Justin (21 page)

“You’re an amazing woman, Deanna Surrell.”

“Not so amazing. I also did something that might make you angry.” She bit her lip.

Did she know how sexy she was when she did that? “What did you do, Ex-patroller?”

“I told Sybellie I knew where her real father was and that I’d take her to meet him. If she wanted. I gave her my number.” Deanna nibbled her lip again. “She hasn’t called back.”

Something cold and sharp cut through Justin’s body. “You . . . told her.”

“She deserves to know.”

“
What
did you tell her?”

“Nothing specific, not even your name. Only that I could arrange a meeting with you. I’m not sure she believed me.”

The world tilted under Justin’s feet. “Deanna if she goes to her adopted mother or some higher-up patroller, even with what you’ve already told her, you could be hauled in and questioned until you spill what you know. And that will be it for Sybellie.”

Deanna shook her head. “I think she’ll wait until she has all the facts before she decides what to do. Sybellie struck me as having a lot of sense.”

“That doesn’t mean she trusts you. Why should she?”

Deanna gave him a patient look. “If Sybellie were the kind of young woman who ran to mama about everything, I’d have been hauled in within the hour. And even if I am questioned, I know how to keep my mouth shut. I won’t betray you, or her.”

“How are you going to do that? I know about the patrollers. They have drugs, they have coercion techniques . . .”

“Which I have the training to resist. If I thought I’d be putting Sybellie in danger, I wouldn’t have approached her at all.”

“Damn it, Deanna.”

“What are you afraid of? That she’ll be found out, or that you’ll get to meet her? As her father I mean, not as the tongue-tied passenger in my car.”

Justin folded his arms, the chill not leaving him.

The thought of Sybellie being harmed kept him awake at night. He needed to protect her at all costs.

But the thought of facing her and finding out what she’d think of having him as a father, made his blood ice cold.

At the same time, the possibility of getting to see her made Justin want to whirl in the middle of the room and laugh.

“Why the hell are you mucking around in my life?” he asked softly. “Making me crazy?”

“Why are you mucking around in mine?”

Easy answer. Justin cupped her shoulders, rubbing thumbs along her collarbone through the coverall. “I can’t stay away from you, that’s why,” he said. “I need you to be all right.”

“I need you to be all right too.”

Justin let his touch turn caressing. “I guess we’re stuck with it then.”

Deanna moved closer, rising on her tiptoes, eyes half-closing. “Guess so.”

Justin leaned to meet her, completing the kiss.

He relaxed into it, her lips sweet and pillow-soft. They hadn’t done this very much—simple kissing. There’d been so much heat between them.

His heart beat faster when Deanna broke the kiss and licked his throat. Apparently she wanted more of the heat. Justin closed his eyes and let her seek it, enjoying the sensation of her lips and tongue on his skin.

Deanna didn’t stop at that. She stooped and pressed a kiss to his chest, finding his male nipple through his tunic. She teased the nipple to a point with her teeth, while Justin’s cock joined the rest of his body in becoming hard and tight.

She took her kisses down his abdomen to his navel beneath the tight fabric, then she sank to her knees and lifted the thigh-length tunic to expose his cock, dark and hard. Justin had pulled the tunic over his naked limbs to answer the door, so now there was nothing between him and the world, or Deanna’s mouth.

She kissed the tip of his cock. Justin jerked, the breath going out of him. He searched for breath again when Deanna parted her lips and took his cock into her mouth.

His dreams were coming true. Deanna looked up at him, her brown eyes soft, her red lips wrapped around him.

Justin clenched his hands, slowing the thrust he wanted to take. She wasn’t used to this. He needed to be gentle.

He’d taught her well, though. She started to suckle, pulling hard enough to make him tight with need, but not so hard to have him coming too soon. She tapping the underside of his cock with her tongue, teeth scraping softly, fingers coming up to stroke his balls.

Justin forced himself to stand still and take it. The front room was hot, his cooler still not working right. Outside the door, street traffic creaked by, the apartment not soundproof.

In the quiet warmth inside, Deanna’s tongue danced and flickered over his cock, her mouth making little wet noises. The only other sounds were the swallowed groans in Justin’s throat.

Justin dragged one hand through her hair, breaking the tie that held her braid, which fell like a silken rope into his palm. He opened his fingers and unwove the braid, holding her hair while she went on sucking him.

Her touch moved to his ass, she remembering how to warm him and open him.

Dear gods he loved this woman.

“I’m going to come, sweet lady,” he said, his voice barely working. “And I want you to swallow me down.”

Her gaze flicked up to him, her brown eyes steady.

“You don’t have to,” he whispered.

Deanna closed her eyes again. She moved both hands to his ass and held on tight.

Justin threw back his head, jerked his hips, and spilled his seed into her mouth. One jolt, then two, then mad spasms as he thrust, and thrust again.

His hand was in her hair, her sweet fingers on his ass, while Justin rocked his hips, coming inside her mouth until he’d given all he could give.

Deanna eased back on her heels, wiped the last drops of his come from her lips, and smiled at him.

I love you!
Justin screamed inside his head.
Gods, how much I love you.

He sank to his knees and gathered her into his arms, while he loosened her coverall to show her just how much.

*** *** ***

One of the hardest things Justin ever did was say good-bye to Deanna before she and Katarina left with Deanna’s mother and Reda for the transport to Ariel.

He and Calder said their farewells to them inside Deanna’s apartment, knowing that Shareem wouldn’t be allowed near the passenger dock at the Ariel liner. While Reda watched, rather disapprovingly, Justin pulled Deanna into his arms and kissed her, long and lovingly.

Again Deanna’s mother seemed to perk up with Justin around. Katarina had continued giving her the doses of her concoction—whatever it was—in the week prior to the trip. Katarina theorized that Shareem pheromones had a calming effect on the nerves, which enhanced the reaction to the drug.

It worked. That was all Justin needed to know.

Deanna’s arms tightened around him in one last hug, and she whispered, “Thank you, Justin.”

She pulled away, but Justin kept hold of her hand as they left the apartment building, not releasing it until she climbed into the hovercar that would take them to the passenger docks. She couldn’t kiss him out here, but her smile was nearly as good as.

Calder was having the same difficulty letting go of Katarina. His face wore a hard scowl as she finally peeled his fingers from hers so the driver could close the door.

The hovercar shot off, raising a cloud of dust that settled back over Justin and Calder. Calder coughed.

“If they decide to stay on Ariel,” Calder said. “I’ll kill you.”

“Katarina’s coming back,” Justin said. “She’s so madly in love with you it’s sickening.”

Calder didn’t look convinced. But then, Calder had been horribly burned at DNAmo, even now bearing lingering scars of it, and he couldn’t believe his luck at winning Katarina’s heart. While still disfigured, he’d run a pleasure dungeon for ladies who wanted to be with the scarred “Beast,” until Katarina had come into his life and saved him.

Calder turned and started walking away, the taciturn man rarely telling anyone what he was doing, or thinking . . . or anything.

“Where are you off to?” Justin said, falling into step with him.

“To get drunk. That’s the only thing that’s going to take my mind off being without Katarina.”

“Shareem don’t stay drunk long. You’re going to have to try pretty hard.”

“Who says I won’t?” Calder shot him a dark look. “I’m going to be so damn horny, my hand will get blisters. I’m not like you. I don’t get off on watching.”

“I’m not really interested in watching anyone else anymore,” Justin said. “But that reminds me of something I wanted to ask you. You still have that warehouse, don’t you? With the dungeon hidden inside?”

“It burned,” Calder said tersely. Hence a few of the newer scars.

“I heard from a reliable source—Katarina, in fact—that it didn’t burn completely. She says that you and she have fixed it up again. I want to borrow it. I have a surprise in mind for Deanna when she comes home.”

“
If
they come home.”

“Katarina’s coming back, asshole. Think of this time as an opportunity to figure out ways to show her how much you missed her.”

Calder didn’t exactly do a dance in the street, but his scowl lessened as he thought about that.

Justin laughed. “There you go. Now let’s go fix up your dungeon.”

They walked away, Justin’s heart heavy, despite his laughter. He had far more reason than Calder to believe his lady might prefer to remain on Ariel. She no longer had a job here, and her mother would be well and happy . . .

And in the seven days between the time that Katarina had arranged a place at the treatment center and berths on the liner to get there, Sybellie had never once tried to contact Deanna.

*** *** ***

By the second week of Deanna’s departure, Justin was pretty much insane. Deanna contacted him every day to report her mother’s progress, which was all good. The center anticipated a full recovery.

The tears in Deanna’s eyes when she said it made their separation worth it.

Almost. Justin also enjoyed the new game he’d invented for them—he’d instruct Deanna on ways in which to pleasure herself, and Deanna would do it in front of the console in her bedroom.

One evening when they talked, Deanna said, “I’m wearing them.”

“Yeah? Wearing what?”

“The balls. I put two in this morning before I went shopping with Katarina.”

Justin’s blood went hot, and he felt his eyes start to change. “And you’ve been walking around with them inside your pussy?”

“Yes.” Her color rose.

“How do they feel?”

“Good.” Deanna smiled, her breath coming faster. “Whenever I think of you, it’s even better.”

“You’re a sweetie.” His hand went to his leggings, untying them so he could dip inside and soothe his already tingling cock.

“Justin.” Deanna ran her tongue around her lips, and his cock took another leap. “I want you to do something for me.”

“Name it, baby.”

“Instead of you watching me do something, I want to watch you.”

His heartbeat sped up. “Fine by me, Angel. What?”

She told him.

*** *** ***

It really wasn’t fair she was so far from home, Deanna thought, as Justin darkened his screen to prepare. Or that Shareem weren’t allowed to travel off planet.

The two little balls she’d lubed and worn inside herself, under the silken leggings she’d bought on Ariel had felt odd but satisfying. If she imagined Justin’s fingers rubbing her at the same time, it made her nearly orgasmic.

When Justin brought his screen to life again, she thought the orgasms would commence.

He’d seated himself on a chair, naked, his torso gleaming with oil. He’d somehow wrapped ropes around his body, ending with cording them around his wrists.

He leaned back a little, the pleasing plane of his hard body one long line from ankles to chin. In the middle, his cock stood upright, unhindered by the ropes.

“Is this what you wanted?” he asked, his voice low.

Deanna could barely breathe. “Yes.”

“Good.” Justin leaned back a little more, chest moving as he adjusted the ropes. “Then command me.”

“Wait.” Deanna tapped a button on her console to take a still shot of the beautiful Justin, tied up for her delectation. “Now, um . . . touch yourself. Like you tell me to touch myself. Make it exciting.”

He shot her a look, and Deanna shivered in pleasure.

Justin had fixed the ropes so they’d be loose enough for movement while appearing to be tied. He placed his bound hands under his cock and ran his thumb up the underside. A small shudder went through him when he touched the sensitive place below the tip.

He reached down again and cupped his balls, then slid his closed hand up the cock. The tip grew dark red in the circle of his thumb and fingers, the head engorged with wanting.

“More,” she said.

Justin moved his hands to his chest, brushing carefully over his skin, before he plucked one of his nipples between two fingers. When it was dark and tight, he moved to the other.

Once he’d brought that to a point, he reached into the box he’d placed at his side and took out something hidden by his hands.

A nipple clamp, she saw when he clipped it onto one of his hardened nipples. He groaned a little, letting her know he felt it.

Next came a cock ring, which he slipped easily onto his stiff cock, making the cock stand a little more upright. Finally, to another ripple of anticipation in Deanna, Justin lubed up a little butt plug, leveraged himself off the chair, and closed his eyes while he slid it inside.

He eased himself back down, rocking his feet up to his console desk and placed them on either side of the monitor. Deanna could see the plug between his parted legs, the ring, and his cock standing straight up.

His hands, still tied, stroked their way up his cock. The tip squeezed through his fingers, Justin breathing faster as he worked.

He was beautiful, a hard-bodied man laying before her with his legs spread, that huge cock pointed to the ceiling while he stroked it. Deanna remembered the taste of it on her tongue, wished she could lean forward and lick it from base to head.