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pleasure radiated out from his
pelvis, boiling his blood and stealing his breath. He gentled his
thrusts, milking the last of their bliss until she fell back limp
against the door, her legs dropping one at a time from his hips.
    Still
seated deep inside her, he buried his face in her hair and nipped the
soft flesh behind her ear. He wasn’t sure this one go-round
would be enough to fill the void all the lonely months of
self-imposed celibacy had left in his soul.
    “ You
still didn’t ask,” she mumbled.
    Confused,
he lifted his head and looked into her heavy-lidded eyes.
    “ That’ll
be three thousand credits and cab fare.”

Chapter Two

    Dallas
threaded his way through the crowded sidewalk back to the alley. He’d
learned over the past month the residents of this territory on
Garalon Five were night owls. Not that they had a choice. Things
wouldn’t slow down until the first two moons were well below
the horizon and the third just beginning to rise. The lack of
daylight had thrown him when he’d first arrived. Though the
Nebulae Galaxy—a term that grated as it was technically a solar
system—had a major star at its center, the weak light didn’t
reach a good portion of the planets. Heat on the inhabitable planets
came from deep within their crusts.
    He
didn’t give a shit about the specifics, just that the
interminable darkness was fraying the ends of his taut nerves.
Another two days, a week tops and this mission would be finished and
Dallas could return to Earth for a much needed vacation with some human companionship.
    Working
for the government was a lonely business. Lonelier still when he was
out in deep space away from his own species. Five years ago, when
Dallas had graduated from Quantico, he’d envisioned this
life—traveling the stars in search of bad guys and adventures.
But working for QAL wasn’t all the pamphlets had promised. It
seemed even in space, shit happened, people died and no matter how
far he ran, he couldn’t outrun a broken heart.
    Dallas
turned the last corner to see the alley he’d left not twenty
minutes ago was now empty. It worried him a little that the Ka’al
wasn’t here and wondered if he’d missed something crucial
in his lust-filled fog. No one knew better than him that spies were
everywhere. He passed the doorway where he’d been buried in
Lilly’s heat and cursed when her honeyed aroma tickled his
nose. Probably nothing more than his horny imagination, but it ate at
him just the same.
    He’d
known what Lilly was when he’d spotted her in the tavern—a
two-bit space hooker with a full rack and luscious ass. Though he
shouldn’t expect her to see him as anything more than the
client he’d become, Dallas had thought he’d seen
something in her eyes when they’d been at the bar. He’d
initially wanted nothing more than to get her out of the alien’s
arms, but that sultry voice and kissable mouth had been his undoing.
Like a siren, she’d wrapped him in a spell and seduced him. Not
that his dick needed much encouragement on that front. Dallas
couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen an Earth
female, let alone held one in his arms. There weren’t too many
of them out this far in deep space. He’d lost himself in her
body, forgetting what she was. Still, it had been a major hit to his
ego to pay her the twenty-five hundred credits he’d negotiated
her down to and put her in the luna cab.
    Dallas
should be grateful. That slap of reality set him back on track and
refocused him on the mission at hand. He couldn’t afford to
screw this one up. Not when so much was at stake. Skirting around the
Dumpster, he shot another quick glance over his shoulder before
laying his palm on the key pad disguised as one of the stones on the
side of the building. Experiencing the cold wash of energy flowing
over him as the solid stones became gas and surrounded him never
became easier to experience. He was still a little disoriented when
he materialized into the bright