Page 86 of Starfighter’s Salvation

She put her hands on my chest. “Yes.”

“You do not know what I was going to ask.”

“Doesn't matter, the answer is yes.” She leaned down until our mouths almost touched. “I am yours. I want you inside me.”

The mark at my neck pulsed under her thumb.

“Then come here,” I said.

She straddled my hips. I moved my hands up her bare thighs and beneath the fabric of the shirt. No undergarments. Excellent. “Did you plan to seduce me?”

“I’m a woman. I plan everything.”

I cupped her ass and pulled her against my cock.

She pulled me up into a kiss. Her mouth still carried a trace of the sweet chocolate cake and the bitter Velerion tea. I slid my hand higher beneath her shirt and the bond sent a hot pulse through both of us at once.

I broke the kiss on a rough breath. “Every time.”

“The mark?”

“You.”

Possessive heat rolled through the connection, familiar now.

I tightened my fingers on her hips. “Mine.”

She kissed me again. “Still yours."

I lifted the shirt over her head. She was beautiful. Soft breasts, full hips, strong thighs. A faint pink line remained where she'd been injured. I traced it with one finger, slow, and felt her shiver ride down the bond into my own spine.

“The scar will be gone soon,” she said.

“I know.” Our medical technology was far superior to Earth's.

“Yours won’t disappear.” She traced my scars on my shoulder and side with her fingertips, kissed the rough edges in a way that made me shiver. The grafts had healed but the scars would remain.

“Does that bother you?”

“Are you serious?” She ran her hands over my chest, over every mark the war had carved into my flesh. “I chose scars in the game menu. You keep adding upgrades.”

I laughed. Gina’s eyes went warm.

“I love that sound,” she said. The words left her so easily. Then, quieter, watching me: “I love you.”

“I loved you before I met you,” I continued. "I'm sorry I made you wait on Earth. I will regret the hurt I caused you for the rest of my life.”

“You can make it up to me.”

“How?”

She took my hand and pressed it between her naked thighs. Hot. Slick. Shaking.

"Start there."

I had other plans. "No."

Her eyes went sharp. "Corvan⁠—"