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felt the hard pulse of Dink’s cock deep inside, answered it with the thick rush of his own, spilling his seed over Dink’s fist, feeling the hot splash against his own belly.
    Coming and laughing, rolling to their sides still connected, bodies covered in sweat and semen, and in Mac’s case, at least, face awash with tears.
    They lay there, lungs heaving, hearts thudding in their chests, and Mac realized the fear was gone. The tension that had been his companion for so many long months as he struggled to find the perfect team, to finish the project, to do any one of a million things, was gone. Entirely gone.
    Sated, at first he wondered if it was just the sex, but he knew better. It was the connection with his oldest friend, the only one who remembered. Dink had known Zianne almost as intimately as Mac. His memories were proof that she wasn’t merely a dream, a sexual fantasy come to life. She was real—as real as the man who had made love to Mac while he’d made love to Zianne. The three of them, in bed together.
    Born of fantasy, yet so very real. A time almost too good to believe, but it was a time shared. It had been amazing, but this was damned good, too. And lying there with Dink’s arms wrapped around him, with Dink’s cock still deep inside his ass, Mac told his friend all of Zianne’s secrets. Told him about the Gar, the creatures who’d not only captured Zianne’s people but had also destroyed her world.
    A brutal race of aliens now hiding behind Earth’s moon, considering ways to plunder the earth, to steal what this world had to offer unless Mac and his team of unsuspecting kids could stop them.
    Stop them, and rescue the final remnants of an entire race of people held captive on an alien starship. It was the biggest story of his career—of his life—and Dink couldn’t say a word.
    He couldn’t tell a soul what Mac was planning to do.

3
    T he sun was a brilliant orange ball shimmering through morning smog when Rodie stepped out of her cab in front of Beyond Global Ventures headquarters. She glanced at the sign in front of the main building and realized that Beyond Global meant something entirely different to her now.
    Dugan really was talking about going beyond global with the DEO-MAP project. About as far beyond the globe as they could. She still couldn’t believe she’d signed on for this, but how could she not have agreed to be part of Mac’s team?
    She paid the cabbie and handed him a hefty tip after he dragged her unwieldy duffel bag out of the trunk and dumped it on the curb beside her backpack.
    Dugan had told them to pack for all climates. She didn’t know jack shit about the site where they’d be working, other than the fact it was isolated, a hell of a long way from San Jose, and temps dropped well below freezing in winter.
    It was already August—winter in the mountains wasn’t all that far off.
    “Hey, you’re Rodie, right?”
    She turned away from the cab driver and flashed a quick smile at the good-looking blond. “Yeah. And you’re Finn, our resident sexual predator, if I remember correctly.”
    Laughing, he nodded. “At your service. Guess I’m never going to live that down, am I? Need help with that?” He gestured toward her heavy duffel.
    “I do. Thank you. I tried to pack light, but ...”
    Finn gave an exaggerated groan as he lifted the bag. “Yeah, right. I can tell.” He started toward the double doors. “We’re waiting in the same break room as before, but this time the donuts look fresh. Dugan had security let us in. He’ll be back in a few with our transportation, but he said to leave the heavy stuff just inside the doors.”
    “Is he driving?”
    Finn shrugged as he carefully set the heavy bag with a pile of others. “I’m not sure, but it sounds like it. He said something about gassing up the monster—I’m guessing he must be.”
    “You must have gotten here early.” She shot him a quick grin. “I thought you said you were never on time for