Home Sweet Home

This is a Commissioned Story

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Year Two of Krakoa, Late Summer
Summer House, Blue Area of the Moon
16:42 Lunar Time

Alex Summers leaned back in his chair and dealt another hand. Tousled blond hair fell across his brow, softening features that were otherwise all sharp cheekbones, quick expressions, and barely contained nerves. His black and white costume followed the long lines of his body: a narrow waist, flat stomach, and shoulders broad enough to give him an athletic V without disguising how lean he remained. His forearms flexed as the cards snapped from his fingers, and even in a slouch his body held a restless readiness, as though relaxation were merely another position from which he could spring.

He also pretended not to notice that his youngest brother had just bet a chair.

“That’s a throne,” Gabriel corrected, gesturing toward the piece of living Krakoan furniture. He sat shirtless with his thighs spread, loose pants hanging low across his hips, and radiated a faint but literal heat. Where Alex was all quick lines and wiry tension, Gabriel had been built on a heavier, more imposing scale. His bare chest was broad and densely muscled, his shoulders thick, his arms powerful enough to make the relaxed pose feel temporary. Dark hair swept back from a strong jaw, framing a face whose severity only made the rare softness more striking. The loose fabric did little to diminish the mass of his thighs or the sense that the chair had been obliged to accommodate him. Even seated, Gabriel did not look at rest. He looked temporarily contained. “Worth considerably more than your primitive currency tokens.”

“Those are washers,” Nathan said without looking up from his cards.

He was the youngest of the three, though little about him invited the word. Nathan had a young soldier’s hard, unfinished build: broadening shoulders, a narrow waist, long muscular limbs, and the stripped-down strength of someone trained for endurance rather than display. A practical field uniform, crossed by a bandolier and several tightly packed utility pouches, reinforced the impression. His flesh-and-blood arm was lean and corded; the techno-organic one added darker mass to the opposite side, making his silhouette asymmetrical without diminishing its clean power. His black hair was cut in a severe high and tight, except for the pale, nearly white tuft rising at the front like the beginning of a short mohawk. It drew the eye upward to the sharp planes of his face and the steady glow of his cybernetic eye.

“M8 zinc-plated,” Nathan continued. “Twelve-point-four grams each. Durable, portable, and mechanically useful.”

“Washers,” Alex repeated, sliding three cards across the living-wood table. “Kid, you know most people just use chips, right? Little plastic discs? Sometimes with numbers on them?”

"Chips have no intrinsic worth." Nathan's tone suggested this was obvious. "They're representational tokens in a closed system. Washers can be used for mechanical repair."

"You're playing poker, not preparing for economic collapse."

"Preparation is never wasted."

Gabriel studied his hand with the solemn concentration of a ruler considering the surrender terms of a lesser nation.

“Three kings,” he announced, laying down his cards.

"That's two kings and a… joker," Alex said. “How’d that get in there?”

Gabriel frowned at the cards. For a moment his heavy jaw tightened, and Alex felt his own shoulders shift slightly, his agile hips re-positioning in a way that would let him move fast across the floor if he needed to. Old habit. Gabriel had killed their father with less warning than a bad poker hand.

Then Gabriel laughed, the sound rough and surprised. "The symbols are confusing. Why do kings outrank emperors?"

"There are no emperors in a deck of cards, Gabe."

"An oversight." Gabriel gathered up the cards anyway. "In a properly organized hierarchy, the emperor would command all suits."

"In a properly organized hierarchy," Alex said, dealing again, "you'd remember that a flush beats a straight."

"I remember the important things."

The room went quiet for a moment. Nathan's illuminated cybernetic eye flicked up from his cards, his young but hardened face unreadable in the way it got when he was running threat assessments. The kid had good instincts. He'd grown up in a future where hesitation got you killed, and some habits didn't fade just because you'd time-traveled into a better present.

Alex kept his tone light. "Yeah? What's important?"

Gabriel's gaze moved past him, toward the kitchen where Jean's voice rose in mock exasperation and Rachel laughed at something. The sound was warm and ordinary and impossible. Six months ago Gabriel had been dead. A year before that he'd been emperor of the Shi'ar, and Alex had been his prisoner, and their father had been a corpse floating somewhere in space.

Now Corsair was alive again, flying around the galaxy with the Starjammers like death was just another port he'd visited and left behind. Now Gabriel sat at a table on the Moon and didn't remember all the details of what he'd done, and Alex dealt him cards anyway because that's what you did on Krakoa. You gave people another chance. You pretended the past was something you could reshuffle and deal again.

"This," Gabriel said finally. "This is important."

Nathan made a soft sound that might have been agreement or tactical analysis. His long fingers drummed once against the table, then stilled. "Your pulse just spiked," he told Alex. "Fourteen percent increase. Respiratory rate elevated."

"Kid."

"Stop calling me kid. It’s observation," Nathan said. "Not cheating."

"You're reading my pulse."

"I read everything." Nathan laid down three cards. "It's efficient."

"It's creepy."

"Those aren't mutually exclusive categories." Nathan's mouth twitched slightly. Not quite a smile, but close. "You're bluffing. Your tells are obvious if you know what to look for."

Alex looked at his cards. Pair of threes. The ki- the man wasn't wrong.

Gabriel leaned forward, "What tells?"

“Unnecessary hostility,” Nathan said. “Increased joking. His left thumb rubs the edge of his cards when he has nothing.”

Alex looked down. His thumb was doing exactly that.

“Traitor. So you are cheating with that robot eye," Alex said.

"I'm observing available data." Nathan's voice carried the patience of someone explaining something simple to someone slow. "If you wanted to prevent analysis, you should have established information-restriction protocols before the game began."

"It's poker, not a black ops mission."

"All competitive scenarios benefit from intelligence gathering."

Gabriel gathered up the cards and shuffled them with surprising grace, his large hands moving through the motions like he was performing a ritual. "In the Shi'ar Empire, we had games of strategy that lasted for weeks. Entire fleets would maneuver based on the outcome."

"Did you win?" Nathan asked.

Gabriel's hands stilled. His eyes went distant for a moment, and Alex watched him carefully, tracking the small signs: the tension in his jaw, the way his thick shoulders drew up slightly, the flicker of confusion that crossed his face when he reached for a memory and found something incomplete.

"I don't remember," Gabriel said finally. "I remember that they mattered. I remember that I was good at them. But the details..." He set the cards down. "It's like reading a report about someone else."

"Resurrection does that sometimes," Nathan said. His voice had lost its tactical edge. He sounded younger suddenly, and Alex remembered that he had killed his older self to get here. That he carried memories of a future he was trying to prevent, and sometimes the present probably felt just as incomplete as Gabriel's past. "You remember the facts but not the feeling."

"Yes." Gabriel looked at him with something like gratitude. "Exactly that."

Alex dealt another hand. His throat felt tight, and he covered it with a grin. "So what I'm hearing is that neither of you actually knows how to play poker, and I'm about to clean you both out."

"I know probability matrices," Nathan said.

"I know conquest," Gabriel added.

"Great. I know when to fold." Alex looked at his cards. Pair of threes again. The house was fucking with him. "And I know that if either of you tries to bet furniture again, I'm calling Jean."

From the kitchen, right on cue, Jean’s voice rose in patient exasperation. “Rachel, sweetheart, stop trying to do six things at once. Put the knife down, take the pan off the heat, and let me help before dinner becomes a rescue operation.”

“I can handle dinner.”

“I know you can,” Jean said, softer now. “That doesn’t mean you have to handle all of it alone.”

Rachel laughed. “You know this is just garlic, right? Not a metaphor for my emotional life?”

“With this family, everything becomes a metaphor eventually.”

Gabriel smiled, the expression softening his hard features into something almost gentle. “She sounds like a mother.”

“She is a mother,” Alex said. Then, because it was Krakoa and nothing was ever simple: “Sort of. It’s complicated.”

"Everything here is complicated," Gabriel said. But he didn't sound angry about it. He sounded almost wondering, like complication was a luxury he was still learning to appreciate.

Nathan won the next hand with a straight; he'd apparently calculated three draws in advance. Alex lost his washers with good humor. Gabriel bet his chair again, called it a throne again, and didn't seem to mind when they made him take it back.

The house settled around them, warm and strange and full of people who shouldn't be alive, shouldn't be family, shouldn't be sitting together playing cards with machine washers and stolen furniture while Earth turned slowly in the windows overhead.

Alex dealt another hand and watched his brothers, and thought that maybe Krakoa's real miracle wasn't resurrection.

Maybe it was this: the chance to sit at a table with someone who'd killed you, tortured you, destroyed everything you loved… and teach them poker anyway.

In the kitchen, Jean reached for a pot as the cabinet reluctantly grew it from its own living structure. The stretch lifted the lush weight of her breasts beneath a fitted green wrap top, pressing them together before the fabric settled back across her waist. Jean was voluptuous in every direction: huge breasted, narrow at the middle, generous through the hips, with a soft, rounded ass filling out the seat of her cream lounge trousers. Thick waves of deep red hair spilled over her shoulders, framing warm, expressive eyes and a mouth already curving toward exasperation. The Summer House was helpful, but it had opinions about where things belonged.

“Rachel, that is enough garlic for the entire Blue Area of the Moon.”

“The recipe says four.”

Rachel Summers stood amid ingredients suspended in a precise telekinetic formation. An onion had been divided into perfectly uniform pieces. Peppers hovered in clean strips above the cutting board, while a wooden spoon stirred the pot without touching either woman.

Where Jean was lush and soft, Rachel was tall, taut, and visibly battle-forged. A black ribbed tank fitted closely over firm, big high-set breasts and a lean torso cut with compact muscle, while dark utility trousers rode low on narrow hips and followed the strong lines of her long legs. She had less curve than Jean, but the hardness of her stomach, the athletic shape of her ass, and the controlled economy of every movement drew the eye just as insistently. Her red hair was cut into a short, choppy bob, framing the three pale horizontal markings across each cheek.

“Four cloves. Those are bulbs.”

Jean plucked three garlic bulbs out of the air and set them aside.

“You could have said the measurement system was irrational,” Rachel said, leaning against the counter with her arms folded, apparently offended by the recipe.

“I assumed you had encountered garlic before.”

“I have encountered garlic powder.”

“That is not the same thing.”

“It fulfilled the same nutritional purpose.”

“Food is allowed to do more than fulfill a nutritional purpose,” Jean said.

“In my timeline, dinner came in gray packets stamped with calorie counts.”

Jean’s expression softened, but she kept pity out of her voice. Rachel could detect it faster than most people detected smoke.

“Then tonight,” Jean said, returning one garlic clove to the air, “we’re going to be recklessly inefficient.”

Rachel glanced at the crowded counter. “We’re cooking on the Moon with vegetables grown by a sentient island.”

“Exactly. Try to enjoy the decadence.”

With a flick of Rachel’s fingers, the remaining garlic separated from its skin, minced itself, and dropped neatly into the pot.

Jean stirred it with the spoon this time, though Rachel could have done that too. Working beside one another as mother and daughter mattered more than efficiency.

Not that she was Rachel's mother. Not technically. Not biologically. Rachel's parents had been a different older Scott and Jean, people who'd lived different lives in a future that might never happen now. But biology was just genetics, and genetics were just information, and Jean had learned a long time ago that family was something you built, not something you inherited.

She'd built this. Somehow. A family. A daughter who wasn't her daughter, cooking in a kitchen on the Moon, arguing about garlic while Earth turned overhead and the house hummed contentedly around them.

And almost lost it again.

Ahab had returned only recently, dragging Rachel back into the role he had carved into her in that ruined future. He had remade her into a Hound, restored the marks across her face, and forced old commands through pathways trauma had never completely surrendered. Jean could still feel the residue when Rachel’s shields thinned: obedience sharpened into instinct, fear wrapped around fury, and the sick certainty that her body belonged to someone else.

"How was the mission?" Rachel asked.

"It went well," Jean said. She'd felt Scott through their connection all afternoon, the controlled focus of the battle, the brief spike of satisfaction when the last captive was freed, the low steady hum of competence that was just Scott being Scott. Leading. Protecting. Doing what he'd been doing since he was sixteen years old and Charles Xavier had told him he was responsible for saving the world. "Everyone's safe. They got the captives out."

“Good.”

Rachel’s voice went quiet. She knew what it meant to be imprisoned and treated as a weapon. That knowledge was no longer buried safely in a dead timeline. Ahab had made it present again, written fresh across her nerves and the pale Hound markings on her cheeks. She did not speak about it often, but Jean felt it along the edges of their connection whenever another captive was recovered: the old fear made raw again, the anger, and the fierce relief of seeing someone rescued from a fate that looked too much like her own.

Jean touched her shoulder gently.

Rachel leaned into the contact for one brief moment before straightening and returning to the pot. They worked together in comfortable silence, Jean chopping peppers while Rachel stirred.

From the other room, she heard Alex's voice rise in mock outrage, and Nathan's dry response, and Gabriel's rough laugh. The sound made her smile, but Nathan's voice always carried a strange, heavy friction. He was a time-displaced child, though child was a laughable word for the hard-bodied, rangy young soldier sitting at the poker table. He was Scott’s son with Madelyne Pryor. While Madelyne had been her exact genetic clone, biology wasn't what bound them; they were mother and son entirely by role and deep affection. He knew it, she knew it, and he called her "Mom" openly, claiming her with an easy, blunt confidence that she couldn't help but encourage.

Six months ago this house had been quieter, smaller, less chaotic. Now it was full of Summers brothers and time-displaced sons and daughters. Sometimes Jean felt like she was running a very strange boarding house for the cosmically displaced.

She wouldn't trade it for anything. As an Omega-level telepath who spent most of her week tearing apart enemy psychic defenses or throwing armored vehicles into orbit, this rare moment of playing the domestic matriarch felt like a luxurious vacation. Usually, she was right there in the mud and the blood beside them. Nine times out of ten, she was the one pulling the extraction ship out of a nosedive while Scott laid down covering fire. Today, she had stayed back to prepare for a Quiet Council session, deliberately grounding herself in the quiet rhythm of a kitchen.

A faint pulse moved through the living floor as the gateway activated in the sublunar level below. Moments later, heavy boots sounded on the spiral staircase rising from the center of the room.

Scott emerged through the circular opening in the floor one measured step at a time, climbing up from the gateway access beneath the hangar.

Jean's hands stilled on the cutting board.

He looked like he'd been through a war. His uniform was torn at the shoulder, the blue material shredded to reveal the bruised skin beneath. Desert dust covered him in a fine pale layer that made his dark hair look gray at the temples. His jaw was bruised, the skin already darkening, and there was a cut above his left eye that had bled and dried in a thin red line down his temple.

He was beautiful.

The thought hit Jean with unexpected force, stealing her breath. She'd seen Scott come back from missions a thousand times. She'd patched his wounds, cleaned his uniform, felt his exhaustion through their bond. This shouldn't be different.

But he stood in the doorway with Earth rising behind him through the window, and the light caught the commanding, classical symmetry of his build. He was broadly muscled through the back and chest, his thick, square pectorals tapering sharply down to a narrow waist. The tight, ruined fabric of his pants gripped thick, powerful thighs and a compact ass built for endurance and control.

Jean’s heart swelled; her pussy clenched.

"Hey, old man," Rachel called out, tapping her wooden spoon against the rim of the pot. Her voice carried the easy, battle-hardened affection of a soldier greeting her commander, though her eyes held the distinct warmth of a daughter.

Scott stopped. The tight, authoritative lines of his face softened fractionally. "Rachel," he nodded, his voice still carrying the gravel and dry heat of the desert. "Dinner smells good."

He didn't stop there. He crossed the short distance to the counter, his attention locking entirely on Jean.

Jean set down her knife and met him halfway. She reached up, her thumb lightly grazing the unbroken skin just below the bruised line of his jaw. "You're bleeding," she said quietly.

Scott leaned into the touch, a fractional easing of his rigid posture. "It looks worse than it is. We got them all out."

"I know," she murmured, feeling the exhaustion humming through him. "I felt you the whole time."

"I'm alright, Jean," he promised, his voice carrying that quiet, absolute certainty he only ever used with her. "I'm home."

She wrapped her arms fully around his neck, and Scott caught her instinctively, his large, calloused hands settling onto the wide, feminine flare of her hips.

When their lips met, it was supposed to be a simple greeting. The familiar, grounding touch of a husband coming home from a mission. But the hollow, twisting itch inside Jean surged forward.

She didn't just kiss him; she pulled him down, rising onto her toes and parting her lips to slide her tongue against his with a fierce, wet urgency. She pressed her lush, full breasts flush against the rigid wall of his chest, her fingers gripping the dense, unyielding muscle of his shoulders through his torn uniform. She wanted the warm pressure of his mouth, the roughness of his stubble against her skin, and the hard body beneath her hands. She wanted him right there against the Krakoan wood.

Through their psychic bond, she felt Scott’s sharp spike of surprise, instantly swallowed by a dark, heavy wave of answering arousal. His grip on her hips tightened, his thumbs pressing hard into her flesh as his iron control threatened to slip.

A theatrical whistle drifted in from the living room.

"Whoa, pace yourself, Fearless Leader," Alex drawled over the sound of shuffling cards. "Some of us are trying to lose our washers in peace."

Gabriel let out a rough, booming laugh, his massive chest expanding. "A conqueror's welcome. It is appropriate."

"Mom, please," Rachel muttered from the stove, staring very pointedly into her boiling pot. "I am standing literally three feet away."

Scott broke the kiss. He pulled back just an inch, his chest rising and falling visibly, his pupils blown wide. But his discipline held. The psychic hum between them vibrated with exhaustion and a heavy, unspoken promise that made Jean's inner thighs clench. He stroked her hip once, firmly, before letting his hands fall.

"I need a shower," he rasped, his voice rougher than before.

Jean let her hands slide slowly down his chest, her nails catching lightly on the torn fabric of his uniform. She didn't let him retreat completely cleanly. Her green eyes locked onto his, alight with a dark, deliberate challenge. "Don't take too long, Commander," she murmured, her tone a soft, dangerous purr. "Or I might come up there and wash the dust off you myself."

A muscle feathered in Scott's jaw. He gave a tight, almost imperceptible nod before forcing himself to step away.

As he crossed the living room, the poker game paused.

“I was going to ask how the mission went,” Alex drawled, gathering his cards against his chest, “but apparently Jean already handled the debrief.”

Gabriel just grunted, chest expanding as he took in Scott's battered state. "You bleed well."

"Try not to bet the entire house while I'm gone," Scott said dryly, his gaze flicking to the pile of washers on the table without breaking his economical stride.

Nathan gave him a sharp nod of respect, his cybernetic eye whirring faintly as it scanned the torn uniform and bruising beneath it. “Twelve recovered?”

“All alive.” Scott started toward the stairs, then stopped beside Nathan’s chair. The hard mission focus eased from his face as he placed a broad hand on his son’s shoulder. “Save me a seat. I want in on the next game.”

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Year Two of Krakoa, Late Summer
Summer House, Blue Area of the Moon
22:17 Lunar Time

Moonlight reflected from Earth and spilled through the immense window, turning the bed pale blue around their naked bodies. Scott moved between Jean’s spread thighs, his broad frame fitted over her generous curves, every inch of them visible in the cold glow. She lay on her back with her legs around him, while he supported himself above her and drove his cock into her with the steady familiarity of a husband who knew precisely how his wife liked to be fucked.

His forearms pressed into the mattress on either side of her head, keeping the full mass of his upper body from settling onto her, though his chest still met her breasts whenever he pushed forward. Their flesh compressed together, her full tits spreading beneath his pectorals as her stiff nipples rubbed through the short hair along his sternum. Sweat shone across his shoulders and ran down his spine toward the firm curve of his ass, which tightened beneath Jean’s hands each time his hips carried him into her.

Her legs remained open around his waist, leaving their joining exposed whenever he withdrew. His thick cock slid from her swollen pussy coated in her arousal, the flushed shaft gleaming before he pushed it back through her parted lips. His balls moved beneath him and tapped the underside of her ass whenever his pelvis met her, while the wet sound of penetration mixed with the soft creak of the living mattress.

Jean’s red hair covered the pillow in damp waves. The sheets had gathered beneath her hips, cushioning her round ass as Scott’s thrusts shifted her several inches at a time. She lifted herself into him, her body yielding around the hard length inside her while her hands traveled across the defined muscles of his back.

Scott held the angle with practiced accuracy. His cock dragged along the same sensitive channel on every withdrawal, then returned with enough pressure to draw another breathless sound from her. His breathing remained controlled, drawn evenly through his nose despite the strain tightening his abdomen, shoulders, and thighs.

“You feel incredible,” he murmured against her collarbone. His mouth grazed her warm skin as he pressed himself fully inside, the root of his cock seated against her slick opening. “God, Jean. You’re soaked.”

Her pussy clenched around him. Jean hooked both legs behind his back and pulled, trying to force him farther into a body that had already taken every inch available. “Scott,” she gasped, fingers closing around his shoulders. “Deeper.”

A brief smile moved across his face. He changed the tilt of his hips and thrust again, directing the broad head of his cock against the place that made her abdomen tighten.

“I’ve got you,” he said, his voice steady despite the roughness gathering underneath it. “Right there.”

Jean’s nails pressed into him as the next stroke hit the same spot. His heartbeat knocked firmly against her chest, reliable even while his body worked above her, and their psychic bond carried the familiar structure of his attention. He was aware of her breathing, her pulse, the tension in her thighs, the pressure of her grip, and every involuntary contraction around his cock. Even here, naked and sweating between her legs, some part of Scott was still collecting information.

Something inside Jean recoiled from the perfection of it.

She wanted him, Scott, not the flawless delivery of everything he believed she needed. She wanted the broad-shouldered commander stripped of calculation, his attention narrowed to appetite instead of safety. She wanted his mouth rough against her throat and his fingers leaving evidence on her hips. She wanted the body above her to stop behaving like a weapon under responsible supervision.

Scott pulled back and drove into her again. Jean rose sharply to meet him, squeezing her thighs around his waist and dragging her nails down his back.

“Please,” she said, her voice breaking around the word. “Harder.”

His jaw tightened. The change moved through him before he could smooth it away, a flash of raw arousal crossing their bond as his hands slid beneath her thighs and opened her wider. He thrust with sudden force, shoving her hips deep into the mattress. Jean cried out, startled and thrilled by the impact, and her pussy clamped around the full thickness of him.

Scott struck into her again.

The bed jolted beneath them. His breathing broke from its clean pattern, escaping in a rough exhale against her cheek as his hips drove forward without the small pause he usually allowed between strokes. His cock plunged through her slick heat, his pelvis landing against her with enough force to make her ass spread against the sheets. The next thrust came faster, then another, each one powered by the strength he usually kept hidden beneath careful technique.

Jean’s mouth opened beneath his. This was what she had been reaching for. His hands tightened around her thighs, his fingers digging into their softness while his body bore closer to hers. His chest pressed her breasts flat, and the rhythm between them became urgent enough that the headboard shifted against the living wall.

“Yes,” she breathed into his mouth. “Scott, yes. Don’t stop.”

For several seconds, he didn’t.

His cock drove into her with a blunt, punishing depth that robbed her of any ability to arrange her reactions. The pleasure became sharper and less orderly, spreading through her pelvis in hot, disjointed pulses while his balls slapped against her wet skin. She could feel him nearing the edge through their bond, his desire surging beyond the neat limits he normally maintained.

Then Jean’s body tightened around a particularly forceful stroke, her breath catching as the head of his cock struck deep.

Scott noticed.

His next thrust slowed halfway through.

The grip on her thighs changed. Scott did not stop or slow when she told him she was close. He knew better. He held the angle exactly where it was and kept driving into the same sensitive place, preserving the rhythm that had tightened her entire body around him.

What disappeared was the loss of control.

The force behind his hips became measured again. He lifted enough of his weight from her chest to give her room to breathe, loosened his fingers before they could leave bruises, and turned the rough, hungry thrusts into something precise without changing their speed.

Jean stared up at him, still panting.

“Don’t stop,” she gasped. “Right there.”

“I know.”

His voice was rough, but the familiar concentration had returned to his face. His thumbs pressed into her thighs, holding her open while he repeated the same stroke with infuriating accuracy.

“You’re close,” he said.

“Yes.”

Scott kept the cadence steady. Every thrust landed exactly where the last one had, his cock dragging through her slick heat with enough pressure to keep the pleasure building while every trace of abandon disappeared behind discipline.

“I’ve got you,” he murmured.

Jean’s nails dug into his shoulders. “Scott, harder.”

He increased the force just enough to answer her without surrendering to it. His body remained powerful above hers, his breathing strained and his cock buried deep, but he had taken command of himself again.

Then he kissed her, soft and reassuring, while fucking her with expert consistency.

“Let me take care of you.”

The words were loving. That made them worse.

Her body still responded. It could hardly do otherwise. He knew the exact movement that made her toes curl, and he returned to it with maddening competence, guiding her toward release while his own desire disappeared behind the familiar walls of control.

Logan never handled her that way.

Opening their relationship on Krakoa had ended years of buried tension among the three of them, giving Jean and Logan an outlet for an attraction neither had ever managed to extinguish. Their encounters were uncomplicated in their physical excess. Logan did not study her breathing or wonder whether one rough stroke had crossed an invisible boundary. He pinned her under his short, densely muscled body, covered her in coarse hair and sweat, and fucked with the single-minded appetite of an animal that had spent decades being denied.

His twelve-inch cock stretched her with a thickness Scott could not match, forcing her pussy open around its blunt girth while Logan growled into her neck and drove until the room smelled of sex. She enjoyed the excess, the bites, and the mindless physicality, but it had never threatened Scott’s place at the center of her life. If anything, every encounter reinforced the difference.

Logan was an outlet.

Scott was home.

Lately, that distinction had stopped satisfying her.

She no longer wanted to visit another room to be handled without restraint. She wanted Scott to do it. She wanted the man she loved to stop rationing himself, and she wanted his body to possess more of the overwhelming physical presence that made thought impossible when Logan forced his thick cock inside her.

Tonight, it was not Logan she craved. It was Scott’s composure cracking under the pressure of wanting her.

Jean tightened her legs around him again. “Harder,” she repeated, more urgently this time.

Scott accommodated her without surrendering. His calloused hands closed around her hips, holding her steady as he increased the speed of his thrusts while preserving the same careful range of motion. He gave her greater friction, firmer penetration, and exactly enough pressure to push her toward orgasm without returning to the rough impulse that had briefly taken command of him.

“I know, sweetheart,” he murmured, his voice strained with pleasure he still refused to let dictate his movement. “You’re almost there.”

Jean hated that he was right.

Her climax gathered rapidly, tightened by the consistent drag of his cock and the disciplined roll of his hips. She arched beneath him as pleasure broke through her, her breasts crushed against his chest and her pussy contracting hard around the shaft buried inside her. Scott held the angle and fucked her through every pulse, making sure the release lasted until her thighs trembled around waist.

Her body had received everything it required.

The dark appetite beneath it remained untouched.

Jean opened her eyes while the final contractions passed and looked beyond him toward the lunar window, trying to understand why a powerful orgasm had left her feeling cheated. Scott kissed her temple and continued moving, still measured, still attentive, still giving her the dependable love that had anchored her through death, war, and impossible years.

She wanted to seize the iron control inside him and break it with both hands.

Jean had tried to explain that hunger during the isolated hours between council sessions and combat drills, but every conversation followed the same pattern. She would press her palms against his chest and tell him she needed more, while Scott listened with the patient concentration he gave to battlefield intelligence. His thumbs would move gently over her shoulders as he asked questions, clarified terms, and searched for an adjustment he could implement safely.

He heard her complaints as problems requiring solutions. More pressure. A different angle. Longer sessions. Better communication.

What Jean could not make him understand was that competence itself had become the problem. His body remained governed by duty even when she dragged him naked into bed, and every encounter ended with her physically satisfied by a man who had never truly permitted himself to become lost inside her. With each polished climax, the restless demand beneath her pleasure grew stronger, darker, and more difficult to dismiss.

Here and now, Scott’s control held until Jean’s contractions tightened around him again.

Her pussy gripped the buried shaft in slow, involuntary pulses, milking him while her thighs trembled against his sides. He tried to preserve the measured rhythm, but the pressure inside him had been building too long. His next thrust landed harder than intended. Then another followed, deep enough to drive the breath from her lungs and spread her ass against the mattress beneath him.

Jean felt the change before she saw it.

Scott’s jaw clenched. The muscles along his neck stood out, and his broad chest pressed down against her breasts as his carefully managed breathing broke into a rough, open-mouthed sound. His hands seized her hips, fingers sinking into the soft flesh with sudden, hungry force.

“Jean.”

Her name came out low and ragged.

He drove into her again, abandoning the perfect angle for sheer depth. His cock plunged through her soaked pussy until the root ground against her opening, his balls striking wetly against the underside of her ass. The impact shook the bed. Jean wrapped her legs tighter around him and stared up at the expression breaking across his face.

There.

For one brief moment, the commander vanished.

Scott’s brows drew tight beneath the visor. His lips pulled back from his teeth, and a raw sound tore from his chest as his hips lost their discipline. He looked powerful, greedy, almost feral, the dense muscles of his shoulders and arms flexing around her while his abdomen locked and his ass clenched beneath her hands.

“God, Jean, I’m coming.”

The words became a groan as his cock swelled inside her.

The first shot struck deep and hot, a thick pulse of semen driven into her pussy while his entire body jerked above her. Jean gasped at the sensation, at the sudden wet heat spreading around the buried shaft.

Scott thrust again.

Another heavy spurt pumped into her, followed by another, each contraction making his cock jump against her inner walls. He held her hips down and ground himself as deep as her body would take him, roaring her name through clenched teeth while his balls pulsed beneath him and forced shot after shot of cum into her.

“Yes,” Jean breathed, almost laughing with relief. “That’s it. Fill me.”

The command dragged something rougher from him.

He buried his face against her neck and fucked through the ejaculation, short, powerful strokes driving his semen farther inside. His chest crushed her tits beneath him. Sweat ran from his back onto her skin, and every muscle from his shoulders to his thighs stood hard with strain.

For those few seconds, Scott was exactly what she had wanted: husband, animal, stud, all appetite and muscle, lost in the pleasure of breeding her.

Then the final pulse passed.

His hips slowed.

The hands gripping her softened, thumbs moving gently over the marks his fingers had left. His breathing remained ragged, but control was already rebuilding itself behind his face.

Scott kissed the side of her throat and rested his forehead beside hers, still buried inside her while cum leaked hotly around the base of his cock.

“I love you,” he whispered.

Jean closed her eyes.

She loved him too.

That was never the problem.

The problem was that she had seen the beast inside him at last, and he had already put it back in its cage.