Page 25 of Found By the Alien Warrior

"Properties?" I teased, trying to keep my voice steady despite the growing storm within me. "Like a secret ingredient?"

"Something like that,” he admitted, chagrined. He looked down in a moment of tender and endearing vulnerability. “It's how we...mark a potential mate." His lips brushed mine in a tentative apology.

"Mark away," I challenged, my tone light, yet my body screaming its desire. "I might just mark you in return." I brought my finger to my tongue, tasting him. The flavor was intoxicating, sparking a hunger deep within. "You're full of surprises."

"Only for you." His voice vibrated through my core while his gaze settled on me with an intensity that could twist the fabric of space itself. “I need to taste you."

I nodded my consent. With gentle hands, he parted my thighs, and I felt the hot whisper of his breath as he positioned himself. His tongue traced a slow, deliberate path over my firm clit, each stroke sending shivers up my hips and back. My fingers tangled in his long, unruly hair, urging him closer, deeper.

"More," I gasped.

He heard my plea, making his movements sensuous, relentless. Aurik continued until my climax washed over me in waves and I felt bliss release from my body in the form of a small, warm, wet gush.

He rose, his blue flesh glistening with the evidence of my desire. His eyes smoldered with blue heat as he pressed himself against me, his erection nestled between the valley of my breasts. He moved with a calculated rhythm, painting my skin with slick trails of his arousal. It tingled, like the thrilling touch of a nebula's edge.

"Sorry," he breathed, his voice laced with wonder and a hint of embarrassment. "I didn't mean to—"

"Make me feel incredible?" I cut in, my tone teasing despite the tremor of another climax on the horizon. "Because you are."

A playful spark flared in his eyes. “You’re insatiable.”

"Only for something extraordinary," I shot back, tracing the hard lines of his jaw with my fingertips.

With each rolling movement of his hips, his cock left a scorching path along my abdomen, between my thighs, and over the curve of my buttocks. I arched into him, moaning as the friction nudged me closer to the brink once more.

"Again." The word was all I could manage, lost in the sensation of him marking me as his own, my body singing while on the brink of release.

When the wave hit, it was seismic. I clung to him while it detonated in the dark hidden parts of my mind.

After, we lay entangled, the afterglow enfolding us. Aurik reached for a cloth, his fingers tender as they erased the traces of our passion from my skin. "Are you alright?"

"Better than alright," I assured him, my voice still raw from the cries he'd drawn from me. "You?"

"Never better," he confessed, his thumb caressing my cheek. "Though I hope I didn’t overwhelm you."

"Overwhelm?" I chuckled softly, marveling at the blend of strength and softness in this extraordinary being. "No, Aurik. You've shown me new places, planets. Just you and me."

"Then my only regret is that we didn’t reach every constellation," he said, his touch tracing invisible constellations along my arm.

"Maybe..." I mused, my eyelids growing heavy. I didn’t finish my thought out loud but the rest echoed in my mind as I drifted off in the cosmos of sleep. If we found our way out of here, I’d be willing to give him more starry nights to try.

Chapter Eleven

AURIK

Lying still beside Sonya, I watched the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest. The air was thick with the scent of our intimacy. A sense of connection, bone-deep, lingered despite not completing the full bonding. My Yronian heritage whispered of destinies intertwined.

This felt like truth with Sonya. Did it feel like truth to her?

I watched her eyelids flutter open. "What time is it?" she asked, her voice heavy from sleep—or perhaps from the cries that were torn from her lips earlier.

"Late evening. The ship should be getting ready to go to the next planet if it hasn't already taken off."

She sat up, surprise etching her delicate features. "We've been here for hours."

I traced invisible lines down the sinuous curve of her back. "It feels much shorter, but yes."

Sonya grumbled, an adorable sound that made the corners of my lips tug upwards. She pulled to her feet. "Mind if I shower before the guards come looking to throw me back into my corner of the ship?"

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