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standby.”
    “Why Meddac? I don't have anything.” She hazarded a look upward through her eyelashes.
    Xave's expression softened. “Mendez got you pretty hard with his boots. I think someone ought to have a look at your ribs.”
    “Oh.”
    He looked as though he wanted to say something more. The muscles in his jaw leaped around as he ground his teeth together to keep from speaking.
    She stood face-to-face with him, mere inches separating their bodies. He gave off heat like a blast furnace. Her nose twitched. He smelled strange, different from any other male she'd been in contact with. It wasn't unpleasant, far from it. A heavy sensation began building deep inside her body, culminating at a point between her legs and blooming into a damp, slick heat that consumed her pussy.
    “We should go,” he said.
    Tavish found the courage to lift her eyes. The sight of him so close almost knocked the breath from her lungs. “I'm ready whenever.”
    A tiny grin kicked up one corner of his mouth. “You're standing in front of the hatch release.”
    One tightly muscled arm reached past her, brushing her shoulder on its way to the red handle just behind her. He tripped the switch. The air lock hissed as the hatch opened, then lowered slowly to form a ramp to the tarmac below.
    Her nipples hardened. It took her a second to process that thought. She wasn't cold. The body heat rolling in waves from Xave shimmered over her skin. She had to fight the urge to reach up and palm her breasts, to pinch her nipples to relieve the stinging awareness harbored there.
    The ice in Xave's pale blue eyes melted a fraction, and his gaze dropped to the tiny peaks bulging from the thin fabric of her dress. He leaned imperceptibly closer, inhaling deeply; then he exhaled in one long, sexy breath.
    Tavish licked her lips again, enjoying the crashing waves of sensation sweeping her body. She'd never experienced this kind of magnetic force. It was as if Xavier Kovuchenko had a gravitational pull she couldn't escape.
    Had their faces been that close only seconds ago? The air he exhaled whispered across her cheek. Kissing had never been something Tavish enjoyed, but she'd never been faced with a man like Xave before. Closing the last inch between them, she pressed her open mouth to his.
    It started sweet but turned carnal in the blink of an eye. Hesitant at first, Tavish surrendered when Xave's tongue swept inside her mouth to mate with hers. He was hard and hot and male, both sweet and demanding as passion exploded between them.
    Xave growled. The sound lifted the fine hair at the back of her neck and released a rush of cream between her legs that would've had her panting had her mouth not been otherwise engaged.
    His big hands slid down her back, cupping her buttocks and hauling her up against the length of his body. She bucked her hips against him, shocked at the thrill she got from the feel of his rock-hard erection cupped in the V of her pelvic bone.
    Her hands gripped his unforgiving forearms and skimmed up to his shoulders to lock behind his neck. She tangled her fingers in his coarse, dark hair.
    Xave was tall. With her hands wrapped about his neck, she stretched the full length of his hard, muscular body. Her every curve meshed perfectly against his stark angles. Her breasts mashed against the contours of his chest. The friction ripped a low moan from her throat.
    The sound seemed to inflame him. His mouth became hotter, more insistent, driving into hers with a new intensity, each kiss hotter and more insistent than the last. He ground his body against hers in a primal rhythm she desperately tried to match.
    “Ahem.”
    The voice from the tarmac below the Daggertail sounded female—and amused.
    Xave pulled away so quickly, Tavish was left kissing air. She'd have fallen on her face had he not reached out to steady her.
    “Warrick sent me to see what was keeping you two. Said some feminine intuition might come in handy.”
    A hot red flush spread over