Hey, I decided that since I've been so bad about updating, that you guys get two, three, and four all at the same time.

Remember me yet?

Jack's POV

Can we pleases pause time until my brain regains the ability to function?

I thought I was dead back in the gym. Now he has an arm around my waist and is carrying me toward the shower. What the crap?

Wait, higher brain function just returned. HE'S TAKING ME TO THE SHOWER!

This can not end clean. This really can't end clean.

What's that sniffing?

Riddick's POV

Picking her up like this was a mistake he realized. Her sweaty skin was pressed into his bare chest. Which was slicked with sweat from his own exertions.

The gods of irony seemed to have it in for him.

It was too late to back out now, might as well go with it and hope that he didn't jump Jack in the shower.

"Hold on a sec, you're coming in with me!"

No need to sound so upset. On the other hand, he had just pulled her out of a whore house.

"There's only one shower."

"SO WHAT! You don't have to get in with me!"

He didn't but he really, really wanted to. And he always got what he wanted, eventually.

Though, granted, some things did take longer. Damn she smells good.

Jack's POV

It is unfair that all he has to do is rumble to make me aroused. UNFAIR!

My body isn't helping; I really hope this shower ends quickly.

Why is he still carrying me? He smells good, but his scent is stronger. Is he sweating?

No, but he has recently. Why is the most wanted man in the galaxy invoking such feelings and trust? Why is he willing to take a shower with me?

Most importantly, why am I not dead yet? Either from arousal or him I don't know which.

A hand caresses my face, traces my cheekbones before ghosting down to rest on my breast.

I jerk. I can still feel the pressure of the hand.

"What is it?"

I am very nearly undone by his deep rumbling growl. Luckily my survival instinct, which has apparently gone to working part time, kicks in and I say nothing.

Now my phantom lover haunts my waking mind as well?

Well, actually my phantom lover is beside me, but still.