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Authors: Kate Pearce

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“Oh…” Neeve surged through his formidable defenses and started moving on his cock at the same time. “Oh Gods,
yes.”

As she drove him higher and higher, his mind opened to hers and she fed him her emotional and physical reactions until he worked out how to do the same. Then she forgot about teaching him anything and simply shared the experience until she was coming so hard she screamed.

He rolled her over onto her back and held her there while he pounded into her. Each mighty stroke like a pendulum shaking the narrow bedframe until he lost his smoothness and simply fucked her, his hips slamming into hers, his pelvic bone grinding against her clit until she was just thought and sensation and red heat. He growled when he came his whole body shaking as his come flooded her.

Eventually he drew her over him again and they lay quietly, both too exhausted to do anything but breathe and inhale the scent of their coupling.

Mac was just nodding off when she touched his cheek.

“I thought Earth didn’t have any telepaths.”

“Officially, we don’t.”

“Then what are you?”

“A classified military experiment.”

“Your mind is…” She hesitated. “Like nothing I’ve ever encountered before. It’s almost like a machine.”

“That’s exactly what it is—what I am. A mechanically and genetically enhanced human being.” He touched her hair. “And that, by the way is top secret military information not to be shared with anyone.”

“Then why did you tell me?”

“In my opinion, you have a right to know who and what is in your bed.” He opened his eyes wide as another thought struck him. “I’m one of the only males on Earth who has the necessary stamina and telepathic ability to get you through this mating period. What a fucking coincidence that I happened to be assigned to the base you work at.”

“It’s also weird that my mating urges only resurfaced when there was a telepath around. I just didn’t know it.” Neeve murmured.

“It’s not something I’m supposed to shout about.”

“Why not?”

“Because as far as the Earth is concerned enhanced soldiers are dangerous, unpredictable and should be exterminated.”

“Being a telepath doesn’t make you dangerous. I come from a planet full of them and we’re one of the most peaceful civilizations around.”

“I think telepathic power frightens them…the government, I mean. They created something they couldn’t control. They’ve been trying to disown and destroy us ever since.”

“That’s horrible.” She pulled out of his arms and came up on one elbow to stare down into his face. Her long red hair drifted against his skin. “I didn’t know anything about this.”

“I’m glad to hear it.” He let out his breath. “I should’ve realized what was going on sooner.”

“You can still sedate me. I don’t mind. I--”

He put a finger against her lips. “Dr. Neeve, whatever headquarters say, we might still be in danger. I need you conscious and alert.”

“Then I’ll go and sleep in the other room.”

He wrapped his hand around her forearm and held her still. “You’ll stay here with me, and that’s an order.”

“I’m not military, Captain McNeil.”

“In this situation you are. I want you where I can see you, preferably underneath me.”

“And what if someone turns up while I’m ‘underneath you’?”

“I’ll sense them long before it gets to that, and so will you.” He slid his other hand over the lush curve of her ass. “Right now you only have two choices, take a nap or fuck me blind.”

Chapter Three

“They’re here.”

Mac turned to Neeve who was already up and dressed in her snow gear. Her arms were crossed over her chest and her glorious hair was tied back in a tight bun. He wanted to walk over to her yank the pins out and watch it fall down her back. Then he’d wrap it around his hand, hold her close and fuck her again…


Captain McNeil
.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I got that last thought of yours.” She licked her still swollen lips. “You’re not helping.”

Fifteen minutes ago, those lips had been round his cock while she sucked him off in the shower. She was still edgy; he could feel her need flowing over him, calling him… His over-used cock throbbed like a toothache as he instantly thickened. Strictly speaking, they still had over twelve earth hours before she was out of her mating period. He instinctively cupped his balls.

“Holy God, woman, no wonder you need two males to satisfy you.”

She looked away, her color high. “I can only apologize, Captain, if you felt unequal to the task.”

This time he did go over to her. He put his hand under her chin so that he could stare into her eyes.

“I think I did damn well, considering, don’t you?”

“Of course, even though you were coerced into it.” Her gaze dropped to his torso and the thrust of his cock, which was all too evident in the thin snowsuit he wore. “Will you please go stand over there? I can’t be this near you, and not want to—“

An image flashed in his head of him crouched over her, his dick just about to penetrate her cunt.

“That’s not helping me either.” He glanced at the perimeter screens. “Damn it, they’ll be here in less than five minutes. I can’t satisfy you properly in that time frame.”

She placed her hand flat on his chest. “There’s something you need to know about our link.”

“The telepathic one?”

“Yes, it’s not just going to go away. We’ll probably be able to link up forever.”

“Good to know.”

He put some distance between them. He had no choice. Greeting his superior with a hard-on was bad enough, especially since the whole of SpaceCon knew what he’d been doing. He didn’t want to be found balls deep in her.

“But, Mac, you don’t understand—“

He held up his hand as an internal communication came through. “
Perimeter codes accessed. We’ll be with you in less than a minute.


Yes, sir
.”

He recognized that voice. Had Kaiden, the commander of the old unit, come in person? If so they really were trying to keep things quiet.

“Get your stuff, doc.”

She stared at him for a long moment and then slowly nodded and turned toward the lab, her head held high.

“Neeve?”

“Yes?” She looked back over her shoulder at him.

“I’m glad we got you through this.”

“We’re not quite through it yet.”

She smiled at him and it was all that he could do not to run over, scoop her up in his arms and take her back to bed.

The exterior door beeped a warning and suddenly the small space was full of soldiers and medics. Mac instinctively raised his weapon until he recognized a familiar towering figure in a dark blue uniform. Commander Kaiden Rostov was an intimidating sight. Two and a half meters tall and built like a linebacker, he instilled fear from a distance, an impression that remained when one got close enough to see his cold grey eyes and brutal mouth.

“Captain McNeil.”

Mac saluted. “Sir.”

“Where’s Dr. Neeve?”

“In the lab, sir, retrieving her gear.”

“Good.” Kaiden nodded. “The security team will clean up here. I’ll take you and the doctor back with me for debriefing.”

“Yes, sir.” His superior had already turned aside. Mac went still as Kaiden’s gaze fixed on the doorway where Neeve was just emerging.

She had noticed the gigantic man too and stopped walking. If Mac had hackles, they would be rising as Kaiden’s incredible mind reached out to Neeve.


Doctor.”

Neeve’s gaze went to him, and then back to Kaiden.


He’s like you
?”


He’s the original.”

Kaiden frowned. “
Are you talking to her
?”


Yes, sir, can’t you hear us? I can hear both of you quite clearly
.”


I can hear you individually, but only a faint buzz when you are communicating with each other. It’s too fast. What the hell does that mean?”

“I have no idea, sir.”
Mac didn’t care. He was just glad Kaiden was missing out. “Are you ready to leave Dr. Neeve?”

“Yes. I’ve lost some of the data, but the rest of it survived.”

“As did you.” Kaiden smiled down at her. A sight that was so unreal that Mac had to do a double take. “Which is the most important thing.” Hell. Was his commander actually
flirting
?

“Only thanks to Captain McNeil. He saved my life.”

“He’s good at that. He saved my life once, too.” He patted her shoulder. “Let me tell you about it.”

He stepped aside to allow Neeve to leave the building, one hand on the small of her back. For the first time in his life, Mac contemplated shooting a superior officer. He found his pack and stood for a moment among the bustling soldiers. What the hell was wrong with him? He’d never felt this possessive of a woman before in his life. It went far beyond anything civilized and seemed to originate in some primitive part of his brain that just knew about fucking, breathing and surviving.


Mac?”

Neeve was calling him and he wasn’t about to leave her alone with Kaiden Rostov. He shouldered his pack and went out into the secured yard. Snow blasted into his face at an acute angle and the wind almost knocked him off his feet. The lights of a shuttle door were almost impossible to see even though the thing was barely 300 meters away.

He slogged over to the shuttle and got onboard, dumping his bag in the nearest safety harness to keep it secured during flight. It wasn’t a large craft and could easily be piloted by the two of them. There were four small cabins, a communal eating and sitting area and some cargo space below.

Kaiden was already in the pilot’s seat, running the pre-flight checks and communicating with the shuttle’s computers and A. I. Mac studied the displays that were slowly powering up.

“Are you sure it’s okay to leave?”

“No, but I want to put some distance between Dr, Neeve and this research outpost. If it becomes too dangerous, I’ll set down and we can wait the storm out. It’s only a fifteen minute ride back to Nimbus.”

“Where is Dr. Neeve?”

“She’ll be out in a moment.” Kaiden glanced up at Mac. “Take the co-pilot seat. She can sit between us if she wishes, or crash in one of the cabins.”

“Yes sir.” Mac sat down and helped his commanding officer. He didn’t need to turn his head to know when Neeve joined them. Beside him, Kaiden stirred, his nostrils flaring as if he was inhaling something he liked.

“Strap yourself in, Doctor.” Kaiden said. “We’re about to take off.”

Mac returned his focus to the screens, relaying Kaiden’s instructions to the A. I. as the craft struggled to get airborne in the high winds. Eventually they managed it and Mac settled down for the bumpy ride.

“It’s no good.” Fifteen minutes later Kaiden frowned at the monitors. “We can’t get into the dock against this headwind. I’ve been around twice now.” He glanced at Mac and then back at the doctor. “We’ll have to put down at the emergency station at the end of the road to Nimbus and sit it out there.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Damn…” Neeve whispered.

“Is there something wrong, Doctor?”

Kaiden landed the craft with his usual skill and the retractable roof of the shelter immediately closed over them sealing them in from the worse of the elements. The shuttle whined as its engines cooled down and started to turn off.


Does he know about me?”

Mac removed his headset. “
Yes.”

“And he’s a telepath.”

He turned around. “
So
?”


We’re in a very small space
.” She swallowed convulsively. Kaiden was looking from one of them to the other.


You want him, too?”
Mac stood up.


I might.”

“At least you’re honest.”

“It’s not personal, you understand that. It’s just a cultural and biological characteristic of my race.”

“Sure.”
He knew he had no right to be insulted. Wasn’t that the whole idea? He’d service her and she’d…fuck anything she could get her hands on.

She shoved her safety webbing to one side and shot to her feet. “
That’s not true! I didn’t know I was going to be trapped in a small place with two telepaths
!”

“What’s going on, Captain?”

Deliberately blocking out Neeve, Mac answered his superior officer. “
Dr. Neeve is still in her mating cycle, sir.”

“Then go ahead and share a cabin. I’m sure I can find something to do while you complete your assignment.”

“Thank you, sir.”

Mac went over to Neeve who was still glaring at him. “Which cabin did you put your stuff in?”

“The first one, why?”

“Let’s go.”

He claimed her hand, gave his commander a quick nod and led her down the narrow hall into her cabin. Locking the door he started to strip, his cock rising to the occasion even though he was getting damned sore. She stripped out of her clothes so fast, he barely had a second before she was clinging to him and kissing him. Her nipples were hard points against his chest, her sex wet and warm as she rubbed herself over his thigh.

He managed to get them both on the bed and then he forgot everything but being inside her again. He almost wanted Kaiden to see her like this, spread beneath him, urging him on as he fucked her. Even as he pistoned into her, he was aware of a sense of exhaustion creeping over him. He hadn’t slept properly for three days. Perhaps she really did need two bodies to satisfy her. Was he man enough to accept that? What if he had a heart attack from the sheer fucking pleasure of it?

He came and for the first time in his life it hurt to climax, his come was sparse and hot, each spurt burning as it forced its way out of him. With a groan he rolled onto his back and closed his eyes. Perhaps he needed to get things into perspective. He was just doing his duty. She’d already made it clear that there was no future in the relationship, so why the hell was he trying to tell her who or what she could fuck?

“If I can’t satisfy you right up until the end, go and ask Kaiden.”

She cupped his face in her hands and waited until he opened his eyes. Hers were full of tears.

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