Page 26 of Bred By Zyros
The male regards me with open amusement before sighing. “Fine, it will be an equal trade then. Although my form is far more interesting than yours.”
I laugh at that. He’s not wrong. We stand in front of each other, he with a handheld holo device and me with my implant. Zyros is very unhappy, but soon enough my implant confirms its complete.
“You are a human, and you are mated to him?”
I sputter before Zyros answers for me with a hissingyes. I nearly frown, correcting him outright. Most species refuse to lie about such things.
The next time the other male speaks, I’m being placed back on Zyros’ coiled tail like a naughty child in timeout, but I just smile, making myself comfortable while propping my elbows on his tail so I can rest my head as the scan completes, running through nearby data stores. “Where did you obtain this human?”
“I’m from The Solar Breeding Agency on Vortara.” I chime in, my eyes focused on things only I can see.
Grux'et male.
Interesting.
“I think I might like to acquire a human female of my own. Do you come in different colors? Your paleness is very unappealing.”
I laugh. “Yep.”
“We are leaving,” Zyros growls, lifting me into his arms.
fourteen
Melody
Without the threat of vomiting looming, thanks to the motion sickness tablets we bought at the station, my heart is free to thunder in my chest as we launch into hyperdrive, Zyros’ tail wrapped around me like an oversized seatbelt. This morning in the pool seems like a distant memory, but it’s not. And the facts of what I said haven’t changed, but my determination to give him…his people the hope a baby would bring has only tripled. At least, that’s what I tell myself, what I call it as I squirm in my seat, his cool scales pressing into my skin.
Even now, as space slows to its gradual glide around us, I’m still smiling like mad. The happiest I’ve been in…God, I don’t know. I’ve always prided myself on maintaining a sunny disposition, but it’s not real half the time. The thing about being the sunny daughter, the sunny friend, or the sunny lover is that everyone expects you to take the weight of them. You’re happy,you’ve got no issues, here bear some of mine. It’s exactly why I do this, why I smile, emotions are heavy…choking.
I refuse to be heavy, refuse to be anything likemom. I’ve watched her suffocating emotions choke dad until he has no identity, not a personality of his own, watched as a once involved, bright man wilted under her screaming and crying. Her constant flittering to one crisis after another. I made myself small, too. We both had to. Mindful not to set her off, wondering every day what kind of day it would be.
I had to be everything she wasn’t. Dependable, helpful…stable.
Zyros’ tail flexes around me, pulling me from my thoughts. Where I expect him to ease up, he tightens even more, pressing into my breasts until my breath hitches in my throat. I rip my eyes away from the dark windows of space to look at the male beside me, unsurprised to find him already staring, watching every twitch and gasp. My mind slips back to his lie earlier, to the Grux'et male, butterflies swarming my stomach.
My mouth, as usual, quickly gets the best of me. “I want to do this now, Zyros. I want to help your people,” I blurt out, the weirdest start to making a move ever.
His answer is instant and filled with venom. So much so, I don’t question it, only believe. “They do notdeservehelp.”
My brows pull together as he shifts his tail from around me slowly. The loss is immediate, another glaring warning signal blaring in my mind, but this time it’s got nothing to do with my stupid implant. “Youdo, though.Youdeserve it.”
His eyes widen, something strange and heart-wrenching passing over his features.
My god, had that never occurred to him before? It’s a child for him…not for the others. This is abouthim. It’s been about him since he paid for me at Vortara. I watch as his mind runs through God knows what, emotion flittering across his sharp face beforeI watch it all shut down with a singular blink of slitted eyes. “You do not want my touch.”
I huff, my heart beating so hard it feels like it might crash through my chest as I take the few steps to his chair. He watches, his toned, scaled chest heaving as I navigate around the expanse of his tail, slipping to my knees in front of him. My entire body explodes in sensation as it surrounds me. Zyros doesn’t move when my forehead meets his lap, hiding my face because my cheeks are about to melt off. “Of course I do, you rude male. I want it so badly it’s all I think about, but I-I can’t do that because I can’tstaywith you.”
“Youwantto stay with me.” It’s said on a breath, the one he’d been holding.
“It doesn’t matter what either of us wants. I’m here to give you a baby.Use me.”
His claws prick my scalp, making a whimper form on my lips as he tugs my head back gently by my blonde curls. “When I take you, little human, it will be because you haveneedednothing more. It will be after youbegme to breed your tiny human cunt. Then I will ruin you for any male who comes after. When they find your flesh, it will be the memory of how much better I felt between your thighs that will keep you soaked and needing. If you think to tell me that I cannot have you, Melody, I will ensure nobody else can. You will want me, just as badly and as hauntingly as I want you.”
My lips part as I’m jerked up from the floor, pressed into his chest with a force so strong it nearly knocks the breath from my lungs, or maybe that’s just him. My mind is reeling, core throbbing, but before I can muster a response before he speaks again, his lethal raspy voice melts me from the inside out as I wrap myself around him despite everything. “Do not say I cannot hold you, you aremine,Sssaryth. Your denials matter very little.”
Zyros
I glare down at the Thryss lounging inside my cave, my arms piled high with things I provided for my mate. The pressure in the air grows thicker with each day we grow closer to the stormy season.
