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her hair from her face and smiled. “Hello.”
    “Hi.” Her voice was husky.
    He hesitated before taking a deep breath to speak. This was going to sound strange.
    “Your name wouldn’t happen to be Haylie, would it?”
    The laugh bubbled out of her and Kamran wondered if the excitement of the past minutes was too much for her.
    “I’m sorry. It’s just, I have been thinking about you all day. I find you almost dying out in the hall, we have the best sex of my life and you don’t even know who I am.”
    Haylie managed to get the words out in between gasps and laughs.
    “Yes, it is strange how my people mate. But nonetheless, I want to make sure?”
    She instantly sobered and fixed him with a look that would have impressed Taber.
    “Yes, I’m Haylie. And I think I have to put you under arrest for public indecency.”
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Chapter Four
    “I hope that’s not necessary.” Kamran couldn’t tell if she was serious or not.
    Haylie laughed again and placed a kiss on his cheek. “I see we need to work on your sense of humor.”
    He gathered her into his arms and sank to the floor. This was paradise. Years of loneliness, of being separate in status from the rest of his family, were over. He had Haylie.
    She snuggled in tighter and ran her fingers over his chest. Just as her wriggling threatened to stir his arousal again, she stopped.
    “Are you okay?” she asked, with her head resting against his shoulder.
    “Pardon?”
    “Are you okay? Fifteen minutes ago, you were gasping for air in the hallway,” she said, leaning back to give him a once-over.
    “I assure you I’m quite well.” He bucked his hips up to press his cock against her.
    She gasped in surprise, but that didn’t stop her from grinding against him. A human blush is quite charming.
    “That didn’t take long,” she said, her face reddening more.
    “The Briel libido is very…healthy. You embarrass easily for a security chief.”
    “I certainly do not.” Her blush deepened. “I think you should go see the doctor, just in case.”
    “Because I want to take you again right now on the floor?” He couldn’t help but tease her.
    Haylie rolled her eyes. “No, because you were choking to death.”
    “Perhaps. But not now.”
    She turned her head to look at him. “Wait a minute, you knew I was the security chief. I thought you said you didn’t know who I was.”
    “Taber. He told me he met Haylie, the new security chief. You are the only Haylie I am aware of on this station.”
    “Ah.” She rested her warm cheek against his chest once more, hiding her face from his sight. “So why were you choking back there? Was there something in the air? And for that matter, why are you even here? Not that you can’t be here, but it seems rather odd that—”
    “Haylie, stop, stop. It has been a while since I’ve had to endure an interrogation.”
    He laughed again. The euphoria was addicting.
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    “Sorry.”
    “I was looking for you. I couldn’t get you out of my mind.”
    “Really?”
    She pulled up again and kissed him lightly. Her tongue traced a path along the edges of his mouth. He groaned when she pulled back to suck on his bottom lip.
    Goddess, he loved how that felt. The things she did to him were intoxicating. He shivered as a stab of pleasure raced through him once more.
    “That was the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me.” She murmured the words against his mouth and sealed it with a final kiss.
    “You have been speaking to the wrong people.”
    Kamran stroked her neck, amazed at the softness of her skin. And her smell—the scent of intoxicated desire. He shifted his legs, causing Haylie to slide between them and onto the floor. The weight of her stomach against his groin was too much.
    “I need you again.”
    He started when he realized he wasn’t the one who spoke. It was Haylie. She moved on to her knees, leaned forward and kissed his chest. He thanked every deity he knew as her mouth slowly trailed kisses