Bad Kitty by Teresa Noelle Roberts

Author:Teresa Noelle Roberts [Roberts, Teresa Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2016-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Xia awoke in the dark and bolted into an awareness kept on the positive side of panic because she knew what to do. Knew, because they’d taught her a few valuable things along with twenty ways to murder someone three times her size, how to lie in complete silent awareness and take in her surroundings. Knew, because Gan would have been a priest of the Light except for that little problem with his temper, how to still her breath and open her senses, how to calm her racing heart, how to sort out the present moment from the snarls of her dreams and fears and past crimes.

It didn’t always work. Sometimes the dark turned close and damp and cold, and she had to do something to escape, but usually she could figure out there was nothing to worry about other than simple lack of light.

This time she wasn’t alone in the bed.

It wasn’t Rita—her friend used to crawl into the bunk when Xia whimpered, until she figured out the unexpected companionship made things worse. It was someone much bigger.

Xia’s claws flashed out. Her breathing quieted. She held herself as still as the space between star systems and listened. Smelled. Tried to remember.

The quiet gurgle of a fountain. Biosilk sheet cradling her. A man’s snoring, charming in its own way. It sounded almost like purring, which clued her in. She felt safe enough to take a deep breath, drink in the perfume of sex and male and female sweat and the Rodrantian blue wine they’d spilled while they ate a raw-fish dish sometime after midnight. Their late night snack had reminded her of the sushi Mik liked, but it was a Mrrwr delicacy, spiced in a way that she couldn’t consciously remember eating before, but that nevertheless seemed familiar.

Rahal had fed it to her.

She’d eaten from his hand, he’d eaten from hers, and it had been cosmically sexy, but at the same time they’d been laughing like a couple of kids.

In a funny way, it had almost been like hanging out with Rita. A lot more naked, but just as relaxed and comfortable. Maybe it felt so natural because he was felinoid too. That must be it. There were things they seemed to understand without much discussion.

For instance he’d smelled a bit like Karn the Viking when she got back from checking in with her fathers and friends, and the office was perfumed with male musk, human and felinoid. That had only made her hotter because she could picture the two beautiful men together.

A partner from another species might not have gotten that. Stars, a partner from another species might have tried to pretend he hadn’t been playing with someone else and the lie would have pissed her off. But they understood each other. Sex happened. Sex was fun. No worries.

She’d teasingly said it would have been polite to wait for her. Rahal had laughed and assured her she’d have plenty of chances with the two of them before the

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