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her, rubbing his nose against her cheek in an affectionate gesture that seemed almost more intimate than the sex had been. Not that the sex wasn’t mind blowing. When he had come inside of her, he’d felt like he was giving her a part of his soul.
    This was what he had been waiting for his whole life.
    To feel connected, and wanted…and whole.
    “Sully?”
    “Yeah?”
    “You can totally get rid of my vibrator.”
    He snorted out a laugh as he raised himself up on an elbow. “Is that right?”
    She nodded solemnly. “Yes. I’ll even give you my back-up.”
    “You have a back-up?”
    “Of course I do. Wow, that was… Is sex always like that?”
    His eyes narrowed. “You have that look in your eye, and I don’t like it.”
    “What look?”
    “The look that says you are calculating something in your head. Forget it, hummingbird. The only men that will ever be in your bed are me and Jax. There will be no comparisons or experimenting with any other men.”
    Rolling her eyes, she pushed at his sweaty chest. “Of course not, you fool. I haven’t avoided men all my life just to go bed hopping. Besides, I’m a claimed woman now.”
    “Damn right you are.” He loved that she could even look haughty buck naked, with her hair all disheveled and spread out over the pillow. Archer leaned down and brushed his lips against hers, then laughed as her stomach rumbled. “I think we need to feed you.”
    “I think you’re right,” she said with a smile. “Then after, I think we might need to do a little more experimenting.”
    The little hellion looked pretty satisfied with herself as his cock twitched and rapidly began to grow inside her pussy again. “Eat fast.”

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    Chapter Five
     
    Serra cut through the cool, blue water, loving the peaceful feeling she always got when she was swimming.
    It was late in the evening, and she’d been thrilled when Sully told her they had a full length pool in the lower level of the residence. After they’d eaten and had another bout of love play, she’d decided to make use of the pool so she could clear her head. Sully let her have her quiet time, knowing that she often needed to be by herself when she was trying to assimilate too many emotions at once.
    It was amazing having two men that understood her so well, despite the time they had spent apart. Serra used the time in the pool to try to figure out the issue of someone trying to sell the stealth technology she had created. The first person that came to mind was her mother, however there were several reasons why Serra rejected her as a viable suspect. For one, Tania Lysander-Dobbs was a tech-idiot. She may have been able to hire someone to put a block on Serra’s transmissions, but her mother could barely handle her own wrist unit to make calls, let alone figure out how the stealth tech worked well enough to try to sell it.
    The other main reason that it couldn’t have been Tania was she was way too selfish to put something like this together. It would take time and energy away from her spa treatments and many affairs to arrange for the sale of something this intricate. There would have to be tests and meetings, not to mention access to the black market.
    Serra knew about the various lovers her mother had taken over the years, and it stung even more knowing that Tania had tried to condemn her to a life alone. The thought that her mother had connections to the Tarin was disturbing, even more so that she had been able to keep their horrible trip to Tartarus all those years ago off the visitor’s logs. Still, there was a level of skill that was needed for a sale of this magnitude, and it just didn’t fit.
    Now that Serra knew of the potential problem, she could take steps to figure out who was involved with the plot and how to stop it. She thought over several different ideas that she wanted to discuss with Jax and Sully as she finished her last lap in the pool. Surfacing, she saw something out of the corner of her eye, and