Page 18 of Jewel of the Alien Bandit
He knew who I was and if he knew that then he must be one of the krelin generals or higher, only they have been under oath with the hive’s queen to know I was the next almder. Why would they send him to be a delegate? Why would the queen want me to mate with him?
“Who are you?”
“I’m the warrior who found a solution to both our problems that doesn’t involve bloodshed.”
I shivered, understanding made me cold. The queen would invade, I knew that’s where things were headed, but I didn’t think it would be so soon. I thought I had more time. Time to find more support for our star system, for Estreldez.
“You mean to take me.” My voice hardened, and any desire I had for him shriveled. My loh continued to glow, but it wasn’t lust that powered them now.
“I mean to save both our planets,” he corrected.
My muscles tensed in his grasp, and I stiffly replied, “Do you even have the queen’s blessing on this, or do you think I don’t know that taking me doesn’t guarantee my planet’s safety? Krelis could still invade.”
“I’m not sure you understand the leadership of our hive. You could change everything. Mating with me will give us both the strength and influence within the hive to lead them. She would have no choice but to accept our plans for peace.”
How was that possible? He was telling me everything I wanted to hear. A solution to our tensions with Krelis, and all itwould take was a different kind of tension with this male. Could I trust him?
He saw my indecision and cupped the side of my face holding it to his own to whisper into my ear, “I will cherish you beyond all else. Not merely a mate, but a partner, a queen. Will you accept me?”
“Trent…”
“I like my name on your lips,” his voice vibrated with a kind of buzz. He ran his fingers down my back loh, tickling my senses until my mating crystals grew, heating my skin. My skirt shifted as he pressed himself against me, his desire hard against my stomach. My eyes fluttered closed, but it wasn’t his face that I saw.
I groaned remembering Vareo’s fingers melting my insides, and my thighs squeezed at the sensations rushing to my core.
Panting I felt Trent trailing hot kisses along my neck, and Vareo’s image blurred replaced with the fierce maple eyes of the male before me. My mating loh thrust out possessively as soon as I fell into the sensations Trent stirred in me. He could help my clan, he wouldn’t leave once we were mated. It was nice to have a piece of that burden lifted from my shoulders.
He bent over to place kisses on my arm now wrapped around his neck, and I rubbed my nose into his blonde hair taking in his scent. Trent would take care of me. I sighed feeling more relaxed.
“I feel you,” he moaned as he pulled me against his chest.
Oh my moons, I trembled in his arms knowing that if this continued I would do what I feared would happen. I would bond with him. This was more than mating, he sought to claim me, and my mating loh were seeking to do the same.
I wasn’t broken.
If this is what it could be like with the krelins for my clan, then we would do more than save our population… we would be irrevocably bonded with the hive.
Spooked at making that decision too quickly, I tried to blink away the haze of his overwhelming presence.
“Not yet,” I begged, as he rubbed himself against me only making my loh glow brighter. My hips moved against his muscled thigh, as he lifted me into his arms. My sensitive bud throbbed as I shuddered with the movement. Trent’s strong hands gripped my ass, to help position me atop his strained cock, only his pants keeping us from uniting as one. His wings beat behind him, and I clung to his toned body with my own mating loh spread behind me. Neither of us cared that there were a few other couples wandering the garden, there was just us in our sights.
“Too fast,” I tried to say again, but it came out heavy and full of lust.
He pulled back, his golden eyes laden with intense desire, but concern and confusion soon followed.
“Tell me to stop, and I will,” his voice husky as he gave me one last opportunity to continue, because I knew he would not touch me further if I objected. How did I know that? Why would a krelin deny themselves what they want when they’ve taken from our trade forcefully many times over. His restraint was unusual for his species, and for what we’ve had to deal with from them regularly.
I placed a hand on his chest, and I didn’t even have to say the words and he adjusted me back to my feet. Stunned, I stared at him still processing that he would be so gentle, so understanding.
Could all of Krelis be capable of this? Was I wrong about them?
“I need time, " I paused wondering if this was the solution I was searching for this whole time, “to think.” He was so different from our other encounters with Krelis.
His face cleared of any signs of what we had been doing before, he nodded his acceptance before releasing me and taking a step back to give me space.
“Come to me during the ceremony when you’ve decided.” His nostrils flared, then he rolled his shoulders for his wings to fold back.
Without another word he made his way through the garden, and before he was out of sight I called out, “There’s no guarantee your plans will work. You’d still be mated with me… why?”
