moments, watching the stream fade into the black. He heard the low rumble Ashley had told him about. Not very loud, but definitely something.
He crawled out, wiped water from his face. “Slide down to where?”
She threw her hands up. “How in the hell do I know? Not here, that’s all I know. Someplace else that maybe didn’t have an avalanche fall on it.” She knelt back down to the stream tunnel. “Maybe it will even take us outside. We can find Daniel and the others and get the hell off of this planet.”
Jerno stared at her, noting she was on the edge. Tired, unsure, afraid for her life. He couldn’t let her mood or his feelings for her cloud his judgment. He had to keep his focus. He was lead scout for the Lomarian Royal Military. His duty came first.
And now his first duty was to protect the human assets. Second to that was doing whatever was necessary to keep those human assets out of Corgon hands.
If its better we die down here, then so be it. He didn’t want it, he wanted them safe and he wanted her with him.
“What do you say? Want to take a little ride?”
Jerno went first, giving Ashley a lingering kiss before he laid back in the water and began pushing himself along the slippery stream bed. He gave a yelp. “It gets fast.” She could hear his voice echoing tightly off of the round tubular walls. “Be careful….”
He disappeared from her sight and she stared into the black after him for another minute. He yelled something once, but it was too garbled, too distorted, to understand.
Alone in the chamber, Ashley glanced around, staring at the rubble in the collapsed tunnel. See you on the other side, Daniel.
She waited another minute. Nothing. No word from Jerno. Only the grumbling roar of the unseen aquatic disturbance. Here goes nothing.
She gingerly lay down in the stream, the water coming up to her ears. As she expected, it was icy cold. She moved herself back and forth, sliding her body into the mossy groove of the stream. With a silent prayer and a grunt, she flung herself forward.
She found herself travelling at a moderate speed, thankful she was able to brace herself and control her stability on the narrow stream sides. Within seconds, she was deep in the tunnel, in complete darkness, picking up speed as the water rushed on.
Oh shit, oh shit, oh, shit… The speed suddenly increased and she hit a slight dip, the stream now slanting downward. She had been so preoccupied with the accelerating instability of her ride that she had stopped paying attention to the sounds around her. A garbled, echoing shout drew her attention.
The low roar she had heard in the chamber had grown to immense proportions. As she plummeted down a steep six-foot drop, she heard the slamming rumble of a waterfall echoing around her. Oh shit, shit, sh…
The echo came again. Jerno? She could not understand what he was shouting due to the intense thundering sounds now filling the air.
He’s alive, that’s good, that means I might live. Sloshing to and fro, the stream widened and she realized the waters were growing much rougher.
That means I might li—
Ashley was in free fall. Nothing beneath her but air. It was so sudden, so unexpected, she couldn’t even scream… at first. Her eyes widened as she flailed her arms around for something to catch on. The scream finally dislodged from her throat, her terror rebounding off of the high sloped ceiling.
Ashley hit the bottom hard. Upside down in the pool that gurgled there. Down and down she went, pushed deeper by the momentum of her fall and by the force of the water toppling from above.
Her lungs strained as she hadn’t been prepared to hit water and the only air in her lungs was the half-remains of a partial scream. Despite the sting that she knew would come, she opened her eyes and looked up through the distorted ripples. I must be at least twenty feet from the surface. She kicked her legs furiously, arms above her like an arrow head, but she was trapped in some downward current.
A shadow startled her as it glided above her. What the… Something grabbed her arm, gripped it tight. She was yanked sideways. What… Then she was pulled up, up as her lungs finally gave out.
With great force, her body expelled the air she had fought so hard to hold in and instinct took ove
r—a full fresh breath was taken. Before she could stop it, Ashley’s lungs filled with icy water and her vision dimmed. Sound fading, her body lost its fight to stay conscious.
Why are you pounding on my chest? Ashley could only think whoever it was had better stop… Then she gagged, vomited, and fell into a fit of violent coughing. “There you go.” Jerno’s voice was soothing and she started to grasp her situation, “That’s it. Breathe. Just breathe and relax.”
Ashley’s eyelids fluttered then finally opened wide. She looked up at Jerno kneeling over her, wiping wet strands of hair from her face.
She struggled to sit up but couldn’t. Turning her head to the side, she spit up more water. Her throat hurt so she didn’t even try to speak. She just weakly took Jerno’s hand to let him know she was okay.
“You did it.” Jerno’s voice was rich and calming.
She cleared her throat. “We did it.” Though only a whisper, she knew he heard her.
He shook his head, gave her a tiny kiss on the forehead. “No. That’s not what I mean. Here.”
He carefully put an arm under her back and helped her to sit. “There.” Ashley followed his gesture across the waterfall chamber.
She looked. I don’t believe it.
Just beyond the circular opening cut into the side of the chamber wall was brilliant daylight, bright sky, and the sound of wind howling.
She looked at Jerno, a smile creeping across her weary features. “Okay…” Her breath caught in her throat as she met his eyes. “Now let’s go find the others.”
Chapter 7
It wasn’t hard. They just had to listen for the screams.
“That’s Hunner,” Jerno said stoically, “and never screams.”
Ashley knew that meant whatever it was, it was bad. She pulled out her pistol and made sure the blaster pack was full and loaded.
Jerno slung his repulsor staff over his shoulder and likewise took out his pistol. He flipped off the safety. “Ready?”
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