in her throat, her eyes glazing with sadness.
“None of that,” Kaden said, and his large hand landed on the small of her back, tugging her forward until she bounced up against him in the water. Her wet breasts pressed against his chest, and his erect cock stabbed into her stomach. His eyes slid open to regard her, and he tugged her up in the water, settling her over him to where she straddled his cock, her thighs riding him high, her breasts pressing up against his face. “Now this? This is perfect.”
He leaned in and pressed a kiss to one erect nipple. At her soft moan of pleasure, he leaned over and kissed the other, then rolled it gently against his tongue.
“Pretty sure that’s against regulations,” she gasped, even as her fingers clenched against his scalp and she pushed it back into his mouth. His hands grasped the tops of her thighs, his thumbs perilously close to the vee of her pussy, and she felt the hot brand of his cock underneath her, the length of it insistent against her own slick skin.
“Pretty sure that I don’t care,” he growled in a low voice, then bit gently. A wave of pleasure shot through her, and she rocked in his lap, earning her another growl. “I want to sink deep inside you, Zoey.”
“I want that too,” she moaned, her breath coming in short, sharp pants of desire. When his mouth nuzzled at the slope of her breast, she whimpered. “Please, Kaden.”
“Next time, we do this nice and slow,” he told her, even as he adjusted her in his lap, the water splashing around them. She felt the head of his cock press up against her core and anticipation clenched her muscles.
“Nice and slow,” Zoey repeated quickly, then leaned in to give him a hard, fierce kiss, her fingers splaying on his stubbled cheek. “Next time.”
He groaned into her mouth at the same moment that his cock sank deep inside her.
Bliss shuddered through her body and Zoey stiffened at the intensity of sensation, her back arching. She heard Kaden’s hiss of pleasure, and she rocked her hips against him slowly, dragging them upward in response to his next shallow thrust.
“So good, beautiful,” he said, lifting a hand from one of her thighs to clench in her hair. “So damn good.”
The computer chimed over the intercom. “Diagnostic surveys are now complete.”
Zoey glanced up at the ceiling. “What? What diagnostic surveys?”
Kaden’s face lit up. He leaned in, gave her a hard, fierce kiss and then tugged her off his lap. Before she could protest, he was out of the tub and racing out of the gym, stark naked and skidding on the now-wet floors.
Zoey stared after his bare ass in shock. He’d been seated deep inside her and he’d suddenly... lost interest? What the hell?
She got out of the tub, commanded the computer to recycle the water, and wrapped a towel around her body. Then she followed the trail of water to find Kaden.
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The trajectory of the puddles led through the small ship, straight up to the cockpit of the Alcestis . Surprised, Zoey wrapped her robe tightly around her body, her heart beginning to hammer in her breast in a way that had nothing to do with sex. Was... something wrong? She didn’t think she could handle more going wrong. Not now. Not when she still felt so fragile about the time they had left.
She pushed her thumb to the biometric pad for the bridge, and the door slid open, revealing Kaden’s naked, tight ass as he bent over one of the panels, furiously typing.
She didn’t know whether to laugh or panic. “What is it? What’s wrong?”
He raked a hand through his hair and straightened, a hint of a grin on his face. “Huh? Oh, nothing’s wrong,” he said, distracted as another diagnostic popped up on screen, and his attention immediately went back to it. “Nothing,” he repeated, distracted.
Zoey moved to his side, frowning. Up on the display screen, she saw what looked like a analytic report—life support systems, an inventory of the readiness of each