Out of Bight, Out of Mind

Chapter Twenty-Five

Before finally being discharged from the medical center once Graymard was satisfied that her physical healing was progressing as well as could be expected, Emi was refitted with a chip by Dr. Graymard. Then her men escorted her, Yanna, and Pabo to the hangar.

Even though she’d seen pictures and vids, the size of the vessel staggered her. “I’m going to get lost.”

Caph laughed, a sound that, when combined with the lightness returning to his soul, uplifted her. “You used to say that all the time, but you learned your way around her.”

Ford smiled. “You also used onboard maps a lot.”

While some feelings teased her mind, no true memories returned during their walk to the crew area. Yanna and Pabo left them alone to continue on to their quarters.

She moved around the cabin, examining things as her men watched. She put her hand on one dresser. “This was mine?” On top sat a horrifically ugly rubber spider.

Caph hurried over, smiling, and picked up the spider. “This is Bucky. He’s your good luck charm.”

That teased another item somewhere in the dark, swirling recesses of her conscious. As she fingered the toy, she concentrated, but the item swam out of reach before she could latch onto it. “Is this what I used to win the fight on Kal’moran?”

“Right,” Aaron said. “You scared the shit out of her with it.”

Without putting it down, she turned to the room. It was late, and she was tired. “Will we have dinner soon?”

“Whenever you want, babe,” Ford assured her.

She nodded. “Thanks.”

Emi felt comforted that Yanna and Pabo’s cabin lay a few yards down and across the corridor from theirs. Not because she worried about her men, but because she’d grown to depend on Yanna’s presence for feelings of security.

I will have to allow my men to take that role back. And she felt confident that one day they would.

But for now, she’d gladly take all the comfort she could get.

Dinner was a cheerful affair even though she sensed how desperate Caph was to get her back to their cabin. Not even for sex, she knew, but for another step in the return to normalcy, to have her back where she belonged, setting their world right even if she still had a long walk ahead of her in her recovery.

They could all spend the night together because their launch wasn’t scheduled to happen until the next afternoon. So after cleaning the galley and Yanna and Pabo bidding them good-night, Emi and her men retired to their quarters.

She kicked off her shoes, but left her sweatsuit on, and stretched out on the bed. “Oh, it’s really comfy.”

All three men watched with renewed anxiety. Ford took the first step, literally, going to sit next to her. “Yeah, nothing but the best.”

She looked at Caph and Aaron and waved them over. Once all three men sat in bed, still dressed and surrounding her, she felt their tension begin to wane a little. She sensed what they wanted, and what they feared.

She also couldn’t deny the delicious demands of her own healing body to have all three of them to herself. If Ford was just a sample of how wonderful their sex had been together, she couldn’t wait to experience all three of them at once.

“Ford told me he didn’t think you two would let him get close to me when we were all together again,” she tried by way of joking.

After seeing the confused looks on Aaron’s and Caph’s faces, she tried again. “That you’d hog me.”

That finally earned her a gorgeous smile from Caph. “Yeah, he always did bitch about going last. Stingy bastard had you all to himself. That should count for something.”

“Well,” Aaron said, his tone playful, “he is still listed as first officer and you’re listed as mate. Technically, you’re now the one who has to wait.”

Caph’s shaggy eyebrows scrunched up. “Hey, that’s not fair!”

Ford laughed. “Don’t worry, big guy. Now that you’re back to your old self and the crew is reunited, I’ll be happy to take back the mate title.”

The ice now broken, she made a request. “While we’re here, can you guys show me how to play strip poker again?”

Aaron’s brow furrowed. “Honey, are you sure? We are happy to wait as long as—”

“I’m sure,” she insisted, looking at Caph.

His jaw momentarily gaped before he was up like a shot. He returned a moment later with a deck of cards. “Let’s do it.”

Aaron helped her with her cards and kept telling her they didn’t expect her to get naked if she didn’t want to, even as she removed each article of clothing in turn when she lost a hand.

Before long, everyone was losing on purpose and the men were down to their briefs while she wore only panties.

She grabbed the cards and put them aside. “Okay, boys. Someone turn the lights down and put some music on and let’s quit delaying this. I want you to make love to me.” Ford got up to do it.

“All of us?” Aaron asked.

She took his hand and brought it to her mouth. Slowly, seductively, enjoying the feel of his rising passion in his soul as she did, she laved each of his fingers with her lips and tongue.

She also enjoyed how his stiff cock tented the front of his briefs.

“All of you,” she softly confirmed as she met his sweet brown gaze. “All of you, right now.”

Caph fell over on his back as he tried pulling his briefs off without standing up first. Aaron opted for cradling her in his arms and lowering her to the bed, kissing her.

She was vaguely aware of Ford being completely naked when he rejoined them in bed. He and Caph worked on her panties, slowly pulling them down her legs until they were discarded somewhere to join the rest of their clothes on the floor.

Emi basked in the feeling of their love. It flowed around and through her, warming her as surely as any fire. The feel of Aaron’s soft hair as she ran her fingers through it, the gentleness of Caph and Ford’s touch, the sound of their breath quickening.

The smell of their arousal.

Caph and Ford each latched onto her breasts, the wet heat of their lips pulling at her, filling her with need and passion that made everything else pale in comparison. She closed her eyes as Aaron devoured her mouth with his. Each breath she took tasted sweeter than the last, until she finally shoved her brain out of the way and let her body feel and experience and enjoy.

Caph and Ford both gently stroked her legs with their hands, until Caph slid his all the way up her thigh and began stroking her labia. She spread her legs wider, inviting him in and never wanting any of them to stop loving her.

Even if she never regained her memories, she would gladly spend the rest of her life basking in the glow of love from them.

When Caph’s fingers carefully probed for entrance and found her wet, her eyes popped open and she gasped at the pleasant sensation of him pressing for entrance. Aaron lifted his head to look into her eyes, at first concerned but then recognizing her passion and pleasure.

“Come for us,” he whispered, nibbling on her ear. “It’s been so long since I’ve heard you do that.”

He palmed her cheek and leaned in for another kiss. “Come for us, baby.”

It didn’t take long. The feeling of their combined love was like the universe’s strongest aphrodisiac. White heat blossomed in her clit, rapidly spreading throughout her body as Caph’s fingers brought her to two explosive orgasms in quick succession.

Aaron sat up, shucked his briefs, and changed places with Ford. “I never thought I’d ever be here with you again,” he admitted, the briefest of grief darkening his soul before love and passion took over again.

She wrapped her legs around him, reaching up for him as he lined up his rigid cock with her drenched pussy. “Now,” she gasped. “Please!”

He slid in, deep and hard and fast before falling still with his forehead resting against her chest. She tried to make him move, but he wouldn’t. “No, I want to feel this,” he said. “I never thought I ever would again.”

Cradled in Caph’s and Ford’s arms, Emi wrapped her arms and legs around Aaron and waited until he composed himself. Then he touched his forehead to hers, his eyes closed as he struggled to keep his strokes slow and deep.

She let him set the tempo despite wanting him to fuck her hard and fast. He needed this, and there was no way she would deny him.

As he slowly grew closer to release, a beautiful rainbow of emotions swelled within his soul, even as his cock stiffened inside her. When he finally allowed himself to let go and come, the bubble exploded even as his cum emptied inside her, making her gasp with pleasure over the intensity of his emotions.

She held him tightly to her, his face pressed against her shoulder as she stroked his back, his hair, the stubble on his cheeks.

And even though she knew Caph was yearning for his turn, he didn’t rush his lover, his husband, letting him draw healing from her as he slowly recovered his senses.

Aaron kissed her deeply as he pushed up on his arms. “I love you,” he said.

She smiled. “I love you, too.” Without even thinking about it, she looked at Caph and kissed him. “And I love you.” And then Ford. “And I love you.”

Aaron let out a happy sigh and sat up. “I’d better move before Caph tackles me.”

“I wasn’t going to say anything,” Caph said, “but yeah.”

Emi giggled. She shared a wink with Ford, knowing he was more than happy to wait until last this time. He’d had her all to himself and wanted his husbands to have this time with her.

Caph kissed her, different than Aaron, but his energy held the same happy glow of Aaron’s. “Hi.”

She smiled. “Hi.” When she sensed hesitancy from him as he worried about hurting her, she reached between his legs and grabbed his cock. Rubbing it up and down between her labia, now soaked from her own juices and Aaron’s, she said, “I think this is what you want to do.”

With a groan, he sank home, his entire body trembling with the effort of holding back.

She made him look down at her. “As hard and fast as you want. You won’t hurt me.”

His sweet green eyes widened a little, but he took her up on it, not bothering to hold back once he had her assurance.

She felt his release building fast, explosive like a force of nature. And when his balls drew up tight before adding his own juices to her, he burst into tears and collapsed on top of her.

All three of them comforted him, but she knew he needed this, to get the pain out of his soul before it ate away at him. The big man with the even bigger heart.

And then it was Ford’s turn.

Instead of positioning himself to fuck her, he lay between her legs and began laving her pussy and clit with his tongue. When she finally begged him to stop three orgasms later, he sat up wearing a wicked grin. His cock jutted out from his body. “How was that?”

She nodded, beyond speech.

Caph moved with incredible speed for a man his size. He leaned over and wrapped his lips around Ford’s cock, almost knocking the smaller man over as Ford had to brace himself against Caph’s shoulders.

She snuggled against Aaron and enjoyed watching them together, the way Caph eagerly bobbed his head up and down as he worked to drain Ford’s sac of his cum.

“He’s got a very talented mouth,” Aaron softly whispered in her ear. “And he’s been beyond wanting to put it to use.”

She giggled. Ford had given up trying to stay vertical. He fell over on his side, Caph moving with him and never releasing Ford’s cock from his mouth. When Ford grabbed Caph’s head and started fucking his hips in time with Caph’s motions, Caph let out a happy moan of his own.

And then Emi watched Ford’s fingers tighten in Caph’s shaggy hair, his body tensing as his orgasm hit him and Caph fell still, his throat working while he swallowed.

“Better?” she said once Ford had once again opened his eyes.

He nodded. “Oh, yeah. Jesus, I missed that.”

She felt her eyelids already growing heavy as Caph returned to snuggle next to her. Ford, satisfied with spooning Caph from behind, completed their group.

“Okay,” Aaron mumbled, already falling asleep. “Captain’s orders. Everyone sleep late.”

The twins both said, “Aye, aye, Cap.”