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He hated not being able to see her at will.

He hated not being able to hold her, to comfort her.

He wanted this woman, but he wanted to protect her, make her happy. Shield her from all the bad things in the universe. He wanted more as well and cursed his body for betraying the lovely woman in that damned tube. She needed caring and love, not some horny soldier lusting after her lovely body.

She was the one he’d been waiting for his entire life. He never thought he’d find her. Now that he had found her, he would not let her go. No matter the personal cost. He would do whatever it took to win her heart.

It wasn’t something he was used to feeling, and it was a very uncomfortable emotion.

Taber leaned back in the chair provided by the staff at Earthside Medical Command and took a deep, calming breath. The flowers he’d set on the table beside the healing tube earlier provided a cheerful color and pleasing smell in an otherwise stale, sterile environment. Closing his eyes, he went to sleep, imagining Akahana slept beside him, cuddled against him in his protective embrace.

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Akahana’s warm womanly body stretched languidly against his. She smiled up at him and caressed his jaw line.

His cock twitched at the simple touch, and the baser man inside him roared at him to roll her over and simply sink into her. Oh, God, how he wanted to do just that! Instead, he smiled back at her and lay there, pulling her closer against him, hugging her affectionately. He savored the feel of her skin, the smell of her hair.

For this woman, he could wait as long as it took.

“Why do you hold back?”

“Because you don’t need a lover to devour you.”

“You want to take me hard, fast, and violently. Yet you don’t.”

“Yes. The things I want to do with your body are probably illegal in most parts of the galaxy, but the only thing that stops me from fucking you every way I want is that I don’t want to hurt you. I never want to hurt you in any way.”

“Taber, this is your dream. You can give me as much pleasure or pain as you want, and it won’t be physical.”

“Dream.” He mused over what she’d said. Damn! This was strange!

“Look at my body, Taber. Even after the healing process is over, I will be marred. I am as you wish me to be now -- whole and beautiful.”

“You are now as I see you. I have very little imagination.”

She smiled. “You will understand. Later.”

Taber brushed back her thick dark hair, tucking it behind her ear. “I will not add to your pain.”

Akahana didn’t say anything as she trailed her fingers down his torso to tangle in the hair at his groin. Taber inhaled sharply as her fingers made contact with his cock. He thought he’d lose his mind.

Her touch was tentative, yet firm. She obviously knew how to handle a man to create maximum pleasure. Moving over his body, she kissed and licked his chest -- his nipples and the valley separating his pectoral muscles. She nipped and sucked the taut flesh, blurring the line between pleasure and pain, all the while steadily gripping and pumping his cock.

“Akahana, you don’t have to --”

“I want to. I can do things in the dream world I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to do in the real world.” Down and farther still she went, following the line of his abdomen, over each ridge, kissing each muscle, making his cock jump in anticipation. When she kissed the flesh just above the tip of his now very fully erect cock, he couldn’t repress the groan of anticipation and excitement.

With a swift move that took his breath, Akahana licked the length of his shaft from tip to balls. It took every ounce of self-control Taber possessed for him not to come all over himself. When she took one testicle in her mouth and rolled her tongue around the flesh surrounding it, occasionally giving the organ a squeeze with her mouth, Taber knew there was no way he could keep from coming.

Grabbing her head with both hands, he urged her to take his shaft in her mouth. She did. Eagerly. The head of his dick hit the back of her throat three times before every muscle in his body clenched, and he shouted her name. Spasm after spasm took his body, pumping his seed into her mouth, and he felt her swallow several times before his orgasm passed…

And he woke, still in the chair, with very damp underwear.

Chapter Two

Akahana awoke in a soft bed with covers tucked around her torso, the shared dream still fresh in her mind. Her arms were free, so she felt cocooned instead of trapped, and the familiar tingle her body always had after being healed was prominent in her muscles and bones. Judging from the sensitivity to pressure on her heels, she had been lying on her back in a healing tube for a very long time. When she turned her head to the side and opened her eyes, her first sight was a modest vase of colorful flowers on the table at her bedside.

“You’re awake.”

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