The Portal (Novella) by S.E. Gilchrist

Author:S.E. Gilchrist [Gilchrist, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857990341
Published: 2013-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Olman Garrison, Basa System: Six Standard Months Earlier

“What do you mean ‘we’?” Janni finally spluttered.

The patroller raised his thin brows and said, “You and I.”

“Mate, you have so got the wrong idea. I may steal a little here and there but I don’t whore for anyone.”

He titled his head to one side and regarded her. “Whore?” he queried in his pleasantly modulated voice.

Janni held her ground, raising her chin, hating the way heat washed like a river over her face and neck. Positive the freckles that dotted her skin would be standing out like a bad case of the measles. “Yeah, you call them sex slaves, ‘cept where I come from there ain’t no slaves.”

His mouth deepened at the corners into a positively sinful quirk as he stepped a pace back and took a long, thorough look from the top of her tousled head to the tips of her dusty boots. The glint in his eyes had her thinking all kinds of naughty thoughts; ones that involved peeling that armour off him and exploring every inch of his muscular body.

Wooah! What am I thinking? Janni jerked her head to the side and crossed the room. Her movements feeling jerky and stiff like an uncontrolled puppet. Tension drained away the closer she came and as soon as she reached the edge, she dropped into a crouch to trail her fingers through the water. The pool was the size of a ten-person spa, its waters crystal clear, the ripples formed by her hand glittering like diamonds reflected by the light from the pure white tiles which formed the pool’s skin.

She sensed the presence of the patroller beside her and glanced over. The same yearning she felt was etched in the awed expression on his face, the faint wistful curve of his exquisitely cut lips. When he turned and met her eyes, his mouth widened into a mischievous grin, the faint lines about the corners of his eyes crinkling.

“Flaviani water slides like the smoothest of fabrics against the body,” he murmured, his voice rich with temptation.

God, how long had it been since she had experienced real water splashing over her skin? Too long. She sucked in her lower lip and half closed her eyes, as she swished her hand back and forth.

“Are you telling me, we have the place to ourselves?” she asked.

“Affirmative.”

Obviously a man of few words, decided Janni. She rose to her feet and watched him straighten to his full height, a full head higher than her.

“Let us not waste the time we have,” he said.

Hell no. Janni nodded. She reefed off her boots, tossing them well away from the pool’s edge, flinging the remainder of her clothes after them until she stood clad in her paper-thin camisole and undies. The splash of water alerted her and she looked up to find her buck-naked companion ducking his head beneath the water. He emerged, eyes closed, head flung back, his black hair streaming down like watered silk over his wide shoulders.

He groaned.

She needed no further invitation.

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