The next half-minute of her life was lost to deafening noise and fervent prayer. She didn’t know anything about the Aegis, hadn’t seen the logs… how was she to know if the engineering team kept up their maintenance schedules?
Aegis, Grimly, she focused on something else—anything else—to take her mind off the precarious situation she was in. Like the way Zero had held her… The hardness of his body against hers, the satin-over-steel of his skin, and the way he kissed her, like she was the only woman in the universe. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the memory as hard as she could. Just a little longer. If she survived this, she was taking him up on his offer of making her pass out from pleasure.
He was so intense. Over everything. What would it be like to be the focus of that intens
