Page 82 of Tribute
“Mate.”
He cried out as pain stabbed through his entire body, and the single tentacle wrapped around his throat multiplied into ahundred narrow cords that swarmed over his torso, wrapping tightly around his cock and penetrating his ass. His cock kicked against the confines of the tentacle, reacting as he’d been trained to any stimulus. He wanted to rip theUngrichaway from him, but he knew it was pointless.
“Mate.”
“Anna. Can you hear them?”
“Yes.”
He groaned as he was forced to his knees. “I’m sorry. I?—”
She caught hold of his shoulders, her gaze now defiant. “It’s okay. We have to survive this. We have to stay alive.” She opened her legs and he surged forward, buried his cock deep inside her, and started to thrust.
Anna opened her eyes to find Aled still slumped over her, his hips now still, his breathing uneven. Her hand rested on the back of his neck, just below his now-soaked auburn hair. Gods, she hurt everywhere. She didn’t dare wake him up, because he’d have to start fucking her again and she didn’t think she could stand another round. She wanted to cry, but suspected she had no moisture left for tears. TheUngrichenvironment badly dehydrated her.
And she wouldn’t cry. She’d been here before and survived. She could do it again. Oh gods, but she wanted Rehz so badly . . .
TheUngrichshe identified as the dominant member of an integrated pair who were currently inside her spoke in her head.“Where is the offspring?”
“I don’t understand.”
“Offspring. You mated.”
“It’s not that easy.”
“Explain.”
“Mating doesn’t always achieve conception.”
“Where is the fetus?”
She sighed. “It’s complicated.”
Pain lanced through her skull.
“Explain.”
Grimly, she attempted to marshal her thoughts—difficult when her head was crowded with fucking aliens and speaking out loud didn’t seem to register with them. “In order to create a fetus, the male sperm has to fertilize the female egg. The egg has to be in the right place to meet the sperm and start to divide and attach itself to the interior of the uterus. Eggs are only available to fertilize for around five days every month. The baby takes nine Earth months to reach maturity before it can be born.”
Blessed silence followed her explanation and she fell into a doze, only to be awakened by Aled rearing up over her again.
“Mate.”
Aled held himself still over Anna, his muscles straining as he fought the command.“No. She needs to rest.”
“Give her your seed.”
The implacable voice of the Ungrich set his teeth on edge. “I don’t have any left. We both need to recuperate.”
“Offspring.”
He groaned as the thin net of tentacles covering his body began to pulse with energy, inflicting numerous small shocks to his entire nervous system. His teeth chattered as he fought to stay still over Anna, who was watching him intently.
“I can’t . . .”
The tentacles hardened, trapping him inside them like prey caught in a net, and moved his body despite him. His arms bent at the elbows and he was shoved forward, his cock disappearing inside Anna. He wanted to shut it all out, but he refused to close his eyes, needing to see Anna, to make sure she was all right.
“I told them we can’t produce a baby in one day,” she whispered as his hips rocked back and forth, plunging his cock in and out of her. “Tell them the same thing. You have to think it. They don’t do speaking.”
