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But by leaving, I was also saving the friendship. This way, we would always have the past, and it would never be ruined by the woman who had come between us, even if Varek would never know that.

With a heavy heart, I completed the final preparations, raising the boarding ramp and hearing the resounding thud. Then there was something else, an unexpected sound from within the ship. I froze, straining my ears. There it was again—a soft rustling.

I jumped up, moving cautiously through the vessel's interior. I braced myself for confrontation, half-expecting to find a Drexian official demanding an explanation for my unauthorized departure. But the main cabin was empty, silent save for the faint hum of the ship's systems.

I was about to chalk it up to an overactive imagination when another muffled sound reached my ears. My gaze locked onto the door of a nearby storage closet, and I grabbed the blaster from my waist. In one swift motion, I yanked open the door and leveled my blaster, ready to face whatever—or whoever—was hiding inside.

“What thegrek?” I almost dropped my blaster.

Allie was crouched in the small space, her thin dress rumpled and her hair wet. She looked up at me with startled eyes that mirrored my own shock.

"What are you doing here?" I managed to ask, my voice barely above a whisper.

She stepped from the closet, blinking rapidly as if she’d just seen an apparition. "What areyou?” Her voice wavered. "They told me you left."

"I went to Earth to find you," I explained, the words tumbling from my mouth. "But your neighbor told me you’d signed up to be a tribute.”

"I came here to find you.” Her lower lip quivered. "But I couldn’t find you, they told me you’d left, and it's all gone wrong so I was running away."

In that moment, I was overcome by the need to protect her just like I had on Earth, to shield her from whatever had driven her to hide in a storage closet on a transport ship. Without thinking, I held out my hand. "Then you can run away with me."

I barely had time to register her movement before Allie launched herself into my arms. Her legs wrapped around my waist, the sudden impact forcing me back a few steps. I instinctively grabbed her to keep her from falling as she crushed her mouth to mine.

Chapter

Thirty-Two

Allie

The sight of Maxxon, whom I’d believed was gone, standing in the ship I’d stowed away on because I couldn’t bear to be with anyone but him, made me lose all grasp on control. I jumped into his arms and kissed him hard, not caring about anything else.

I’d found him. He hadn’t forgotten about me. He did care. He’d been searching for me just like I’d been searching for him—and we’d finally found each other.

Maxxon slid his hands under my ass, holding me as I slid my hands from his shoulders to his face and then raked my fingers through his hair. Everything about him felt just like I’d remembered. The heat of his skin, the buzz of his touch, the hardness of his muscle as I pressed against him.

If he’d been surprised by me jumping on him and slamming my mouth to his, he recovered quickly, parting my lips with a hardswipe of his tongue and stroking my tongue with his own. I sighed into his mouth, needing more, needing everything.

Maxxon tore his lips from mine, and his gaze was dark with desire as he stared at me as if he wasn’t sure he wasn’t imagining me.

“Don’t stop.” I started to pull at his uniform, trying to get it off him.

He heaved in a ragged breath. “I can’t go slow.”

I returned my hands to his hair and curled my fingers into the dark strands. “I don’t want you to go slow. I want you to fuck me hard. I want you to show me that I’m yours.”

With a dark purr that morphed into a growl, he yanked my lips back to his, deepening the kiss as he moved his hands, so they dipped under the hem of my dress. When his fingers discovered that I was wearing nothing underneath, a desperate moan slipped from his lips.

Maxxon slid his fingers between my slickness, groaning before gritting out the words, “You’re dripping for me, Allie.”

“What are you going to do about it?” I whispered back, rocking forward on his hands so that the tips of his fingers brushed my clit.

That was when whatever control he’d had shattered. He used one hand to jerk his pants down so that his cock sprang up, crushing his mouth to mine in a hard, claiming kiss as he gripped my hips and lifted me so that his crown was notched at my entrance.

Desire stormed through me hot and fierce, but then I remembered how big he was and how much I’d had to stretch totake his cock. But this time there wasn’t even a moment to brace myself as Maxxon slammed me down as he thrust up.

His drugging kisses muffled my screams as he filled me to the hilt, holding me down for only a beat before lifting me up again and stroking me back down. The sharp sting of pain melted away as my body took him, and then I was using my feet wrapped around his back to piston myself so I could ride his cock.

There was nothing slow and gentle about this, as Maxxon backed me to the wall, bracing one hand on it as he pounded mercilessly. But there was nothing about being fucked hard by him that I didn’t love, didn’t need, didn’t crave.

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