Victorious Star (11 page)

“Calm down.” Ravnos’s voice was soft and sleepy in her ear. The thigh slid lower, out of contact with her clit.

“What happened?” Seht called out from the other side of Ravnos.

“I moved my knee and it hit her clit.”

She groaned.
Blood and damnation, I’m in bed with both of them.
She needed to get out of that bed before one or both of them got any early morning ideas. Under the night-dimmed lights, she could just make out the edge of the broad bed and scooted for it.

Ravnos’s strong arm captured her waist, pulling her back until her spine rested against his warm side. “Where are you going?”

“The facility.” She turned over to look at him. “It’s urgent.”

His sculpted jaw was dark with early morning beard and a sleepy smile played on his lips. “Really?”

Victoria nibbled on her lip.
Fate and damnation, he’s fine.
She gave herself a mental shake.
He’s also a sadistic bastard with a thing for ass fucking.
It was more than time to get out of this bed! “Really, I have to go.”

He chuckled and released her. “Go then.”

Victoria lunged out of the bed and raced for the facility. It really was urgent.

She looked down and eyed the tiny gold ring on her clit. She couldn’t imagine how it had stayed on this long.
Well, it’s coming off now!
She’d tell them she’d lost it down the commode. She reached for it.

Her fingers brushed the fine ring around her clit. The titanium cuffs on her wrists tingled and her fingers abruptly stopped cooperating. She couldn’t get her fingers to close around it to take the ring off. She tried for the rings on her nipples. Her fingers still refused to cooperate.
Son of a fucking bitch!

Victoria got off the commode ready to punch something and settled for washing her hands and face in scalding water.
I am going to hurt those two.

The facility door opened.

Victoria picked up a towel to dry her face. “I’m not done yet.”

“I see that,” Ravnos said with amusement. “Did you try to remove the rings?”

Victoria stilled.
Bastard.
She patted her face with the towel.
Oh, what the hell.
“Yes.”

“Were you successful?”

She folded the towel, set it on the counter, and turned to face him so he could see for himself. “No.”

Ravnos leaned comfortably against the doorframe gloriously nude, and urgently erect. “Coming back to bed?”

Victoria crossed her arms over her breasts. “Do I have to?”

He raised a brow. “Are you always this disagreeable in the morning?”

Victoria felt her lip curl up in a half-smile. “I’m better after coffee.”

“I’ll see that you get some with breakfast.” He tilted his head toward the main chamber. “Come back to bed.”

Victoria knew an order when she heard one. She dropped her head and headed for the door. He moved out of the doorway to let her pass.

Seht had kicked back the blankets and lay sprawled out, utterly and spectacularly nude. For the first time Victoria could see him from head to toe, and everything in between. She stopped in her tracks.
Bloody merciless damnation!

Seht’s long silver mane spread across the pillows and over the side of the bed. His lean sculpted body was moon-pale under the dimmed lights. His eyes were closed and he licked his lips as he stroked himself, a fist around each of his impressive erections.

Victoria shivered. Her heart beat in her mouth, and her breath tried to stop in her chest.
Big, he’s too big. And there are two of them.
Of course she knew he had two cocks -- he’d already fucked her with them -- but she hadn’t actually seen them in the flesh.

Seht opened his eyes and grinned while stroking. “Coming back to bed?”

Ravnos closed his hands on her shoulders. “Yes.” He propelled her two steps closer. “She is.”

Victoria dug in her heels, unable to take her eyes off of Seht. “I need to go now,” she said breathlessly.

“Yes, you need to go,” Ravnos chuckled. He pressed her forward. “To bed.”

Seht sat up and tossed his hair over his shoulder. “Now you’re shy?” His erections rose from his lap, pale and threatening columns, the top clearly broader and a full inch longer than the bottom.

Ravnos snorted. “I don’t see why. We’ve both had her.”

White heat blazed into her cheeks and in her blood. Victoria felt her temper finally snap. “That’s enough! I have had enough!” She turned and glared at one and then the other. Fury shook her entire body. “I am not a fucking pleasure girl, damn you! I’m an officer!”

Seht’s brows rose. “Well now. Looks like her temper’s back.”

Ravnos snorted. “That’s easy enough to fix.”

“Not this time.” Victoria bared her teeth in a feral smile. “I am done playing your dominance games!” At the speed of thought, she accessed the ship’s communications. Light haloed her head as her augmentation activated and accessed the ship’s atmosphere and thermostat systems.

An icy breeze rushed from the ventilation. The temperature dropped dramatically.

Seht abruptly stood. “You what?” His breath steamed with his words. He rubbed his arms and looked over at Ravnos. “What the hell just happened?”

“The breeze you are feeling is from air I rerouted past the outer hull.” Victoria smiled as coldly as the air blowing through the chamber. Her breath was clearly visible in the chill air. Tied in to the ship’s system, so much of her thoughts were interlinked with the ship that the chill was at a distance. She knew it was cold, but barely felt it.

Seht frowned at Ravnos. “Can she do that?”

Victoria raised her chin. “Let’s put it this way, with a touch more moisture through ventilation I can make it snow in here.”

Ravnos raised his brow. “She’s remotely accessed some of the ship’s functions,” he said thoughtfully and nodded at Victoria. “Not many nav-pilots can.”

Seht yanked the blankets free and wrapped himself in them. “Great. You
would
grab one of the talented ones.” He glared at Victoria. “Change it back, now!”

Victoria glared right back. “If either of you domineering bastards ever want heat in any compartment or chamber you occupy again, or one drop of hot water in your showers, you will leave me the fuck alone.”

Seht’s eyes blazed with fury. “You dare to make threats?” He bared his long teeth.

“I’ll handle this, Seht.” Ravnos focused on Victoria. A frigid smile curved his lips. “Now we know why her ass was virginal.”

Victoria stared at Ravnos’s unnerving smile and felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. Something wasn’t right. Ravnos should have been grabbing for blankets, like Seht. Instead, he stood comfortably, as though the chamber was not the same temperature as the inside of a deep freezer.

Ravnos’s eyes narrowed. “How much do you have access to?”

Victoria held his gaze, but his unreasonable calm was unraveling her nerve. “I can’t fly the ship from here, but I can access lighting, power supply, communications, and atmospheric life support anywhere in the ship.”

“Life support?” Seht sucked in a breath “Holy Mother.”

Ravnos’s brows shot up. “Atmospherics? Can you create a vacuum in a corridor or a specific group of chambers?”

Victoria nodded. “Any walk-way or compartment in any ship I’ve linked to.”

Ravnos dropped his chin and his gaze sharpened. “Limitations on accessing those controls?”

Out of sheer military habit Victoria answered before she thought. “I have to be on the ship.”

Ravnos leaned back on his heels. “Now that is interesting.”

“I’m glad you’re having fun here, Captain,” Seht ground out. “But I’m freezing my fucking ass off! Can you do something about this?”

Ravnos glanced over at Seht. “Oh, of course.” He turned to Victoria and barked out a code.

Victoria felt every system in her augmentation array in direct communication with the ship sit up and take notice.
Oh shit!
Her link with the ship abruptly closed and a different link opened. Communication reversed, and code came pouring in.

She scrambled to block the source of the incoming code but it was not coming from the main sentience. The code came directly from a part of the ship’s sentience she had not even known was there, through an access she didn’t know she had. In half a thought, the invading program seized control of her piloting array, and through it, every piece of mechanics in her body.
No! No! No!

Victoria’s head jerked back, and she froze where she stood. “Code acknowledged,” came out of her mouth.

Ravnos nodded. “Return temperature controls to standard settings.”

“Proceeding,” Victoria’s mouth replied.

Heat poured from the ventilation ducts.

Frozen as still as a statue, her flesh crawled and her heart slammed in her chest.
What the hell kind of program was that? This never happened before. What the hell kind of captain is he?

Ravnos circled her. “Now that I have your complete attention, Nav-Pilot.” He stopped directly in front of her and smiled with vicious amusement. “We need to address that temper of yours.”

Victoria couldn’t move; she could barely breathe. She just knew that whatever came next was going to be humiliating and painful. In joyful recognition, a dark corner of her soul awoke and uncoiled, bringing with it a hard, wet, voracious throbbing in her core. Cream formed and slid down her thighs.

Seht threw the blankets back on the bed and stood, his mouth set in a grim line. “She needs severe and immediate punishment.”

Victoria discovered that she had enough motor control to swallow hard, and to shiver.

Ravnos held up his hand. “Stand down. This is not entirely her fault, Seht.” He barked out a code.

Victoria felt the invading program abruptly stop, releasing her piloting array. Her knees suddenly gave out and she pitched forward.

Ravnos caught her around the waist. “I’ve got you.” He lifted her up into his arms. “I trust you know not to try that again on my ship?”

Victoria nodded and shivered in his arms while her augmentation settled back under her control. What the hell did he mean by it wasn’t entirely her fault?

Ravnos sat down on the edge of the bed with Victoria cradled across his lap. “You’ll be back to normal in a few minutes.”

Seht narrowed his eyes at Ravnos. “I will not abide threats.”

“She was acting under provocation.” Ravnos gave him a cool stare. He nodded at Victoria. “You and I both know she’s not used to being treated like this.”

Seht rocked back on his heels. “You were deliberately provoking her?”

Victoria stilled.
What?

Ravnos nodded. “I needed to see the full extent of her skills.” He raised a brow at Seht. “It took a week of constant pressure before I finally discovered all of yours. Remember?”

Seht turned away and folded his arms across his chest. “The duel in the hangar bay.”

Ravnos nodded at Victoria. “I was trying to get her to snap yesterday when we put her over my desk.” He shrugged. “I didn’t count on her control.”

Seht turned around sharply. “You were trying to break her in only one day?” Seht scowled. “Even I’m not that cruel.”

Ravnos narrowed his gaze at his executive officer. “Time isn’t a luxury we can afford. The auction is in three days.”

Victoria sucked in a breath.
He did all of this to me -- on purpose?
She felt her temperature rise hot and fast.
He was trying to
make
me lose control?
She balled her hand in a fist.
That manipulating son of a bitch!
She turned in his lap and launched her fist at him with all the augmented power she could muster, striking Ravnos hard on the jaw.

His head snapped back, and he rocked from the impact. “Ow! Shit!” He shook his head with a look of surprise and raised a brow at Victoria. “That was one hell of a punch, lady.” He rubbed his jaw.

“You deserved that, you bastard.” Victoria glared at him.

Seht suddenly grinned. “She’s right. You did deserve that.”

Ravnos frowned at Seht then dropped his head. Pink stained his cheeks. “Okay, I deserved that.” He rubbed his jaw a bit more and delivered a bloodcurdling smile. “But I wouldn’t try it again.”

Ravnos raised a cynical brow. “And you would have flat out told me that you could control most of the minor functions of the ship?”

“I would have told you that I was capable of…” Victoria turned away. “Some.”

“Some.” Ravnos took her chin and turned her to face him. “There was only one way to find out how much control you had. I had to make you use it.”

“Fine. You have what you want.” Victoria glared at him. “Does that mean you’ll leave me alone now?”

Ravnos’s expression flared with sudden feral heat. “I think it’s a little late for that, don’t you?”

Victoria gasped with shock. “What?”

Ravnos took her mouth in an aggressive and possessive kiss. He turned her in his arms and pressed her back onto the bed, her hair spilling back over the blankets.

Hot, wet, and hungry, his tongue pursued hers. Anger gave way to a desperate and alarmingly violent need until she parried his tongue with her own. Victoria rocked with the sensation of her own eagerness. Some part of her had been waiting for his kiss since the moment they met.

His hand slid between her thighs then traveled upwards, bending her knee and pressing her open. His fingers delved and discovered her slick and willing flesh. Two fingers burrowed into her heat and his thumb brushed her sensitive bud.

She arched eagerly and moaned, blinded by a hungry desperation.

Ravnos released her mouth.

Victoria opened her eyes and discovered Seht lying alongside them. His head dipped and his mouth pressed against hers. She opened for his kiss and felt his hand on her breast, gently kneading, his thumb brushing her nipple with exquisite care.

“You want us, Victoria,” Ravnos whispered. “You want us both.”

Seht released her mouth, then leaned down to stroke her nipple with his tongue.

Victoria’s body clenched with fierce appetite, wanting nothing more than to submit. Her body craved their touch with a brutal hunger that brooked no denial. “Yes!” exploded from her lips. “Fate, yes. I want you both.”

Seht lifted his head and looked over at Ravnos.

Ravnos nodded. “Take her.”

Seht grabbed Victoria around the hips and rolled onto his back, bringing her over on top of him.

“Seht, lift her.” Ravnos moved to the foot of the bed.

Seht lifted her higher on his chest to take her nipple with his lips, sucking with eager strength.

Victoria gasped with the fire that burned straight to her core. She felt Ravnos moving behind them then felt his hands on her butt, parting her cheeks. She jerked and Seht pulled her down onto him, holding her tight while devouring her breasts. She felt the sting of teeth on her delicate skin while Ravnos’s fingers, coated in thick gel, pressed deep into her anus.

Ravnos’s finger slid free of her anus. “Now.”

Seht’s lips released her breast. “Mount me and ride.”

Victoria rose up on her knees. One hand splayed on his broad chest. She trembled as she took the first of his cocks and pressed it to the open mouth of her cunt.

He nudged into her wet flesh and groaned. “Both of me. Take both.”

Victoria bit her lip and hesitated.

His eyes opened. They were wide pits of black ringed with thin lines of blue flame. “Please.”

She leaned forward and took his second shaft into her hand. It felt broad and hot as she pressed him to her anus. She groaned and opened herself for him, pressing back with slow deliberation.

Seht’s mouth opened and he arched under her. “Goddess, yes.”

Victoria moaned as she slowly took him into her body, sinking down until she swallowed him to the balls. Heat, fullness, dark vibrant pleasure…

Seht panted and opened his eyes. His hands rose and he cupped her breasts. He licked his lips. “Now, fuck me.”

She rocked forward and up. The shafts slid outward. Decadent delight. She sat back and they slid within. Pleasure laced with the bright edge of pain. She rose and fell.

Seht groaned and moved under her. His knees came up.

Victoria felt breath on her shoulders. Ravnos was sitting on his knees behind her. She turned and his mouth caught hers in a brief but fierce kiss.

Ravnos clasped his hands around Seht’s knees and lifted, positioning Seht’s feet up on his shoulders. His arms came around Victoria with impressive strength, trapping Seht’s legs

between his body and Victoria’s.

Seht jerked in surprise and his feet flexed on Ravnos’s shoulders. “What?” He lifted his head, eyes wide.

Ravnos smiled briefly. “You didn’t think I was leaving you out?” He pressed against Victoria’s back and pushed while clasping Victoria against him and holding Seht’s legs immobile.

Seht gasped and arched, lifting Victoria. His fingers clenched in the bed sheets. He groaned then panted. “You could have warned me.”

Ravnos echoed his gasp, and continued to push. “Where’s the fun in that?”

She felt Ravnos’s belly press against her buttocks and suddenly realized that he was buried in Seht’s body, as Seht was buried in hers. The intimacy of their carnal act shocked and inflamed her. The scent of both aroused males intent on pleasure intoxicated her. The potent thought of Seht, practically helpless under them, being taken as she was taken, added frightening heat to her dark pleasure.

Ravnos groaned and his hands slid down to cup Victoria’s breasts. “There, now I have you both.” He tugged on her engorged nipples.

Victoria writhed with fierce ravenous hunger.

Ravnos pulled her back with him, grinding Victoria deeper onto Seht’s cocks while sliding from Seht’s body.

She gasped.

Ravnos thrust, shoving her forward with him and pushing her partway off of Seht’s cocks.

A helpless moan of disturbing delight escaped her.

A rumbling growl vibrated in Seht’s chest. He grabbed her buttocks and lifted then pushed her back, grinding her back down onto him, forcing Ravnos to retreat.

Ravnos groaned. “Oh, no, you don’t.” He rose up slightly on his knees, lifting Seht and Victoria with him. “I’m driving.” He thrust, driving Victoria before him.

Seht arched under them and panted. “Spawn of Chaos, you bastard.”

Ravnos pulled her back with him and thrust again, then again with measured and steady strength, driving Victoria forth then pulling her back.

Seht moaned in conquered pleasure, his cries threading with hers while bucking under them, in answering rhythm.

Victoria couldn’t think much further beyond the arms that held her and the moving fullness in her cunt and in her ass. That Ravnos had found a way to fuck them both stabbed a violent spike of savage and feral gratification straight through to her core and washed all other thoughts from her mind.

Seht’s mouth opened, showing long teeth. He groaned. “Too much.” He sucked in a breath. “Can’t hold off.”

“Good.” Ravnos’s breath quickened and he increased his thrusts in speed and strength, grunting with effort.

Victoria felt the sudden and violent rise of heat and tension that marked approaching climax.

Seht arched tautly under her and his pupils abruptly changed from round to feline slits. A rumbling liquid growl vibrated through him.

A shiver raced through Victoria. She felt the fullness in her cunt and her ass swell with alarming speed. She moaned and twisted as the tightness stretched her until movement became uncomfortable.

Ravnos stilled and tightened his hold around Victoria. “Are you knotted?”

Seht shuddered. “Yes.” He slid his hands up around Victoria’s waist and his mouth opened. His long fangs gleamed wetly and his slitted eyes flicked to Ravnos. “Will you let me give her--?”

Ravnos nodded. “Bite gently.”

Victoria jolted.
Bite?
Ravnos pushed her down onto Seht and Seht crushed her to him, holding her immobile against the hard wall of his body. His hand clenched in her hair and pulled her head to one side. Seht’s breath was hot on her shoulder. She released a small frightened sound.

“Don’t be afraid,” Seht whispered. “This will only hurt for a moment.”

Victoria felt his lips on her shoulder and then the scrape of his long teeth.

He bit.

The twin stabs burned. She gasped then stilled as warmth and startling pleasure blossomed. Euphoria shimmered across her, then abruptly intensified with savage speed.

Ravnos began thrusting with violent speed and ruthless power.

Seht bucked under her in counterpoint to Ravnos’s thrusts and moaned with his mouth locked on her shoulder.

The pleasure was so intense she cried out.

From a distance she felt Ravnos increase his thrusts, then gasp and still. He thrust and then once more. He groaned. “Cum!”

Seht growled in her ear and she felt his shuddering release within her.

Orgasm burst over her in a maelstrom of intensity. She had time to gasp before another wave of intense pleasure took her, and then another, and another. She screamed.