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connects solidly right into Ramu’s balls.
    He lets out a horrendous and pained wail, like a bear caught in a trap...and then stung by hundreds of bees.
    Finally Kronos grabs the handrail and shoves Ramu, sending him floating down the corridor.
    Kronos looks at me and grins.
    I’m still too scared to smile, so I just look at him with a dumb expression.
    “Strip off the suit,” he says, his voice suddenly serious.
    “We just met,” I say.
    He points at me, and his ears flick back and forth. “You gotta’ get it off!”
    Oh, the biosuit. Jerky. Not my clothes.
    “It will eat you alive from the inside!” He’s already floating toward me, his arms outstretched.
    He slams into me and wraps his arms around me. The impact sends us into a spin, almost like a dance, as we both float through the cargo bay. He’s holding me tight – no, he’s pulling at my skin.
    I try to grab him back to get him off me, but he’s shirtless so my hands just grope his huge back muscles. They slip and slide off his sweat, and his masculine scent fills my nostrils like a powerful aphrodisiac. I try to ignore that stupid and totally inappropriate desire, but it’s got my heart thumping and my cheeks flushing hot.
    My hands slip off his back and settle onto his huge, strong arms.
    He hits the wall back first, then clutches a handrail, which stabilizes us against the wall.
    In the distance, I see Delphie giggling and stroking Ramu’s hair. Ramu doesn’t look happy, but he’s no longer trying to kill me.
    “I can’t get it off!” Kronos says.
    I imagine that I met him in a bar, and that we hit it off with some heavy flirting. I then imagine he took me back to his place, and that he wants me so badly that he’s fighting furiously to unclasp my bra, but failing.
    “Shit, why can’t I get it off?” he shouts.
    I start to laugh.
    “It’s going to eat you alive from the inside!” he says, voice dead serious.
    He’s running his hands along my back, and even though the biosuit is covering my clothes, I can feel his hands as if they were touching my bare skin. He has strong hands that are well-calloused, and they are so damn warm and nice against my skin. He was pinching gently at first, but now he’s almost tearing at my skin, and it starts to hurt.
    “It’s deactivated,” I say. “There’s no danger.”
    He meets eyes with me then, and his green eyes express true concern and confusion.
    “Biosuits eat humans alive,” he says. “It shouldn’t be possible for it to go dormant.”
    I look at him with a level expression. Should I tell him what I know? That this isn’t a regular biosuit. Just because he’s hot and kind-of-sort-of saved my life – after kidnapping me – should I trust him? He’s still a fucking pirate who attacked me.
    “It’s not a regular biosuit,” I say. “I’m safe.”
    Idiot. I shouldn’t have said that. Any information is too much, but when I see the relief wash across his rugged face, I feel much happier than I should. And when he smiles, oh God, when he smiles I feel something much worse and much stupider course all through my body.
    “I see,” he says.
    “So you can let go of me now,” I say.
    He looks down in surprise at his hands. One is still pressed tightly and warm against my back, and the other is wrapped gently around my arm.
    He lets go.
    “Is he going to kill me?” I ask, pointing down the corridor toward Ramu.
    “No,” Kronos says. “I’m the captain of this ship. No one disobeys my orders.”
    “Then how come he still charged me and tried to kill me right after you said, ‘Ramu, no!’”
    His face scrunches up, and his ears pull back. “That’s...that was...he’ll be reprimanded for that.”
    “So, um,” I say, “what is going to happen to me?”
    “We can dump you off next time we dock somewhere,” Kronos says.
    So he’s not going to kill me. That’s a start.
    “I need to get to Venus,” I say.
    Kronos laughs.
    “What’s so funny?”
    “What you need