B Cubed #3 Borg
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“Hot,” she offered as she moved again. “Hard.”
“Wet.” his lids opened. “Soft. And mine.”
The growl in his voice tightened her already stiffened nipples to the point of pain. They rubbed against his chest as she lifted and plunged, landing a little harder, moving a little faster.
Sweat beaded on his forehead, slicked his chest. The hands on her splayed hips shook.
“Tell me what you need,” She whispered
He shook his head, brow furrowed as if in pain.
“Do you need to move faster?” She guessed. It was what she needed, after all.
He nodded. “I’m on the verge of something and I want to let go but…”
“Do what you need to. I trust you, Dayen.”
The words had barely left her mouth when he had her on her back was moving frantically on top of her. His hips pistoned wildly, his motions unpracticed but filled with urgency. He drilled her hard and fast and she loved it. Her legs wrapped around him and she lifted to meet his powerful thrusts.
The tendons stood out along the side of his neck, the muscles in his arms bulged where he braced himself. She clung to him, nudged higher. His cock rubbed a spot deep inside her and she arched, crying out as she came around him.
Her release triggered his own. He roared, threw his head back and emptied himself deep inside her, hips still jerking as he came for the first time inside his mate.
His strength gave out then and he collapsed on top of her in a boneless heap. She was strong enough to move him off her if she wanted but she loved the feel of him.
Loved him.
She smiled to herself as she ran her hands through his sweat dampened hair. He grunted and pulled her tighter against him with a murmured “Mine.”
She drifted for a time and awoke to the sensation of him growing hard inside her once more. He made love to her again, more slowly this time, though with the same burning intensity.
“What changed?” He lay on his back now, with her nestled into him. One hand trailed slowly up and down her spinal column.
Sage knew what he meant. “Nothing really. I spend the days listening to your mother sing your praises, tell me how smart you were, how much you’d overcome. I’d lie awake night after night and try to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, but all I could think about was that you didn’t come to see me.”
“I never gave up on you. I wanted to give you the time and space you needed.”
She lifted her head and looked up at him. “You did. But then your aunt came by and said something that really resonated with me. Something about an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an outside force.”
“Newton’s first law,” he muttered.
“Well, I guess we were just a couple of objects at rest and she was the outside force.”
He made a noise she took for agreement and then stiffened.
“Dayen? Is something wrong?”
He repeated the words, “An object at rest stays at rest…,” almost to himself. Then a grin broke over his face. “Sage, you’re brilliant!”
“I am?”
He got up, helped her to her feet. “Come with me.” Not bothering to dress, he strode down the hall.
She picked up her clothes, not wanting to stride around in the raw, even if he did. Of course his ass was not something that should ever be covered.
He flashed her a wicked grin over his shoulder and she blushed when she recalled that he could hear every lewd thought she entertained.
He entered a darkened room pied to the ceiling with books, papers, maps and other odds and ends she didn’t have names for. “Angular momentum,” he said.
“I have no idea what that is.”
He picked up a globe. At least she knew what that was, her father had had one as well. “This is the earth. Well, the earth that was before it quit spinning and everything shifted. Aunt Cass asked me earlier why the Earth stopped spinning.”
“No one knows why.”
“Right. Not for certain. But we know it used to and the force that caused it to spin on its access was called angular momentum. According to this,” he dug through a heap of texts and then brandished one in triumph. “The Earth was formed out of a nebula which collapsed and as that happened the globe started spinning.”
“Why?”
“In a vacuum, it takes less force for objects to spin than for them not to spin. If we can undo whatever caused the earth to stop spinning, angular momentum will force the earth to start spinning again.”
She sat down on the floor, trying to absorb he words. He crouched before her gloriously naked and grinning from ear to ear.
“My love, you’ve just saved our future.”
Epilogue
Cassandra’s Journal
Date: The future yet to come
Love, in fact, does not make the earth go round. But a couple in love who are determined to ensure the survival of their species can make the earth go around once more, with a little help from angular momentum.
It took Sage and Dayen and the rest of the survivors seventeen years to locate the artificial gravity well that had stopped the rotation of the earth. Another six months of study to the ancient device before they could safely shut it down. But they were together for the dawning of the first day of the rest of their lives. Together, they helped rebuild the food chain from Sage’s seeds, to the insects all the way up to the rest of humanity. People jockeyed for power as people always do, but the strongest were determined not just to survive, but to thrive and to flourish.
Just like I knew they would.