Silver Tongued Devils (14 page)

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.

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 careened 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.”