Page 45 of Resisting the Alien Commander

Quinn once again bites her lip. “We don’t really know each other. Or…love each other. Not yet anyway. It’s too soon.”

I have to remind myself that she isn’t Bohnari and doesn’t understand our beliefs and customs. “Being my heart’s fire is far more than being in love. It transcends any emotion. It is the very essence of who we are. WhoIam. You are now a part of me, just as I am a part of you.”

Quinn lays her hand on my cheek. “I understand that is how it works for your people, but there’s more to becoming a mate for humans. For us, itisabout love. About emotion. It’s about being with the person we can’t live without, nor do we want to. It’s about feeling safe. Secure. Protected. It’s wanting that person’s happiness more than our own.”

“I feel all of those things for you.” I still don’t understand. “It is the way of the heart’s fire.”

“Except I’m human. We don’t have a heart’s fire.” Quinn moves her touch from my face to my chest. “Not the way Bohnari do.”

“What about what we just did?”

“It was incredible. The most wonderful thing I’ve ever done and have no regrets about. But I still want to get to know you. To spend time with you before we decide to commit to the rest of our lives to each other.”

Her request—while not unreasonable—doesn’t make sense to me, but for Quinn, I will be patient. I will learn the ways of the humans. She is my heart’s fire, and no length of time will change that.

“Ask me anything, and I will answer in truth.”

I appear to have startled her, because she opens and closes her mouth multiple times. “Maybe we should continue this conversation with me wearing pants.”

“Except I like you bare. I can feel the heat of your cunt and know it’s because my seed is stored inside it. Even now, a child could be forming.Ourchild.” The thought pleases more than I ever thought it would. I didn’t want a bride, but I will kill anyone who tries to take her or our youngling away from me.

Quinn’s cheeks brighten in color. “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. People don’t always get pregnant the first time they have sex.”

“Then we will do it again and again until I have bred you and your belly is round and swollen with our young.” I approve highly of this plan. Even now, my cock hasn’t lost its hardness and twitches in agreement. I want to fill Quinn with my seed until it drips down her thighs. I want every Bohnari to smell it in her and know that this stunning creature is mine in ways she will never be theirs.

A tremor ripples through her, and the fragrant scent of her arousal grows intensely stronger. Her chest rises and falls in a rapid pace that tells me she is wholly affected by my words. I slip my hand between her legs. She parts them, and I strum the swollen nub that I discovered is the source of immense pleasure for her.

“You desire that too, don’t you, my heart’s fire?” I swirl my finger around that kernel of flesh and Quinn makes a ragged, breathy sound that shoots straight to my sac. “Tell me that is what you wish as well. For me to coat the inside of your cunt with so much of my essence that it will take root. You will nourish our youngling both before and after her birth, and she will grow to be as beautiful and as strong as her mother.”

I slip two fingers inside Quinn’s still-tight passage and coax more pleasure from her. She rides my hand, taking from me what she desires most until her body spasms and she clenches down on my digits, squeezing them with her inner muscles. Her cries of ecstasy ring out. They are the most exquisite sound, especially because I did that for her. Several more small tremors quake through her cunt until at, last, she stills.

Quinn breathes hard, and she lays her head on my shoulder. “It’s really unfair of you to use my pleasure against me.”There is no heat in her accusation.

“Do not think I’ll play fair when it comes to you, Quinn. Neither of us may have known it at the time, but I am who you came to Bohna for.”

“You and Olivia better not gloat about the fact.”

A rare smile creeps onto my lips. “I can’t speak for your friend, but I wouldn’t dare.”

Quinn nudges me with her elbow. “Yeah, right.”

“Now that we have that settled, you still have not asked me a question about myself.” I will never tell her an untruth.

“Fine. Are your parents still living? Any siblings? Did you always want to be a commander?”

The first is not an easy one. While my mother still physically lives, any emotions she might have once felt for anyone other than herself are no longer. I would consider her dead inside. “My father died many moon cycles ago. I was still a youngling and only have a few memories of him. I was an only child, although my cousin is as close as any brother could ever be.”

Quinn tilts her head. “Have I met your cousin?”

I nod. “It is Alik.”

Her eyes widen. “Your cousin is theprinceof Bohna?”

“Yes.”

“Oh my god. What does that make you, then? Should I have been bowing or curtsying or falling to my knees before you all this time ?” She makes to slide off me for a second instance, but I’m not having it.

“Cease your movement or I will tie you to my bed so you can’t escape me.”

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