Page 9 of Gairo

“Rathgar and a couple other alphas will stay with us on the ship. Soren is going to stay behind for this mission. He doesn’t trust unknowns, especially Zyloxia, who will be with us.” Soren knew that you couldn’t plan ahead for everything, but you were bound to run into some unknowns as it was.

“I already explained to you that we can’t trust her at all.” Vi’s suspicions about her were well-founded.

“She tried to stay in the cabin the whole time, but Soren left orders for her to be kept in the transport quarters of the ship the entire time.”

“Did he leave you orders about me?” From her tone of voice, I could tell that she had plans for me.

“Little minx, you know he didn’t.”

“Can I sit on your lap while you’re piloting?”

“Soren wouldn’t let me if he were here. It’s against our regulations. However, I’ll let you touch the controls. Just wait until we lift off.”

Veronica settled into one of the gel-lined seats. I went through my pre-flight checklist with my microphone on, which I would turn off as soon as I got into orbit and put the ship on auto-pilot.

* * *

After the shipalerted me that I could turn on the auto-pilot and I used it, I unhooked Veronica from her seat. The gravity was lighter here, so I nestled her into my lap and let her play around with the controls while I named them. I could not help my raging boner as she wiggled around on my lap. She kept sliding around, unable to get comfortable with the lack of gravity.

I slipped my hand right at her womb. She was starting to show, and the thought of my child growing inside of her made me feel warm inside. We started talking about names, leaning towards one more usual on Aesirheim.

“Maybe I could stay,” said Vi as we went around a small obstacle. “I somehow have stopped thinking about leaving ever since you came back from your mission with Ulfar. I think that the warlords and the human females they are mated to are more my family than the blood family I have back at the colony.”

Hearing that admission, I kissed her. It was music to my ears.

“Do you think that I could move out of the ISA cabin and into your space when we get back?”

I had been waiting to hear her say something to that effect since she announced her pregnancy. “I’ll see it done the very moment we get done with this mission. I love you.”

Just those three words led to some loving. I couldn’t move much, because I was strapped into the pilot’s seat. With her butt moving around my lap, I felt like she was the most important star in the universe. I wanted to get naked in the worst way, but it was against regulations. If I took her now, the ship could go through an emergency that I could not respond to in time.

Instead, I let my hand settle at the juncture of her thick thighs. “Baby, do you want me to pleasure you? I can keep half an eye on the instruments.”

“Yes, please.”

I watched as her hips were restlessly grinding against my hand. I knew exactly how she liked it from our time in the ISA cabin, so she moaned as I took the ship to another continent on the same planet.

* * *

When my shiptold me that we were there, we were docking at a transport station that looked a little different from the one at home. Zyloxia and Rathgar were there, disembarking. At the dock was someone who looked just like me, but smaller. It might be my brother. Why had it been so long since I had seen my blood family?

LOST PRINCE

GAIRO

It was impossible to deny that Magdorian was my brother the moment that I laid eyes on him. He looked like a smaller version of me. I wondered what else I had lost through my amnesia. He was clearly part of my lost past.

As soon as I got near him, he swept me warmly into a big hug. “It’s good to have our clan’s other prince return.”

“What do you mean, ‘prince’?” I asked.

“I’ll explain later. It’s good to see you, Rathgar and Zyloxia!”

He totally ignored my pregnant heart-mate. After she got off the ship, I kept her hand in mine, which my brother noticed with a long glance.

“Zyloxia reported other me that Tyrlyn had a surrogate.”

“I’d rather be called Gairo. Tyrlyn might be my birth name, but I am more used to being a flyboy than a prince.”

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