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  “What do you mean, Maggie is missing?” Nina demanded

  “Just what I said, doll.” Kat’s face on the viewscreen looked worried. “Ferna and Ratner had to send her to Yonnie Six in their place and she should have been back by now.”

  “Oh, poor Maggie.” Nina put a hand to her eyes. “She’s so accident prone! What do they think could have happened to her?”

  Kat shook her head. “Not sure. Ferna hopes the deal with Pope’nose is just taking longer than expected. But she’s afraid something’s wrong. Maggie has their communication code memorized and she was supposed to call if anything happened but so far, no word from her.”

  “Well, maybe she is just taking her time with the deal.” Nina felt a surge of hope. “Maggie’s a smart girl, even if she is a little impractical at times.”

  “You’re probably right. I just wanted to keep you informed because I know you two got close on the Mother Ship.” Kat smiled at her. “Speaking of close, how is bonded life treating you? Is Reddix behaving himself? Are you keeping him in line?”

  “Oh, he…” Nina’s cheeks got hot and she clutched the short silk robe she was wearing tighter around herself. “He’s fine—really. He’s, uh, behaving just fine.”

  “Uh-huh.” Kat cocked one auburn eyebrow at her. “Okay, well, I get the feeling I might have interrupted something so I’ll let you get back to it.”

  “Oh, no, really—there’s, uh, nothing going on here,” Nina protested. “How are all the other girls up there on the Mother Ship?”

  “Lauren is about to pop and it looks like Sophie is going to have her twins any day too.” Kat groaned and put a hand to her belly. “Meanwhile, mine are getting bigger by the day. Which reminds me, chocolate.”

  “Huh?” Nina frowned at the viewscreen.

  “Sorry—just had a craving. I’ll call you back and let you know about Maggie as soon as I have news. But right now, I need a slab of dark chocolate as big as my head.” Kat grinned ruefully. “Crazy pregnancy cravings! Wait until you get pregnant.”

  “I don’t think there’s any chance of that,” Nina said before she thought. “At least not tonight.”

  “Huh?” Kat frowned. “Is Reddix out of town?”

  “Not exactly. Look, Kat—I really have to go.”

  “Talk to you later, doll. Chocolate calls.”

  The viewscreen went dark and Nina heard a familiar deep voice calling from the other room.

  “Nina? You done in there?”

  “Sure am.” Nina stepped back from the darkened viewscreen and opened her robe, revealing what she’d been hiding from Kat. A long, slender dark pink phallus which was strapped to her hips. Half of it was inside her and the other half…well, that remained to be seen.

  She left the living area and walked into the bedroom, her hips swaying.

  “Thought she’d never shut up and leave you alone,” Reddix growled from the bed where he was lying blindfolded with his arms tied to the bedposts on either side. “What was that about anyway?”

  “Maggie. She’s late reporting back to Ferna and they’re worried about her.”

  “Isn’t that the female who mixed up the signs on the joining day cake?” Reddix asked.

  “Uh-huh.” Nina leaned over to kiss him. “But if she hadn’t, we never would have gotten together.” She got closer, letting the dark pink phallus brush lightly against one of his muscular arms.

  Reddix jumped. “Fuck! Is that—”

  “Uh-huh.” Nina untied the blindfold so h could see, but left his hands bound to the bedposts.

  “Fuuuuck,” Reddix groaned again, his silver eyes wide. “That’s…I never would have thought it but that’s fucking sexy, sweetheart.”

  “It is, isn’t it?” Nina put her hands on her hips and looked down at the slender dark pink shaft.

  She’d gotten the idea from a drunken conversation with Lissa, where the Kindred girl had admitted why she and Saber, had almost broken up. When she described the delights of penetrating her man, Nina—who had never guessed she could have such urges—had gotten all hot and bothered. But she’d never dreamed that Reddix might be willing to try such practices so she’d kept her urges bottled up until one night, after making love in the more traditional way, she had admitted to him what she fantasized about.

  To her surprise, Reddix was open to it—in more than one way. They had discussed it at length (no pun intended) and had done some research. Reddix had even helped her pick the double-ended phallus which she was currently wearing and tonight was its maiden voyage.

  Nina just hoped that both of them were really ready.

  “Are you sure about this?” she asked, looking down at her bound and helpless husband.

  “Not completely but looks like he is.” He nodded down the muscular length of his naked body where his cock was standing at attention. “Let me up, though—okay? I want to touch it before you, uh, put it in.”

  “All right.” Slowly, Nina climbed on the bed and crawled, sinuous as a cat, toward her prone husband. She would untie him all right—but in her own time.

  Reddix seemed to know what she was doing.

  “Gonna tease me, huh?” he rumbled, eyeing her breasts, which swayed with each movement, appreciatively.

  “Uh-huh.” Nina grinned and sat up on her knees, putting on a show.

  Her heart was pounding as she let the short silk robe she wore slip down her shoulders. She had nothing on now but the harness which kept the phallus in her. As she moved, she felt the length of it shift inside her provocatively. God, it felt good.

  “Gods, sweetheart,” Reddix groaned hoarsely as she straddled his muscular body and leaned over him to reach the black silk ties that held his wrists to the bedposts. Her motions pressed the soft, warm mounds of her breasts into his face and at the same time, she ground the dark pink phallus against his own straining cock.

  “Can you feel it baby?” she murmured. “Feel me pressing against you?”

  “You know I can.” His deep voice was hoarse and needy. Nina felt a thrill that went from her nipples straight down to her pussy. God, it was hot knowing she was affecting him so deeply!

  She took her time with the ties, pretending to have trouble with the knots. It made her feel sexy and in control to have Reddix helpless under her. Usually he was the one in control in the bedroom—it was nice to turn the tables for a change.

  But Reddix clearly wasn’t ready to submit completely. He leaned forward and captured one of her hard nipples in his mouth. Nina moaned as he sucked eagerly.

  “Now, now,” she scolded him breathlessly. “You know you’re not supposed to do that. I’m supposed to be the one in charge tonight.”

  “Yeah, you’re in charge,” Reddix growled. “For now. I’m gonna turn over and let you fuck me with that thing but that doesn’t mean I might not want to fuck you back.”

  Nina shivered with anticipation. “We’ll see about that,” she murmured, getting his hands free at last. She stayed where she was, straddling his narrow hips, as he sat up and rubbed his wrists.

  “Those scarves are tighter than then look,” he complained, but Nina could tell he wasn’t really upset.

  “I wanted them tight. To make you feel helpless,” she purred. Now that he was sitting up, she could press her breasts more fully against his face. She loved the scratchy feel of his stubble against her tender slopes.

  “Mmm, is that right?” he murmured, taking the hint and sucking her other nipple into his hot mouth. Nina gasped when he tugged at her sensitive flesh. Finally, when both nipples were achy and tight, Reddix stopped. “Damn, sweetheart, I want to be inside you. The only thing I want more…”

  “Is for me to be inside you,” Nina finished for him with a grin.

  “Let me see that thing. I want to know how it fits in you.”

  She sat back obligingly and let him admire the slender shaft rising from between her thighs. Reddix explored it with his fingers, spreading her pussy lips to see how the dark pin