We pick up where we left off last Sunday with Marcus, who has been on Earth for three weeks, watching Jessie repair appliances in her garage workshop.
When she began to
work on a lamp, her fingers caught his attention, as they usually did. Her
long, tapered fingers as well as her hands bore evidence of her work. Scratches
and scabs along with grease and graphite. Tonight after closing her shop, she
would spend several minutes with a stiff-bristled brush removing the dirt from under
her short-clipped nails until they became an angry but clean red. Later she
would use those long fingers to bring him pleasure, as she had each night since
he arrived three weeks ago. His body reacted in its usual manner when thinking
about their mating. Lovemaking, he
corrected. The Terran term was lovemaking.
Totally
engrossed in her work, she opened the base of the lamp to repair its frayed
cord, oblivious to his thoughts. She didn't even look up as she spoke. "Come
to think of it, even before her trip your mother wasn't coming around as often.
She's been acting a little strange with me ever since it was obvious that I'm
pregnant. Scott said she talked to him about doing the right thing. By the way, that's Terran for marry the girl." She chuckled.
"If I had
not returned when I did, would you have committed to him?"
Something in his
tone must have alerted her because she looked up. "Hey, are you still
worried about that? Why didn't you say something?" She hopped off her
stool and came around the end of the workbench.
Marcus regretted
expressing his uncertainty. Insecurity, a foreign concept to him, occurred only
around her. As she approached, he straightened away from the doorframe. "It
is nothing."
"It is too something. Don't go all Serenian on
me, buster." She looped her arms around his neck. "I will tell you
again what I've told you before. You, Marcus Viator, starship captain extraordinaire,
you are my one and only love."
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Wow, that's telling him. He shouldn't feel uncertain after that.
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