Aaron smirked from where he leaned against the counter and ate his own bagel. “You know how he gets, Em.” She felt his amusement, echoed by the light in his sweet brown eyes.
Right now, what she felt from Caph was horniness and a desire to talk her back into their bunk.
She patted his hands. “Maybe tonight, sweetie. I need to do some work in the hydro lab before I get some shut-eye of my own.”
He nearly pouted. All he needed was a boo-boo lip to complete the look. “Aww. All right.”
She gave him a final kiss before disengaging herself from his arms. If he got her into bed now, he’d fuck her to sleep, and she’d never get everything done on her to-do list. “Not that I’m not willing, but you know the drill. I have to get my chores done. So do you.”
“Yes, he does,” Aaron concurred. “And he’s got tests to run on the drones today down in cargo.”
Caph poured himself a cup of coffee. “I know, I know,” he grumbled. “You can’t blame a man for trying.” He tugged at his trousers, which now sported a full bulge.
“No, you can’t,” Emi agreed with a smile. “And we know you’re always willing to try.” After smearing cream cheese on her own bagel and wrapping it in a paper towel, she refilled her coffee and picked up her mug and the bagel. “That’s why the rest of us have to be on our toes, or you’ll always have us on our backs.”
She left both men laughing.
Down at the entrance to the decontamination chamber that led to the hydro lab, she took a deep breath before stepping in. No matter how many times she rationalized to herself that there was nothing to fear, she couldn’t forget how she nearly lost her life there.
When the decontamination cycle ended and the door opened to the hydro lab, she let out the breath she’d been holding and stepped inside.
This was her sanctuary. The refit team had done a brilliant job of repairing the damage done by Eckhart’s attack. They’d even made some changes for her at her request. It was, literally, a whole new hydro lab. She had vines trellising up wires crisscrossing the lab. In a few weeks, the entire ceiling would be concealed from view. Two large vid screens, one on each side, could display whatever Emi wanted, whether a window scene, a duplicate of the bridge view, or even vids from their exhaustive library.
Today, she chose to set them up as window sims. She looked through one and saw Bozeman, Montana, in the spring, as she remembered it from her childhood. If she closed her eyes she could almost smell the pines. The other showed a similar view, just from a different angle.
She set her coffee and bagel on the small desk in the back. She leaned against it while she finished her bagel and studied her hydro lab. Not just pretty, but functional. It provided them fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as helped augment the air scrubbers. All the air in the ship passed through the hydro lab.
Down here, she also had a brief respite from her men. Not that she didn’t want to be around them, because she did. With her empath skills, however, it sometimes grated on her nerves if she didn’t get the occasional break. Fortunately their emotions tended to run to the loving, and horny, end of the spectrum, making it easy to spend lots of time in close quarters with them.
Emi busied herself with her hydro tables. She pruned, harvested, started seeds and transplanted seedlings, and tidied the place up. After two hours, she caught herself yawning.
The basket she kept down there for fruit and veggies nearly overflowed. Bananas, peppers, tomatoes, and beans had ripened. After toting it back to the galley, she headed to their quarters to grab a shower and go to bed to grab a few hours of sleep before dinner.
When she emerged from the head, Caph lay stretched out in the middle of their shared bunk, a playful grin on his face.
Fortunately, he was clothed.
“Hi, babe.”
Emi had pulled on one of the men’s shirts after getting out of the shower. It hung to her knees, giving her a little protection against her horny hubby.
“Hi, Caph.” She crawled under the sheet. “Still too tired, babe. Sorry.”
“Aww, I just wanted to spend a few minutes with you.”
“Uh-huh. Suuure.”
He stretched out next to her, on top of the covers. “No, seriously.” He kissed her on the forehead. Then he laced his fingers through hers. “Scout’s honor.”
She nuzzled close and closed her eyes. “Good, because I’m wiped out.”
When she opened her eyes what felt like mere minutes later, Aaron lay stretched out where Caph had been. She yawned. “When’d you get here?”
“A little bit ago.”
“Is it dinnertime yet?”
“Nope. A few hours. You don’t need to get up yet.”
She snuggled closer to him and closed her eyes agin. “Good, because I don’t feel like it.” Before she knew it, dreams filled her head again. Bad dreams. Specifically about the fight on Kal’moran, where she had to play dirty to beat Rawin in the arena.
Only this time, in Emi’s dream Rawin wrapped her arms around Emi and started squeezing. Emi struggled, trying to get away—
“Hey, Emi. Wake up. You’re having a nightmare.”
Her eyes popped open at the sound of Ford’s voice. He was sitting up, holding her with his arms wrapped tightly around her. As she struggled to get her pulse under control, she broke down crying against his chest.
“Shh, it’s okay.” He gently gathered her against him as she cried. “You need to get it out of your system. You’ve been holding on to it for too damn long. I wondered how long it would take you to finally get around to it.”
“Please don’t tell Aaron and Caph. I don’t want to worry them.”
“Um, that’s a hell-no-can’t-do, babe. Remember the reaming you gave me for keeping mum about Aaron’s nightmares?”
“That’s different.”
“How?”
She thought about it. “Because I said so.”
He kissed the tip of her nose. “Sorry, babe. Cap trumps doctor. And we all trump that as husbands.” He held her close. “You don’t get a pass on this one. You need to talk it out. Get it out of your system.” He let her have a moment. “How many of these have you had?”
“Too many.”
“That’s what I thought.” He made her meet his gaze. It felt like his blue eyes peered down to the bottom of her soul. “We’re going to have a family meeting. And you will tell them.”
She knew arguing with him would prove futile. Besides, she knew he was right.
She nodded.
“That’s my good girl.”
Chapter Two
Ford took a watch during dinner, but Caph took the night duty. As Emi snuggled between Aaron and Ford in their bed, she hoped they’d go to sleep without her nightmares coming up as a topic of conversation, but Ford had other plans.
“You want to tell him yourself,” Ford started, “or should I?”
Aaron’s brow scrunched up as his brown eyes narrowed. “Tell me what?”
Emi burrowed herself a little deeper beneath the covers. “I’d rather go to sleep,” she muttered.
“Yeaaah, no,” Ford said, tugging the covers down. “Don’t even. Spill it.”
Her gaze skittered from Aaron’s brown eyes back down to his mouth.
“Don’t make me order you, Doctor,” Aaron said, his tone belying his words.
She threw a glare over her shoulder at Ford. “Fine.” Get it over with.
She wasn’t, however, expecting to burst into tears as she told him about the nightmares she’d been having. By the time she finished, both men had surrounded her, holding her.
“You’ve got to let it out, Em,” Aaron softly said. “That’s what you told me, and you were right. Don’t hold stuff in.”
“But I won. I don’t understand why I’m having these nightmares.”
Aaron tenderly kissed her forehead. “Because you’re human.”
“You don’t need to be strong all the time,” Ford added. “That’s why we’re here. All thr
ee of us. Lean on us.”
“And don’t you feel better?” Aaron added.
And she did feel a little better for the telling. Instead of answering, she snuggled tightly against them, tipping her head back so she could kiss Aaron.
“I think that’s a yes,” Ford said.
Emi plunged her hand into Aaron’s brown hair, hooking her leg around his as she did. He obliged her by pressing his thigh between her legs and offering her the perfect angle for her to rub her clit against his flesh.
“That’s it, baby,” Ford whispered in her ear. He trailed kisses down her neck, along her shoulder, as he reached around her with his arm and cupped her right breast in his hand. “Show us how much you want a good, hard fucking.”
Emi let out a soft mewling cry as Aaron grazed his teeth along her throat. “Both of us,” Aaron rumbled against her flesh. “We’re going to fuck your ass and your pussy and not let you go until we’ve made your eyes roll back in your head.”
Her hips rocked harder, faster, more insistently. Hell, if they kept up the dirty talk, she’d be creaming all over Aaron’s leg at that rate before they even got around to actually fucking her.
“I think,” Ford said, “that next time we’re in port, we need to hunt down a butt plug and a dildo for her. Get a harness and strap them on her and make her stay naked like that all…day…long.” He punctuated the last three words by tweaking her nipple between his thumb and finger.
Electric heat shot from her nipple straight down to her clit. Another gush of moisture flowed into her aching pussy. Now the hard feel of Ford’s cock pressed against the seam of her ass. She frantically rubbed herself against Aaron’s thigh, wanting release right now, dammit!
Aaron chuckled. “Is mean old Ford teasing you?” The playful energy washing from both of them served to push her need higher up the scale.
“Yes. You both are, and you darn well know it.”
Aaron rolled onto his back, pulling her with him. He grabbed her hips and thrust up, his cock easily sliding between her drenched pussy lips and deep into her cunt. He looked up at her with passion smoldering in his brown gaze. “Get comfortable, baby,” he said. “We’re not letting you go anytime soon.”
Her insides fluttered at his commanding tone. The security and safety she felt both in his arms and knowing he was in charge of them. He pulled her down and kissed her, a fist firmly planted in her hair to hold her in place.
Not that she wanted to go anywhere.
She felt Ford get up and quickly return. Then Aaron’s hands drifted down to her ass, pulling her cheeks apart and drawing a happy sigh from Ford.
“That’s a beautiful sight.” His fingers pressed against her puckered rim, warm and sure, massaging her and sending another cramping wave of need through her body. She wanted to be fucked hard and fast, and the men were determined to take their time.
After a few minutes of her squirming and begging, Ford finally took pity on her and began working lube into her ass. The walls of her pussy clenched around Aaron’s cock as Ford slipped first one, then two fingers inside her, slowly scissoring them, stretching her, getting her ready for his cock.
Once he felt she was ready, his fingers disappeared, replaced by the head of his cock pressing against her rim.
Emi let out a soft moan as he slowly worked his cock past the tight ring of muscle. When she began rocking against them, trying to rush him, he grabbed her hips.
“No you don’t,” he playfully warned. “We’re in control tonight. You let us do the driving.”
Lust rocketed through her at Ford’s tone. All she needed now to make this moment perfect would be Caph’s cock in her mouth.
Ford took his time completely seating his cock deep inside her. Once he bottomed out, he pulled her up into a sitting position, one arm hooked around her waist and his other hand buried in her pussy. “Now you’re going to give us at least two, baby,” he murmured in her ear. “Start moving.”
She slowly began rocking against them. Aaron reached up and rubbed the pads of his thumbs over her nipples, drawing another moan out of her. Between their relentless and skilled fingers, combined with the pleasant feeling of being completely filled by their cocks, it didn’t take long for the first orgasm to spiral through her, arching her back as she let out a cry.
“That’s it,” Aaron encouraged, applying more pressure to her nipples and turning the stimulation into a delicious bite that fine-tuned the exquisite pleasure. “One more, and then we’re going to fuck your brains out.”
She draped an arm around Ford’s neck for support as she laid her head back against his shoulder. Ford’s fingers plucked at her swollen clit even as she felt Aaron’s cock rubbing against her G-spot. Emi found a rhythm that Aaron matched by tugging on her nipples even as their cocks bottomed out inside her.
Swirling around her and amping her pleasure, the rich, pure colors of their passion and love cloaking her in sweet, endless clouds of desire. As her climb started again, she bounced against them harder, faster, wanting to ride that knife’s edge between too much and not enough she always craved with her men. And as her cunt and ass spasmed around their cocks again, both men felt it. Aaron pinched her nipples hard, and Ford followed suit with her clit. White heat exploded inside her, shattering her will. She let out a keening cry as they began moving with her, fucking her, taking over again and rushing to finish with her in a blazing, brilliant rainbow of emotions that threatened to overwhelm her.
As they collapsed onto the bed, both cocks still buried inside her, Emi struggled to catch her breath even as the last tendrils of her climax still shuddered through her body. Aaron wrapped his arms around her and Ford as she deliciously slipped into the welcomed embrace of a deep and dreamless sleep.
* * * *
She awoke in the middle of the night. Without disturbing Ford or Aaron, she carefully climbed out of bed and found her bathrobe. After stopping by the head, she left their quarters. After padding through corridors with lights dimmed for nighttime, she found Caph on watch on the bridge, lounging in the command chair and reading a book with his feet propped up on the console. He smiled at her appearance.
“Hey. I figured you’d be asleep.” He set the handheld aside and patted his thigh.
“I was.” She crawled into his lap and deeply inhaled his scent.
“Then why are you here? Not that I’m complaining, mind you.”
With her eyes closed, she got it over with, confessing her nightmares about what happened on Kal’moran.
When she finished, he didn’t speak. He kissed the top of her head and held her close with his chin resting on her head. She felt his energy and feelings shift to concern before slowly returning to his normal calm tenderness. “Thank you for telling me, babe. They’re right. You chewed Ford a new one for not telling you about Aaron’s nightmares.” He kissed the top of her head again. “We can’t help fix what we don’t know’s broke.”
She let out a deep breath of relief. Part of her had worried it would hurt him to know she’d had nightmares. He couldn’t hide the fact that, despite it not being their fault, he still felt a little guilty for her having to fight to save them.
That it was his role to protect her and fight for her, not the other way around.
But he wasn’t hurt, and for that she felt thankful.
“I know,” she mumbled, already feeling like dozing off in his arms.
“You falling asleep, babe?”
“Uh-huh.”
“They fucked your brains out tonight, didn’t they?”
“Uh-huh.”
He chuckled. “You have that deliciously well-fucked scent I love so much.”
She snuggled more tightly against him. “Want me to sleep late and wait for you?”
He nibbled on her ear. “I think I’d love that.”
She stirred a little when she felt the world gently swaying. She opened her eyes enough to recognize she was still safe in Caph’s arms, and he was carrying her back to their quarters. When next s
he opened her eyes, she was snuggled tightly in his arms in their bed.
She wiggled her ass against him, making his cock spring to life along the seam of her ass.
“That’s dangerous, babe,” he mumbled.
“What?”
“You’re going to get yourself fucked if you keep that up.”
“That was my plan.”
He sounded a little more awake. “Oh, well in that case.” He wrapped his arms around her and shifted position, releasing her only long enough to line his cock up with her pussy lips before pressing for entrance.
She sighed as he filled her cunt from behind. One beefy hand slid between her legs as he slowly fucked her, his other hand palming her breast. With her nipples still a little tender from Aaron’s earlier attention, it wasn’t long before he’d fired her libido up again.
“Wow, you’re wet, babe. They did fuck you good.”
She squirmed against him. “Uh-huh!”
The hand between her legs moved faster, harder, even as his cock swelled and thickened inside her. When he was like this early in the morning, it never took much to get him off. “Come for me, babe,” he raggedly whispered.
She quickly complied. And when he felt her pussy contracting around him, he rolled her onto her stomach and fucked her hard and fast, pulling another unexpected orgasm out of her that left her gasping into the pillow as his last hard strokes, the sound of their flesh slapping together filling the room, drove his cock deep inside her before he filled her with his cum.
He took a few gasping breaths before limply falling back onto the bed next to her. She rolled into his arms and crashed into sleep again. When next she woke, she was draped over his chest.
He chuckled when she pressed a kiss to his flesh. “You awake?” He certainly sounded that way.
“I think so.” She was pleasantly achy in all the right places, that much she knew.
“Ready for the shower?”
“We have to get up?”
“Yeah, it’s nearly lunchtime.”
That woke her up. “Holy crap!”
He laughed. “Yeah, Cap came by to check on us and didn’t have the heart to wake you up. Said you’d had a hard night last night.”