Lust in Space Stranded by Erika Rios Read Free Book Online

Chapter 1: There, Now Back
     
    My name is Lita McHenry, the thirty-eight year old commander of the DSS Freeman , an interstellar freighter charged with delivering supply cargo to some of Humankind’s fringe colonies. I’ve commanded the Freeman for three years along with my faithful friend Lt. Commander Nikki Wilson. Our space ship was a marvel of technology; it’s nearly 100% autonomous and the first of its kind that can be piloted by only two crew members.
    Nikki is a wonder, to say the least. She’s thirty-two, which is extremely young to be posted to a mission like ours but she’s a genius. She’s that quiet bookworm, hot sexy kind of woman every man wants and every woman wants to be- you know what I mean. I’m a looker too but her shyness seems to attract men in droves. Lucky for me she never seemed interested in any of the men or I’m quite sure I’d have had someone else sitting beside me for the mission.
    I remembered wondering one time if maybe she was into girls. Heterosexuality was pretty much a thing of the past. Men with men, women with women, all kinds of men with all kinds of women and vice versa. Personally I preferred men over women. Perhaps I just hadn’t found the right girl yet but if I ever decided to do a little muff-diving, Nikki would be high on my list.
    One time we were on a training mission to the Unified Space Training Facility to practice zero-g stuff. It was pretty awkward getting used to floating around. Nikki and I had bumped into each other on more than one occasion and each time I swear I saw a hint of rose in her cheeks. Was it because she liked me? Was she just too shy to say anything? Or maybe it was just genuine embarrassment from rubbing up against another woman who just happened to be her commanding officer?
    You would think that nearly three years in a space ship together would give us plenty of time to figure things out, right? Wrong-o! Once Mission Operations had the computer all programmed, we were dumped in stasis tubes and sent on our merry way. It had something to do with the scientists’ deep-space equivalent to cabin fever.
    Twenty-four hours ago, Delilah, our computer, pulled the Freeman into a geosynchronous orbit near the transfer station around Deep Earth Colony 6 and initiated our wake from stasis. DEC-6 was further from earth than any other colony by far. In the time it took to get us here, we could have traveled to any of the others AND returned to Earth.
    “Hey,” Nikki said as she walked into our quarters.
    We shared quarters which was nothing more than a small room with a couple of bunks near the edge of the gravity collar. It was meant to be comfortable for a couple of days since most of the time we should be in stasis. I sat on the edge of my bunk in a tight tank top and panties- standard code for the tubes. I was sure it was a group of men that thought that one up.
    “Hey, Nikki,” I said with a smile as I watched her close her eyes and stretch.
    My eyes roamed over her tight, fit body. Her nipples were hard from the temperature in the ship and they poked through her top as tiny points. Nikki’s ass had the most delicious, subtle bounce to it as she walked by and for a second I nearly reached out to grab it. Wow, I was really checking her out. It must have been the lag after stasis messing with my mind. I groaned and rubbed my temples.
    “Feeling that good?” she teased and sat down beside me.
    “I’m too old for this shit,” I quipped.
    Nikki laughed and put her hand on my knee. Her touch was warm and inviting and stirred something inside of me. She gave me a summary of our status but I wasn’t paying attention. All I could do was focus on her touch. Somewhere deep down in my body, a little voice said to kiss her. It told me to taste her full, supple lips and sample her curvaceous, sexy body. I just nodded in response to her report.
    “So Delilah has already initiated the unloading sequence?” I asked.
    “Yep,” Nikki replied. “All we