All through dinner, Allie fought to find the fortitude to tell Galen who she really was. She wasn't afraid of his reaction. She'd seen hatred in countless Human eyes before, just because they knew she was a Titan. It's just that last night had been the most pleasurable night in her memory, and she didn't want to hurt him. Was one more night with him too much to ask? It wasn't like he'd hate her any more in the morning than if she told him now.

When the waiter delivered dessert, Galen clasped his hands together on the table and said, "Allie, I need to ask you something important."

She already knew what it would be, but silently she begged the universe for one more night.

Allie set down her spoon, then held up both hands to stop him. "What with everything that happened last night and today, I'm not sure I can take any more. The only thing I want to do tonight is to climb into bed with you and spend the whole night believing there's no one else in the universe but us, and the most important thing in life is for us to see as many stars as possible."

Galen's jaw dropped. "And by stars you mean...?"

Allie blushed and stared down at her plate. "All the times I screamed your name last night, it was because you made me see stars."

"I'd like to give you every star in the sky, Allie," he said, his eyes starting to smoulder.

They paid the bill and called for a skimmer. Galen's arms wrapped around Allie as he stepped up behind her, and she pushed back against him, grinding her bottom against his crotch until he was so hard that his pants were probably feeling uncomfortably tight.

"Stars, Allie. If you keep doing that, I might have to lay you down right here on this skimmer," Galen groaned in her ear.

Allie laughed softly as she pressed against him again. "I'm pretty sure there's a law against that."

"I don't care."

Yes, this was the right thing to do, she thought as the skimmer pulled up outside her apartment. They made it inside, but that's all the decorum they had time for. Before the hatch had completely slid shut behind them, Galen pinned her to the wall. A quick struggle loosened their pants enough to give him access and he plunged deep inside her to the tune of matching moans from both their throats.

Allie wrapped her legs around his hips, drawing him deeper still. Yes, this was exactly what she wanted. Galen's powerful lovemaking with all the wild abandon she'd never known from anyone else. Her first orgasm took her by surprise, though not Galen, judging by the way he chuckled when she cried out.

"Enough stars for you, sweetheart?" he asked, slowing his pace but not stopping.

"So many," she sighed blissfully. "But I want more."

"Then I'm taking you to bed." Strong hands cupped her bottom, holding him inside her as he carried her to the bed. Galen sat down, so that Allie sat in his lap.

She unfastened her legs from around him and tugged her pants all the way off. He'd lost his pants somewhere along the way, so now it was skin on skin as she knelt astride him, clenching hard at the burning heat he still held between her thighs.

"I need to taste your breasts," he said, peeling off her shirt. "I saw all those mergirls with their tits out and the only thing I could think of was how much I wanted yours."

Allie laughed. "If I'd been sitting naked in that pool, I'm sure you wouldn't have looked twice at me, not with all those women to choose from."

"If I saw you naked in that pool, I'd have stripped off and joined you. No matter how many Mer were watching." Galen seized her hips, and spoke slowly so that each word matched his thrusts, "I love you, Allie. I only want you. Forever."

Tears sprang to her eyes. Not since Ceyx had anyone ever...

Allie screamed as her second orgasm engulfed her. She couldn't stop the tears now. But she could give him stars. A whole galaxy to match the pleasure he gave her. She grasped his shoulders, rocking her hips as she rode him hard, letting her core clamp down on him as she felt her third climax building, bigger than the first two. As big as the man inside her, giving her so much more than she'd ever hoped for.

"Oh, fuck. Stars, Allie!" he shouted as he reached his peak, barely a moment before she hit hers.

"I love you, too, Galen," she murmured, kissing his neck.

And that was why tomorrow would be terrible but tonight...tonight the universe existed for them alone, so they could share all the stars.