Page 77 of No Strings Attached

He lowered her and settled over her in one motion, but she tightened her legs around him and raised her hands from his neck, holding on to both sides of his head and keeping his eyes locked on hers.

She whispered, “I love you, Bahbi. And I couldn’t do any of this without you. Whatever we achieve on this crazy mission, whatever I’m able to do, I’ll only be able to do it because you’re with me. And if I had to stop to keep you with me, I would. Nothing else matters without you with me.”

Bahbi’s throat worked, but nothing came out, so he just nodded. On a certain level, he had known she loved him, but hearing her say it and tell him how important he was to herwas different…more. Vi seemed to recognize the emotion he was struggling with, and she pulled his face down to hers for a long, tender kiss.

When he could finally speak, he gazed down into her lovely green eyes and said, “Violet, you freed me, chose me, and gave me the whole universe. ‘Love’ isn’t a big enough word to tell you how I feel about you, and I’ll go anywhere and do anything with you. You’ll never have to choose.”

They sat still like that for several moments, looking into each other’s eyes, then began a slow rocking movement together that eventually carried them both away, still wrapped up in each other’s arms.

As Vi slept, Bahbi carefully finished her last toe, then sat back to admire his handiwork. She curled her toes in her sleep, then rubbed the bottom of one foot over the top of the other, as if to scratch an itch or stop a tickle. She blinked her way up to consciousness and reached a hand up to rub her eyes, then pulled it back in shock. She sat up, looking at one hand, then the other, in surprise. Then she straightened her legs and looked at her toes. Then she blinked at Bahbi, the confusion in her face comical enough that he had to suppress a laugh.

He let her confusion span another couple of seconds, then said, “I tied strings on you.” He had, all 10 fingers and all 10 toes, using strings he had carefully extracted from the tassels surrounding one of Qlu’s pillows. He grinned broadly, “Now you’re mine forever.”

Vi blinked at him one more time in surprise, then burst out laughing and fell backwards into the pillow, saying, “Yep, youwin. There’s no getting rid of me now.” She sat back up and gave him a wicked look, “Now, let me see you strut.”

Epilogue, Too: Extend an Invitation To Her and the King

Mo sat up inthe bed enough for it to look natural when the covers fell off her breasts, eyes still riveted to the Ogo broadcast, where the obviously human female paraded almost entirely naked around Blue Rift Station as the Queen of Oz. FuckingOz!

She turned her body towards the Baron, who was also still watching, enough that he would see the hard tips of her nipples in silhouette. They were still smarting from her savage pinches under the blanket to make them hard. She was too old and was rapidly losing the last of her influence with the Baron, so she had to pull out all the tricks to have even the smallest chance of getting anything she wanted these days. It didn’t matter that, as one of his favorites in the harem, her body had been through so many rejuvenation treatments that she could still pass for early 30s. She had been with him too long, and he was simply tired of her.

She leaned over towards him, keeping her nipples prominent while letting her long, curly, red hair graze his arm. She knew all his buttons.

She purred, silkily, into his ear, “I think you should tell the Baroness to extend an invitation to her and the king.” She ran a hand under the covers, down the ever-increasing swell of his great belly to the spongy appendage between his legs. “They look…mmm…delicious. Don’t you agree?” She squeezed.

He turned to her, yellow eyes flashing, and rubbed his left horn slowly, suggestively.

“I think you’re right, my dear. Theydolook delicious, and there are such a variety of creatures in their party. Imagine who they might bring to play.” He twitched in her hand under her ministrations before continuing, “And don’t think I didn’t notice thatshewas parading around the whole station barefoot!” He shivered and rubbed his horn again, “Maureen, get the hot oil.”