In The Corsair's Bed by Ruby Dixon

Author:Ruby Dixon [Dixon, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

10

TAREKH

Cat’s vehement reaction surprises me. Why is she so mad?

I’m still rattled and recovering from the fact that she caught me jerking off. She acted like it was nothing, but a few moments earlier and she would have heard me groaning her name. I don’t want her to know that I’m obsessed with her. That I’ve considered her mine ever since she tried to stab me in med-bay with my own needle. She’s not interested in me like that, so it’s just another thing I’ll bury deep and smile through. That she’s safe and happy is enough for me.

My heart, anyway. Maybe not my cock, but my heart for sure.

Her flirty offer just makes things worse, though. Because I want to say yes to what she’s suggesting, more than anything. But I also know it’s wrong. Not only because she’s not ready, but because she doesn’t feel the same way I do. If she touches me, I don’t want to see that dead look in her eyes. The “I’m going to endure this because I have to” expression I’ve seen on whores. I want her to touch me because she wants me as bad as I want her, or it’s no good.

And I know she’ll never want me like that.

Fran jogs down the hall, a confused look on her face. She glances over at me as she passes med-bay. “What’s eating Cat?”

“She’s fine,” I say.

Now Fran gives me an incredulous look. “She’s cursing at the top of her lungs. What about that tells you that she’s fine?”

I shrug. “Okay, she’s mad at me. Either way, it’s fine.”

Fran looks down the hall, as if determining whether or not to go after Cat, and then turns to me. “What did you say to her?”

I can feel my horns getting hot. Just a little. “Ain’t nothing. I might have suggested something that pissed her off.”

She smirks. “She found out you ate all her noodles?”

I rub at my bald head. “Er, no, not exactly. I mean, she did, but that’s not what she’s mad about.” I wonder if I should keep it a secret, but then again, Fran’s human. She’ll know what I did wrong if it’s a human sort of thing versus a Cat sort of thing. “Can I talk to you a second?”

“Of course.” She follows me into med-bay and kicks aside one of my old tunics. “God, you’re a slob. Didn’t Cat just tidy this place up for you?”

I shrug. She might have. “She likes to annoy me with shit like that.”

“More like she likes to look after you,” Fran says, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back against the wall in a move so much like Kivian I’d laugh if I wasn’t so confused at the moment.

“Look after me?”

“Of course. Out of all of us, you’re the one she’s closest to. She gets along with the boys and me, but it’s you that she turns to for everything. You haven’t noticed that?”

I’ve seen Cat straightening up, of course. Within a few days, she had my wreck of a room all cleaned out and tidy.

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