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coming up on his knees and shortening his stroke until each thrust sent a burst of sensation against her clit.
    “ God…I love fucking you.”
    “Mmm…”
    She started to climax around him and simply let it happen without forcing anything, reveling in the clench and release of her cunt as she milked him until his come spurted deep inside her. She let her mind open to him and showed him how good she felt, experienced the burst of his own raw pleasure in all its masculine intensity.
    Sometimes not being mated to a male made the sexual experience more bearable and less complicated. As Neeve came down from her high, she wondered whether that was better—not to feel so intensely—to just enjoy the physical relationship and the telepathic sharing a man like Kaiden could provide. Would that satisfy her long term? It would certainly protect her heart… If Mac remained on Earth, sex without commitment might have to do.
    Kaiden lay on his back, his arms and legs spread wide as if in surrender. Neeve bit his nipple and he groaned. “Give me a few more minutes.”
    She bit him again just to watch his whole body shudder.
    “You’re slowing down, Commander.”
    He opened one pale blue eye and regarded her. “I’m a super soldier, not a god.”
    “I noticed that.” She pretended to sigh. “I’m going to see what Mac’s up to.”
    “Good luck.”
    She found her robe and put it on. “I’ll probably need it.”
    “Bring him back for round two.”
    “If I can.”
    He opened both eyes, his expression serious. “Doc, he needs you. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make him comfortable with me sharing the same bed.”
    “He’s not worried about you. He won’t commit because he’s worried about me mating with an unknown third entity that might or might not be male.”
    “Ah.”
    She pushed her hair back from her face. “And I don’t know how to make him change his mind.”
    Kaiden slid one hand behind his head and regarded her carefully. “Subterfuge? You said you could get me to Pavlovan, why can’t you get Mac there as well in a less ‘committed role’? Then if he meets your third, things might change.”

Chapter Six
    Mac stripped off the now wet label of his second beer with his fingernail, conscientiously scraping off every bit of glue as he went. He hadn’t even finished what was inside the bottle, his senses so attuned to what was going on with Neeve and Kaiden that he couldn’t seem to coordinate swallowing beer and breathing.
    He knew what he’d like to be swallowing right now…
    And the fact that he was sitting here alone was entirely his own fault. He’d gotten so used to guarding every fucking thought that he’d forgotten how to be anything but a discarded super soldier and a second-rate human being. Seeing Professor Dean had only reinforced his determination not to let her get any emotional reaction from him ever again. She was the one who’d told him Leah had died, and recorded his total shock, his tears and his rage and then used them against him and the others to show how unstable he was when she’d decided to close the program.
    Of course he’d threatened to fucking kill her. She’d known Leah was dying and prevented him from going to her simply to observe the ‘reaction of human tragedy on a super soldier’, or whatever her scientific paper had been called. And now she was here, sniffing around to see how he was reacting to a female telepath. He couldn’t expose Neeve to that. He’d rather die.
    A slight sound had him sitting upright and turning toward the kitchen. Neeve stood by the sink pouring a bottle of water into a glass. Her long auburn hair hung over one shoulder like a mermaid’s.
    “Hey.” She nodded at him, but didn’t come over.
    His gaze took in her damp flushed skin and swollen mouth, the slight bruise at her throat and the way her robe clung to her thighs because she was wet from Kaiden’s come. Without thinking, he rose to his feet and went toward