Deep by Linda Mooney

keep the conversation going. What would you like to know?"
    "Well, for beginners, why do you wear that weird mummy-looking body suit?" She dipped into the soup and blew on the 93
     
     
     
    hot liquid before sipping. Damn. She should have known the stuff would taste like it had come out of some mother's kitchen. Two spoonfuls, and Lawn found herself shoveling it in.
    glanced down at himself. "You didn't specify any direct clothing."
    "Oh, so if I asked you to wear nothing at all, that's how you would appear to me?" She added a wink to let him know she was teasing. Deep appeared nonchalant.
    "If that's what you want." He waited to see if that was what she would order him to do.
    Lawn paused, her mouth full. How would she feel about watching him parade about without a stitch on. Yeah, it would all be synthetic, but as much as the idea was enticing, it might also affect her ability to concentrate at times when she most needed her wits about her.
    "How about a jumpsuit? Put on a jumpsuit, Deep."
    "Regulation?" At her nod, Deep's attire morphed into the familiar dark blue GEB uniform. Although not as formfitting as the wet wrappings he had been wearing, Lawn felt her heart do a little flip. If it was possible, the man was better looking.
    Sensing her approval, Deep grinned again. "Speaking of wearing." His eyes wandered down her nude body, pausing at her lap. "Was that your first orgasm, Lawn?"
    His scrutiny and question had an instant effect on her. She could feel her nipples already tightening again.
    "Without self-help, yeah."
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    lifted an eyebrow. "Speaking of self-help, you do realize I scanned everything that came aboard, including what was in your carry-all."
    The vibrator.
    "I figured you had, to make sure I wasn't some crazy lunatic trying to smuggle a bomb onboard."
    "Lawn, would you allow me to use your toy on you?"
    She nearly choked on her sandwich. "Uh, what?" And here she had been thinking... Good grief, what had she been thinking? That he would stand by and watch her while she used it?
    "I'm restricted by what I can do to you. That's a known,"
    he continued, lowering his voice until it was a sensuous whisper floating around her, enveloping her. "I can continue to bring you the way I did earlier, but after a while it might become..."
    "Boring?" she offered. A warm wetness made its presence known between her thighs, and the hunger clawing in her lower abdomen was becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
    God help her, she was already horny for him again.
    Wiping her mouth with her napkin, Lawn nodded. "You have my permission. In fact..."
    moved closer on the bed. The tray magically drifted to one side, away from the bed.
    "In fact, what?"
    Instead of answering, she pushed herself away from the bed and walked over to the tiny closet. The vibrator was exactly where she'd left it, hiding in a zippered inner pocket 95
     
     
     
    of her duffle bag. Pulling it out, she clutched it in both hands and held it to her chest as she turned around to face him.
    "You look incredibly sexy when you do that," Deep told her.
    "Do what?"
    "Lick your lips. Did you know you lick your lips when you're turned on?"
    No, she didn't know that. And the smile he was giving her was making her hotter by the second. Lawn hurried back to the bed where she placed the toy on the sheets between them.
    "Would you...make love to me again?"
    When he swooped down over her, her imagination refused to let her believe he wasn't real.
    Communique 5G
    To: G.E. Coordinator Millner
    Settling into a routine. All is quiet at this end of the galaxy.
    Addendum: Would like to learn chess. Please send program.
     
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Chapter 12

Filed Under "Heart"
    Lawn had heard of women who claimed to have fallen in love with their dildos, but never anyone who swore to falling in love with a spaceship. Or a man who was a spaceship. Or would that be a spaceship who was a man?
    Screw it.
    She eased out of bed and made it over to the bathroom without too