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Liara stood by the window of her office, Nos Astra's famous cityscape opening before her. Shepard moved towards her. For him, subjectively, it had been only a few weeks since he had last been with her, but it had been more than two full years for her.
"You're not too happy to see me," he said.
"Of course I am. It's just so confusing... And I have so many things on my plate these days," she replied without turning to him.
He moved closer. "Is there someone else?"
"No, there isn't."
"I wouldn't be angry if there was. I was dead after all. But I'm going to get you back in any case."
"There is no one. But from what I hear, you're back to your old mischief."
Shepard, who had been about to scoop her in his arms, stopped his movement and frowned. "What do you mean?"
She turned to face him. "I know everything about Miss Lawson." He opened his mouth to respond, but she raised her hand. "Don't try to deny it. I have my sources."
He eyed the asari, her pretty face serious, almost anguished. "I'm sorry about that," he said. "It's nothing serious. Just blowing off of some steam. You know me. None of them matter to me. You are my woman." He put his hands on her waist, but she pushed him away.
He sighed. This was not how he had planned it. "How did you find out about Miranda?"
"I'm a good information broker. I won't reveal my sources."
"Come on, Liara. I work with Cerberus, but I don't trust them. If you have an inside track to their organization, it could save my neck at some point."
Liara looked at him sharply for a few moments before talking. "Okay. I don't have any source inside Cerberus. I wish I had. I simply tracked the movements of the new Normandy, and when you docked on the Citadel, I paid a girl to seduce one of your crew members. She got him to talk."
Shepard chuckled. "An asari girl, right?"
"Yes. I've used her many times. She's very good."
Shepard shook his head amusedly. "Cerberus has this ideology of human supremacy, but the most devoted member is ready to betray the organization the moment a pretty blue alien spreads her legs for him..."
She snorted. "She's actually purple and, well, this guy, what was his name—"
Shepard interrupted her: "No names, yet. First, what did he tell your spy? Did he compromise the mission in any way?"
"He didn't tell her much that I hadn't figured out anyway. The fact that Miss Lawson had spent a night in your quarters was pretty much the... high point."
Only one night? Perhaps this girl isn't as good as you believe, he thought. "So, I don't need to know his name. As for Miranda... it's never going to happen again. I promise," he said, almost believing himself.
She shook her head, turning away from him, and he immediately moved behind her, wrapping his arms around her and not letting her push him away. He kissed her neck. "You smell so good..."
"Let me go. I don't want this," she said angrily.
"Now that's not nice. Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment," he said, sliding a hand under her coattails and caressing her firm ass cheeks. His other hand found the soft flesh of her breasts, fondling them gently. He kissed her neck again. "Liara, it's me. Don't be afraid," he whispered to her.
She had not meant to give in to him, but she found herself doing it anyway. She felt the warmth building up between her legs surge upwards and she had to keep herself from moaning. At least it's clearly him. A Cerberus clone wouldn't know how to push my buttons like this, she realized, her heart racing as his hands adroitly explored her body.
He shoved her against the desk, making her bend over it while he rubbed himself against her ass. She could feel his cock getting harder. At that moment the door to the office swung open and Nyxeris, her assistant, walked in. Upon seeing her boss getting dry-humped on her desk she dropped a datapad from her hands, making it clatter against the floor.
"S-sorry," Nyxeris said and, picking up the datapad, started to double back out of the room.
Liara wriggled herself free from Shepard's embrace. "Y-you can stay, Nyxeris. Commander Shepard is leaving."
He chuckled, feeling happy at the way things were turning out. "Yeah, I've got to go," he said. "I'll have to meet a justicar to find out if she'd join my team. But you're not off the hook, Liara T'Soni. I'll call you later today."