by Lily Thomas
Natalie began to stir in his arms, and he gazed down her as her eyes slowly cracked open.
“Good morning.” His heart stuttered in his chest as he gazed down at her. He still couldn’t believe she was here. His mate.
“Good morning,” she whispered back to him as a lazy smile grew across her face.
“How was your night,” he asked.
“It was fine but the scientist came back and took me away. It seems that you were right. They’re searching for compatible mates. I’m starting to question whether or not they’ll keep us alive if we can’t produce something.”
He nodded.
“I’m reluctant to bring a life into such a strange and cold environment though.” This was no life for a child.
He ran a hand over her hair in a gentle caress and tucked a stray strand behind her ear. “I can only hope that we won’t be here for too much longer. I’m just sorry there’s nothing I can do actively to get us out of the situation.”
“You seem fairly confident that we can get out of this, why is that?” He kept saying he couldn’t do anything but he kept implying others would come and find him.
“It’s just a matter of when. I know my men will come for me. They are a loyal crew. And when they find out what has happened to me, I know that they won’t rest until they rescue us.”
Dryke got off the bed. Then he strode over to the table of food. Grabbing some sort of meat item, he took a bite and leaned a shoulder against the wall as he looked over at her on the bed. “Even though we are in such a weird situation I do enjoy the sight before me. I can’t wait until we’re out of here, and I can continue to enjoy the sight of your body at my leisure.” He sent her a cocky grin.
“You know,” she pointed a finger over at him, “I was hesitant to be with a Vrak’rir but I have to admit if I was in this situation with anyone I’m glad it ended up being you.” She raised her hand stop him from speaking. “I’m not saying that I want to be your mate. I’m just glad I’m in the situation with somebody who has more confidence that we’ll get out of it than I do.”
Dryke gave her a sad smile. “I wish my confidence did more than just boost your confidence. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is that I can’t do anything about our situation.” He turned to look at the walls around them. “I could try hammering through these walls with my fists but I know in the end that I’ll just end up bloodied and battered and there wouldn’t be a dent anywhere in that wall.”
Natalie smiled and laughed. “Don’t beat yourself up about it so much. It’s not like anybody knew that we’d be thrown into such a weird situation like this. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, oh I’m going to be an experiment for some really crazy scientist this morning.”
He chuckled. “The words you speak are true. But for a Vrak’rir it can be hard to be a captive. We are used to being the ones on top of the food chain. We definitely aren’t used to being thrown in a cage and told what to do. It goes past my every instinct, and I know it will slowly drive me crazy.”
Natalie swallowed. Just as long as he didn’t go crazy in the same room as her. They may have slept together several times but they had only known each other for a few days at most. She wasn’t too sure she wanted to see a crazy Vrak’rir so close.
A few more days passed, and they continued to sleep together. Surprisingly Natalie enjoyed their time together. She just wished they had met under different circumstances. Then again if this hadn’t happened, she may never have met him at all. And she had to admit he was damn good in bed. She just wasn’t sure that that made a relationship. They still had a lot more to figure out.
She still held a small hope that the men he spoke of would really come to his aid like he believed.
“Let’s say I decided to be your mate.”
Dryke paused as he brought some food up to his mouth.
Natalie waved one of her hands in the air. “I’m not saying I’m agreeing to being your mate. I’m just curious what my position in life would be. What would you expect? What would Vrak’rir society expect?”
Dryke placed the food back down on the table and strode over to the bed, slipped under the covers and brought her into his arms. “I would expect you to be happy and pursue your goals. Vrak’rir society would expect nothing from you, other than being loyal to your mate.”
“You wouldn’t demand that I be a house wife?”
Dryke snorted as he shook his head. “If you wished to be, I would be fine with that, but I wouldn’t expect that.”
“So, if we had children, you’d be willing to stay home with the kids while I pursue a career?”
“I would expect us to figure it out. Whether that meant we needed a nanny or if we just divided the roles up evenly.”
Natalie leaned back as she traced a finger over one of his black tattoos. “You say the right words, but how can I know for certain you’d actually honor them?”
“Have I done anything to betray your trust yet?”
She pursued her lips as she thought back. He hadn’t, even when she’d demanded no sex, which was impressive. A Vrak’rir resisting his naked mate was something to be applauded.
“You haven’t.”
His hand came up to caress her jawline, and this time she didn’t flinch away from his black claws. Her mind fluttered away with desire. All he had to do was touch her to make her lose her mind.
Brazenly, Natalie reached between them and wrapped her fingers around his long length, which was already hard and throbbing. Scooting down the bed, Natalie gazed up at him as her tongue darted out tasting the glistening drop of pre-cum on the tip of his cock.
Her tongue lapped at him leisurely, enjoying the sweetness of his cum. “I think I could do this all day.” She much preferred the Vrak’rir sweet cum.
“I could let you do it all day.” He groaned out, his hips bucking under her administrations.
Natalie smiled. She had him all riled up, and it was pleasing to see him thrusting, searching for something to stick his cock into.
Placing a couple of kisses to his balls she slid the tip of her tongue up his deliciously long length before crawling up his legs. Her lips landed on his abs, as she continued to crawl up his body, then they landed on his pecs, and then she kissed his neck before finally planting a kiss on his azure lips.
His hands latched onto her hair, and he pushed her head down, sealing their lips together as his tongue slid across the crease of her lips, demanding entrance.
She gave it.
His tongue slipped between her lips and danced with hers, as his hips bucked under her, rubbing his cock up against her sensitive flesh. She felt like she was burning up with the need that raced through her veins.
She broke away, placing her hands on his pecs. “I want you inside me.” She panted, her desire reaching critical limit.
“Please.” He motioned for her to take the lead.
That was all she needed from him. Reaching between their bodies, she grabbed a hold of his cock, rubbed the glistening tip against her clit a couple of times, pulling groans of desire from both their chests before slipping her wet pussy down around his length.
He slid into her, stretching her wide, filling her completely. Her hands curled into fists on his chest as she moaned. His hands wrapped around her buttocks, kneading the tender flesh.
Then his hips rose to pound the full length of him into her wet entrance. Her mouth popped open as the tip of his cock touched her cervix. Then she bent over him, letting her instinct take over the rhythm, as sweat beaded on her skin.
“My goddess.” He panted under her, thrusting his cock into her with such force that she could feel his balls slapping against her. “The need I feel for you.”
“The need I feel for you.” She moaned back and saw a fire light in his onyx eyes at her words. He enjoyed hearing how much she wanted him in return.
Her pussy squeezed around his cock with the beginnings of an orgasm. No matter how many times she slept with him, her body was still
eager, desperate, for more of him. She was hopelessly addicted.
Dryke reached between them, his deft finger finding her clit, rubbing it with tight circles. Pleasure soared through her. Natalie wasn’t sure how much of this her body could take until it broke.
“I’m going to come!” Natalie gritted her teeth as his cock rocked her to the core.
“Come for me,” he panted as his finger continued its onslaught on her clit. “I want to feel you clamp down around my cock, drawing my essence out of me!”
Dryke’s words sent her reeling over the edge. She threw back her head as her eyes closed as stars exploded behind her eyelids. Her pussy clamped down around his length, and she heard him suck in a sharp breath before growling his release.
“I’m going to fill you!”
“Yes!” She screamed as their flesh slapped together in abandonment.
Then a hot flood filled her to the brim as his cock throbbed inside of her, releasing its load.
“Take all of me!” Dryke roared to the ceiling, as she continued to slam down on him.
As her climax finished, she fell onto his chest, her pussy still clenching as the pleasure eased out of her body and mind.
“That was so good.” She lazily traced a tattoo on his shoulder.
“More than good.” Dryke corrected her. “It was fucking fantastic.” He thrust his hips a couple of final times, still enjoying the feel of her around him.
“Mmm hmmm.” She agreed easily. Then she pulled herself off his length and laid down beside him, just enjoying their moment together.
His hands moved over her skin massaging her until she fell asleep.
Natalie stretched out on the bed and watched as he ambled over to the wall of sex toys. “What are you thinking about?”
He glanced over at her. “Nothing much,” he said with a smile teasing his lips. “Just trying to see if there is another toy on this wall that we want to play with.”
She gave a hearty laugh. Before her incarceration here at the scientific facility for alien breeding, she never would have thought she could enjoy the presence of an alien. But when this was all done and they went their separate ways, she wasn’t sure she could forget about him. Despite her best efforts he had slowly wormed his way into her heart. She wouldn’t go so far as to say that she loved him but they were in this together.
As she watched him reach for another toy up on the wall a sound off to her right side made her pause and look over. The door she’d originally been thrown in was now opening for the first time that she’d seen.
Natalie threw herself off the bed, and her eyes widened as her feet hit the cold metal beneath her. She watched several armed men stride into the room. They were here for her or him, and she wasn’t sure it would be good news or bad.
Dryke strode forward a few steps and sized up the men in front of him, not at all fazed by the fact he was in the nude. “What do you want you?” He demanded.
The armed men in front of them separated to allow the female scientist with the tight bun at the base of her neck to enter the room.
She sent them a cold smile, and Natalie could’ve sworn that the woman had absolutely no life in her dark eyes. “We are here two separate both of you back into your own cages.”
Natalie wasn’t sure where she stood on that decision. Did she want to be separated from him? She glanced over to see Dryke’s fists opening and closing his black claws ready to rip all these people to shreds.
The scientist also appeared to notice his interest in the guards. “I would advise that you remain calm and collected Vrak’rir. These men will put you out before you have the chance to get to them.”
“Are you so sure about that?” Then Dryke leaped at them taking her up on the challenge.
Natalie had a hard time even seeing him. He was just a blue blur of motion as he shot towards all of the guards. Quickly, the guards formed a circle around the female scientist.
Damn. She’d been hoping that he would get over to them in time to kill the female scientist. She wasn’t a particularly violent person herself but that woman had it coming. She didn’t know for sure but she was fairly positive that that woman was in charge of this whole twisted operation.
She watched in fascinated horror as Dryke knocked into the first round of armed guards. As they went down to the ground in a heap, she watched on as his fists began to slam into the helmeted heads of the guards. She wasn’t sure if the cracking sound she heard was that of the helmets or the skulls beneath them.
The second round of armed guards threw themselves into the melee. Raising her hands up to her face Natalie watched in vain as the guards began to shock him with plasma sticks. The crackling of the plasma as it lit into existence sent shivers running through her.
She couldn’t handle it. Just watching them attack him with those damn plasma sticks had her heart-stopping inside her chest. All he was doing was trying to keep her safe from the unknown that the scientists and guards presented. Natalie darted forward and grabbed the hand of the nearest guard.
Both of her hands clamped down around the guard’s wrist, and she yanked with all her might and to her surprise she managed to drawback his hand and prevent him from shocking Dryke again. It was a small success but it was still a success. Before she knew it, another hand came out of nowhere and struck her across the face.
She could taste the blood in her mouth and black dots danced around her vision for the briefest of seconds. Through the black dots, she managed to see that same hand coming back for round two. Letting go of the guard’s wrist she ducked and the fist that was aimed at her face went sailing over her head.
It was a short-lived victory because the guard who she was fighting tackled her to the ground and turned her over pressing her face against the metal floor, and then cuffed her hands behind her back.
From where she laid she was able to see that the guards had finally subdued Dryke with a shot from a syringe. He still had a hand clasped tightly around one of the guard’s necks.
She was just glad he hadn’t been harmed in the fight. She watched from the floor as they took him away by dragging him out the door by his arms.
The guard who was still pressing her face against the metal floor leaned down and, in her ear, asked, “Do you plan on being anymore of a pain in the neck?”
Her jaw was still sore from where she’d been struck, and she growled, “No. I will not fight you anymore.” At least not right now.
“Good. Because she doesn’t want you to come to any harm.”
That was good to know. That information might not do her any good but it was still something she could file away for later use. She knew the only reason they didn’t want any harm to come to her was because she might be carrying the Vrak’rir’s unborn child within her.
The guard brought her up to her feet and pushed her out the same door they’d dragged the Vrak’rir out of. She worried that the Vrak’rir might be considered useless now that she might be pregnant. And it made her wonder if the Vrak’rir might be put to death.
Weirdly enough her heart thundered away under her rib cage as she thought of never seeing Dryke again. Damn them all. Now she had more to worry about then just herself.
They walked Natalie down the corridor where they kept their female guinea pigs. She felt her heart sink a little. She was about to be put into the cage she’d come out of, and she wanted nothing more than to fight the couple guards who were following behind her. But she knew that she wouldn’t be able to overpower them.
They strode up to her old cage, and she glanced over to see Veronica still inside her cage. Natalie would’ve thought Veronica would have given birth by now. That woman couldn’t have much longer to go.
The guards opened her cell door and undid her cuffs.
Turning around she looked into the chocolate brown eyes of one of the guards and wrapped her hands around the cell bars as they closed the door in her face. “Can’t any of you see what you’re doing is wrong? This is no way to find out more a
bout alien species.”
The guard shook his head. “We are not here to find out more about alien species. We are here to find out what advancements humans can take on as they breed with aliens.”
This was the most information she’d been given since coming here. And this guard appeared to be quite chatty. So, she wasn’t about to let this moment pass without trying to get more information out of him.
“So, what you’re saying is that this facility is only here as a way of experimenting with alien-human hybrids. Is this something the military is experimenting on to try and find a better version of the human soldier?” Natalie wasn’t sure what he might say to this.
“It is a military experiment.” He said as he through some clothing at her through the bars of her cage.
She glared at him through the bars of her cell, but then his fellow guard grabbed his arm and ushered him away. She heard the other guard utter something about how he should keep his mouth closed. They were probably scared what the scientist with the tight bun would think if she found out about the information that was being given away so freely.
They disappeared from sight.
Quickly, Natalie slipped her clothing over her naked form. Like she’d said before it was like armor and it made her feel safer.
“Did it go well?” Veronica asked as she came up to the bars of her gilded cage.
“Depends on what you mean by well. Did I end up having sex with the Vrak’rir? Then that would be a yes.”
“That’s always good.”
“Good?” One of Natalie’s eyebrows nearly shot off her forehead as she cocked her head to the side. “None of this is good.”
“I guess it was the wrong word. Sorry. I’m just trying to look on the bright side of all of this, you know?”
“Yeah.” She frowned. “Sorry, I don’t mean to be snapping at you. None of this is your fault. I just wish none of us had to deal with all this confusion.”
Veronica sent her a sad smile. “I don’t want my baby to be born and raised here in this cold environment. For all, I know they’ll take it away the moment it’s born, and I’ll never see it again.”