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## 19
(Vasanaday)
### Çtarest Retreat
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Gaela felt the years of longing melting away as she kissed Nashan. They had often worked together, side-by-side, but never heart-to-heart. Until this very moment, when something had clicked and his lips met hers.
	
His kisses had already deepened, his tongue exploring her mouth, his aroma tainted with snack bars that kept him alert at the consoles. Always attentive to what was needed, finally attentive to what she needed from him.
	
She pulled away slightly and lifted her shirt off over her head, offering him the gift she had long wanted to give him.
	
At first, he seemed hesitant. She guided his hand to her breast – showed him how her nipple budded at his touch. His face brightened at the thought. “Come,” she encouraged, then led him boldly to her bedroom. She kicked off her shoes and pushed her pants off her hips to the floor. The only thing she still had on was her underwear.
	
Then she helped him out of his tunic and practical pants until he had a similar amount of clothing on. She sat on the bed and released his manhood, still only partly firm. Gaela grasped him gently and stroked him. Then, she put her mouth around it, pulling gently with her gums. She listened to his ragged gasp and felt herself smiling inside, while still giving him pleasure.
	
“My turn,” he gasped, pushing her back onto her bed. At first, he suckled her breasts, tasting her, pulling gently and flicking his tongue across the tiny peaks. She moaned with pleasure.
	
He moved down, kissing her as he went, until he found the intimate place guarded by soft, curls of hair. He parted her folds and pressed his tongue against her pearl which hardened for him. She whimpered with pleasure. He continued to lick and taste her as she cried out in desire.
	
“I need you,” she cried out softly, the desire burning too strongly now.
	
He lowered against her, his hard lust entering her body gently, but firmly. She moaned with fulfillment as he dove deeply into her, stroking her insides, right where her greatest itch had been.
	
Gaela moaned again as he moved inside her, stroking, stroking, increasing her fiery need for him. She cried out with her need. “Take me!” she begged. “Please!”
	
He dug into her more urgently, deeper, harder, faster, perhaps remembering that it was the middle of the day, not late at night. They had duties downstairs when they had finished pleasuring each other.
	
“I can take all of you!” she cried out again.
	
He seemed to kick into high gear at that, pounding into her with a new fury, slamming bodies together.
	
“Yes!” she cried out. “I need you so badly!” She moaned with excitement as his speed increased and his noises increased with them. Grunts and groans as he increased his drive. Then he groaned again, pressing harder against her. He held her thighs as he slowed, barely moving as she felt him spasm inside her body. A moment later, just thinking about what had happened sent her over the edge and her own spasms overtook her body in waves of intense pleasure. She cried out again as she shuddered.
	
He lowered himself onto her, kissing her gratefully. “I just want to take a nap now,” he said, holding her.
	
“I’d not say ‘no’ to that,” she admitted, not wanting to move.
	
“You never told me before that you wanted me, Gaela,” he murmured into her ear.
	
“I was scared.”
	
“Not too scared today.”
	
“You kissed me, so I knew I had a chance.”
	
“More than a chance! By the way, are you on any tablets? You didn’t take the stella’s leaf for sure.”
	
“No!” she cried, starting to laugh. “I wasn’t thinking, I guess!”
	
“Not that anyone would complain up here. We need more A’mara, they’d remind us! You may have to deal with the consequences though.”
	
“What, a baby?”
	
“That too. I mean that I’m going to want to sleep with you tonight too… and tomorrow… and the next day...”
	
“Really?” Gaela asked.
	
“Yep. Can you handle that?”
	
“Maybe.”
	
“Just maybe?” He rolled her towards him again.
	
“Yes,” she replied. “If only you’d kissed me the first time you knew you wanted me...”
	
“I think we’d better get dressed and see if any news has come in.”
	
Gaela nodded, but didn’t move.
	
Nashan pulled out and got off the bed. Gaela watched him dress, admiring his body.
	
“No one has admired my body before. Keep it up and you’re going to have a lot of babies!”
	
She blushed and giggled. Somehow, it didn’t seem like such a horrible thing! She got up and dressed, then went with Nashan back downstairs.
	
Oiŝiina came in for a moment. “I realized no one was in here, so I just came to check. There’s a ping from one of the cameras.”
	
“Thanks,” Nashan said.
	
The stella came over to Gaela a moment and waved a clear crystal around her. “You’ll be good and healthy,” she pronounced. “Three seasons will fly past before you know it! Just ask Phoebe!”
	
The stella left as quickly as she came. Gaela was still blushing when Nashan caught her hand and pulled her onto his lap. He pointed to one of the cameras.
	
“There’s our Spider, just coming into Chalða. And here… Chalða Cooldown. Shit!”
	
Gaela felt the severity instantly. “There’s only one reason they would go to Cooldown,” she concurred.
	
“The Empress has captured Fain, Hergil and Hamon!”
	
“We can’t exactly leave here – not with Phoebe having her baby,” Gaela said.
	
“No. But we can contact the market team and suggest they do an undercover rescue mission to Chalða before they come home.”
	
“Perhaps. We should talk to Oiŝiina again. She is acting abári by seniority.”
	
“Except she already has her hands full. By the way, what did she want with you?” Nashan asked.
	
“She obviously knows we took a few minutes alone – and believes I will be needing her services in three seasons.”
	
“Your body always knows,” the stella said for herself as she came in, going into the kitchen. “It knows when it wants to conceive – as well as who it wants to mate with. Instincts, they call them when it’s in animals. Humans are smarter, they say… above animal instincts, they say. Ha! I have watched many generations of you A’mara (the odd Balan too). Leya sensitivity, whatever you want to call it… you’re still at the mercy of instincts and hormones! It’s not a bad thing. Gotta keep Phoebe going. She’s probably got all night still, poor thing!”
	
The stella left again.
	
“She’s always where she’s needed,” Gaela mused.
	
“Nosing into other people’s business,” Nashan grumbled.
	
“Letting us know that we shouldn’t feel bad – it was just the right time!”
	
“Remind me in three seasons’ time when I’m holding you, screaming, birthing our child!”
	
“I would probably advise not standing too close to me then, if you don’t want to be kicked or punched where it counts!” she teased.
	
“We forgot to ask what to do about the abári!”


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