Kira sat in her bath, pondering. She had dismissed her maidservants, not even bothering to look up their short skirts as they left. She didn't miss their company. How she wanted to miss someone's company. That would imply she had significant company to miss in the first place.
Oh how she wanted significant company.
A companion, a friend, maybe even a real lover.
It had been so long since she had a real lover.
Of course she had sex, but love…love was different. To make love, she remembered, was a foolish Terran euphemism for a fuck. Stupid, she thought, because it wasn't love that was being created. Love and pleasure were two completely different things.
This lesson she had learned from experience.
Hurried fingers were no match for those replaced by pure, unadulterated passion.
Pure, unadulterated love.
But she'd settle even for tainted love right now.
She held her head under the water, letting it swish over her bright hair, holding her breath until it hurt.
She debated coming back up for a long time.