I wanted to reach under and rub her clitoris, but didn’t dare; I had already way overstepped the line. She stayed silent but I could feel her body t...nse with an approaching orgasm. Bringing out my inner-caveman, I grabbed her hips tight and thrust roughly all the way into her. She arched her back as she silently came, tendons standing out in her neck with the effort not to make a sound. Good girl. I slid out of her and released her hips. “Time’s up, Mandy,” I said. “Well, I’d guess it was a. As I move closer I am able to smell your intoxicating rose scented perfume as it plays with my senses, intoxicatingly slow with its’ seduction, I lean into kiss you on the side of your neck, as my dry purse lips meet your soft skin your head falls away to expose more of your now vulnerable neck flesh, kiss after kiss, as I take a brief second for larger kiss, running my nose and wet tongue up skin of your neck I feel a shudder come from your beautiful curvaceous frame, it falls back to meet my. Added to that, his drinking had brought them to a point where they were more roommates than husband and wife.No, she had hardly been devastated by his death. If anything, she had been reborn by it. Astrid was of course sorry that he'd been killed, if only for the man he once was. But she'd be damned if she was going to spend the rest of her life mourning the man that he'd become. No, in the end, all the good that had come out of their marriage had been the children and a large enough insurance. “But I don’t step into the datastream much. For me, it’s more ... looking for absences. Gaps. It’s occupied my entire life. With your permission,” her voice lowered. “I’d like that work to continue.”“Of course. But you don’t have to ask ⁠—”“But I do,” she said forcefully. I looked up at her. “We’re no longer family. We are your crew. You have the responsibility of life or death over us. Do you understand?”I nodded slowly, and she gentled her tone.“An AI isn’t human; Ship doesn’t share our.