Terran Times 02 - Deal with a Dhemon (16 page)

Deal with a Dhemon

decided to go his office near the bridge and work off his tension with filing documents regarding his retirement.

He had been in service to the Alliance for twenty years. He had joined at his maturity, as did the majority of the males of his people. It was a matter of a contract that his people had formed when they joined the Alliance centuries before.

Manning warships was the occupation most suited to his species, they fought against the raiders and species that preyed on the citizens of the Alliance of Planets.

With his duty to his planet done, it was time to return home and start a family.

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Viola Grace

am awoke feeling refreshed, though anger still Ssimmered in her when she thought about the liberties that General Kassil had taken with her person, then stopped and laughed at herself. She was acting like the Victorian maiden she was dressing as, not a modern woman who had simply chosen not to take a lover quite yet. Not that she hadn’t had the opportunity, even before working at the brothel. It was just not something she wanted to expose herself to. The messiness of sex did not appeal to her, all those bodily fluids flying about. She liked an orgasm as much as the next person, probably more than most, but part of her still thought of it as something that she wanted to share with someone she wanted to get messy with, not something to be taken on casually. A devilish smile curved her lips. She had always been a do-it-yourselfer.

She got to her feet and tossed on the chemise, then began to lace up her corset. It was not quite 38