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just a
human commoner. “You sorry, Mikal?”
    She looked at Mikal through the fringe of her lashes, afraid
of the feelings she’d see flitting across his face. With a light touch, he
lifted her left hand to his mouth and pressed a kiss so soft, so sweet to her
fingertips that Xyla thought she just might swoon like the long-limbed,
ethereal Ivec ladies from the upper classes—the same set these two men belonged
to. But she was their antithesis. Short. Wide-hipped. Big-breasted. Rounded
arms and butt. She was all curves where the women of Rish and Mikal’s race were
all smooth lines and perfect angles.
    “You think I’d regret finally tasting the most blissful
woman at peacemaker school? I’m not an idiot,” Mikal said before stalking down
the aisle, leaving her to stare longingly at Rish.
    “Don’t look at me,” Rish said, “I’m not an idiot either.”
    Holy spacesuit! Mikal and Rish both had crushes on her in
school? How had she missed that?
    “Why didn’t you ever say anything? Do anything?” she asked.
    “The government hadn’t issued your adult status yet,” Rish
said as Mikal returned, an expensive emergency aid kit gripped in his hand.
    Shocked by their revelation, Xyla stood complacent as Mikal
broke the seal on the EAK and tended to her hip. Quickly and efficiently, he
stemmed the flow of blood and mended the wound so that within a few short
moments, it didn’t hurt anymore. Instead, the pain from her injury was replaced
by a deep ache that swelled her breasts and dampened her panties.
    Mikal’s warm breath on her outer thigh made her think about
the possibility of his exhalation warming her inner thighs; his fingers probing
her injury made her think of his fingers probing her lower lips. His tongue—
    “Enough!” Rish hissed, pulling her back against his chest
and into his arms where the smell of him—citrus and spices—made her mouth
water. Startled by the hard length of his cock pressed against her lower back,
she looked up at his face, finding a tic in the muscle of his jaw. He cleared
his throat and rasped, “Good enough, Mikal.”
    Still kneeling in front of her, Mikal stared at the apex of
her thighs. She shuddered. He gave a slow, sexy smile before lifting his
quicksilver gaze to meet her eyes. “Do you think so?”
    “What?” She felt like an idiot, staring down at him without
a thought in her brain.
    “You good?” Mikal stood and cupped her cheek.
    Her gaze dropped to his full bottom lip. She swallowed hard.
“Yeah, thanks.”
    He smiled, flashing sharp teeth and pink tongue. “The EAK
recommends plenty of fluids and max oxygen to top off the treatment I just gave
you.”
    “Let’s go to a sky bar,” Rish said against her ear, his
voice making her shiver. “There’s one a couple minutes away in lower
atmosphere.”
    “Perfect.” Mikal kissed her knuckles. “You can breathe and
we can watch.”

Chapter Two
     
    After sending her crappy ship home using autopilot, Xyla
boarded Rish’s ride—the Mustang StarRunner she’d admired when docking—and sat
hip-to-hip between the men, feeling more than a little out of her league. No
doubt she’d make a fool of herself before the night was over—a bigger fool than
she already had—but she couldn’t convince herself to bail on the quasi-date,
not when she’d lusted after these men for so long.
    Take a chance , her girly hormones insisted. A
little embarrassment is worth the possibility of getting laid by these two.
    Yeah, right ,she argued with herself. I’m
risking more than mortification. I’m risking my silly, sappy heart. I haven’t
just lusted after them. I’ve loved them. Always.
    She winced. Even admitting to herself that she had feelings
for them was awkward. She couldn’t imagine confessing her affection to either
of them. Ever.
    Mikal wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her
against the warmth of his body.
    She groaned.
    “Sorry. Did I hurt your hip?” Mikal scooted away from her,
putting an