Silver Tongued Devils

by Dawn Montgomery

  “For wha-” The scanner displayed the captain override code and injection request. “What are you doing?”

  She rushed to the viewing screen, intending to yank up the tube and haul Na’varr out, but it was too late. His eyes widened in panic and then grew unfocused. His lids fluttered closed.

  Furious, she went back to the stats screen. “What did you give him?”

  Na’varr’s vitals were even. Nothing flashed a warning at her.

  “He needs deep healing. If he knew the ship needed to be worked on, he’d suit up himself and take the damn walk about.”

  Raesa didn’t stop to think about anything. Naked as the day she was born, she charged out of MEDbay, snatching Na’varr’s mic and ear cuff. She put on the equipment and hauled ass to the bridge. Self-righteous fury dogged her heels every step of the way. “That doesn’t excuse you bypassing the MEDcom.” Brom was about to get a piece of her mind.

  “You think this is the first time Na’varr pushed himself to the limits?” He sounded amused.

  She rounded the corner and came head to chest with a naked and very delicious striped chest. Her breath whooshed out and Brom steadied her against him. He watched her beneath half-closed eyelids. “Now that the captain is in deep sleep, looks like I’ve got you all to myself.”

  Raesa’s heart clenched and a dark thrill skated down her spine. Now that the danger was over, long-denied hunger made her pussy wet.

  Brom purred low in his chest and smiled so that the gleam of his fangs shone. “You smell hot for me.” He stroked his hands down her arms, leaving chills in their wake.

  “I’m still mad at you.”

  “Good.” He traced a pattern over her skin that drove her to distraction.

  Raesa craved his touch. She had never felt this way about any man in her life. The hybrid took her to levels of feral intensity that scared her. They needed distance so she could figure out what the hell was going on with both of her men.

  He brought her hands against his chest and cupped her face in his. In that moment he looked every inch the tiger: predatory, hungry, and damn if it didn’t make her ache for his touch.

  “If you’re really angry, you can bite and scratch all you want, hellcat.”

  His words shot straight through her. She was naked in front of him, and clothes had nothing to with it. No, she didn’t stand a chance.

  Chapter Four

  Brom expected Raesa to be mad. Hell, he expected her to tell him seven ways to Sunday how to go to hell. What he didn’t expect was for her to storm through the ship in nothing but a scowl, the sexy collar around her throat, and her pretty breasts jarring with every stomp. His cock was hard and ready for her sweet pussy.

  Firing her up and taking her into his arms was as natural as breathing. He could taste her anger and lust in a heady combination on the back of his tongue.

  “W-why are you naked?”

  “I needed to wash away the dust from that place.”

  He fisted her hair and tugged, exposing the slope of her throat and shoulder to his mouth.

  Her sexy little sigh of pleasure made him long to sink his fangs into her skin. Instead he swiped his tongue against her pulse point. The beat fluttered temptingly beneath his mouth.

  She jerked her head to the limits of his grip and watched him with her beautiful blue eyes. “You owe me an explanation.”

  “Oh do I?” He sniffed her skin, loving the unique scent of his Raesa. “Maybe I wanted you all to myself.” Lick.

  Her body trembled. “Bullshit.” She tried to push him away.

  “Is it?” He grabbed her and shoved her against the wall.

  Her fury was beautiful. Rage darkened her cheeks and the fire in her eyes would have made any other man hesitate. Brom needed this. “I’m going to bury my cock inside you, sweet thing. Make you scream my name.” He needed to forget for just a moment, how close they’d come to losing everything.

  The scent of her arousal made his mouth water.

  “This isn’t going to go your way.” Her dusky nipples hardened to fine points.

  He braced his hands on either side of her head. “No? What are you going to do to stop me?”

  “Who said anything about stopping you?” She reached for him.

  Their lips met in a clash of wills. Bruising. No hesitation. Her nails dug into the back of his scalp and he growled into her mouth. He kicked her legs apart and cupped her sex. Her pussy was wet and hot. Lifting her leg, he hooked her calf around his waist and thrust inside her depths.

  Her cry of pleasure stoked the fires hotter.

  She threw her head back on a scream he captured with his lips. As he stroked his tongue into her mouth, he thrust his cock deep. So tight. So soft. So fucking perfect. He pulled out, pushed in. She trembled around him but it wasn’t enough. He wanted everything from her. Hands under her ass, he lifted her from the wall and moved her up and down on his erection, controlling every aspect of their coupling.

  Raesa cupped his shoulders and hung on while he fucked her as hard and as fast as he could. Their flesh slapped together, an erotic noise that has his balls tightening with the need to spill his seed inside her. She was his. Now. Later. Always.

  “Fuck, Brom, harder, please…”

  “Come on my cock, Raesa, I want to feel you shatter for me.”

  “Yes, fuck yes.” She ground against him with every thrust.

  Her pussy tightened, a velvet fist around his dick.

  He growled at the intensity. The thrill of being alive, of having this precious woman milking his cock drove him to the edge.

  She shattered around him, coming so hard, he thought he’d be pushed out of her hot depths. Raesa trembled and let her head collapse against his shoulder. Her ragged breathing made him grin. But so did the sharp sting from where her fingernails had dug into his skin.

  “Done already, sweet thing?” He tightened his muscles to make his cock twitch inside her.

  Her inner walls clenched around him in response. She raised her head to look at him. “I thought you were mad at me.”

  Brom nipped at her nose. “Who said I wasn’t?”

  “Sometimes you are such an ass.”

  He made his dick twitch again and she moaned. She was right. But at the moment he was running on an instinct he didn’t want to analyze. They needed to be together. Like this. His past didn’t matter, shouldn’t matter.

  Brom eased her feet down to the ground and noticed the way she favored her leg. The bruise drew his gaze. Self-disgust roiled in his gut. He probably made it worse with his rough fucking.

  “You going to stare at me all day, kitty cat, or were you all talk?”

  Her blue eyes flashed a challenge and he ached to sink his erection between her legs. “Turn around.”

  Turning slowly she kept her head toward him, her steady gaze never leaving his. He moved so that her neck wouldn’t strain. “Put your palms flat against the wall.”

  “Are you going to arrest me?”

  He growled. “No. I’m going to take you.”

  She made a sexy as fuck sound in the back of her throat.

  Brom molded his body against hers. He tugged lightly on her hair. She followed his lead and did what he asked. “My instincts are screaming at me to mark you, hellcat. You belong to me.” He nipped at her earlobe and she moaned. He licked and nipped his way down to the point where shoulder met neck. The place he wanted to bury his teeth deep and make her his.

  “Say it.”

  “I’m not just yours.” The scent of her arousal increased and tension radiated between them.

  “Right now you are.” Brom kicked her legs farther apart and dipped a finger into her soaked heat. “This tells me you want me.”

  “I thought we were a trio.”

  He plunged his fingers deep and her inner muscles clenched around him. “We are, but I am still a man, Raesa.” He bit her shoulder and she froze under his grip. Brom stroked in and out of her pussy increasing pressure and intensity until she careene
d off the edge in a sexy little release that perfumed the air with her delicious scent. At the same time he pulled his fingers free of her tight channel, he released the hold on her neck.

  “I want you to look at me like I’m a man.”

  “I do, Brom.”

  He put the head of his cock against her wet slit. “Say you belong to me.” He thrust deep and a ragged cry tore from her throat.

  “Yes,” she crooned. “Please.”

  He wrapped an arm around her, tucking it beneath her breasts and forced her body into a hard arc that left her trembling.

  “What am I to you?”

  “You’re the man I love.”

  The words fell so easily from her lips. Would she still feel the same way if she knew what he had to do to survive? What he’d truly endured?

  “You deserve more.”

  “I want you.” Her nails dug into his hand. “I wanted you from the moment you caught me, Tiger. I’m yours. Show me that you want me.”

  He buried his head against her hair and inhaled her scent. “Hold onto me.”

  She did, never letting go. He set a punishing rhythm for them both, wringing orgasm after orgasm from her until her voice grew hoarse and her legs shook.

  His balls tightened with his pending release. Instinct rode him harder and he bit into her shoulder. He came, growling against her skin, listening to her sweet voice as she sobbed his name.

  For a moment, they were one and the ache—the fear that he wasn’t good enough—in his heart lessened.

  Brom braced against the wall and struggled to regain his breath. Every raw scrape on his body burned thanks to the fine sheet of sweat coating his skin. Raesa’s entire body trembled and his cock slid from her body.

  She wouldn’t look at him and the inferno of anger came back. If the lady wanted him, she’d have to take all of him, animal lust or not.

  Raesa turned toward him and leaned back against the wall she’d just clawed in her ecstasy.

  She ran her fingers up to the back of his head and plunged them into his hair. Her eyes opened and she stared up at him beneath half closed lids. A soft smile touched her lips. The peaceful expression on her face was completely at odds with the intense fuck they’d just enjoyed.

  “I love it when you get like that.”

  Brom’s laugh sounded raw to his ears, but the band of anger loosened around his heart. “Angry sex isn’t always the best.”

  Raesa’s eyes opened wider. “It feels like everything I say to you comes out wrong. I meant when you go wild.” Her cheeks flushed and she glanced away. “I really like your sexy growl and when you bite,” she muttered.

  Her words shocked him. Brom ducked his head down to see her expression. “What was that?”

  She made a clicking sound with her tongue. “You heard me. I could whisper across the ship and you’d know it.”

  “True.” He gently lifted her in his arms and turned toward the captain’s suite.

  “What are you doing?”

  “You’re going to have to take the helm while I walk about, so take a few minutes to get cleaned up and dressed.” He winked at her. “I’d hate for that sexy ass to get frostbite if we hit a cold pocket.”

  She relaxed in his arms and rested her cheek against his chest. With two fingers, she traced one of his stripes and a delicious shudder racked his body. “I can walk, you know.”

  “Hmm. I know.” He reached the hatch to the captain’s quarters and she obligingly opened it for him. He set her down inside the room and kissed her gently. “Get dressed. I need to get those repairs made and we’ve got diagnostics to run.”

  His little hellcat looked frustrated. It was moments like this that he realized how far apart they were in experience, if not age. “What is it?”

  “I need answers, Brom. You both are handling me like I’m made of glass. I’m not some naïve little landlocked country girl. Either you start telling me what’s going on, or I’m out of here.”

  Ice froze his heart. He crossed his arms. “You won’t make it far.”

  She smirked. “Don’t threaten me, kitty cat. I’ve faced down tougher opponents than you in my life.”

  That prick to his pride melted some of the frigid agony in his chest. “I doubt it. Besides, I’m not the one who started the threats.”

  Her expression turned bleak. “It’s not a threat, Brom. I’m telling you from my heart that if I don’t get treated like an equal partner in this relationship instead of a fuck toy that has to be protected, I’m out of here. You send me into situations without proper briefings. If I would have known the situation before we hit the mining dome, I could have wired an escape route in the beginning. I’m more than you’ve let me be. The sex is great, and I love you, but that’s not all there is to who I am.”

  Frustration, anger, and hurt chased their way across her face. The hurt was the biggest kick to his gut. How could she think he only wanted her for sex? “Okay. You’ve made a point. Let me get suited up and we can talk while I work on the ship.”

  She hesitated.

  He tried for levity. “Hey, this is the only time to ask me whatever you want without Na’varr giving me shit for sharing too much info, right?”

  Raesa nodded.

  “Good.” He wanted to kiss her, but her fuck toy comment made him pause.

  ***

  Raesa curled up in the too-large captain’s chair and ignored how much she missed one of the hard male bodies who usually accompanied her on shift. Her pussy was pleasantly tender from the intense up-against-the-wall sex they had enjoyed.

  While Brom played around outside, she had her hands full with diagnostic error codes. While it continued spitting out complaints, she’d started downloading the information they’d stolen. It was taking forever. She fiddled with the earpiece and mic. “Anything exciting out there?”

  “Easy fixes. We’re lucky the miners are more used to shattering the broad side of a rock face than a small transport shuttle like ours.” Brom sounded amused. A much better place than where he’d been an hour ago.

  Maybe now would be the time to talk to him. “Can I start asking you questions?”

  “Go ahead.” To his credit, he didn’t sigh or complain.

  “Why did you really knock Na’varr out?”

  “If he knew we were taking on repairs, he’d suit up and come out here with me. I-we-need him healed.”

  “Right. And the foreman?”

  “Foreman Yates is always looking out for number one. It was just a matter of time before he turned.”

  “How did you know it was going to happen on that visit?”

  Brom stayed silent for a few heartbeats. “I didn’t know, honestly. Every time we’ve met the foreman, I’ve taken an eagle eye position because I don’t trust him.”

  Relief warred with irritation. “So you didn’t know he would turn.”

  “Nope.” He sounded too fucking pleased with himself.

  “And you pretended to be wise beyond your years to what, annoy me?”

  His laugh echoed in her earpiece. “Something like that.”

  “I would hate to be you when Na’varr wakes up, kitty cat.”

  He chuckled. “Why do you think I’m out here?”

  To avoid my emotions. She recognized his discomfort at her reactions to their isolation. It was the same edge of pain that asking him about his past, his age, or anything at all that didn’t involve the here and now brought on. Brom’s reactions were much more honest than Na’varr’s false cheer about their situation.

  “Brom, there’s one other thing about today that really bothered me.”

  He gave a half laugh. “One thing?”

  Her lips twitched in response. “Okay, a lot of things, actually, but...” She felt like she was betraying Na’varr with her thoughts.

  “Go ahead, Raesa. Whatever you’re thinking has probably already crossed my mind.”

  “This plan was reckless, but it’s not the first time he’s taken risks like this.” Actually, his job
s had grown more and more so in the past two months. She waited for Brom’s chastisement.

  Her lover sighed over the channel. “You’re right.”

  Surprised, she sat forward. “That’s it?”

  “What did you expect? An argument?” Movement on the viewing window drew her attention and she saw Brom peek his head over the edge to grin at her through the space suit face shield. Even in the clunky uniform, he still looked ridiculously adorable. She stood and walked to the window.

  “I had counter arguments ready for you and everything.” She tried not to smile as he climbed down the plexglass toward her. She put her palm out against the chilled surface and he followed suit, his gloved hand twice the size of hers.

  “Sorry to disappoint you.”

  Was it her imagination or did he mean something far deeper than their surface conversation?

  Chapter Five

  “Was I too rough with you, kitten?”

  Raesa shook her head. She ached all over, but in a delicious way. “Not at all.” Her bruised hip was starting to throb, but there’s no way in hell she’d tell him that.

  Her datapad gave a loud feline growl and she looked down at the screen. The download and translation was complete. She pulled her hand away from the glass and brought up the information.

  “Was that my voice?” Brom’s question made her jump.

  Shit. He heard that? She ignored his inquiry. It wasn’t his business if she’d recorded his voice during an argument with Na’varr. His growls were too adorable.

  “Raesa.”

  She glanced up at him and held up the datapad. “I’ve got everything we need from the mining job. Now what did you want me to look for?”

  Brom sighed. “Duty calls.” He pulled himself across the window. Even in a space suit, the man moved like a cat. “Cross reference shipping dates with deliveries to Kirtok Prime.”

  She focused on the data. “Why Kirtok Prime?”

  “It’s a shipping front for the Andovian war effort. The ore produced at Deadgate is used to create jump drives. Andovian forces have started gathering supplies for a massive invasion.”