Page 43 of Jewel of the Alien Bandit
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Luan
WITH EVERY SENSATIONfrom his touch, my body hummed, and my mating loh ached. Vareo’s runes glowed bright blue, and it was like his energy was connecting with mine on a level I never expected. I’d had sex before, but that was with estrelds that were known to be sterile, and my mating loh were firmly under my control. This was anything but that.
I felt liberated, and every nerve was on fire. The kind of heat that pooled deep in my center, and hummed a beautiful song that tingled as it played. My most sensitive loh beneath my nectar glands, settled within my wet folds, extended out to him, seeking out his touch pulsing with need, creating small little nubs that only served to stimulate my flesh more. It was still a wonder his cock remained outside of his body at all times, unlike the estreld who kept their mating cock sheathed within a slit between their legs. Fascinated with his cock, it vibrated against my core, sending shivers down my spine that made me arch up to rub against him. I needed the friction, the pressure or I would burst.
Then he slipped inside and we both stilled in unison. His cock filled me so completely that my muscles clenched to keep him there, like he was never to leave. Those blue eyes closed before burying himself into my hair with a groan. Like my lohhad a mind of their own, no longer in my complete control they sought him out, and rubbed underneath his cock sheathed to the hilt inside my warmth. He nuzzled into my ear, and I squeezed the back of his head closer to me as his hips thrusted up and out of me painfully slowly.
The absence of him was torture, and yet added another sensation I couldn’t put a name to. It was everything but unpleasant as the head of his cock stilled just within my entrance, stretching for him, and my hips bucked, seeking to return him to where he belonged. He stayed there, teasing me, and I whimpered. If he didn’t finish what he started, I would be flipping him around so I could have my way with him.
As if timed perfectly, my final attempt at thrusting my hips up to fill myself with his thick shaft, I pulled him down simultaneously as he slammed into me. I shivered at the hard impact, shock rippled through me at how much deeper he got with a bit more power. I needed more. A hunger consumed me. And each stroke of his cock had to be harder, it had to be faster, and I wouldn’t accept any less. At every timed thrust my loh vibrated, and rubbed against him in a delicious euphoria. His runes glowed, and my loh matched his excitement until I convulsed around his cock, every muscle tightening.
I screamed out his name, and a wave of more pleasure shattered through me, aching through my back, and I needed to touch more of him, until I felt like everything was on fire.
Then I opened my eyes, that I hadn’t realized I had closed in that moment, to see my mating loh had fully healed, and they wrapped around him possessively. Like they had a mind of their own, they rubbed down his arms, his back, his butt, and even pulled at his thighs to go deeper still. I was so royally screwed.
My heart swelled, and I could feel the moisture leak from my eyes.
If my people needed me to leave this man… a part of me would die.
I had chosen him as my mate.
And it was now as my legs wrapped around him, and my loh shrouded the room in a radiation that shouldn’t have been possible with no moons, that I realized this was what it felt like to truly be compatible.
How had my people been able to let their mates leave offworld after they shared this? I clung to Vareo and pressed my wet cheeks into his neck, hoping he mistook it for the sweat of our current embrace. What was I allowing to happen to Estreldez?
His arms wrapped me up, and his movements inside of me stilled, making me ache for him to continue.
“Don’t stop,” I pleaded with him. But the sob was evident in my raspy voice that couldn’t be shadowed by lust.
I was healed, I knew that. I had generated enough radiation between us that I could last until we reached the moons of Estreldez. He didn’t need to continue what we started to save my life. Whatever this was between us… he could stop, and I knew he should.
Letting my planet suffer wasn’t an option, and I’d do whatever it took to save them.
Including mating with a krelin if that’s what it took.
He pulled away from me, the glow from our mating faded. The lust-filled eyes of a man in the throes of passion was gone, an unreadable mask shrouded his features.
A chill shivered through me.
“You’re healed now, you should get some rest,” he monotoned.
His cock slipped from me, still hard and slick from my nectar.
Then he pulled me against his chest, and I stared at the steel confines of our guest quarters on the notorious ship of the smuggler Zorn with his arms wrapped around my waist. My loh still buzzed from his touches, but there was something different now. His cock remained hard against my butt, evidence that he was yet to be satiated from our coupling, but he made no move to continue what we started. He simply stopped, and squeezed me to him, with his face tucked against my shoulder. Hot breath lightly tickling my loh, uneven from the vibrating heaves of his chest rising and falling.
“I thought I could do this for you,” he whispered into my ear sending shivers all the way to my toes.
There was such a strong chemistry between us, but I’d ruined it with my tears. And he was already preparing to tell me what I already knew… that this was temporary. The very thought of having to choose another mate besides him filled me with dread. I grabbed his hand and pulled it up to my face, holding his arm to me as he wrapped me in his warmth. Was there another way to help save my people without using the Krelis fleets? The radiation of our moons was strong, and we could hold off an attack for a time, but Necias’s forces were many and likely to overwhelm our defenses.
“Luan,” my name soft on his tongue, distracting me from my thoughts. “When you return to Estreldez—”
“Enough,” I stopped him from finishing that line of thought. He was speaking as if he wasn’t going to be joining me, and I couldn’t bear to hear it. “If you’re going to say something about how being on my planet gives King Sylve an excuse to attack me, I think we’re past that. The absence of evidence doesn’t constitute proof of your stay on my planet. With or without you, he will attack us.” I took a breath, and refused to turn to stare into those eyes that seemed to capture the vastness of the universe in their depths. Forcing myself to continue I added,“You’re right though, it’s dangerous for you to be on my planet, but not because you are a target.”
Vareo pressed his cheek to the back of my neck and spoke softly in my ear, “A queen doesn’t need a warrior to protect her people. She needs a leader with an army at their disposal all willing to destroy her enemies. I’m nothing but a bounty hunter.”
I shivered, then twisted in his arms to face him, wrapping my arms around his neck. The hurt in his eyes wasn’t something I had noticed before, but I was looking now, and my chest ached at the sight. He had spoken in passing about having a past with Lord Zorn, and he didn’t explicitly mention anything, but I saw the scarring on the back of his neck, barely covered by his growing hair. He had been a slave once, or perhaps he still was. Trapped by King Sylve.
