Page 55 of No Strings Attached

Everyone went quiet for a moment, then Steev continued, looking at Vi who had perked up at the idea of having some covering, “Now, secondly, you’re going to have to stop fucking Bahbi starting now, or they’ll smell Trallian all over you at 100 feet away, like I did yesterday and today, and the game will be up.”

Vi deflated again and glanced at Bahbi. He could see her emotions cycling through embarrassment, disappointment, and confusion.

She looked back to Steev and said, “Wait, today, uh…doesn’t need any clarification, but yesterday when I talked with you, I had taken a shower. You mean…you could still smell…his…um…him…on me?”

Caussus shook his head and Acken said, “I, for one, cannot. Thankfully.”

Trak snorted and said, “Easily. Any Trallian can…and everyone probably has, by this point.”

Vi looked down at her hands.

Steev said, “Yes, I could smell him then almost as strongly as I can smell him now. It would be much better if you spent the next few nights fucking Caussus and carried his scent.”

Caussus’s head whipped around to Steev while Bahbi watched Vi’s downcast eyes widen, and he held his breath waiting for her to answer, panic threatening to overtake him because he recognized that Steev might just be right.

She shook her head, still looking down, “Yeah, I’m not going to do that. No offense, Caussus,” she said, with a glance at him, “but my sexuality doesn’t work that way. I only have a sexual relationship with one male at a time.”

Steev’s head and upper body swayed side to side as he said, “I didn’t suggest otherwise. I recommend you stop fucking Bahbi and start fucking Caussus, not that you fuck them both together.”

Acken nodded, pointed at Steev, and said, “Yes, that seems like the best option. This could be an important alliance.”

Vi was turning red and getting flustered, “No! I mean, my sexual relationship is with Bahbi now, and it will still be with him after we get through this thing with your parents. I won’t befuckinganyone else in between! If I need to smell like Caussus, maybe I can wear his dirty coveralls or something before we meet with your parents, Steev. But I won’t be having sex with him or anyone else just to make this act convincing.” Her eyes met Bahbi’s and her voice was confident when she next spoke, but there was a question in her gaze, “Bahbi and I can stop between now and when this goddamn meeting is over.”

Bahbi nodded reassuringly and held her gaze, but he felt the same uncertainty that she did.

Upstairs they stood, hand in hand, looking at the bed together and frozen in place.

Vi was the first to shrug it off. She laughed and turned to him, saying, “It’s not like it’s been forever. It’s only been a few hours! C’mon, let’s just go to bed and get a good night’s sleep.”

She began to peel out of her clothes and Bahbi did the same, then they each went to the opposite side of the bed. Vi laid down on her side, watching him, and he mimicked her, keeping a couple of feet of empty space between them as they held each other’s gaze.

He growled, “I hate this, Vi. It doesn’t feel natural to be this far away from you.”

She smiled, then rolled toward him, nestling her backside up against him. He slid one arm under her head and the other around her waist as she pulled the covers up over them.

“We’re going to need to practice keeping our hands off of each other, anyway, because there won’t be any privacy for us on the ship. At least as long as we’re using Qlu’s ship. And it’s going to be a long time before we have our own ship, with private quarters for the two of us.”

Bahbi stroked a hand from her waist to the slight swell of her narrow hips, heart expanding as he registered her assumption that they’d continue being together indefinitely into the future, even after they’d secured a ship of their own. He desperately wanted to ask her about that, but he couldn’t bear the idea of her qualifying the statement or bringing up their promise to not require each other to make any promises.

But she had told everyone downstairs that she was with him,only, and expected to continue to be with him,only, after the meeting on the space station. That knowledge alone should be making their brief period of celibacy easier, considering his previous assumption of lifelong celibacy. But he kept feeling a relentless drive, a need to make her body feel as good as her words had made his heart feel. She had claimed him, in front of the others, and rejected the idea of being with anyone else, for any reason.

He made up his mind right there, scooping her up in his arms and carrying her to the shower.

“What are you doing, Bahbi?!”

He stood her up, then got the warm water running on both of them. “I’m going to help you get my smell off of you and keep my promise from this morning. I’m killing those two birds.”

“Killing two birds with one…stone,” she corrected as he began to slowly lather her shoulders and breasts and her words transformed into soft noises of pleasure. “But…oh…what about…um…you?”

“I will use this,” he said, as he soaped down her belly and around to the round cheeks of her ass, “as a valuable opportunity to teach my cock some control.”

She snorted out a laugh that changed into a moan as he moved to stand behind her and run his soapy hands down into her mound. She arched backwards into him as his fingers slid through her slickness, and it didn’t take him long before he had her crying out. Bahbi ran a continuous mantra in his head ofstay inside, stay inside, stay insideto his cock.

He finished washing, rinsing, and toweling off a now sleepy, dreamy looking Vi, then carried her back to their bed and returned them to their snuggled position.Stay inside, stay inside, stay inside.

He whispered into her ear, “I guess I won’t make you beg tonight after all. You look very sleepy, and I’m going to need more practice with cock control. This is much harder than I thought it would be.”

She laced her fingers into his where his hand rested under her breast and whispered, sleepily, “After we get through this, maybe I’ll be the one that threatens to make you beg.”

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