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How was she going to say goodbye to him?!
To hells with it.
Miya hooked her fingers into her panties, looking into his eyes as she did it. No amount of goodbyes was going to keep her heart intact, so she might as well skip that part. She wouldn’t waste these last minutes with Therak teary-eyed and sniffling.
He watched her undress with fire in his eyes and twitching ears, but gave her space and kept his hands to himself while she slid the panties down her legs. Only when the lace reached the floor did he pounce.
He plundered her mouth first. Made her come twice with his mouth and mind next. Then plunged into her still fluttering channel and took her hard and fast on the console.
She was never going to look at a ship’s console in the same way again.
When the welcome crew on the dock requested entry, Miya was still breathing hard and tingling all over from the after-shocks of a woman well-loved. She suspected her sex hair, flushed cheeks and swollen lips might raise questions as to what she had been doing while the autopilot had been landing the shuttle. If so...‘Well, sir, I just brought myself to orgasm three times. All by myself. No one on this vessel but me, sir, not a single soul. Certainly no devilishly handsome and heart-stealing assassins on the authorities’ wanted list. Nope. Nuh-uh.’
The alien in question had not said anything when their bodies had separated. Had not given her a parting kiss. He had quickly wrapped her in the blanket like a burrito – his new favorite dish, had taken her panties from the floor and went to the hatch, keeping his eyes averted throughout. Three seconds later, the first entry request had sounded from the other side of the hatch and… their time for saying goodbye had officially been up.
It was better that way. No last kisses, no looking back with longing, no sappy I-love-yous. Those things wouldn't change the fact he was leaving and she might never see him again. They would only make this moment harder.
Therak did say something before the hatch opened and he disappeared in thin air along with her lace.
“I will come for you, my sapphire.”
That was it. The last thing they said to each other.
Then he was gone, and Miya found her blanked-clad self surrounded by curious station personnel.
36
Epilogue
Miya placed her toothbrushing microbots on the charger shelf and looked at herself in the bathroom mirror.
Her hair was tied in a messy-yet-sexy bun. Her face glowed from the night cream infused with ‘let-your-inner-brilliance-shine’ nanoparticles. Her Furvian silk nightie with flowers of blue lace on a dark-green background fit her like second skin, leaving her legs exposed up to mid-thigh. The cute little bowties adorning the V between her breasts and the start of the daring slit over each hip, made her look like a gift waiting to be unwrapped. She was absolutely ready for a night of fun in the sheets.
Miya sighed and exited the bathroom, thus entering her bedroom. Her empty bedroom.
The double bed – one of the biggest luxuries on a space station – mocked her with its perfectly made blue sheets. She sighed again. The only reason those would be rumpled in the morning would be her tossing and turning while trying to get some sleep.
What would it be tonight? A nightmare involving hungry megagulls? One where a certain Cordalian was choking her? A nightmare in which she saw Therak dying in all kinds of ways? Or would Miya be tortured by hot and steamy dreams featuring the gorgeous assassin who had chosen her as his female only to disappear a day later?
Honestly, she didn’t know which of these options she preferred tonight. Either way, she would wake up sweaty, tired, and cranky. And alone.
“Stop it,” she chastised herself while relaxing back into the cool sheets. If she didn’t want to be waking up alone in bed, she shouldn’t have said no to that dashing Bumbian’s offer last week. It was that simple.
But she couldn’t make herself accept a single date offer. She was waiting. Hoping.
It had been seven months since she had made it back to her space station. She had reported the grizzly end of Xera’s human colony and after an investigation by the Intergalactic Council, the planet had been deemed unsafe for colonization. Birmiang Mining had been heftily fined for not equipping the colonists in accordance with safety and evacuation rules.
Miya had also reported certain soldiers’ transgressions. The military had taken her statement and left, no comment whatsoever. They had at least told her that Garfis had been rescued from Xera, found hiding in a storage box under a bed. Whatever report he had given seemed to not have mentioned her and Therak at all. Smart of him.
Surprisingly, Zizu had been found alive, next to a heavily damaged escape pod halfway across Xera. Both her and Garfis had sustained injuries that made them unfit for duty. They wouldn’t be deserting another military unit in their lifetime.
Solais’ body had never been recovered. Which to Miya meant that he had fallen victim to a greater predator than himself. Gulped down in one go, or preserved with goo for the baby megagulls. Good riddance.
Not that his confirmed death had put a stop to his appearance in Miya’s nightmares. She had gotten time off to recover physically and mentally from the ordeal, but two weeks on a resort moon couldn’t delete the bad stuff she had experienced on Xera. Accepting only jobs involving short trips to long-terraformed planets, much to her boss’ disappointment, was good but also not enough.
She needed a longer break from work. To talk with someone who had experienced the same and she didn’t have to hide anything from. Falling asleep in the safe arms of that same someone would help keep the nightmares away too.
She couldn’t do any of those things, except go on holiday. But she kept postponing the trip.
