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meetings in the beginning, but was ready to announce to everyone that she and
David were officially together. He wasn’t. Though he suspected Sean knew,
thankfully the younger man had never brought it up. That would be more for
Mari’s sake than David’s, though, because the two men still didn’t get along.
David feared the revelation about
he and Mari would cause problems with the others, but he also worried that the
magic of their relationship would somehow end if it were exposed to the world.
Last month he almost lost her
completely to Dale Zapona, a human trafficker who would have sold Mari to a
psycho whose sport was torturing and raping young women from Deleine. Mari may
have saved herself, but David’s the one who personally took care of Dale.
David’s brother, Ben, was still hunting down the psycho buyer. Hopefully he’d
hear good news soon.
The trauma of the event was
easing for Mari. Days like today almost seemed normal.
He tossed her playfully onto the
thin mattress on the floor. As soon as he collapsed beside her, Mari wrapped
herself up in half of the royal blue duvet and snuggled against him. The citrus
notes of her scentbots played in his nose once again.
“How could you possibly be
cold after all of that?” He curled an arm around her under the blanket.
“Because you keep this place
like a cave.” She shivered. “It’s not very homey. You barely have any
furniture. And what you do have is ugly.”
David scanned his bedroom. Three
of the walls had large black screens adhered to their surfaces. These were
inset with an occasional white square over the grey backing that covered the
other walls and the ceiling. On the wall opposite the entrance was a large
framed line drawing of the Koley Mountains on Yurai, David’s home planet.
Besides the low bed and the freestanding lamps, the only other piece of
furniture was a light blue wooden chair that was more comfortable than it
looked…and apparently ugly.
The spartan interior housed
everything he needed, but more importantly, it looked like his quarters on the Argo
Protector just before he left his commission there.
“It’s better than the neon
world where you live.” He smiled and closed his eyes, knowing the tease
would get her riled up.
“What’s wrong with a little
color?” she asked.
“A little color? It
looks like the bottom part of the light spectrum exploded all over your suite
in green and blue globules.” He peeked out of one eye to see her reaction.
“Well, when you become my
prime, maybe I’ll let you have a say in the redecorating. Unless we stayed in
your suite, then I’d have a say in the redecorating. Whose suite is
bigger? I think mine is, but yours is closer to the bridge, so that’s something
to consider.”
Mari prattled on. David stared at
the ceiling. Sometimes she talked so fast and about so many different topics
all at once that David had a hard time following the conversation. Not that it
ever really was much of a conversation because Mari didn’t often give him a
chance to get a word in, except when she was mad at him and during sex. The
latter had to become a rule, though, after the first couple of times that he
and Mari were in the throes of coupling and she talked through half of it. He
managed to smother her mouth with kisses during the other half, but as soon as
he would come up for air, she’d find something new to tell him. So they had
agreed that unless it was dirty, encouraging, or telling him that he was doing something
wrong, it could wait until afterward.
Still, he liked to hear her
voice. That’s why the sudden quiet jarred him out of his thoughts. Since they
had just finished docking, it meant Mari’s silence was born of irritation, not
coital bliss.
“Nothing to say?” she
asked.
“I was just enjoying the
moment.” David tried to play innocent. He knew she was referring to the
marriage subject again, but he hoped to avoid a fight.
“David.”
“I thought we
meetings in the beginning, but was ready to announce to everyone that she and
David were officially together. He wasn’t. Though he suspected Sean knew,
thankfully the younger man had never brought it up. That would be more for
Mari’s sake than David’s, though, because the two men still didn’t get along.
David feared the revelation about
he and Mari would cause problems with the others, but he also worried that the
magic of their relationship would somehow end if it were exposed to the world.
Last month he almost lost her
completely to Dale Zapona, a human trafficker who would have sold Mari to a
psycho whose sport was torturing and raping young women from Deleine. Mari may
have saved herself, but David’s the one who personally took care of Dale.
David’s brother, Ben, was still hunting down the psycho buyer. Hopefully he’d
hear good news soon.
The trauma of the event was
easing for Mari. Days like today almost seemed normal.
He tossed her playfully onto the
thin mattress on the floor. As soon as he collapsed beside her, Mari wrapped
herself up in half of the royal blue duvet and snuggled against him. The citrus
notes of her scentbots played in his nose once again.
“How could you possibly be
cold after all of that?” He curled an arm around her under the blanket.
“Because you keep this place
like a cave.” She shivered. “It’s not very homey. You barely have any
furniture. And what you do have is ugly.”
David scanned his bedroom. Three
of the walls had large black screens adhered to their surfaces. These were
inset with an occasional white square over the grey backing that covered the
other walls and the ceiling. On the wall opposite the entrance was a large
framed line drawing of the Koley Mountains on Yurai, David’s home planet.
Besides the low bed and the freestanding lamps, the only other piece of
furniture was a light blue wooden chair that was more comfortable than it
looked…and apparently ugly.
The spartan interior housed
everything he needed, but more importantly, it looked like his quarters on the Argo
Protector just before he left his commission there.
“It’s better than the neon
world where you live.” He smiled and closed his eyes, knowing the tease
would get her riled up.
“What’s wrong with a little
color?” she asked.
“A little color? It
looks like the bottom part of the light spectrum exploded all over your suite
in green and blue globules.” He peeked out of one eye to see her reaction.
“Well, when you become my
prime, maybe I’ll let you have a say in the redecorating. Unless we stayed in
your suite, then I’d have a say in the redecorating. Whose suite is
bigger? I think mine is, but yours is closer to the bridge, so that’s something
to consider.”
Mari prattled on. David stared at
the ceiling. Sometimes she talked so fast and about so many different topics
all at once that David had a hard time following the conversation. Not that it
ever really was much of a conversation because Mari didn’t often give him a
chance to get a word in, except when she was mad at him and during sex. The
latter had to become a rule, though, after the first couple of times that he
and Mari were in the throes of coupling and she talked through half of it. He
managed to smother her mouth with kisses during the other half, but as soon as
he would come up for air, she’d find something new to tell him. So they had
agreed that unless it was dirty, encouraging, or telling him that he was doing something
wrong, it could wait until afterward.
Still, he liked to hear her
voice. That’s why the sudden quiet jarred him out of his thoughts. Since they
had just finished docking, it meant Mari’s silence was born of irritation, not
coital bliss.
“Nothing to say?” she
asked.
“I was just enjoying the
moment.” David tried to play innocent. He knew she was referring to the
marriage subject again, but he hoped to avoid a fight.
“David.”
“I thought we
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