Page 12 of Argen Mate
He frowned slightly, and I stroked his cheek.
“Better. Was I too rough? Gods, sweetheart, I fucked you like a savage.”
“My savage,” I laughed and planted a light kiss on his lips. “You needed release both physically and emotionally. I am glad I could give that to you.”
We kissed tenderly, and I hugged his body while hugging him inside me. I knew then that I loved him. Accepting him as my mate was the right thing.
In public, these warriors were reserved and aloof most of the time. If one didn’t know better, they would think the Uatu people of Farseek cold and distant, but they are just the opposite. I learned that from Harper and Scarlet before Argen came into my life.Solmatuchanged all the norms for courtship. When I connected with Argen, I knew immediately he was the one.
It was both elating and humbling that I could be Argen’s solace at the end of his gauntlet. Yet I wasn’t under any illusion that I was the cure---more like the icing on the cake. He was my icing. I was confident that Argen would be back to normal soon. Treatment of previous rescues had been successful, so I was expecting success with Argen as well.
I had introduced him to the Harper, Scarlet, and Nora as we boarded the shuttle. I didn’t tell them we were officially mated yet because we wanted to savor it privately for a while longer. I never told them until about two weeks into the trip to Nadoo. I happened into the gym when they were talking slutty.
“Hey, Zoe. Where have you been hiding? We’ve barely seen you since Argen got here,” Scarlet asked.
I rolled my eyes. Scarlet has never been especially tactful. “As if you didn’t know. Wait till Harper gets here---oh here she is.”
Harper strolled in and sat down beside me. “Hi ladies, what’s new?”
“That’s what I was just asking Zoey,” said Scarlet.
“Argen and I are officially mated,” I announced. “We have been bonding.”
“Fucking each other senseless, you mean,” Scarlet giggled. She was always straight to the point.
“Scarlet,” Harper said. “Must you be so crass. Of course, she’s fucking him. She’s fallen in love with him.”
“Will you both shut up!” I admonished. “He issolmatu,and we have said the mating vows. It’s way more thanfucking,and you know it. So, stop with the slutty girl talk.”
“I’m sorry, Zoe,” Scarlet said. “It still gets me that it’s so simple and straightforward. No guessing whether he loves you and wants full spectrum relationship or he just wants to stick his cock in you a few times until someone better comes along.”
“Right, they just know by your scent, then they exude pheromones to make you want them and bam you’re mated for life,” Nora said. “With felines like Sahvin, it’s even faster.”
“I’ll say,” Scarlet said. “But, I think I knew Pyrr was it when he picked up my hand and kissed it, never taking his eyes from mine. It was like I saw my future there.”
“I will be glad when we can go Farseek for good,” Harper said. “Sometimes, I get scared it’s never going to happen. That we’re going to get in over our heads and either be killed or captured.”
“I think that’s in the back of all our minds,” Nora said. “But what choice did we have? We could be sex slaves in some brothel to creepy aliens or forced into hard labor somewhere.”
“Just because bad things could happen, doesn’t mean they will,” I said. “Back on Earth, there were no guarantees that some third world country wouldn’t get nukes and blow us all up.”
“Or we could get run over by a truck crossing the street,” Harper said.
“No, we had to do it up right,” Scarlet said, “We got kidnapped by alien slavers and taken so far from Earth no one knows how to get there from here.”
We all laughed just as Commander Maktu strode into the room. He frowned slightly. I think he was wondering if the joke was on him.
Harper grinned up at him. “Hey, Zare. We were just laughing about how things could have turned out so much worse than being kidnapped by aliens.”
He gave her a look that said so much more than words. I think we all knew exactly what he meant. What seemed like the worst thing that ever happened to us brought us to them---our soul mates.
A few minutes later several more from the ship’s crew entered. With so many people already onboard, we needed help getting to everyone before the shuttles started coming up from the planet with more rescues.
The meeting was short. Our duty assignments were the same as with the other rescues, identify them and register them in the AI census with their family lines if they were Uatu. Those who were not would be given a choice to settle on Farseek or be transported to one of the Consortium worlds to live somewhere else.
We were taking an indirect route to Nadoo in the hope that the Sargus Empire would not anticipate our next target. It actually took longer than expected due to avoiding Sargan patrols and the fact that we needed to capture the ship for the rescue on Nadoo. But we weren’t worried. They may have been new to piracy, but they were getting good at it.
In just a few days, the gene therapy was giving Argen relief. I asked him about what some of the officers were saying about him being a hotshot.
“That was when I was younger and a fighter pilot. I took chances and flew my missions aggressively,” he admitted. “A couple times I put other lives in danger. I was only reprimanded because I was lucky enough not to get anyone killed except the enemy. Dreads don’t use fighters. They are the fighters.”
“Are you going to be flying the Dread?” I asked.
“Probably not. I’m going to pilot whatever passenger freighter we steal which is the ship you will be on it with me,” he said with one of his sexy grins.
I gave him a hug and a kiss then one thing led to another, and we ended up in bed for a few hours. We did a lot of that those first few weeks when we were only on duty half days. That left us ample time to entertain ourselves, which we mostly did with each other. It was after all essentially our honeymoon. I had more sex those first weeks than I’d had in years.
I swore off men after my last boyfriend before Argen. I was tired of cheesy lines and lies. Not that I’d had that many, but none of them were even comparable to Argen. They certainly weren’tsolmatu.
