Page 51 of Xefe
The brilliant alien put all my lessons to use. He pinched my nipples, pierced my soaked entrance, and thrummed his clever thumbs against the beautiful bundle of nerves that became the center of my universe.
“Oh,yes. Right there, right there. I’mright there,” whispered past my lips. A blast of heat consumed me. My walls clamped around his thick finger. I arched my back, and my toes curled in ecstasy. Golden lights flickered behind my sightless eyes, and searing pleasure consumed me. From the inside out. I’d never come so hard in my life.
Sunny slowed his strokes, extending the pleasure, somehow knowing how to make my orgasm last. He gentled me, never rushing, making me feel cherished. All the while, his swirling eyes ate me alive, tracking every reaction, every tic of my muscle or exhaled breath.
“Thank you.” I blinked up at him and ran my hand down his arm. Under my palm, the black tattoo on his bicep shimmered and… grew. Like tree roots sprouting through soil, each end swirled and inched forward. I’d never seen a design like it. A dark contrast to his golden skin. “Sunny, look! Your tattoo’s getting bigger.”
He sat back on his heels and studied himself. We watched the tattoo grow over his chest and other arm. He held his hands out, flipping them over, examining every inch.
“What does it mean?”
A muscle ticked in his jaw. “It means one more thing I’ll have to fix.” His eyes pierced mine, his chest rising and falling.
“You mean between us? Because we messed around?”
“Yes.” His bony eyebrow ridges snapped over his eyes.
Pinky zoomed inside his pants, and I couldn’t resist the not-so-little guy. “Do you want me to…”
“I can’t.” Sunny squeezed his fist so tight that the black tattoo faded from lack of circulation. “I hadn’t planned on any of this.”
“Then why come back here?”
“I told myself you would try to escape, but that was a lie. I couldn’t be apart from you. Even thinking about it made me… crazed.” The muscles in his neck bunched. “When you told me you had not ‘best orgasmed,’ it was the excuse I needed to touch you, to be near you. Hermosa, I don’t understand any of this.”
I ached for him and crawled into his lap. I wrapped my arms around his broad back, tucking my nose into his neck. The warmth, the peace I felt should have terrified me. But it felt to good, too true, to fight.
“What are you doing?” His deep voice rumbled through me, his hands hovering around me.
“Hugging you. It’s a really important part of ‘best orgasming.’”
“For what purpose?”
“Connection, support…”Feelings.I squeezed harder and ignored the thought.
Slowly, his hands wrapped around me so tight I could barely breathe.
“Stay with me. Let me make you feel good.”Before your eyes go dead, and you don’t feel anymore.
“Feel good? Right now, I feeleverything. I want things I can’t have. TheGlrtsstllllorogggthat blocked my emotions has completely burned out. It is maddening. How do you exist like this?”
I ran my hands over every part of him, his broad back, his massive arms—even the deadly spikes plastered against his back. For once, I didn’t have an answer, so I remained quiet. I didn’t want to make light of his pain.
He held tighter, starved for touch. We sat for a long time with his face buried in my hair.
“What happens if they find out? That you can feel?”
“Nothing good.” His face hardened. “That’s why you must stay here. Do not go anywhere without me or Loxo. Nime, too.” He grabbed my arms and pulled back, piercing me with his orange eyes. “You rest and focus on tomorrow’s race. You must qualify. You must!”
“I will. I promise.” I was a lot of things but never a loser.
He studied my eyes and nodded with a flick of his chin. Then he pulled me in close, and touched my skin like it was the finest silk.
“You know what this means, don’t you?” My plan had worked too well. Even without a deeper conversation, I understood the supreme and how he would feel about losing control. About Sunny slipping away from him. If my loyal alien didn’t handle it correctly, it would be a disaster. “You can’t tellanyoneabout this. You’re going to have to learn how to lie. As well as me. As well as your supreme.”
“Never.”
“No. Listen, please.” My hands shook as I cupped his cheeks. He had to believe me. I wasn’t exaggerating this time. “You’re different now.You can feel.They went through a lot of trouble to keep you emotionless. You don’t know what’ll happen when they find out otherwise.”
