Eryx is part of a team of scientists charged with monitoring and protecting relocated animals on a privately owned planet. When sensors indicate poachers, Eryx leaves base to confront them, only to lose his way in a sudden snow. After trudging to a nearby observation station for shelter, he comes across an unexpected intruder.<br><br>Smuggler Leander flies an old, sometimes unreliable ship. When the engine starts to fail, he attempts to set down on the nearest planet where he’s stashed supplies, but his descent turns into a crash, and he’s forced to take shelter wherever he can.<br><br>The two can’t possibly trust each other, but storm projections show they’ll be stuck together for days. Worse, the poachers aren’t letting a little inclement weather stop them, and they’re armed and ready to kill. Can Leander and Eryx put aside their differences and save the animals -- and themselves -- before something disastrous happens?

Under Snow and Stars

“Shit,” said Leander, lips brushing against Eryx’s. “I don’t want to lose it so fast.”


“Go ahead. We’ll do it again later.”


“Mmm,” said Leander, kissed Eryx, and buried himself deeper.


Eryx pulled Leander to him as he thrust, wanting all of him. He was afraid to touch himself, since the way Leander fucked him threatened to set him off with the least bit of stimulation. He focused on Leander as long as he could, until the man’s face tightened and his eyes glistened more. Then Eryx grabbed himself, stroking in time with Leander’s thrusts. The moment Leander’s breath caught and he went over the edge, Eryx felt the orgasm building in him, too, so that as the smuggler groaned and fell onto him, he released his own seed between them, satisfied and filled


Eryx stroked Leander’s head, both of them panting.


“Uh, so I haven’t really been seeing to myself recently,” said Leander, easing out of Eryx and rolling off of him.


“Is that your way of telling me to expect a lot?”


Chapter 31