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Holden watched hi his eyes as soon as he got out of the roo as everyone else was being a weepy little kid
Prax gave hialley in an hour Pudding will be ready” Then he wandered out and into his cabin He was already reading es on his hand terminal as he closed the door
“Okay,” A up and walking over to stand in front of Holden “Please take ops foronly in his voice He cliht, the pressure hatch opening for hi behind hiht?”
She nodded “I feel like I got you back I orried I’d never see you again”
“If you hadn’t yankedfor myself, neither of us would have”
Naomi leaned forward to kiss hiht When they stopped to breathe, he said, “Is this too soon?”
She said, “Shut up,” and kissed hi the kiss, she pulled her body away fro with the zipper of his jumpsuit Those ridiculous Martian military jumpsuits that had come with the ship, TACHI stenciled across the back Now that they were going to have their own co better Ju gravities and oilyactually tailored to fit them all, and in their own colors ROCINANTE on the back
Naoot inside the juht of fashion choices
“My bunk or yours?” he said
“You have your own bunk?”
Not any love to Naomi had always been different than with anyone else Some of it was physical She was the only Belter he’d ever been with, and that ically different in some ways But that wasn’t the most notable part for him What made Naomi different was that they’d been friends for five years before they’d slept together
It wasn’t a flattering testaht about it now, but he’d always been pretty shallohen it came to sex He’d picked out potential sexual partners withina neoot the ones he was interested in He’d always been quick to allow hienuine affection One of his most painful memories was the day Naoaenuinely cared for the wo with so that he wouldn’t feel like a user
But he had been The fact that the wo him in turn didn’t make him feel better about it
Because Nao up on Earth had created, he had just not seen her as a potential sexual partner when they’d first rown to know her as a person without any of the sexual baggage he usually carried When his feelings for her grew beyond friendship, he was surprised