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Short Chapter…
Reference; This was written to go in Chapter 31 but I cut it because it wasn't really needed to move the story along. Altair seeing them and the suggestion was enough.
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Chapter 2; Tangled Logic
"You never know," She said, sitting there oh so delicately in nothing but a silk robe, her skin seeming to shine in the low lamplight, that box between them. "You might like it."
Malik was still dazed, lying on his stomach, arm folded under his jaw. The sheet riding low across his backside. If he hadn't been still pleasantly boneless and muzzy headed he might have been a little offended that she would suggest bringing something like that into their bedroom.
"It's unnatural…" He'd meant it to come out firmly, but it was more of a stubborn whine in all actuality. "What's so bad about things the way they are?"
Hadiya shrugged; "Nothing, I'm just curious… I've heard stories that it's quite pleasurable."
"You've been talking to Altair?"
"No… My—my sister actually."
Malik blinked rapidly; "Neema? Your sister's done things like this to Grant?"
She grinned, something devious and just plain sexy and Malik couldn't help but shift his hips against the mattress as he looked at her.
"Grant was actually the one to suggest this particular… instrument." She plucked up the colorful little box and rattled it at him for emphasis then turned the label to her own eyes and examined it. "I won't tell anyone, if that's what you're worried about."
"It's not… And I know you won't tell anyone." He flipped his fingers; "Well, you won't tell anyone I know, you know what I meant."
"Then what are you so afraid of?"
His eyebrows drew down; "I happen to have an irrational fear of things being inside me… I still have nightmares about that movie you made me watch on our first date!"
She snorted; "Alien? You're so silly."
"It was horrific… I'm scarred for life."
"Oh, you poor thing." She poked out her tongue, unrepentant.
"I will never understand your fascination with science fiction."
"It's not a fascination, it's a way of life, deal with it."
He rolled his eyes and grinned acceptingly.
She smiled, satisfied that she'd won and popped open the box, checking that the batteries worked. She closed the thing in her fist to test the intensity of the vibrations; "Just once, that's all I ask… If you don't like it we don't have to do it again."
He grumbled and rolled onto his back, rubbing at his eyes to clear them, then sighed in a put upon, defeated way and let his arm flop back to the bed. "Once… We'll try it once…"
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