Burning Up Flint (22 page)

“Lead the way.”

Minutes later they entered Flint’s quarters, which Mira was happy to see again. Flint dropped the bag and gave her a smile. “I will be back as soon as I’m able.”

Mira reached out for him quickly and gripped his shirt. “Not so fast.” A smile curved her lips. “I remember something about saying I’d show you how I can make you forget about the artificial air we breathe and right now seems like a damn good time to start.”

His eyebrows rose. “I must report now, Mira.”

She knelt before him, reached for the front of his pants, and unfastened them quickly, staring up at Flint with a teasing grin. “I have a feeling this won’t take long. I want to give you something to look forward to while we’re aboard the
Star
.” She freed his thickening cock.

“We don’t have time right now as much as I wish we did.”

Her gaze fixed on his aroused flesh as she ignored his words. One of her hands cupped his scrotum while her other hand wrapped around Flint’s shaft.
For a guy saying he can’t, his body is saying a big hell yes
, she thought. He was getting harder by the second as blood rushed to his lower half, where she was kneeling. She knew he was watching her so she made a show of it as she licked her lips, wet them, and inched closer to the tip of his sex.

Without hesitation she took Flint’s cock between her parted lips, her tongue swirled around the crown before she took him deeper, toward the back of her throat, firmly wrapping her lips around his shaft. A groan came from Flint as his fingers brushed through her hair.

“Mira,” his voice had gone husky and low. “That feels incredible.”

You haven’t felt anything yet
, she thought smugly, while she moved her mouth on him faster, sucked on him and licked the underside of his shaft with enough pressure that she knew he’d love it. His breathing turned louder and ragged as she turned her head at different angles, fucking him with her mouth.

“Mira,” he growled as he tried to pull back from her.

She removed her hand from massaging his balls to slide it between his legs to reach up to grab hold of his ass, clutching him to hold him steady so he couldn’t get away while she continued to suck and lick his cock. Judging by how hard he grew from her ministrations, he was close to coming.

“Mira,” Flint rasped. “Unless you want me to shoot
my cum
in your mouth, pull back now.”

Mira wanted all of Flint, her hand tightened on his ass, refusing to let him back away as she milked his cock, teasing and sucking on him until his body tensed, his legs shook a little, and he started to come.

A moan came from her as his release spread on her tongue—a sweet, rich taste that she swallowed over and over until she knew he’d given her all he had. She eased her grip on him and slowly eased his cock from between her lips. She licked them clean when he was free from her.

Her chin rose and she stared up into his sexually satisfied gaze, loving the smile he gave her as he held out his hand to help her up. She placed her hand in his and allowed him to gently tug her to her feet. He released her to close his pants, his attention never straying from her eyes.

“So, when you were panting, did you notice it wasn’t fresh air you were breathing?”

Flint chuckled as he shook his head and reached to brush his knuckles over her cheek in a caress. “I will hurry back to you but you will occupy my thoughts the entire time.”

Grinning at him, Mira nodded, taking a few steps back, knowing he had to get to work. “I’ll be waiting right here for you.”

He hesitated and then nodded, turned his back to her and strode out of their quarters. As soon as the doors slid closed, Mira laughed out loud.

Oh yeah, I’m totally better than fresh damn air
, she thought with amusement.

Chapter Fifteen

The feel of the bed dipping from a heavy weight on the mattress woke Mira instantly. Flint had turned the lights on low. She turned, opening her eyes, to smile at a naked Flint as he lifted the covers to get under them with her.

“That was more than a few hours.”

He chuckled. “I’m sorry.”

“Thank you for sending me food. I was starving.”

“I figured. We missed lunch.”

“What was the holdup?”

“We had some cargo issues. We are supplied with spare parts for the
Vontage
and the
Moonslip
but unfortunately our food supplies were loaded in the wrong cargo area so we had to sort it out. Then I had to have a
vid
meeting with the
Cyborg
Council. They are very excited about the discovery of the survivors of the
Moonslip
. As we were conferencing they got an incoming message from the
Vontage
. We were able to communicate with her commander by
vid
for the first time since it went missing. They were able to fix it since their last communication with our council. Steel is the
Vontage
’s
commander. He was relieved we got his message and he’s returning to the planet to prepare the survivors to abandon the planet.”

“How long will it take to reach them?”

“It will take a good week but we are looking at three weeks minimum for repairs on the damaged ships when we arrive. No one knows why the
Moonslip
was so far out. It had been heading for Garden but it must have gone off course. I was able to get more details so I know what I’m facing. The
Moonslip
suffered damage from an asteroid hit. They were able to set it down on the planet’s moon and then shuttle everyone to the habitable planet nearby. It will make it easier to lift the
Moonslip
from a dead moon with hardly any gravity than to try to lift her off from the planet’s surface. That makes my job a lot easier. We could have transported all the survivors on the
Vontage
, the
Star
, and the
Rally
but we would have been really packed on all three ships. The
Vontage
was damaged by pirates but it was a lucky break since they found the survivors of the other ship. We’ll have both ships running as quickly as possible.”

“The
Rally
is traveling with us?”

“They left when we did but they are faster so they have taken the lead. They will arrive before we do. They are going to assess the damage to both ships so that by the time we arrive we can get the repairs immediately underway.”

“That’s good.” Mira was glad that he was opening up to her, talking to her, and it made her happy.

Flint inched closer to Mira. “I was thinking about you.”

She turned, curling against his large, warm body. His hard erection rubbed her bare stomach. “You were? You sounded like you were too busy to give me much thought.”

She raked her fingernails lightly over his nipples, instantly loving the way they immediately pebbled in response. His cock jerked slightly against her, letting her know he was in tune to her slightest touch so she lowered her head to make a pass at his neck. He tilted his head, letting her bury her face between his cheek and his wide shoulder. She opened her mouth to tease his skin with her tongue before she kissed the area she had just wet.

“I was also late because I made Doc activate my sperm.”

She pulled her face away from his neck. Their gazes met. “How long does it take to work?”

He smiled. “By tomorrow my sperm will be viable.”

“So we’re really going for this trying to get pregnant fast, huh?”

He suddenly pushed her on her back, pinning her under his body. She spread her legs so he could fit his hips in the cradle of her thighs. They stared at each other as he settled down on her. She loved the feeling of Flint surrounding her.

“I want everything with you. My request was approved. We are officially a family unit and Cal was nice enough to officially close the application as well.”

“Close the application? I don’t understand.”

“On Garden a family unit isn’t complete until there are three males with the female.
Arrion
is the female you met. She offered me the third male spot in their family unit. Her application is still open. If I had agreed then the unit would be closed and so would the application process. Cal closed our application so no other person can enter into our family unit.” He smiled.

Mira smiled back at him. “I’m starting to like Cal. I’m almost sorry that I called him a jerk.”

“I don’t like him at the moment for sending me on this mission. We should be celebrating our family unit approval in my large tub together. Instead we’re in this closet of a room on a tiny bed.”

“It’s cozy.”

“It’s tiny.”

Wiggling against him, she arched her back. “Cozy. Look how close we have to get all the time. We can’t sleep together without wrapping around each other. While I wish we had that tub in here if it would fit, which it sure wouldn’t, I can happily live with this. You’re all mine and I’m all yours.”

“You’re more than property to me, Mira.” Flint stared into her eyes. “I have spent hours thinking about you and I realized something I have been struggling with for days.”

Her heart stilled at his serious look. “You haven’t reconsidered being in a family unit with me, have you?”

Flint chuckled, his dark blue eyes sparkling with amusement. “No. I want you to know that I feel more than just possessive of you. When you wanted to die before you were willing to let another man own you I realized how important you are to me and that I was important to you as well. I knew that I valued you more than anything else I possess but I hadn’t realized why. Seeing you on that balcony today I realized that I didn’t want to live without you in my life. I never thought I could feel so much for someone but I feel everything for you.”

Mira grinned at him. “I love you too.”

He cupped her face in his large hand.
“Love.
Yes. That’s what I feel for you. Your smile makes me happy and your pain makes me hurt with you. Your unhappiness makes me unhappy. Your body makes me ache and you make me hard with need to be inside you. You are always on my mind and when I am not with you, I want you with me.”

He shifted his hips, his cock slowly filling Mira. She moaned, wrapping her legs tightly around his hips. “I’m so wet for you and you haven’t even tried to turn me on.”

“Just being with you, looking at you, and touching you make me need to be inside you.” Flint brushed a kiss on her lips.

“I’ve been aching just thinking about you coming to bed with me.” Mira raked her fingernails on his skin where she clutched his shoulders.

Flint lowered his face to kiss her. He moved on her, driving deeply into her as his mouth savaged hers. She met his passion, locking her legs tighter around him, her hands gripping his broad shoulders to brace against as she bucked under him in time to each drive of his hips. He shifted his hips to change his angle of entry. It was all it took for the pleasure to become too much. Mira cried out Flint’s name as she exploded in rapture. He groaned
,
his mouth tearing from hers as he emptied his release into her body that squeezed and gripped him as her muscles held him.

Flint adjusted her legs so that they weren’t hooked together behind his ass, rolling them over so she was sprawled on his wide chest. He cursed and had to lift up, moving them away from the edge of the bed before collapsing in the middle with Mira on top of him.

“This bed is too damn small.”

She laughed at his grumpy tone. “But we’re in it together.”

He relaxed under her. “It’s cozy. I remember you telling me that. I’ll keep repeating that in my head every damn time we end up on the floor.”

“If we fall out I hope you hit first and I land on you.” She lifted her head up, smiling as she gazed at him.

His hand cupped her ass. That hand gave a squeeze and then lifted away from her body. Flint swatted Mira’s ass just enough to make her jump and feel a slight sting. He laughed.

“What was that for?”

He smiled at her. “You want me to hit the floor?”

“You’re bigger. If you landed on me I would not only get bruised from that damn floor but you’d crush me.”

“I wouldn’t want that.”

“Me neither.”

They stared at each other. Flint suddenly narrowed his eyes. “I have a plan.”

“Uh-oh.
I don’t like that gleam in your eyes.”

He tried to look innocent as he smiled at her but he failed miserably at it. “What gleam?”

“The gleam I see in your eyes.” She watched him closely, grinning. “I’m seeing total naughtiness and mischief there, Flint. Don’t even deny it.”

He laughed. “I was only thinking that I’ll replace the bed with the cot. I’ll tie you down like I did before and then you won’t be able to fall out of bed. I’ll be cuddled between your lovely thighs so I won’t fall off either. It’s a perfect solution.”

She smiled. “Or I could tie your large body down so you don’t fall off and I’ll sleep on top of you. You’re big enough to be a mattress.”

He laughed. “I doubt that
me
being tied down would be nearly as arousing as you being tied down.”

She lifted up off Flint so she could take in the sight of his chest, his arms and shoulders. She studied him carefully. She was getting turned-on just imagining Flint tied up on a cot—bound, naked, so she could do anything to him.

“You’d be surprised. I would touch you everywhere with my hands and my mouth.” She put her hand on his chest and lightly raked her fingernails over his nipple. “My fingernails all over your body like this. I’d get you so hard that you would beg me to make you come but I’d hold back. I’d take you to the edge and then tease you all over again until you wanted to break free from the restraints. I’d take you inside me then, Flint. I could ride you or I could take you with my mouth and it would all be up to me.”

“Mira,” he almost growled her name.

Her gaze lifted, locking with his. Flint’s cock hardened under her, letting her feel its firm presence as she spoke. “I’d make you come so damn hard you’d feel like your mind was blown.”