Lost Star by Hawke, Morgan (digital book reader .TXT) 📕

Aubrey felt a stirring in his loins and knew he needed to be somewhere other than where he was. Immediately. “I can sleep on the ground.”

“No, you cannot. It is too cold, and the ground is much too hard for you.”

“Seht, really, I can’t sleep on top of you.” His current position was too similar to the dreams Niobe had given him, and his body wasn’t noticing the obvious differences.

He shifted to move away.

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Seht closed both arms around him and raised his knees, trapping Aubrey between them. “Stay where you are, Aubrey.”

Aubrey felt Seht’s bare belly shifting under his. He frowned. How far down was his suit open? His cock began to harden. Shit… “Seht, I really think I should sleep somewhere else.”

Seht’s hand slid down his back. “You do not sleep well anywhere but here.”

“Huh?”

Seht opened one blue eye. “Put your hands back on my chest. You take a chill too easily.”

“I’d rather not.”

Seht sighed. “Aubrey, you have difficulty sleeping anywhere other than where you are. I would like to get some sleep myself. Please, put your hands back on my chest and go to sleep.”

Aubrey winced and put his hands back on Seht’s warm chest.

“Good. Now, lay your head down.”

Aubrey set his cheek against Seht’s chest. And stared at a stiff pale pink nipple. He closed his eyes and felt heat coiling into his cock. Very slowly, he twisted his hips to keep his swelling cock off Seht’s belly.

Seht’s hand pressed against Aubrey’s butt, keeping Aubrey firmly flat against his stomach. He sighed and rolled his hips, bringing one hell of an erection up against Aubrey’s.

Aubrey stiffened and his eyes opened. “Seht?”

“Yes, Aubrey?”

“Um…”

Seht groaned. “Do not tell me you have never felt another man’s cock before?”

Aubrey curled his hands closer. “Been in a tank sixteen cycles, remember? I hadn’t reached majority yet when they put me in it?”

Seht trembled under him. The trembling became chuckles. “Are you saying that you are a virgin?”

Aubrey clenched his teeth. “It’s not funny.”

Seht threw his head back and howled with laughter.

Aubrey’s cheeks flooded with heat. He pushed up angrily. “So I’ve never fucked before.” At least, not a living person. “Damn it, Seht, it’s not a crime!”

Seht locked his arms around Aubrey and grinned. “No, it is not a crime, but I have been fucking for a good many years. It has been a very long time since I found a virgin older than myself!”

Aubrey scowled. “Seht, quit being a pain my ass.”

Seht’s smile turned predatory. “I haven’t even begun yet.”

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The hair on Aubrey’s neck stiffened in instinctive alarm. He didn’t like that smile one tiny bit. Especially not when there was a very hard cock pressed against his. He shoved against Seht’s chest. “Let me go.”

Seht’s grin disappeared, and his arms closed tight around him. “Aubrey, stay. You do not sleep well anywhere but here.”

Aubrey rolled his eyes. “Right.” He pushed against the hard chest under his palms. “Seht, let me go.”

Seht’s eyes darkened, and his mouth tightened. “Aubrey, please. I can’t…” He closed his eyes and sighed. “Your nightmares tear at me. Please. You sleep quietly this way.”

Aubrey stiffened. “Nightmares?”

Seht turned his head away. “I do not know what was done to you, but it makes you…weep.”

The energy left Aubrey’s body in a rush. He eased back down on Seht’s chest, curling his hands in without thinking about it. He turned to face the fire. “They used me to kill the crews on the ships they took. They said forty-seven ships in the past nine cycles.” He swallowed. “I have no idea how many in sixteen.”

“You told me you did not do this willingly.” Seht’s voice was calm.

“I was…hacked into. The nav-pilot accessed the programs out of my head to do it.” Aubrey took a deep breath. “I was a subroutine to the ship’s sentience.”

Seht cupped a hand to the back of Aubrey’s head, pressing Aubrey’s cheek to his heart. “Who is this Niobe?”

Aubrey winced. “She was the ship’s sentience.”

“And?”

Aubrey closed his eyes and rubbed his cheek against Seht’s soft skin. “I’d rather not say.”

“Aubrey, you were shouting at her to stop and weeping. What did she do to you?”

“She, um…” Aubrey bit down on his lip. It sounded so stupid to say that you were raped by a ship sentience. It wasn’t as if it was done by a live person, even though it felt real enough while it was happening. The body count was certainly real enough.

“Aubrey, you are shaking.” Seht’s voice vibrated with a touch of anger. “What did she do?”

Aubrey’s chest tightened. He shifted to his side a little and curled up as tightly as he could to hold the pain in. “It sounds so stupid.”

Seht’s arms closed around him, holding him in place. “Whatever she did, it was not stupid.” He sighed. “Tell me.”

Aubrey closed his eyes tight. “When I fought to keep them out of my head, she used…sex…to get in and take whatever they wanted.”

Seht stilled; then his arms tightened. “You were raped?”

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“Yeah.” Aubrey felt his heart burst in his chest. He grabbed his elbows to hold it in. “She didn’t want to do it. She was so lonely, and I was the only friend she had. She would show me the stars she flew past.” He barely felt the tears burning down his cheeks. “She knew she was…raping me. I could feel how much it hurt her every time she…did it, to get at what was in my head. She wanted to stop. She begged me to just let them take it, but I couldn’t. I just couldn’t. People died every time they used my programs.”

Seht pressed Aubrey’s head to his heart. “It’s over; it’s done. She’s gone. The ship was dead before I found you.”

“She did it on purpose. She came here because I can’t get into your ships. She had me pulled from the tank and sent to an escape