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Maria had been one of the few people she’d confided in after the attack back in high school. The two women were still good friends, though they had grown apart after Maria got married and had three kids she was always very busy with.
“I know why,” she said to Abbey. “And I don’t blame you. I still say you should have reported him to the police!”
“You know they wouldn’t have listened—his Dad is so important!” Abbey protested. “Besides, it’s water under the bridge now—I don’t let it bother me anymore. I just don’t want to see him again.”
“You won’t,” Maria promised. “Please come—I know Janelle and Krista are going to be looking for you!”
“Well…I do have a new guy I’d like to show off,” Abbey confessed.
“You do?” Maria’s voice went high with excitement. “Girl, you should have led with that! Tell me all about him!”
They spent a few more minutes catching up and then Abbey heard a voice say,
“Mommy, I need help with this!”
Maria sighed.
“Well, duty calls. I have to go— but promise you’ll come—the reunion won’t be the same without you!”
“I’ll think about it,” Abbey told her. “I have to find something to wear.”
“That sounds like a ‘yes,’” Maria remarked and Abbey could tell her old friend was smiling. “I’ll see you at the reunion!”
Abbey hung up but she was already thinking that if things went well with Solon, she would definitely take him to the reunion with her at the end of the month.
23
ABBEY
The rest of the Holding Week went extremely well. Solon was a perfect gentleman—though more and more Abbey wished he wouldn’t be. By day they roamed around the Monstrum Mother Ship and at night they watched vids together and talked. They also spent hours kissing and Solon would run his big, warm hands over her shoulders and back and outer thighs, but he never touched her anywhere else.
Of course, Abbey knew he was being respectful and gentle and she appreciated it a lot. But she was beginning to long for more—much more—from the big Monstrum. Especially at the end of the Holding Week, after the night he caught her “reading” a spicy romance book…
Abbey wasn’t really reading it of course—she was having the mechanical voice on her tablet read to her. Whenever possible, she got audiobooks but this particular novel was a new release by one of her favorite indie authors and didn’t have an audiobook out yet.
Solon was out, speaking to his boss, Commander Rarev, so she’d thought it was the perfect time to catch up on her reading. She sat on the big couch in the living room area—she had memorized the whole suite now so she could go anywhere she needed to—and let the tablet read to her.
The only problem was, the tablet’s voice didn’t really do the spicy scenes justice, she thought, as she listened to it with dissatisfaction. It sounded so stilted and awkward, especially when it said words like “pussy” or “cock” or anything else that was spicy. She was just about to give up and turn the tablet off when she heard a deep voice from the doorway say,
“Hmm, that’s an interesting book, lelka.”
“Oh!” Abbey fumbled with her tablet, her cheeks burning hot. Unfortunately, embarrassment made her clumsy and instead of turning the book off, she accidentally turned up the volume.
“I want to lick your pussy!” the tablet blared in its tinny, mechanical voice. “I want to make you come all over my face!”
“Oh my God!” Abbey was filled with mortification! She fumbled some more with the tablet and finally got it turned of. “I…I’m so sorry!” she said as the big golden blur that was Solon sat down beside her on the couch. “I…I didn’t know you were standing there.”
“Why should you be sorry?” he sounded honestly confused. “And why are you so embarrassed?”
“You’re not even touching me—how do you know I’m embarrassed?” Abbey demanded.
“Because your cheeks are flushed and red.” One big hand cupped her burning cheek gently. “You never have to feel ashamed around me, lelka. So what if you wish to listen to sexual material on your tablet? You have the right to pleasure yourself any way you want to.”
“I…I wasn’t touching myself, if that’s what you’re implying!” Abbey protested uneasily.
“I wasn’t, actually, but even if you were—so what?” he said and since he was still touching her, she felt his sincerity.
“I…I wouldn’t do that,” Abbey said quickly. “I mean, especially not out in the living room!”
