by Lily Thomas
Natalie loved being wrapped away in his arms, his warm strong arms. She cuddled closer to his warmth. Although she suspected the scientists may have turned the temperature of the room down to force them into each other’s arms.
“If we can hold out on sex, we might just be able to beat them.”
Dryke nuzzled her neck. “I will do my best.”
Natalie wasn’t sure she wanted to admit it but the Vrak’rir was working his way onto her not so bad list when it came to aliens. She turned her head upwards so she could look up at him.
“What are you thinking about, Natalie?”
“Me?” She sighed. “I don’t know. I guess I’m wondering if I’ll ever get out of here. And if I do, how long it will be until said release happens.”
Silently, he trailed his black claws up and down her arm in gentle caresses.
“You?”
“Wishing I could get you out of here.”
Natalie smiled against his chest. “Don’t worry about it. Life has a way of turning around.”
“You’re my mate, Natalie. The fact that I’m unable to keep you safe disturbs me.”
She shrugged. “We’ll both get out of this just fine. There’s nothing to worry about as long as we keep your cock far away from me.”
“This cock?” He rubbed his still hard cock against her thigh.
“Will this ever go down? Seriously.”
He chuckled deep in his chest. “Not until we are old and decrepit and even then, it would still be hard every time it sees you or thinks of you.”
“You sound like you’ve known me for years, like we’re married.”
His onyx eyes met hers. “We’re mates. Without freaking you out, we are essentially married in my world.”
She wasn’t quite sure what to say about that, and for a couple seconds all she did was blink stupidly. “It’s not like you scare me off. There’s nowhere to run.” She waved an arm at the four metal walls surrounding them. The idea of being married to him should make her run in the opposite direction, but right now she had bigger problems.
“Let’s just hope your idea works like you hope it does.”
“My idea?” Natalie asked.
“Of not having sex, since their plan is to breed us.”
“Yeah?” Natalie leaned up slightly her heart rate picking up speed. She got the feeling she wasn’t going to like what was going to come out of his mouth.
“If we don’t produce what they want, they might end our part in their weird program.”
“What are you saying?” Her heart leaped into her throat.
“I’m saying that they might kill us if we don’t breed them what they want,” Dryke said calmly like it wasn’t a possible problem.
“So, you’re saying?”
“If we made love, it would buy us some time.” He looked thoughtful. “Several months in fact.”
Natalie smirked. “You had me there for a second.” But some of it made sense. They brought them here to breed so that would mean they had to be useful or they wouldn’t want to keep wasting resources on them.
Dryke shrugged. “Maybe I’m wrong.” He placed a finger under her chin and tilted her head back so he could look her in the eye. “And I’m not trying to force you into anything. I just want to make sure we understand the risks that we might be facing here in this damn facility.”
“I know.” Natalie sent him a half smile. “If you wanted to force me you wouldn’t have to use words.” She stroked a hand over his muscled arms, her fingers caressing the mountains and valleys in his skin. “You’ve been kinder than I would have ever expected.”
“I’m doing my best.” His head dipped down, and he placed a tender kiss to her forehead.
She knew he was dying to place his lips over hers. To draw out her desire and bring them closer, but she still thought distance could help them overcome these damn scientists and their disturbing experiment.
Natalie rolled over, and he slipped an arm under her head and one around her waist.
Baby alien growing inside her or the possibility that they would end this experiment by killing them? She knew exactly which one she thought of as worse.
She’d had a job before this, and that would require her to bring any alien child she had back to Earth, which wasn’t ideal. People there were a bit isolated and less understanding of alien human relations. They weren’t like people out here in the black of space. She couldn’t even count the number of human alien couples she’d run across since leaving Earth to go explore.
“They make me regret even leaving Earth. Maybe there’s a reason a lot of humans like to stick to Earth and Earth controlled colonies.”
Dryke stayed silent behind her. Her words would hurt him, but it wasn’t like she’d been searching for a mated relationship.
Chapter 9
A few more days passed, they would take off the edge each day with a little fooling around, and the scientists had left them alone.
Natalie picked at her fingernails as she sat against the back board of the bed and watched Dryke prowl around the edges of the room. He was becoming more and more like a caged animal with a juicy bone right in front of him.
She feared it wouldn’t be long until he began drooling and eyeing her, the juicy bone.
Then her eyes traveled lower right down to his raging boner, which just wouldn’t go away. She licked her lips. She’d had her mouth around that wide girth, and she’d be lying if she said she hadn’t thought of it inside her, drawing out her pleasure in long strokes.
Her body was always wet with the sight of him walking around. She squeezed her eyes shut and rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hands.
But the moment she reopened her eyes, she saw him striding around, his cock standing proudly between his legs. It was wearing down her ability to refuse him. All she wanted was to have something large in between her legs, and a plastic dildo wouldn’t do it for her.
“Tell me something more about your life on Earth.” He said out of the blue.
“Really?” She glanced over to where he was pacing.
“I need something to distract me.” Dryke ran a hand through his hair roughly, disheveling it. “All I have in this room are phallic objects and your sweet naked body which I want nothing more than to pound until your pussy is sore and you aren’t able to ever walk again.”
She felt herself grow even wetter at his announcement. They weren’t going to last much longer.
“I mean, I was nothing interesting, like a pilot or a general. I just organized and filed away information on a database.”
“But you enjoyed your work?”
Natalie shrugged. “It was work, and it provided me a life above the smog zone, so I wasn’t about to complain.” When one lived under the smog zone, it was important to wear a mask every time they left their building, which had always bothered her. Her job rescued her from that grim part of life on Earth, where the smog shortened life spans and people died in coughing fits.
“But did you enjoy it?”
She picked at her fingernails again. “Is it my dream?”
She thought back to her grey cubicle with its high sound proof walls so you couldn’t hear anyone else in the office. It was isolated, small and somewhat freaky. “No. I’m not quite sure I’ve come up with a dream to pursue.” Time to focus on something other than her sad little life back on Earth. “Tell me something about Vrak.”
Dryke continued pacing and grabbed something to eat off the table. “It’s beautiful.”
“Yeah?”
“Definitely.” Dryke smiled, one that was fond and dreamy as he thought about his home world. “It’s something you would enjoy seeing, nothing like the Earth you describe.”
“So, Earth is the only one with a grimy surface?” Natalie felt shame creep up her cheeks.
Dryke laughed. “Not at all. Earth is joined by several other home worlds in that aspect. Some either have problems with crime or pollution. The Vrak’rir were just lucky it didn’t end up wo
rking out that way. And I hear the Kellians have water troubles on their planet.”
“Maybe I’ll see a few more alien planets before returning to Earth. I have to admit I am interested in learning more about alien cultures. They don’t teach much about alien cultures in Earth schools.”
“I can help on that front.”
“How so?”
“I can teach you what it means to be a Vrak’rir mate.” He sent her a wicked smile, pausing in his pacing.
“Yeah, nice try.” She scoffed.
His black eyes zeroed in on her.
“What are you staring at?”
Before she could blink, he leaped through the air and landed on the bed over her.
“Wh-what are you doing?” Natalie couldn’t hide the tremor in her voice.
“I can’t resist you any longer,” Dryke growled in her ear as his head dipped to the crevice of her shoulder and neck. Lightly, he nipped her skin with his teeth, and she felt herself lose control.
Her hands ran into his hair and drew his face up to hers and let his lips land on top of hers. It’d been her number one rule, not to let him kiss her lest they grow any feelings, but she couldn’t help herself. This damn sexy Vrak’rir had been strutting around naked for days, and her mind couldn’t handle it any longer.
“Don’t deny me, Natalie. I’m not sure I could take it.”
She glanced up at him. She wasn’t sure this was a good idea, but he wasn’t the only one who was anxious to have sex. His long cock was right there, ready to pleasure her, and she wanted it.
Dryke rolled his hips up against her bare thigh and shivers spread over her skin as lust shot through her. The damn Vrak’rir was a temptation she couldn’t resist. Her arms wrapped around him like they were magnets, drawn to him.
He flipped her over so she was riding his hips.
“I love this sight.” He whispered reverently as his onyx eyes skimmed up her body from her waist up to her breasts. His hands reached out and cupped each of her breasts, weighing them with the palms of his hands.
His hips bucked under her, sliding his hard cock in between her wet pussy lips, brushing her clit lightly.
Natalie bit her upper lip as her body quaked with its need.
“My mate likes that?” He asked a wicked gleam entering his eyes.
“I do,” Natalie said as her hands began exploring his expansive chest. Her finger traced the swirling black tattoos that danced across his blue skin. “I love these. They are so mesmerizing.” She bent down and traced one of the tattoos with the tip of her tongue.
He growled a low rumble of pleasure in his chest.
She continued to trace his tattoo with her tongue until she reached the end. Then she sat up with a smile plastered all over her face as she scraped her nails down his pecs and over his abs.
“Enjoying yourself?”
“Immensely.” She purred, and she really was, more than she would’ve thought.
Dryke’s fingers pinched her pert nipples causing her mouth to pop wide, then he leaned up, and his hot mouth sucked the tip between his lips. He nipped her nipple before swirling his tongue around it to soothe the sharp pain.
Her back arched towards him, and she ground her pelvis up against him, rubbing his cock with her slickness. “Oh, Dryke.” She moaned her hips continuing to rock against him as her body flooded with lust.
“I think you need me inside you, stretching you wide.”
Dryke watched her flaxen hair swing over her shoulders, as she nodded her head eagerly. That was all he needed, because they both needed to be closer to each other.
His hands wrapped around her waist, his black claws pricking her flesh lightly. He lifted her up, and then plunged her down on his length. He gritted his teeth, as pleasure exploded around and inside him.
“You’re so wet and tight.”
“More.” She panted.
He slid her even further down until his balls were touching her hot flesh, searing him to his soul.
“My mate…” He had no idea what he was trying to say. “I’ve waited so long.”
She bent down placing her hands over his chest. Natalie began pumping her hips up and down his length, her tight sheath pulling at his cock.
“Lusty mate.”
“I’ve had you walking around naked, teasing me.”
He scoffed but let it go as her hips rocked over him. He met her hot gaze which was glazed over, her mind only focusing on wringing out an orgasm. He was more than happy to let her use his body to satisfy her needs.
His hands tightened on her waist, taking back control as he plunged her down as his hips came up to meet her. His balls bounced with every strike, and he could feel the pleasure building at the base of his cock.
Natalie threw back her head and moaned loudly. Her sounds of pleasure nearly had him coming. Her body bucked above him frantic to get closer and take his cock. Increasing the rhythm, he felt beads of sweat collecting on his brow.
Reaching up he grabbed onto one of her breasts tweaking her nipple until he felt her pussy begin to clench around his length. A growl rumbled up his throat.
Her hands clenched into fists on his chest as he felt her tense up above him.
“I’m going to come inside you!” He roared as the pressure built up inside him to an uncontrollable degree.
“Yes!” Her hips rocked wildly, all thought gone.
He jerked up as he continued to slam her down on him as his seed pumped into her, drawing out her climax. Natalie shuddered around him her eyes sliding closed as her pussy clenched around his length.
As they both finished, she fell onto his chest. He could feel her heart beating a rapid pace, and he treasured the moment. His arms came up and wrapped around her. He was still inside her soft body, her pussy clenching every once in a while, as she came down from her high.
Softly, he ran his hands down her back. He had to get her out of this place.
After a few more days of sex, Natalie wasn’t surprised to wake up inside the metal room the scientists liked to bring her to.
“You could at least clothe me. This table is cold. My buttocks feel like frozen buns.” Not to mention all the goosebumps puckering her skin.
The scientist with glasses walked in. She came over to where Natalie was tied down to the metal table, reached into her pocket and pulled out yet another syringe.
Natalie’s head fell to the side as she rolled her eyes in exasperation. “Seriously? Another syringe?”
“I know.”
Natalie’s eyes shot wide. “You spoke!”
“Shh.” The woman rushed to shush her. “I’m not supposed to speak with the test subjects.”
“Why not?”
“Because I’m not supposed to think of you guys as anything other than test subjects.”
“You should let me out of here.” Natalie pleaded.
“Wish that was possible.” The woman stuck the needle into her arm and began to take blood.
“Why not?”
“You’d need an army to get out of here, and I’m not an army.” She finished taking blood and went over to the table, picked up a tablet and sampled the blood.
“What are you looking for?”
Only the whirring of the technology reached her ears, and she frowned. Talking was over then, but at least she knew this woman was a person with a soul that could feel something. She just wondered why the woman was even here if she felt something about the test subjects. Surely, she couldn’t think this was right.
Natalie wasn’t a hundred percent sure what they were searching for in her blood but she had a good guess. They wanted to know when she was pregnant. She prayed Dryke’s little swimmers weren’t doing their job. She really should have redone her birth control shot, but how was she supposed to know that she would need it.
It wasn’t like she planned on getting abducted.
“Do you know what happened to my friends?”
No answer.
Either because the scientist had no i
dea what she was talking about or because she didn’t want to tell Natalie. She just prayed her friends were well and able to tell someone about her disappearance.
Natalie watched the scientist frown, as she looked at the readings in front of her. Clearly, they weren’t positive signs. She felt relief flow through her. At least this meant that she wasn’t pregnant yet, and she still had time with the Vrak’rir. But thoughts of what Dryke said the other day made her worry that there was a possibility that they might end the program if she didn’t end up pregnant.
The scientist reached into her pocket and withdrew another syringe. Then she slowly made her way over to Natalie who was still tied down to the metal table.
Right as the woman reached the edge of the table, Natalie looked up at her and said, “If you think of us as more than just science experiments you should do something to help us. There has to be something that you can do to help us.” She was doing her best to get the woman to sympathize with her.
“It’s not like I don’t want to help you,” the scientist whispered under her breath, “it’s just that I don’t know how.”
Natalie wasn’t sure what she wanted to say next. She could see in the scientist’s eyes that she was just as afraid as Natalie was of what might come of their lives at the facility.
The scientist rose the syringe in the air and squirted some of the liquid out of the tip. Then she gazed down at Natalie who was still lying on the table and said quietly, “I’m sorry for this,” and then she injected the liquid into Natalie’s arm.
Natalie struggled against her restraints but slowly the liquid flowed through her veins and black dots began to dance across her vision. Everything faded away.
Chapter 10
Dryke woke to find Natalie still in his arms. He tightened his hold around her and pressed her against his chest. He wished there was something more he could do about their situation but unfortunately, he knew he was powerless. Their only hope would be that his crewmates would eventually find him. He just wasn’t sure how long it would take for them to realize he was missing.