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If Alik notices, he pays no attention to it. Nope, he's ushering me into the bathroom and starting the water, all the while pulling out his comm tablet and making a call. I would be irritated if I wasn't now a giggling, happy mess of a woman rubbing against him and shoving my hand down his pants.

"Get Essa," Alik says into the comm. I hear Jovi on the other end, but not well enough to make out what he's saying. "I messed up. We're in the bathroom."

"Shower with me, Alik," my words slur as I say them. I gasp, another giggle taking over, and then ask. "Am I drunk?"

"On me, yes," Alik says through gritted teeth. I'm still plastered to his side, running my hands all over him. "Come on, in the shower." He hoists me up with two of his arms and then comes into the shower with me since it's clear I'm not letting him go. "I'll get you cleaned up, and then we're never going to let me come in your mouth again."

"Boo," I whine, which turns into a moan as he lathers up a sponge and starts cleaning me everywhere. "Mhm, where's my pendant? I'm green again now, Alik."

"I'm sure you are," he grumbles under his breath, but I catch him running the sponge over my breasts more times thannecessary. I feel him spread me wide and run his fingers over my clit.

When I giggle and grind into his hand, his chest flushes dark purple again, but the coldness in his eyes doesn't return. If I'm able to get that version of him back, I know I'll definitely have him inside of me in no time.

I'm just about to say all the naughty things that I know to get him going when Essa busts into the bathroom, her blaster drawn. I squeal, hiding behind Alik even though I know Essa would never hurt me.

"Calm down," Alik snarls at Essa. It doesn't cause her to put the blaster down, though.

"Step out of the shower and bring her with you," Essa says as she pushes the glass door open.

Her brows furrow when she notices the wet pants clinging to Alik's legs, and then she tucks her blaster away. Her pupils are contracted in small lines straight down her irises, and her voice has a more melodic tone to it. It's frightening and soothing all at the same time, somehow.

"I thought you'd both be in here going mad off each other."

"Nope, just her," Alik says, grabbing a towel and beginning to dry me off. "Now, we need you here to watch her until she comes down from the high. We can't be near here right now. Especially not me. She's making me want to snap, and if I do that right now, I'm going to do something I shouldn't."

"Keep the drunk human from seducing you." Essa nods and salutes him. Her scariness seems to have faded, and she's back to being normal Essa now. "Aye, aye, captain."

Alik growls at her, wrapping the towel around me and tucking one corner into it so it stays wrapped as he steps away. He leans down and presses a kiss to my temple the same way Jovi did the first night we had sex.

Butterflies erupt in my stomach, and I lean forward, hoping he'll also kiss me on the lips. When nothing happens, I crack my eyes open and grow red when I see it's just Essa and me in the bathroom.

I laugh, unable to stop myself since I can get drunk off alien sperm now. It would mortify me if everything up to this point hadn't already been mortifying enough.

ten

Sloane

"Where's Alik and Jovi?" I whine for easily the twelfth time in ten minutes.

After Alik left, Essa went into my room and found me some clothes. Not that I want to be wearing any at all. No, I want to be under Jovi or Alik, feeling only their fur against my skin, their lips on mine, their—

"Stop that," Essa snaps, giving me her best impression of what I assume she thinks a disappointed mother would look like.

I'd be able to take her seriously if she weren't also trying to hide her snorting laugh or the smiles she doesn't hide when she thinks I'm not looking. As much as she's trying to be stern, she's still my friend first, and my friend is happy that I like her other friends so much.

"You're very obvious when you are being inappropriate in your mind."

"I was just given an aphrodisiac straight from one of the hottest males I've ever seen's penis. I think that means I'm allowed to fantasize a little."

Essa makes a retching sound before I can even finish my sentence, and I don't blame her. Normally, I'm crass, but I temper it down with the smallest amount of class I have that tells me not to talk about come drinking with my friends. Right now? There's no class. There's only a stupid, horny human demanding that I go track down some four-armed hotties and ride them until we're all three as satisfied as possible.

Every time I try to get up, Essa pulls me back down with her tail. Not that she has to try very hard since I'm still a little dizzy on my feet.

"It's so fucking hot," I whine, pulling at the hem of my shirt and wanting to take it off. Essa rolls her eyes and throws an ice pack at me.

"Fine," I pout, holding the icepack to the back of my neck and realizing it's not doing anything to cool me down. "How long is this going to last? Because I have a feeling you're not going to let me go find them."

"Alik said something like an hour or two, but considering how much it affected you, I wouldn't be surprised if you're stuck like this until you go to bed tonight." Essa clicks through her comm tablet, pulls up a message, and shows it to me.

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