Depths Of Desire XW5 (23 page)

“A fucking glitch. Several of the circuits
on the laser blew while we were adjusting the settings and they need to be
replaced. The men are working on it.”

“How long?”

“An hour maybe. Maybe longer. What are you
up to?”

“Trying to keep my sanity. I don’t like all
this sitting around. I feel like I need to be doing something.”

“You and me both.” He grinned. “Wanna
fuck?”

A look of surprise filled her eyes, but
then a small smile graced her face. “Actually…” She slowly began to sashay
toward him.

“I was kidding.” He cocked an eyebrow and
looked down at her swaying hips. “Don’t tempt me.”

“Why not? We have time.”

“But not a lot of privacy.”

“Since when does that bother a Xylon?”

He growled low in his throat. She was right
about that. But he was working with humans now. For them to listen to him, they
had to respect him. Fucking her, while they had to endure without, could strain
the team.

She opened the front of her uniform to
expose her breasts.

His mouth practically watered at the
beautiful sight. Normally he would have already jumped her and had her on the
floor, with his cock pounding into her cunt. But he was in charge and he was
stronger than that. Her nipples hardened as he stared at her body. She pinched
the pearly nubs and smiled seductively.

“Shit.”
Who the fuck am I kidding?
He
grabbed her arms and covered her mouth in a searing kiss. He backed her up, heading
toward the small cot, but the desk stopped their progress. He moved his hands
to her breasts, pushed her hands away, and tugged and twisted her nipples until
she groaned against his lips.

When she began pulling at his pants,
undoing them, he broke the kiss and stripped the uniform off her body. Her feet
got tangled in the material and she cursed. Before she could step out of it, he
forced her around and over the desk. Her ass, round and perfect, beckoned him.
He brought his hand down, sharp and hard, across her flesh.

“Ah!”

He smacked one cheek then the other,
alternating between soft and hard spanks. Stimulating her, surprising her,
controlling her.

She reached back and worked her fingers
into his pants then she tugged on his cock. “Harder.”

“Ah, fuck!” He spanked her ass, over and
over, as she continued to pull on his cock. He brought his hand down hard,
working them both into a state of sexual need that couldn’t be denied or
stopped.

He stared down at her pink flesh. So
tempting. “Step out of your uniform,” he ordered. As she freed herself from the
garment, his heart pounded and his mind became filled with sexual images. He
pulled her hand away from his cock, kicked her feet wider, and grabbed her
hips. With one hard thrust, he shoved his cock deep.

She gasped and held onto the desk. “Yes!”

Torque moved solely on instinct and pure
need. He pulled almost completely out of her pussy then pushed his cock back
in, hard and sure. She belonged to him and him alone. He fucked Jaeda as if it
was their last time. And it just might be if things went to shit.

She reached back and clawed at his hip,
urging him on. “Fuck me!”

With a loud groan, he surged into her
repeatedly, trying to hold out as long as he could to give her the best orgasm
of her life. Her body molded itself around his cock and squeezed as if trying
to milk the climax out of him. He’d never fucked a shifter before being with
her. It was a hell of an experience. A perfect fit. “Ah, yeah, Jaeda.” The
slapping of skin against skin and the odor of sex filled his senses.

Jaeda’s body trembled and she made a sound
that Torque had never heard before. Almost a sob of need. “Please,” she begged,
pushing her hips back against him.

He tangled his fingers in her hair and
pulled her torso up off the desk. He wrapped an arm around her waist and held
her tightly against him. “Don’t come yet,” he whispered in her ear. “Hold out.”

“I can’t.”

A sound caused Torque to glance toward the
door. He froze and he felt Jaeda stiffen against him. Grady stood there
watching.

“Things went quicker than expected. We’re
about ready,” he said.

“We’re not,” Torque growled back.

“Need some help?”

Jaeda moaned and her pussy muscles clenched
his cock. Interesting… “Want a third?” he whispered in her ear.

When she whimpered, Torque hand signaled
the other man. Grady smiled. He nodded and closed the door behind him. Then he
slowly walked toward them. Jaeda’s limbs began to shake but she didn’t say
anything.

“You’re still my woman,” he whispered to
her. “Only mine. Remember that.” He nudged her feet farther apart as Grady
kneeled in front of her.

Jaeda felt as if she was about to faint.
This was different than the initiation. Sexier. Maybe because she was fully
aware and in her right mind. Torque held her hips, fucking her slowly from
behind. Grady leaned forward and spread the lips of her pussy wider then she felt
his tongue on her clit. “Oh!” Her whole body jerked at the sensation.

Torque slid his hands up her body and over
her breasts. He massaged her heated flesh, rubbing her nipples until they
practically burned. Grady leaned closer and sucked her clit between his lips.
Her hands automatically went to his head and she held him there.

Torque chuckled in her ear. “You like all
this attention, don’t you?”

She moved her body between the two men,
enjoying every touch and stroke, though she didn’t intend to admit it aloud.
Torque’s large, strong hands made her feel soft and feminine and like she
belonged to him. Grady’s tongue was slightly rough, as all Xylon’s, and caused
an explosion of sensations. Now, his sucking had her on the edge of a huge
climax.

Torque began fucking her a little harder.
His hot breath caressed her cheek. When his tongue circled her ear and Grady
once more licked her clit, she couldn’t hold out any longer. Her body stiffened
and she screamed out her pleasure. “Yes!” She came hard, then heard Torque
groan and felt him climax inside of her. Grady’s fingers tightened on her
thighs and his tongue went wild, making her orgasm a second time and then a
third. She could barely catch her breath. “Oh-oh. Yes…”

Torque pushed his cock deep. “Ah, yeah,
Jaeda.” He pumped his hips against her from behind as if trying to get every
drop of his cum inside of her.

She went limp against him. If he hadn’t had
his arm around her, she’d have fallen to the floor. Grady stood up in front of
her. He wiped his mouth and the look in his eyes grew intense. He took his cock
out of his pants and began stroking himself.

Torque raised her hands to her breasts.
“Play with your nipples. Give him a show.”

Grady moved a little closer, eying her
breasts, but he didn’t touch her. Torque kissed her neck, letting his tongue
caress her damp flesh as perspiration slid down her skin.

“You owe me, Koll,” Grady said in a growl.
“For this and for punching me in the jaw.” Then he came. His cum spurt out of
his cock and onto one of her thighs. He groaned.

“Consider that your payment,” Torque told
him in a rough voice.

“When we get out of here, I’m going on a
damn fucking rampage.” Grady stepped back.

Torque turned her in his arms. He kissed
her lightly on the lips. “Let’s get cleaned up and take down Daegal.”

She nodded and placed a soft kiss on his
chest. When she turned around, Grady was gone.

* * * * *

With Leila in tow, Halah strolled up to the
gate in front of the tracking facility. “Don’t say anything,” she whispered to
the healer. “I’ll do all the talking. We’ll be fine.”

Several of the Egesa guards immediately
drew their weapons and trained them on her. “Hold!”

Halah raised one of her hands and spoke to
them in their language. “Easy, soldiers. My name is Halah Shirota. I’m one of
Daegal’s highbred assassins. I’ve brought a prisoner. Leila Abdera. Verify my
status and her capture order.”

Halah’s heart pounded and she rested her
hand on her weapon. She should still be in their computer system. Before she’d
double-crossed Daegal to rejoin the warriors, she’d pre-programmed her file to
regenerate, even after deletion, in case she ever needed to get back into their
systems. A trick she’d learned long ago.

She would have preferred that Leila wasn’t
with her. She’d have had more options. But since Leila was here, she’d use her
to their advantage. Leila would be on Daegal’s wanted list. He and his brother
had been obsessed with the healer for years. Of course, she might be on his wanted
list too. Hopefully her programming had also taken care of that detail though.
After years of switching sides to survive, she knew how to maintain military
connections in more than one society simultaneously. But if something did go
wrong, she was prepared to shoot her way out of trouble.

One of the guards nodded. “Verified. Let
her pass.”

She relaxed slightly. Getting inside was
only the first hurdle but it was an important one.

As they started past the guards, one of
them grabbed her arm. “Why do you bring the prisoner here instead of to
Daegal?”

Halah’s stomach tightened and she felt
Leila tense beside her. She glanced down at the Egesa’s arm then glared into
his eyes until he released her. “Abdera is responsible for a serum that will
kill you all. It can be reversed but she needs to get into this facility to
prepare the formula.” She pulled out her weapon and pointed it at his face. “Or
maybe I should just take you out now and save you the lingering agony.”

The guards gave them both a nervous look. Halah
figured sticking as close to the truth as possible was best. The guards stepped
back, looking at Leila more in fear now than suspicion. Halah holstered the
disruptor and pulled the woman along beside her.

Once they got inside, Leila leaned close to
her. “See you did need me. I can’t believe we got away with that. Now what?”

“Now we find Torque. He’s probably in the
main control area. That’s where I would go.”

“Won’t the Egesa be expecting us to head to
medical?”

She looked around, studying all the activity.
“Everyone is too busy to be checking up on us. At least for now.” She tugged
Leila forward. “Let’s go.”

* * * * *

Deep Space

“What the hell?” Erik turned. An odd look
filled his face. “We’re getting a message.”

Braden wondered at his friend’s reaction.
More bad news? They’d had enough bad news already to last a lifetime. “From
Torque?” he asked, hoping he’d misinterpreted Erik’s tone to be more than it
really was.

“No. You’re not going to believe this. It’s
from Frost.”

He sat in shock for a long moment. Frost?
Somehow this didn’t bode well. She was the last person they needed to be
dealing with right now. He flipped a switch. “What do you want, Frost?”

“I have a fleet in Earth’s orbit, Braden.
Mostly cloaked. I’m monitoring Daegal’s actions. He’s shot down your scout
ship.”

Braden and Erik looked at each other. Erik
shook his head. “No way. The bitch is lying!”

“Do you know of any survivors?”

“Halah survived. I materialized her over
before Daegal took the ship out. We didn’t detect any others on board at the
time.”

“Halah’s with you?” Braden heard the truth
in Frost’s voice. But he also heard something else.

“No. I was trying to help her but she
materialized down to the planet before I could make my case.”

“Her case. Like hell,” Erik muttered under
his breath. He flipped off the channel. “She’s playing you.”

Braden grinned slightly. “No doubt.” He
flipped the channel back on. “Thanks for the information, Frost. Now stay out
of our way.”

“I can help, Braden.”

“Stay out of the way, Frost.” He killed the
comm, plunging them back into silence.

After a moment, Erik spoke. “What’s her
game?”

Braden didn’t want to think about Frost. “I
don’t care. We can’t trust her. I think she was telling the truth about our
scout ship though because I can’t locate it. Any luck getting a hold of
Torque?”

“None. But he might not be carrying a
vid-cell that can pick us up.”

“Try to contact the rest of them. We need
to let at least one of them know that we’re almost ready to launch against the
Egesa.”

“Already on it.”

Braden checked their location. Their attack
plan wasn’t going to be slick. It was simply brute force. They would hit the
Egesa with everything they had—take out all their ships and as many foot
soldiers as they could—until Daegal had no choice but to surrender. If Frost
got in the way, well, that would be her own fault. She knew what was coming and
had been warned.

* * * * *

Planet Earth, State of Colorado, U.S.A.

Underground Tracking Facility

Torque looked over the laser weapon and
smiled back at Jaeda. “We’re ready to go. We’ve got the coordinates programmed
in and the settings are at max. Kirk got us additional power and redirected it
into the weapons’ stores but he had to shut down some sections in the facility
to do it. Sections that the Egesa purposely left active. It’s going to raise
suspicions.”

“Hmm.” Jaeda’s brow furrowed. “Maybe the
loss of that power will instill fear more than anything else. An enemy on edge
is easier to defeat.” She held up her comm unit. “While you were working, my
commander relayed to me that they’re picking up Xylon ships close by. At least
two squadrons, maybe more.”

“Can we contact them?”

“We can’t from down here. They’d have to
adjust their grid settings. The satellite system is all fucked up, which has
changed the compatibility. My ship is trying to contact them but the messages
don’t seem to be going through. We don’t know why.”

“Fuck. What the hell else can go wrong?”