Page 20 of Duty and Desire
“Oh, fuck…”
“Breathe, baby. Breathe. You are ok. I’ve got you.”
Ros stayed calm and breathed through it and her body seemed to adjust to the intrusion.
She felt relaxed again and she felt something else. A feeling of deep fullness that was satisfying in a way she never imagined existed. A feeling of real stretch that offered pleasure upon pleasure rolling through her body.
“Oh, my god. This feels… this feels like nothing else in the world.”
“My whole hand is inside you. Right up to the wrist. You are going to come with all of me inside of you, Ros.” Scarlett wasclose now, whispering right in Ros’s ear. Ros could feel the brush of her nipples on Ros’s back and the touch of her hair.
Ros felt like her whole world was about to explode and nothing would be the same again. She felt an orgasm building deep within her. Closer and closer. Higher and higher.
She felt the fingers of Scarlett’s other hand slide against her clitoris suddenly as the fist rocked deep inside of her.
“Come for me, baby,” Scarlett growled and Ros felt herself fall over the edge there and then tumbling, spinning, falling over and over again, she was screaming, she was crying. She felt all the emotions she had ever buried within her coming flooding out of her.
Scarlett’s hand stayed deep within her as she rode out orgasm after orgasm and collapsed forward onto her belly on the bed. She lost track of where she ended and Scarlett began.
She felt Scarlett’s slick wetness on the back of her thigh and she heard Scarlett’s breath quickening. It was then she realized that Scarlett was straddling Ros’s thigh and grinding out her own orgasm on the back of her thigh.
Ros had no energy left to speak or offer to join in, and aside from that, she was pinned down by Scarlett’s body and also her fist still buried deep within her. But it didn’t seem to matter to Scarlett whose moans were getting louder.
Ros listened as Scarlett came loudly and wetness gushed around the back of her thigh trickling down onto the bedsheets. Scarlett fell forwards and slowly and surely her hand slid out of Ros.
Oh my god.
As they lay tangled together in the aftermath, their breaths panting as their pulses slowed, Ros knew the consequences would come. But for now, she allowed herself this moment, this stolen time in the dimly lit room, the feel of Scarlett’s skin against hers, the steady rhythm of their hearts.
7
SCARLETT
Scarlett sat at her workstation, the soft hum of servers around her providing a faint background noise that was usually soothing. Today, however, the noise seemed grating, adding to the cacophony in her mind. The night she spent with Ros replayed over and over, a mix of elation and dread twisting her stomach into knots. She couldn’t shake the feeling that eyes were on her. Every whisper, every glance seemed laden with meaning and suspicion. She knew the risks and what it would mean for both of them if they were found out. But no matter how many times she reminded herself of the danger, she couldn’t bring herself to regret a single moment she had spent with Ros.
The console in front of her beeped, drawing her out of her thoughts. Scarlett’s eyes snapped to the screen, where a red alert flashed ominously. A security breach.
Scarlett’s fingers flew across the keyboard, her mind shifting gears. From what she could see, the breach was deep, targeting sensitive military data that could jeopardize not only their current operations but the safety of every soldier on the base. She quickly relayed the information to the cybersecurity team,who was already scrambling to assess the damage and trace the source.
“Captain Bennett, we need you on this,” one of the lead cybersecurity officers said.
Scarlett nodded, steeling herself. The weight of responsibility settled on her shoulders, and for a moment, it drowned out the noise in her head. The only thing that mattered now was stopping the breach.
Scarlett’s fingers danced across the keyboard with practiced precision, her mind fully engaged in the task before her.
She quickly assessed the situation, her eyes scanning the lines of code that streamed across the monitor. The attackers had embedded themselves deep within the network, bypassing security checks and firewalls completely. It was like trying to root out a parasite that had burrowed into the very core of the base’s digital infrastructure.
Scarlett felt a surge of anxiety tightening in her chest, but she pushed it down. She didn’t have the luxury of time to worry about what might happen if she failed. The only thing that mattered was finding the breach and neutralizing it.
“Focus, Scarlett. Focus,” she muttered to herself, her voice barely audible over the low hum of the servers around her.
However hard she tried to keep her mind on the task, her thoughts kept drifting back to Ros, to the night they had shared and the secret they were desperately trying to keep. Every time she thought she’d gotten a grip on her emotions, a memory of Ros's touch or the way her lips felt against Scarlett’s skin would surface, threatening to distract her. But Scarlett forced those thoughts aside, channeling all her energy into the task.
“Captain Bennett, we’ve got multiple intrusion points!” one of the cybersecurity team members called out, pulling Scarlett back into the moment.
“I see them,” Scarlett replied, her voice tight with concentration. “They’re using a distributed attack pattern, trying to overload the system by hitting multiple weak spots at once. We need to isolate each one and shut them down, or they’ll bring the whole network down.”
She brought up several diagnostic windows, her fingers moving faster than ever as she issued commands to the system. Scarlett traced the flow of data, following the digital trail left by the intruders. They were smart, using encryption protocols and routing their attack through multiple servers around the world to mask their origin.