Page 40 of Yorix

“It is. We have a side trip to take first.”

I grew excited. Was he taking me on a cruise around the solar system before we headed back?

“You can unbuckle yourself now,” he said, removing his own harness, “and if you go upstairs, you can let Charlie out of the pen.”

“He’s here?”

“He is.”

I quickly divested myself of the straps holding me in, and hurried to climb the ladder that led to the upper deck.

“Hello, baby,” I cooed, pressing a button on the wall to release the clear floor to ceiling door of the pen.

Charlie wasn’t angry at all, or at least, had not yet remembered he was supposed to be. Instead, he meowed at me excitedly, rubbing up against my ankles until I bent down to pick him up. As I did so, I took a good look around the room. The ceiling was domed, the material set to seem as if it were transparent. In fact, the room looked as if it was made to be an observation point, with a pen to keep animal specimens where Charlie had been.

“They need seats up there,” I said, climbing down with a Charlie parched on my hip. “The view while traveling would be fantastic.

“”It’s customizable,” Yorix replied. “The space is designed to be adaptable.”

“Ah, I see. So, a multipurpose vehicle, huh?”

“Indeed. In this case, it’s a small research vessel, with scientific equipment not installed.”

I felt as if he was being evasive.

“Yorix, what’s really going on?”

“Surprise!” he replied. “Commander Gundar loaned me this so I could take you on a two week trip to the newly discovered system known as XR-492. It’s a pretty nebula with a system in it that has a habitable moon we can spend a day on if you wish, or we can spend the few days we are there admiring the nebula. Only a few days, I’m afraid, as it’s a five day trip each way.”

“You got the Fleet Commander to loan us this as a private space yacht to go see a newly discovered nebula and the system they found within it?” I surely had not heard him right.

“Yes,” he nodded and I squealed. Charlie jumped out of my arms, annoyed, but that was perfectly fine as this big, slightly scaly, cat eyed warrior had just arranged the sweetest, best thing ever for a space nerd like myself so I had to hug the ever loving hell out of him.

“So, you like it then?”

“Oh, me likey. Me likey very, very much.”

“That’s good,” he replied hoarsely, his cock now rock hard against my stomach through his pants. “Um, I need to get back to the cockpit. I am not comfortable relying on manual autopilot in-system.”

“Xeranos can’t pilot this?”

“There’s no AI here on board, save basic computer functions.”

“I see. You best get back then.” And while he was up there? I was going to see if I could find some spare blankets or pull some off some of the bunk mattresses and drag them upstairs to make a place we could lay under the stars. Among other things.

He kissed the tip of my nose. “As soon as I can, I’ll engage it on the course I had programmed in.” He hurried back to the cockpit and I watched as his tight leather pants flexed deliciously with every step he took. Mm…his ass. And his abs…

“I can smell your desire, my Bride. I will tend to you once the autopilot is on!”

Damn it, I needed to get moving then, hadn’t I? Single sleeper bunks, even if Mylos sized, were not going to cut it.