B Clones, page 22
This is right. She felt it to the core of her soul. No one had ever made her need the way Blade did. But she’d didn’t want to think anymore. Just feel. Her breasts began to ache and she throbbed between her legs.
She broke the kiss and grabbed his hand, leading him to the bedroom. The cabin had two. They’d explored the place before dinner, and she went right to the master and released him, taking off her clothes.
Blade stripped fast. “You’re so beautiful.”
“So are you.”
He chuckled. “I’m glad you find me attractive.”
“You’re that and so much more.”
His humor faded as he grabbed her, kissing her again. She wrapped her arms around his neck and tried to climb his taller frame. He helped by lifting her, then she was barely aware of him walking them closer to the bed. He stopped when they reached it and gently lowered her.
Hailey felt frustrated when they stopped kissing. “Don’t stop.”
“I don’t plan to. On your back, baby. I want to taste you.”
She practically threw herself on the bed and rolled to the center before stretching out. Blade stood before her, naked, his cock hard. She licked her lips. She wanted to taste him, too.
“Don’t look at me like that,” he groaned, climbing on the bed after her. “You have no idea what you do to me.”
“Tell me.”
“I’ll show you. Spread your legs.”
She parted them and drew her knees up, preparing to wrap her legs around his waist when he climbed over her. He didn’t. Blade’s large hands cupped the back of her thighs instead, and pushed them farther apart. His eyes met hers.
“This is how much I want you.”
He lowered his head between her thighs and his hot breath fanned over her clit. She sucked in a sharp breath as his tongue laved the sensitive flesh. He licked, flattened his tongue against it, then rubbed against her fast.
Hailey threw her head back and cried out. Her eyes shut, her breath choppy. Raw pleasure coursed through her. He was merciless as she thrashed under him. She climaxed hard enough to scream his name.
Hailey’s entire body slumped in the aftermath. Blade climbed up her then and pinned her beneath him. He hooked one of her legs and lifted it to his hip, using his arm under her knee to secure it there. His other arm braced his weight on their opposite side.
“That’s how you make me feel when you’re naked and looking at me with desire. Out of control. And I don’t want you to ever stop.”
He released her and reached between them, slowly rubbing the crown of his cock against her. She lifted her legs and wrapped them around his waist. She ran her hands over his chest, loving the feel of his hot, firm skin, exploring to the tops of his shoulders and then outward to his arms.
He entered her slow.
Hailey moaned and dug her fingernails into him. She lifted her hips, wanting more of him. Blade gave it to her by thrusting deeper into her pussy, making her take all of him at once. It was pleasure with a bite of pain.
“I was made for you.” He started to roll his hips slowly, making sure every motion dragged his pelvis against her clit.
She moaned his name and lifted her head, wanting his mouth. He gave it to her, kissing her ardently. He kept the pace steady, building the pleasure until it overtook them both.
The second climax washed through her. Blade pounded into her then, hard and fast, drawing her pleasure out until he filled her with his semen.
He rolled them over, holding her tight. “We’re too good together.”
She clung to him. “Why do you say that?”
“We get each other off fast. I don’t know if that’s good or not, but I don’t care. Whatever we are, it’s perfect. What do you think?”
“I’m new at this. Was that fast?”
He chuckled and adjusted their bodies more comfortably on the bed. He was strong enough to move her without effort. “We’ll have to do it a lot more, since I don’t have that much experience, either.”
“You’re really good at it. Maybe too good.”
“I did read a lot of books about sex. The Do’s and Don’ts of Her Pleasure was one of my favorites. It had photos and diagrams. What we just did was in chapter six. I used to patrol in the guest library to snatch a few books and take them back to my bunk to read while I was off shift.”
“That must have been a great chapter. I liked what you did so much. We don’t have books that cover sex in our libraries.”
“No?”
“Our library book budget comes from the school.”
“How do you learn about sex, then?”
“Mothers have talks with their daughters. Fathers speak to their sons.” She suddenly laughed. “She didn’t tell me about oral sex. I learned about that from my friend Susan, in our last year of school. She had an off-worlder boyfriend who’d done that to her, to get her to have sex with him. I thought it was gross. It’s really, really not.”
“No, it’s not.”
She wiggled closer to him and peered into his eyes. He did look at her like he had feelings for her. There was a tenderness there. It made her long for something she couldn’t have—and a piece of her heart cracked.
That was the exact second she had her answer. She felt it bone deep, too. There was no doubt.
“What’s wrong? You suddenly look sad.”
Tears flooded her eyes. “I’m a bad person.”
He rolled them back over, pinning her under him again. “No, you’re not. Please don’t say you regret what we just did.”
“Never.”
He used his elbows to hold his weight, freeing his hands to tenderly brush her hair away from her face. He leaned in close. “You are not a bad person. Why would you even say that?”
“I look at you and want to be selfish.”
“How?”
“Why does life have to be so unfair sometimes?”
“I don’t know. What’s wrong, Hailey? Talk to me.”
“I don’t want to say goodbye to you.” She choked up. “I want to hear more about those chapters you read, and try all that stuff with you. But we’re not going to have that kind of time together. I want us to, though. I love you, Blade. I’ve fallen in love with you…and that makes me a bad person.”
“Baby, I love you, too. There’s nothing bad about it. It’s wonderful.”
“I look at you and I want to be selfish so badly, by asking if you’d consider making me your wife. But it would kill my parents. What kind of daughter would abandon them? I asked you to kiss me, and now here we are. This is all my fault. I don’t even deserve you. I know you’d come home with me if you were able to, giving up everything. I should be able to do the same. Instead, I’m torn.”
He lowered his forehead until it rested against hers, then closed his eyes.
“I’ve hurt you, haven’t I? I should have kept silent. I’m sorry.”
He lifted his head and opened his eyes. “I want to be selfish, too. If that makes you bad, I’m worse.”
“That’s not true. You’re amazing.”
“You feel bad because to be with me, you’d have to leave your parents. But being with me actually means having to give up your home, your family, and motherhood—yet I still want to beg you to stay. I would marry you in an instant, Hailey. I want to keep you here with me. I’d do anything and everything to make it up to you every day, because I’d know you’d lost so much to be with me. It wouldn’t be possible, but I’d try my best.”
Hot tears slipped down her face.
His eyes teared up, too. “I’m glad you asked me to kiss you. I wouldn’t change anything. We found love, baby. I never thought I would. Every minute we have is precious, and it will be enough to last me for the rest of my life. It has to be.” He rapidly blinked. “You’re perfect, and I love everything about you. That’s why I’m going to let you go home.”
“Blade…”
He rolled them again and held her tightly. “It’s going to be okay. We have some time together. We’ll make the most of it.”
She cried as he held her. He kept assuring it was going to be okay…but she knew it wasn’t.
* * * * *
Blade felt gutted as he gently eased out from under Hailey. She’d fallen asleep, having exhausted herself with her tears. He wanted to rage and scream. If he’d been born instead of produced, he could give her everything she deserved. A man who could father her children and live on her home world.
He dressed quietly and fled the bedroom, bypassing the living room and exiting their cabin. He paced the hallway, just trying to expel his anger without breaking his fists by pounding them bloody into a wall. Hailey didn’t need that guilt on top of everything else. He needed to at least pretend to have his shit together while she was with him.
He finally wore himself down enough to lean his back against the corridor wall and sink down into a crouch. His head sagged, and he let some of his pain seep out with his tears.
The door near him swished open, and he whipped his head toward it. It wasn’t Big who stepped out. Gemma carried an empty cloth sack as she walked toward the lift.
“What are you doing?”
She squeaked and spun. Then she grabbed her chest. “You almost gave me a heart attack.” She walked toward him and dropped her hand.
“Clones don’t have heart issues.”
She stopped and really looked at him. “You look like your puppy just died. Things are going bad, huh?”
“Hailey said she loves me.”
She bent and put the sack on the floor, before sitting on it. “This upsets you?”
“I can’t keep her. I’ll destroy her life if I do.”
“Did she say that?”
“She just cried herself to sleep in my arms. I’m sending her home even if she asks to stay. I have to do what’s best for her.”
Gemma crossed her legs. “Mistake number one. Never make choices for a woman.”
He glowered at her. “She’ll never forgive herself if she has to abandon her parents to be with me. Not only that, but I can’t even give her babies to replace her family. That’s another thing I’d take away from her. She’ll find someone else to love, and he’ll let her keep her family. He’ll…” He had a hard time saying it because it hurt. “They’ll have children together. That will help her heal from this pain.”
“You’re breaking my heart, Blade.”
He looked away from her. “I want to kill him with my bare hands, and she hasn’t even met him yet.”
They both remained silent for long minutes. He figured she was being polite by not leaving him alone. He cleared his throat. “Where were you going with a sack?”
“I like how the material feels. It’s soft. I found it in one of the closets. I’m going to ask the tailor robot if there’s more of it, and if I can have some pants made. The ones I have are a bit stiff.” Gemma cocked her head. “There’s got to be a solution for you. We just need to figure it out.”
“There isn’t one. Her planet is a mining colony. They have port authorities who police all incoming and outgoing traffic, to prevent theft of the minerals they harvest. Anyone who lands there will be scanned. They’d kill me.”
“There’s no way to sneak around that?”
He shook his head. “They’ll be able to track anything that enters the planet. A ship that veers off course to their landing port will just be shot down.”
“So going there is out.”
“Yes.”
“Does Hailey have any other family besides her parents?”
“Not that she’s mentioned.”
Gemma seemed to be thinking.
“It’s hopeless.”
“Never say never. If we can’t get you there, is it possible to pay someone who can pass a hand scan to go there and kidnap her parents?”
He gawked at her.
“What? You just spent a lot of time with pirates. Don’t judge me for a drastic suggestion. I’m thinking outside the box. I also may have spent way too much time watching television in my old life. Think it about it, though. You could have them kidnapped and brought here. As a parent, I would forgive that, under the circumstances. Be with my kid, or never see my child again. No-brainer. God knows this place is big enough, and you could lock down parts of the station to prevent them from escaping if they ever tried it.”
“I’m not stealing her parents!”
She rolled her eyes. “Fine.”
“Nothing solves the fact that I’m sterile. She would be giving up the opportunity to ever experience motherhood.”
Gemma snorted and waved a hand. “That’s the easiest thing to fix.”
He gawked at her again. “There’s no way to make our sperm live.”
“I didn’t say the baby would be biologically yours. You could get sperm from someone else.”
“I’m not allowing some human to have sex with Hailey.”
“She doesn’t have to. One of my friends’ nieces got pregnant by asking a friend of hers to jackoff into a cup, and she inseminated herself. It took two tries, but it worked. Just find some human you can pay to give up his goods, then you can try that. They’re called sperm donors. That’s how some people do it if they can’t afford expensive medical procedures and they aren’t having fertility problems. Do you really care if the baby is biologically yours? I would have adopted if I wasn’t able to have kids. It wouldn’t have mattered to me. I would have loved the hell out of it just as if it were my own.”
He frowned. “I think we should find Big. Where is he?”
“Programing robots in another cabin, to have it ready in case Fig comes home.”
“Let’s go find him. You shouldn’t be alone.”
She narrowed her eyes at him. “Why not?”
“Some of your suggestions were unstable.”
She got off the floor and grabbed her sack. “I’m not nuts. I just think outside the box. You should try it sometime. At least I’m giving you possible solutions to your problems. What are you doing, besides sulking in the hallway? What’s that going to do for you? Nothing. Now, I’m going to go talk to a robot.”
He watched her walk away and enter the lift. He hoped her mental stability wasn’t failing. It would destroy Big if that happened. He reentered his cabin and checked on Hailey. She slept peacefully in the bed.
He leaned against the wall, memorizing everything about her. One day soon, she’d be gone. Pain clawed at his heart at the thought. He truly and deeply loved Hailey. Losing her was going to kill him.
There’s got to be a solution. Gemma’s words haunted him. Think outside the box…
Twenty minutes later, he had an idea. It wasn’t as bad as kidnapping Hailey’s parents, but it was a close second. It would be risky, but he had everything to lose if he didn’t at least try.
He rushed out of their cabin.
Chapter Ten
“Hailey?”
Blade’s hands stroked the hair from her face. She opened her eyes. They felt a little swollen, and she quickly remembered why. He sat at the edge of the bed, leaning over her. She gave him a small smile.
“Wake up, beautiful.
She let him help her sit up. He offered her a glass of fruit juice. It was cold and delicious. “Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. We need to talk.”
She nodded. “I’m so sorry that I fell apart last night.”
“Shush.” He scooted closer.
She studied his face. “You look tired. Did you not sleep well?”
“I haven’t slept at all. I contacted Rod. It took hours for him to respond to my pings, but he finally did.”
“Rod? Oh. One of your six from Clone World.” She took another sip of juice. “Why?”
“I needed to see if he could do me a few favors. While we all avoid stations and colonies, he’s been known to visit the ones without port authorities. He’s skilled at passing for being a human as long as there are no scanners.”
“That sounds dangerous.”
“It is.”
“Why would he do that?”
“We’re not certain, but he does. Rod even takes jobs from some humans. That’s why I thought of him. Not only does he travel to places where we don’t go, but he’s got funds. I told him what I might need, and he’s agreed to provide both things to me.”
She wasn’t awake enough to follow along. “Both what things?”
“Secure transportation and funding. When dealing with humans, funds are a requirement.”
She reached over and placed the glass on the nightstand. “You’re sending me away? It that what you’re saying? Rod knows someone who can get me safely back to Prospect, and he has money to pay them?” Don’t cry. Don’t cry, she silently chanted. “So soon? I thought it would be a while. I’m sorry for what I said last night.” She grabbed ahold of his shirt. “I’m not ready to go!”
He covered her hand with his. “No, baby. It’s not that.”
The relief that hit her was strong.
“I had this idea last night. It’s Gemma’s fault, really. She said I could hire someone to kidnap your parents off Prospect and bring them to you.”
“What?”
“I told Big he needs to keep a close watch on her. She might be struggling with her mental stability. I would never hire pirates to steal your parents. It did get me thinking, though.” He smiled, and it lit up his face.
She smiled back, unable to help it. “What is it?”
“I love you, Hailey. You’re worth taking risks for, and I would do anything for you. There’s something you need to hear. You’re so amazing…and I had faith that I wasn’t the only one who felt that way.”
He reached into his pants pocket and withdrew a small recorder. He tapped it on.
“I don’t have a lot of time because transmissions can be traced, but I need to speak to you. It’s about Hailey.”
It was Blade’s voice. She gripped his shirt tighter.
“Is she alright?”
Shock jolted through her. That was her dad speaking.
“Yes, sir. Physically, she’s perfect. I am in love with your daughter, and she’s in love with me. I work in a remote location, the caretaker for a classified site. I would like to marry Hailey. Last night, I held her while she cried herself to sleep because her heart is split between us. I’m a contracted employee who’s locked into this job for at least thirty years. I can’t change that, or I would. That’s why I’m contacting you.”
