“Yes. You hate to cry.”
A watery smile of gratitude lit her features. “That’s exactly right. Thanks for understanding.”
She woke him a couple of hours later and he made love to her once more. Soft, sweet, leisurely and just exactly how he liked intimate encounters, Gray was fast becoming very infatuated with the lovely Dr. Drake.
Penelope slipped into another sleep shortly afterwards and he held her close until it came time for his shift to begin. He pulled away from her slowly to keep from waking her. She only sighed in her sleep as he collected his clothing. He set the room cleanser program on a delay to run a minute after he left. He didn’t want any residual scent of his to linger behind to make her suffer later on.
Gray knew he should take care not to get too deeply involved with Dr. Drake, but knew in his heart it was already too late for that now. There wasn’t anything he wouldn’t do to help her.
Chapter 6
Angelica waited only thirty minutes after Cahill’s shift ended before approaching his room. On a personal mission for intimate knowledge of Cahill and his luscious body, a spring in her step made the journey very fast. Her first six hours off duty after he’d relieved her on the command deck were spent pacing in her room.
Should she make the first move? Or not.
She never chased men. They in fact chased after her most of the time. But not Cahill. He was Mr. Regulation. This transferal of pursuit wasn’t comfortable. Not at all.
Standing before his quarters, Angelica paused and reconsidered her actions. The worst he could do was turn her down. The best scenario, and the one she hoped for, was that he would take her into his room and…well, take her. Repeatedly would be nice.
Before prudence could stop her, she pressed the signal to buzz inside.
The door slid open before she could change her mind or run in panic. Jeremy Cahill, fresh from a shower and wrapped in only a towel fastened at his hips, grinned and beckoned her inside with a tilt of his head.
Angelica took one long step and entered his private sanctuary. Once inside, the door whooshed shut and they were finally alone. He was close, so close she could smell the fragrant soap from his shower still clinging to his muscular body. Seeing him shirtless for the first time made her insides melty and her outsides vividly aroused. She took a step forward, and they were toe to toe. If he was surprised she currently stood in his room, he hid it well.
“What brings you here, Lieutenant Brice?” His voice never failed to instigate a spike in her pulse.
“I came to ask you a question.”
His gaze pierced to her core. “Ask.”
“What would it take to get you interested in me enough to take action?”
“Depends on the type of action you’re looking for.” His lips curved upward at the ends ever so slightly. “Besides, what makes you think I’m not already interested enough to,” his gaze slid down her body quickly, “take action.”
Tilting her head to one side she pierced him with her most interested gaze. “I guess the fact I’m inside your room for the first time since we met, we aren’t touching yet, and I’m still dressed.”
His bark of laughter took her off guard, but not as much as when he grabbed her tight, lifted her up and slung her around until she lay flat on her back on his bunk with his half naked body covering hers.
“Is this more in line with the kind of action you’re looking for?”
“Sort of. It’s a nice move and everything, but I’m still not undressed, and we’re only barely touching.”
“Patience, Angelica. I’m not a man who hurries this sort of thing.” He lowered his face until he almost kissed her, but didn’t.
“Kiss me.”
A grin surfaced across his lovely mouth slowly, and he shook his head. “Not quite yet.”
Cahill shifted on the bed, but his towel remained firmly attached to his body. He had a great chest. The alpha-numeric markings denoting his former rank and battles tattooed across his chest and upper arm were a major turn on she hadn’t anticipated. Slowly, and with methodical care, he peeled Angelica’s clothing off until she was completely naked. He then dropped his towel and climbed on top of her.
Warm and a little damp around the edges from his shower, Jeremy Cahill finally kissed her for the first time and with the first touch of his lips to hers, Angelica knew she’d remember it forever. Gentle at first, exploratory next and powerfully arousing for the finale, Cahill certainly knew his way around a soul searching French kiss.
“Nice,” he murmured and kissed her lightly once again.
Angelica wrapped her arms around his neck to hold him in place as if he might leap up and run from her. It was silly. Being beneath a large attractive man she’d spent so much time thinking about for so long made the reality a little bit unbelievable.
Pressed to his flesh from shoulders to toes and also completely naked was very sudden and very exciting. She’d dreamed of being naked and pressed to Cahill’s masculine length for so long the quality of this moment seemed dreamlike in its intensity.
Was she in her room having yet another wicked dream? Would she wake from this dream with her fingers buried in her pussy or rubbing her clit? Would his name rest on her lips ready to burst forth once gratification satisfied her longing even during her restless sleep yet again?
Maybe she should pinch him to see if this were really happening.
“Am I dreaming?”
He sucked her lower lip between his teeth and bit down gently before releasing it. “God, I hope not.”
“Tell me something. If I hadn’t initiated this by showing up in your room, would you have ever come to me?”
“I’d like to say yes, and I certainly had the desire, but not the will to ruin my career by revealing my feelings if you weren’t interested. Why do you ask?”
Angelica smiled. “I just wanted to make sure this wasn’t a pity fuck.” She pushed at him playfully as if to dislodge him from her body, but he didn’t budge.
“I’m about to ravenously enjoy someone in a very carnal fashion who at worst outranks me part time and at best is still a fellow peer. Either way I should likely keep my hands to myself. But I can promise you no pity will be involved in what is about to happen between us.”
“I see. Maybe we should stop and talk about the possibilities and problems.”
Cahill pushed a kiss onto her cheek and murmured, “Do you really want me to stop?”
“No. I just didn’t want to be with someone who wasn’t interested in me in return.”
“Oh. I’m interested. But I didn’t feel like it was up to me to make the first move.”
“But you wanted to?”
“Since the second I laid eyes on you, honey. Believe it.”
A warm rush washed down Angelica’s insides. She did believe it. And time was wasting. “We only have six hours, and I’ve talked enough. Do you have any questions?”
“Tell me, Lieutenant, what is your end plan?”
“End plan? Explain.”
“Is this going to be one time, many times or as many times as it takes until you’re tired of me?”
“No promises after this one, but I’m open to further…engagements, if all goes well tonight.”
“Then I’ll make sure it all goes well.”
This time he lowered his head and fastened his lips to hers. Mouth parting gently, he licked between her lips with tender persuasion until their tongues touched. Hot, wet, and likely the most seductive and arousing kiss she’d ever experienced, Angelica slanted her mouth over his and opened all the way. He wrapped his tongue around hers in a lazy satisfying fashion, not too demanding, but aggressive enough to make her heart pound just a little faster.
For a second kiss, it rated in the top five she’d ever received in her life. The top of the list was the first one he’d given her only moments before. He sucked her tongue into his mouth and growled a little as if he also didn’t expect it to be so wonderful and shuttled this kiss up the list to
number one.
So busy with the hot, sizzling touch of his lips, she didn’t realize his hand had snaked down her body until his thumbnail skimmed over one taut nipple. The electric zing of pleasure from the small touch sent a racing pulse of vibrant sensation all the way to her clit.
Angelica wrapped her arms around Cahill’s back and scratched her fingernails from his shoulder blades to the small of his back. She paused a moment, and then sent her fingertips exploring the firm muscles of his sculpted ass.
His cock was lodged between her legs, but not close enough to where she wanted it. Inside. Deep. She wiggled her hips hoping to convey her interest in joining their bodies soon.
Cahill broke from the kiss long enough to whisper, “What’s your hurry?”
“I’ve waited quite a while for this opportunity. You can even say I’ve dreamed about this moment…repeatedly. I’m simply anxious.” She pulled one of her legs from beneath his and wrapped her calf across the back of his thighs to force his body closer.
“Give me a few more minutes to play, Lieutenant. I had something else in mind.” He kissed her chin, slid his body down a little and kissed the base of her throat at the collarbone. He licked his way to one nipple and pulled the sensitive bud in between his lips. Tugging it into his warm mouth, he sucked until she arched her back. A wash of moisture coated her pussy.
Her nipples were very sensitive and he’d unlocked that secret in mere minutes of getting her naked. Cahill made a noise as if he found her tasty and trailed kissed across to the other breast to tease, lick and suck her other nipple. Angelica pressed her hips upward into his hard hot body.
Cahill rose onto hand and knees. He kissed her mouth, her chin, the space between her breasts. He licked a path from the lower curve of one breast to her belly button. If he kept his tongue headed south with the intention of licking her clit, Angelica thought she might climax before he got there at the very idea.
He lifted to his knees, put his hands on her inner thighs and swooped down to do exactly what she hoped he would. Fastening his mouth over her pussy lips, he delivered one long slow lick from the base of her wet opening to her throbbing clit, lapping up her substantial juices along the way.
“Oh God, Cahill.”
No response from below with the exception of his concentrated efforts to bring her off by sucking her clit between his lips, ratcheting up her ardor to the point she got a little faint.
Without warning, two of his fingers slid directly into her pussy curling inside, filling her and expanding the pleasure until the ripe hot sensation pushed her over the edge of a long awaited much anticipated orgasm.
Angelica’s back arched into the climax as waves of her release rode roughly through her body. She fairly shuddered with the climax.
“That was amazing.”
“And only the beginning, right, Lieutenant?” Cahill kissed the spot below her belly button and then proceeded to kiss his way to one breast. Nibbling on one nipple as he stared at her, he smiled around her peak.
Shifting to place his cock at the apex of her thighs, Angelica opened her legs, allowing an even more intimate connection. The tip of his shaft grazed her sensitive clit and she sucked in a sharp breath. He grinned and leaned in to kiss her mouth.
Angelica tasted herself on his lips and the very idea of what he’d just done sent a pulse of arousal down her body. She wanted his cock buried deeply.
“Name the position.”
His eyebrows creased in puzzlement. “What?”
“Name the position you’d like to start with tonight. I have a feeling I’ll remember it for a long time.”
“I don’t care as long as I can see your face when you come this time.”
“Stay on top. No need to be gentle. I won’t break.”
He reached down, grabbed her leg and slipped it over his shoulder. Legs now opened very wide, Angelica couldn’t wait for him to slip his cock deeply inside.
A firm hand on one cheek of her ass, Cahill centered his hips and pushed his cock balls deep into her wet pussy with one deep thrust. Her slick walls stretched wide and barely accommodated his thick shaft. He didn’t wait for her to get used to his girth, he pulled out and pushed in again before a second had passed. Even deeper this second time. His ardent chocolate gaze fixed to hers without blinking and thrust inside a third time with exquisite pressure, bouncing the head of his dick over the entrance to her womb.
“I have a request,” he murmured without breaking the rhythm of his strokes.
“Anything.”
“Stick your hand between us and finger your clit while I fuck you, Angelica. I want to see you come this time and I’d love to watch you touch yourself.”
A ripple of sharp arousal came with his request, and Angelica complied without taking her gaze from him.
The moment her finger glanced over her clit an unexpected moan escaped her lips. Cahill kept up a ferociously deep steady pace, and his wide cock made the experience uniquely satisfying. She could probably come with a few flicks of her finger.
Cahill’s watchful gaze slid to their joined bodies. While his attention was diverted, she reached up with her other hand and pinched a nipple between thumb and forefinger. Exquisite pleasure rifled from all of her pleasure centers and converged into an erotic dance of sensation about to erupt in her core.
His growl of approval when he glanced at her fingers pleasuring her breast sent his hips pushing into her body even faster. Cahill’s dark eyed gaze trapped her attention once again.
Heart pounding wildly, she fell into oblivion as a vivid orgasm rushed through her all of a sudden. She cried out, experiencing the most acute pleasure she’d ever known.
“Angelica,” Cahill whispered, belying the pounding of his cock into her pussy. “I’m just about there, honey. Look at me. I want to see your eyes when I come.” The urgent sound of his voice kicked her arousal to a new height. As waves of rapture slid through her body and out across her skin, Angelica focused her rapt attention on his eyes. A second later his lids slid shut half way, and he barked out a low satisfied sound, thrusting one last time deeper than ever. The warmth of his climax sprayed against her womb with gusto.
Angelica’s leg slid down his sweat-slicked bicep when she leaned forward to hug him close. His face buried at her throat, and he whispered, “That was amazing, Lieutenant. I should have sought you out earlier.” He slumped forward and trapped her to the bed with his warm body.
She laughed and nuzzled his neck. “Cahill?”
“What?”
“Promise me that won’t be the last time we do this.”
He kissed her throat and murmured, “I goddamn guarantee it, honey.”
Angelica slipped her arms around his shoulders and hugged him tight. She glanced at her time piece resting on the side table. They only had less than five hours to get their fill of each other…this time.
* * * *
“Any problems, sir?”
Gray glanced over his shoulder as Angelica glided silently through the command deck door on a fast trajectory to the captain’s chair where he was seated. “Nope. It’s been quiet and steady as she goes, Lieutenant Brice.”
Gray relinquished the command computer to Angelica. He stood from his captain’s chair, lifted his arms above his head and stretched slightly. It was precisely six hours since his shift had started. Angelica was nothing if not prompt. After spending his last break with Penelope, he needed to get back to his quarters and take care of some correspondence and paperwork.
He regarded Angelica with careful attention. She looked different somehow, but he couldn’t identify the reason. “After Ensign Cahill relieves you later, let’s go back to twelve hour shifts.”
This order apparently shocked her. Eyes wide she asked, “Are you sure you don’t want to continue the six hour shifts just a little longer?”
“Why? Do you?”
She shrugged. “I don’t mind them. Seems like time goes by faster, but whatever you want, sir. Tell me and I’ll
make it happen.”
“We can keep the six hour shifts if you want to, but I’d like to add a couple more people to the rotation.”
“I’ll take care of it.” Angelica slid into the captain’s chair. With communications device in hand, she sat as if poised to take notes. “Who do you want added, sir?”
Gray took the opportunity to peruse Angelica once again. There was definitely something about her that looked a little different, but he couldn’t put his finger on what seemed altered. Her hair? Her weight? Was she more relaxed? Likely he was simply over tired, and he shifted his focus back to answering her question. “Get Kerchner from engineering and his first assistant. They can help add some relief until we pick up Nathan from the Echo Province on the way back from the Parsec Colony. They’ll whine that they shouldn’t ever leave engineering, but tell them I insist.”
“Got it. I’ll contact the engineering department and add them to the rotation schedule. Any whining I’ll deal with accordingly.”
Gray turned and headed to the exit, but snapped his finger and turned back. “One more thing.”
“Sir?” Angelica swiveled around with a satisfied smile. He suspected that she really enjoyed sitting in the captain’s chair. Maybe that’s what was different about her…a power rush over sitting in his chair.
“I increased the speed. We’re at one hundred and five percent of regular capacity. Keep us there unless any serious engine strain starts showing.”
“Yes sir. Does Kerchner know about our current speed load capacity?”
Gray resisted the urge to crack a smile. Kerchner babied the engines, but he wasn’t captain and he didn’t have a passenger with an abominable medical condition needing a cure. “He knows, and he’s not happy about it. So don’t let him slow us down. Call me if he gets unruly. And if he balks, put a lock on the accelerator while he’s in the captain’s chair.”
“I can handle him, sir.” Angelica relaxed back in the captain’s chair with a smug expression. Gray thought she looked great in his command seat. One day he’d do his best to see she got her own command with the Dalton Prime Corporation, but for now he depended on her too much to let her go.
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