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much.”
    She stayed still, once again unwilling to confirm how desperate her situation really was. Something about saying it out loud would make it too real.
    “I can take you off-station,” he said slowly, his smile growing broader. “But I won’t do it for free. Can you pay me?”
    “No,” she said shortly, suddenly beyond lying. She needed to get off-station, and he was her best bet. “I don’t have any money. I came here because I was hoping to find some.”
    “That’s a real shame,” he said. She was starting to hate that smile of his. He was enjoying her pain, there could be no doubt. Bastard. “Because I won’t take you off the station unless you can think of a way to pay me.”
    Silence fell between them.
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    “I don’t suppose you need a crew member?” she asked hopefully. He actually laughed at her then, and shook his head.
    “You know what I want. Of course, I understand you aren’t for sale.”
    She felt a slow rage start to burn within her. The bastard had no morals at all.
    “You want me to have sex with you.”
    “More than once,” he said lightly. He leaned forward, and his face grew intense. “In fact, I want to fuck you. I want to fuck you long and hard, and I want to keep doing it until you start screaming at me from need. I want to lick you and bite you all over your body, and push inside you long and slow. Later I want to take you fast, ram into you and fill you with my seed. And I want you to love every minute of it and beg me for more.”
    She gazed at him, mesmerized and horrified at the same time. He actually licked his lips as he stopped speaking.
    “What if I won’t do it?” she asked softly.
    “Well, then,” he said. “I’ll just have to call the guards and let you work things out with them yourself.”
    “You wouldn’t,” she whispered, but she knew he would. She could see from his face that he was dead serious. He had no softness, no mercy. Only lust. She closed her own eyes, trying to escape from that terrible, hungry gaze.
    A scene from a vid she had watched as a teener popped into her head.
    “When I was a kid, my friends and I went to see a show,” she said slowly. “The heroine, a beautiful Imperial princess, was being held captive by a pirate. He forced her to choose between her life and her virtue. That princess chose to die rather than allow her touch. My friends thought it was very romantic.”
    “Your friends sound stupid,” he said abruptly. She could hear him walk across the room.
    “That’s what I thought,” she replied, opening her eyes again. He was sitting on the small couch across from the bed. She looked at him closely, taking in his cold, hard face, the black leather breeches, and the spacer’s belt with the blaster hanging off it casually.
    “I guess I’m for sale after all.”
    “It’s a good price,” he said softly. “You won’t regret the transaction.”
    She nodded, knowing he was right. She wanted to live, dammit. “Now what?”
    “We seal the deal, of course,” he said.
    “Let me guess, with a kiss?”
    “Hell, no,” he said. “Kisses are for princesses. We’ll seal this deal with a fuck.”
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    Joanna Wylde

Chapter Four
    Jerred watched closely as the words hit her. A part of his mind, something that sounded suspiciously like a conscience, whispered that his behavior was disgusting.
    What kind of bastard treated an innocent woman like this? It was one thing to offer her money, quite another to blackmail her when she was in fear for her life.
    He pushed that part down, hard. He wanted her and he was going to have her.
    He’d already decided that, long before fate dumped her in his lap with a bow tied around her pretty neck. This just made getting her onto his ship and into his bed easier.
    “How long does this little deal last?” she asked quietly. “Will you let me off at the next port?”
    “No,” he replied, gut clenching at the thought. “I’ll let you off when I’m damned well good