“I need you. I know we’ve never, but now we’re together. Once…to complete the bond.”
Bond? The voice was definitely not in his head. Axel struggled to surface, shoving aside memories, clinging to one bright, burning thought: Snake. Dark hair and green eyes swam into focus, the alien’s fingers now performing a gentle in and out glide. The sensation, though pleasant, hovered at a strange pinnacle, almost too intense, one he liked but simultaneously…perhaps not. He looked to Sela; the woman facing him, but curled on her side.
“She’s sleeping, or pretending to,” Snake said.
Oh yeah, Axel remembered now; Sela enjoyed watching them together, but never had he imagined her watching Snake doing this.
“Is this real?”
“Real?”
“I dreamed of us, but then woke up…elsewhere. How do I know I’m not d
