further under her gaze. Deliberately, she rubbed her body along the front of his as she grabbed his leg and pulled herself upward. When she had the height she needed, she wrapped her legs around his hips, holding him groin to groin, and used his body as a sniper stand.
The new vantage point was exactly what she needed. Taking aim, she depressed the trigger and tagged the woman on the red team dead center of her back. It was a killing shot—worth a thousand points—and it left the other female stunned long enough for Benni and her partner to shift position again.
Varion scored a glancing blow against someone below them and flipped upright. Taking hold of her, he pushed off just in time to avoid a laser blast from a man on the yellow team. Benni aimed over his shoulder and caught the guy in the arm. He must have been totally spastic because he let go of his laser pistol, and she was able to deliver a killing shot before he snagged it out of the air again.
She and Varion drifted almost to the ceiling before he fired his next shot. The other member of the red team had wedged herself in the corner of the room. Although Varion hit his mark, Benni felt a hard vibration as the woman’s last blast tagged her in her left leg. Grunting in irritation, she shot the other female in the boob. Unlike Benni’s, it presented a sizeable target.
“Grab on,” Varion told her.
It was all the heads up she got before he snagged a passing comet. She caught it just in time, and the glittering, long-tailed projectile propelled them rapidly across the room. Training her weapon on the dark spaces between asteroids, Benni delivered a lethal hit to the second member of the yellow team and a glancing blow to the female red she’d hit earlier. The sound of Varion’s weapon discharging told her he was meeting with similar success on his side.
Once they reached the far wall, the comet disappeared, and they were left with a clear view of the scoreboard. They could also see a member of the yellow team standing on a square beneath it.
“Yellow One is out,” Benni said, recognizing the guy who’d dropped his pistol. She looked at the board. “Yellow Two only has one life yet. Red One has two lives, and Red Two has another life. We just have to—”
A full strike to the chest cut off the rest of her sentence. Varion fired a few rounds in vengeance, but Red One ducked behind an asteroid too quickly.
“Okay, no talking,” Benni grumbled.
Varion’s smile shone briefly through the darkness. Which was apparently enough to earn him a blow to his shoulder from the elusive Red One.
Reaching out to clutch his belt, Benni used an overhead asteroid for leverage to send them down. They’d already tried taking the high ground, so now they’d attempt a sneak attack from underneath. Once they hit the bottom of the room, she pulled him horizontal with her so that they were parallel to the floor. He wound up on top of her, floating weightlessly only millimeters above her body. His potent heat suffused her from head to toe, and she couldn’t resist running her palm over that smooth, black, bald head of his before pulling him down for a kiss. There was more than one game being played here, but this one wouldn’t end until they got some privacy.
“Damn, woman.” Varion sighed when their lips parted. “You’re going to get us killed.”
“But what a way to go,” she quipped.
She felt his chest shake with a silent chuckle.
Rolling so that he was on his back beside her, he glanced over and gave her a nod. With the wall as a launching pad, they pushed off with their feet and skimmed over the floor like hovercraft, gazing up at the ceiling as they coasted. Above them, Red Two rounded an asteroid and pegged Yellow Two in the back, removing that team from the game. Red Two was so busy doing a floating victory dance she didn’t notice them until Varion killed her off with a clean shot. That left Red One.
“She’s on the other side of the room,” he