Ka'Cit's Haven (Riv’s Sanctuary #3)

“We have to stop at one of the service satellites. Have someone fix it. There’s no other option.”

He seemed put off by it and she couldn’t help but wonder why.

“That will be okay. Won’t it?”

Ka’Cit made a sound in his throat before he looked her way.

She couldn’t read the look in his eyes and with his mask back on, she had no idea what he was thinking.

“It will be okay, ta’ii.”

Why did it feel as if he’d just told her a lie?

* * *

Ka’Cit tried to bite back the groan in his throat.

As the shuttle chugged along with its one good engine, he tried to focus on the satellite they were approaching instead of at the female across from him.

Phek him if it wasn’t one of the hardest things he’d ever had to do in all of his existence.

His cock was throbbing in his trousers, the end of his tail was stiff, and his life organ was struggling in his chest, and all because he could feel her lips on his as if she was still pressed against him.

This had never happened to him before.

He’d never had another soul affect him in the way this little human was affecting him now.

As the ship approached the service satellite, Nee-ya glanced in his direction.

He could see her through his peripheral vision and she kept glancing from him to the satellite looming before them.

He supposed she was a bit concerned.

Maybe they didn’t have such things where she came from. Er-th, she’d called her planet, if he remembered correctly.

The satellite looked like a huge space rock with jagged edges.

There were lights blinking off the sides of it and every now and then, the airlock would open and a cargo ship would exit before zooming off into the void.

Nee-ya glanced at him once more before fidgeting in her seat and all he could think about was when she’d fidgeted against him in her sleep.

Ka’Cit cleared his throat.

What the phek was wrong with him?

“That part up there,” he pointed to the top of the asteroid, “that’s where the larger vessels enter.”

“Is that where we’ll enter?”

He shook his head. “No. We’re not nearly large enough. We go there.”

He pointed straight ahead.

It looked like solid rock and he could see her glance his way once more.

But she didn’t say anything.

She’d said she trusted him and that thought caused the tip of his tail to rise against his leg a little.