Page 67 of The Alien's Major Dilemma

Marissa smiled at that. "Your wife gets hangry, huh?"

Mintonar pulled his shoulders back and chin up. "Maw-lee is the sweetest, smartest, most pleasant woman I have ever known and I am fortunate to have met her."

"And she's easier to talk to when she's eaten recently," Marissa said.

"Aren't we all?"

"I suppose so," she answered.

They walked back to the meeting and Marissa took her seat next to Cooper. There was a strange tension between the Chelions that she was going to need to ask him about later.

She was surprised when the meeting opened with Ae-cha offering to return Cooper's ship. There were conditions around the offer, including a release of information that she couldn't follow, but nobody could find anything to object to.

And she dropped her request that everybody help her people exterminate their rivals.

When the negotiations moved to logistics, she found herself distracted by the heat of her mate next to her. And while she knew it was inappropriate to physically touch him during the meeting, that didn't stop her from sending brief flashes of her desires.

She pulled from her memories and sent him the heat that flashed through her every time he touched her. The thoughts about where she kissed and licked him were more of a gentle purr of anticipation that sent a bolt of desire through her core.

His direct responses were muted but she could see him shift in his chair and couldn't stifle her grin. Instead, she sent him memories of her digging her fingers into his shoulders while his tongue explored her skin.

Marissa was so immersed in her own thoughts that she was surprised when Ae-cha stood up. Her scales were flushed in a way Marissa hadn't realized was possible. She got a glimpse of panic in the lizard woman's eyes before Ae-cha addressed the Base Commander.

"I think we've accomplished what we can at this point. I'll have my people bring the ship to the base. If you'll excuse me, I need to send some messages."

She nearly ran out the door while everybody else looked around in bemusement.

"Meeting adjourned for the day," Zoric said with a toothy grin. Everybody else agreed and moved to the doors.

When he got to the doors, Zoric turned and gave her a brief salute, before heading out.

"What was that-" Marissa started. Only to be interrupted by Cooper's mouth on hers.

She sank into the desire that filled her, that flowed into her from his thoughts, and was surprised when ecstasy rolled through her. She'd never peaked from a kiss before and could feel his satisfaction with her reaction.

"We need a bed," Cooper broke away to say, before working his way across her cheek and down her neck with his tongue and gentle nibbles. He'd pulled her into his lap and his hands were stroking down her side, her ass, then moved up to caress her breasts.

"Take me to bed," she demanded with a gasp. "Now or we won't make it."

"Your wish is my command," he said, and lifted her.

She wrapped her legs around his waist and trusted him to get them to her room. If they passed anybody in the hallway, neither of them noticed, and the door was still closing behind them when they started stripping each others clothes off.

Her pants and boots took the longest and she was moments away from demanding he tear them off when they slid free and he pulled her against him again, bare skin to bare skin. Cooper sank to his knees in front of her, his tongue licking a path of fire down her skin, before it sank into her core and he moaned.

He shared his pleasure in her taste, her texture, how she felt against his tongue and with her hands holding him to her. She was close to the next orgasm, could feel it building just out of reach, and knew he was holding it off for just a moment longer.

Rather than demand the explosion of ecstasy she knew was coming, she enjoyed the anticipation, let him push her higher, past what she thought she was capable of, then let go when he pulled her down onto his waiting cock.

The sudden stretch and fullness was the last piece she needed to send her over the edge into a sea of joy and pleasure. It washed over her, through her, until there wasn't a single part of her that wasn't suffused with it.

She could have drowned in the pleasure but for the anchor of Cooper inside her, his arms locked around her, his mind sharing her ecstasy.

With a gasp, Marissa realized she'd screamed out her breath. She took a deep breath, then another, and then Cooper started to move.

Chapter 28

They did eventually make it to the bed. Coopers legs were trembling from exhaustion and Marissa had already fallen asleep against his chest. She moaned gently when he lifted her and his only slightly sated cock slipped out of her. He had to push down on his desire to slip it back inside, wake her up by gently rocking inside her until she came.

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