Skinwalker's Bane by Tracy Cooper-Posey

Author:Tracy Cooper-Posey [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
Published: 2013-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The house AI announced Adam had arrived just as Zsoka Owens was finishing up her summary of the scientific findings about the shard. Devin had listened with close attention to the speech, trying to absorb all the technical details. There were a lot of them. There would be smart people all over the ship analyzing the assays, adding the weight of their opinions to the sum total knowledge of the shard.

It would turn the conversation about the shard from the ridiculous to the possible, which would help calm the hysteria that had been starting to build. Just a few minutes on the Forum, sampling the reactions people were posting even as the Captain was still speaking, told Devin this was going to work even more effectively than she had thought it might.

This was my idea, Devin thought, looking at the screen. The Captain is doing what I suggested.

Little fingers rippled along her spine, making her shiver. She would never have thought, as a small child, that one day she might be able to influence the Captain herself and help change the course of the Endurance’s history.

This was much better than simply finding a way to improve a single person’s life by finding out what ailed them. This was powerful. Heady. She could easily do it again. And again.

Then the house AI told her Adam was at the front door and Devin forgot all about the Captain and changing lives, as she hurried to the front door to be there when the AI let him in.

She reflected that her own life had changed considerably in the last few days, in a way she would have not predicted, either.

The last two days of Adam’s recovery had been far from the remedial calm that Anar Bader had recommended. That first kiss had set off a frantic two days of sexual play that had depleted her body and mind and laid her nerve endings waste. Sex had never been a huge driver in her life—she had instead channeled her energies into her ambition to be Captain. Whenever she was near Adam, though, she turned into a woman she barely recognized. She could think of nothing but getting as close to him as possible. She had found herself tearing off the few layers he had bothered with in those two days, to reach every inch of him with her hands and mouth.

He made her feel things she hadn’t thought were possible for the human body. The pleasure had melted her brain and left her trembling.

At the end of the two days he had printed off a fresh set of coveralls and headed to the engine room for his first shift back after the beating. He had kissed her at the door before stepping out. Actually, it had been far more than a simple kiss. He had left her propped limply up against the wall, where she had stayed for minutes, letting her energy rebuild and her thoughts coalesce.

She had returned to work herself and had spent the day forcing her mind to the work over and over again.

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