She set her coffee and bagel on the small desk in the back. She leaned against it while she finished her bagel and studied her hydro lab. Not just pretty, but functional. It provided them fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as helped augment the air scrubbers. All the air in the ship passed through the hydro lab.
Down here, she also had a brief respite from her men. Not that she didn’t want to be around them, because she did. With her empath skills, however, it sometimes grated on her nerves if she didn’t get the occasional break. Fortunately their emotions tended to run to the loving, and horny, end of the spectrum, making it easy to spend lots of time in close quarters with them.
Emi busied herself with her hydro tables. She pruned, harvested, started seeds and transplanted seedlings, and tidied the place up. After two hours, she caught herself yawning.
The basket she kept down there for fruit and veggies nearly overflowed. Bananas, peppers, tomatoes, and beans had ripened. After toting it back to the galley, she headed to their quarters to grab a shower and go to bed to grab a few hours of sleep before dinner.
When she emerged from the head, Caph lay stretched out in the middle of their shared bunk, a playful grin on his face.
Fortunately, he was clothed.
“Hi, babe.”
Emi had pulled on one of the men’s shirts after getting out of the shower. It hung to her knees, giving her a little protection against her horny hubby.
“Hi, Caph.” She crawled under the sheet. “Still too tired, babe. Sorry.”
“Aww, I just wanted to spend a few minutes with you.”
“Uh-huh. Suuure.”
He stretched out next to her, on top of the covers. “No, seriously.” He kissed her on the forehead. Then he laced his fingers through hers. “Scout’s honor.”
She nuzzled close and closed her eyes. “Good, because I’m wiped out.”
When she opened her eyes what felt like mere minutes later, Aaron lay stretched out where Caph had been. She yawned. “When’d you get here?”
“A little bit ago.”
“Is it dinnertime yet?”
“Nope. A few hours. You don’t need to get up yet.”
She snuggled closer to him and closed her eyes agin. “Good, because I don’t feel like it.” Before she knew it, dreams filled her head again. Bad dreams. Specifically about the fight on Kal’moran, where she had to play dirty to beat Rawin in the arena.
Only this time, in Emi’s dream Rawin wrapped her arms around Emi and started squeezing. Emi struggled, trying to get away—
“Hey, Emi. Wake up. You’re having a nightmare.”
Her eyes popped open at the sound of Ford’s voice. He was sitting up, holding her with his arms wrapped tightly around her. As she struggled to get her pulse under control, she broke down crying against his chest.
“Shh, it’s okay.” He gently gathered her against him as she cried. “You need to get it out of your system. You’ve been holding on to it for too damn long. I wondered how long it would take you to finally get around to it.”
“Please don’t tell Aaron and Caph. I don’t want to worry them.”
“Um, that’s a hell-no-can’t-do, babe. Remember the reaming you gave me for keeping mum about Aaron’s nightmares?”
“That’s different.”
“How?”
She thought about it. “Because I said so.”
He kissed the tip of her nose. “Sorry, babe. Cap trumps doctor. And we all trump that as husbands.” He held her close. “You don’t get a pass on this one. You need to talk it out. Get it out of your system.” He let her have a moment. “How many of these have you had?”
“Too many.”
“That’s what I thought.” He made her meet his gaze. It felt like his blue eyes peered down to the bottom of her soul. “We’re going to have a family meeting. And you will tell them.”
She knew arguing with him would prove futile. Besides, she knew he was right.
She nodded.
“That’s my good girl.”
Chapter Two
Ford took a watch during dinner, but Caph took the night duty. As Emi snuggled between Aaron and Ford in their bed, she hoped they’d go to sleep without her nightmares coming up as a topic of conversation, but Ford had other plans.
“You want to tell him yourself,” Ford started, “or should I?”
Aaron’s brow scrunched up as his brown eyes narrowed. “Tell me what?”
Emi burrowed herself a little deeper beneath the covers. “I’d rather go to sleep,” she muttered.
“Yeaaah, no,” Ford said, tugging the covers down. “Don’t even. Spill it.”
Her gaze skittered from Aaron’s brown eyes back down to his mouth.
“Don’t make me order you, Doctor,” Aaron said, his tone belying his words.
She threw a glare over her shoulder at Ford. “Fine.” Get it over with.
She wasn’t, however, expecting to burst into tears as she told him about the nightmares she’d been having. By the time she finished, both men had surrounded her, holding her.
“You’ve got to let it out, Em,” Aaron softly said. “That’s what you told me, and you were right. Don’t hold stuff in.”
“But I won. I don’t understand why I’m having these nightmares.”
Aaron tenderly kissed her forehead. “Because you’re human.”
“You don’t need to be strong all the time,” Ford added. “That’s why we’re here. All three of us. Lean on us.”
“And don’t you feel better?” Aaron added.
And she did feel a little better for the telling. Instead of answering, she snuggled tightly against them, tipping her head back so she could kiss Aaron.
“I think that’s a yes,” Ford said.
Emi plunged her hand into Aaron’s brown hair, hooking her leg around his as she did. He obliged her by pressing his thigh between her legs and offering her the perfect angle for her to rub her clit against his flesh.
“That’s it, baby,” Ford whispered in her ear. He trailed kisses down her neck, along her shoulder, as he reached around her with his arm and cupped her right breast in his hand. “Show us how much you want a good, hard fucking.”
Emi let out a soft mewling cry as Aaron grazed his teeth along her throat. “Both of us,” Aaron rumbled against her flesh. “We’re going to fuck your ass and your pussy and not let you go until we’ve made your eyes roll back in your head.”
Her hips rocked harder, faster, more insistently. Hell, if they kept up the dirty talk, she’d be creaming all over Aaron’s leg at that rate before they even got around to actually fucking her.
“I think,” Ford said, “that next time we’re in port, we need to hunt down a butt plug and a dildo for her. Get a harness and strap them on her and make her stay naked like that all…day…long.” He punctuated the last three words by tweaking her nipple between his thumb and finger.
Electric heat shot from her nipple straight down to her clit. Another gush of moisture flowed into her aching pussy. Now the hard feel of Ford’s cock pressed against the seam of her ass. She frantically rubbed herself against Aaron’s thigh, wanting release right now, dammit!
Aaron chuckled. “Is mean old Ford teasing you?” The playful energy washing from both of them served to push her need higher up the scale.
“Yes. You both are, and you darn well know it.”
Aaron rolled onto his back, pulling her with him. He grabbed her hips and thrust up, his cock easily sliding between her drenched pussy lips and deep into her cunt. He looked up at her with passion smoldering in his brown gaze. “Get comfortable, baby,” he said. “We’re not letting you go anytime soon.”