by C. R Corbin
"I never thought that someone would have a past like that, guess I was wrong." she remarked while soberly tending to the game. My hands tighten their grasp around the pieces as I made my next move, shifting everything into place.
The rest of the evening remained calm for the first time in several days.
....
"You sure you're alright?"
"Yeah, they're treating me well. They haven't touched me or anything like that. Have they done the same for you?"
"Well ...Yeah..."
We were currently in a room on the upper flight deck. I was watching Kelly speak to her friend, a petite blond girl by the name of Penny, the same one that has been chosen as the mate for that prince. I don't really pay much attention to her and simply leaned against the wall in silence while the two of them spoke. I figured that Kelly desired a conversation at least, I just had to stay here to make sure they weren't plotting to take over the ship or anything like that.
"I mean they've been feeding me alright...That's nice I guess. I get to go on some walks if I ask really nicely but I haven't seen anyone besides you. They must all be tied up." Penny muttered with a distressed glance at the door next to me. "I'm so scared Kelly."
"It's going to be fine Penny. It'll end up much better than you think it will." remarked Kelly as she rested a hand on her friend's shoulder.
"Will it? I don't even know what we're doing here anymore..." whined Penny while she hung her head in resignation. I stared at the two girls and that same feeling kept on creeping up into my heart.
Sorrow.
"A word if I may Rel." said Gerax as he marched up to me. His voice took on that same professional, commanding tone that it assumed whenever he was going to dish out an order or something like that. I gazed at him as he stepped up beside me, the two girls stole a glance at us before returning to their own conversation
And to my surprise, the first topic of conversation wasn't regarding matters with our men or our destination. He wanted to know about Kelly.
"How has it been? How is your mate? Is she docile enough for your tastes yet? Isn't talking back at you is she?" he asked me and I shook my head.
"No she's not. " I state with a frown. "Each time she did I punished her and now...she's been behaving." I remarked, silently cringing at the words that were coming out of my mouth for some reason.
"Well that's nice. Never thought that one of my men would find their mates on a human ship. It's already rare for a man's mate to be a human, but to find her on this ship?" he chuckled, "That's rare."
"Has the prince said anything yet? What news do you have?" I asked curiously.
"Oh, he's been saying the same thing. Bring him his mate and he'll follow through on his guarantee. I suppose we'll be there in a couple more fetras if we're lucky...I pity the girl a bit honestly. Life in his palace is going to be so cold and boring." he said in a tone that was far too loud which caused the women to hear it.
They each turned to us and I growled while glaring at the captain. He glanced back at me and returned his own glare before I huffed and shook my head. The girls resumed their conversation in a more reserved manner and I could notice Penny twitching even more after that outburst. Gerax didn't look too happy about my little display and I wasn't too happy with the fact that he was behaving like a fool.
"Are you forgetting who's captain?" he hissed quietly, his eyes looked like they were going to bulge out of their sockets. Those golden orbs seem to glow with all the envy and greed that can be mustered in a mortal soul. I look back to the girls without another word. "Do not forget your place fool." He muttered.
I had to resist striking him down right then and there.
He has grown into a soft, incompetent fool that doesn't pay attention to any details regarding the mission. All that he is focused on is the power that he seeks to gain from capturing and selling whatever manner of slave that he can and it was rather unfortunate in this regard. I pitied him quite a bit because of his incompetence, not as much as I hated him however. If anything I should have been captain and we would have ended up in a better situation years ago. We would probably be back home right about now.
But alas, I had to suffer fools for the time being. Should I earn my freedom he will receive nothing more than a bolt to the head.
CHAPTER NINE
Kelly
It was dark out today, apparently we were traversing a zone that was far away from any real solar system so light outside was a real commodity. I could still see the stars in the distance, however, I could see more of them than I ever had before.
I glanced over the window and pressed my hand up against the glass. The only thought that ran through my mind was Penny, and how she was going to make it out of this situation. I had seen Hasan and Xu earlier during the day but they had said very little to me. They had been forced to converse with me whilst under tight security so there isn't much that they could do.
In spite of all this, I was rather privileged due to my relationship with Rel.
It was rather unfortunate that things ended up the way it did. I would have given anything for Penny's position and mine to be reversed, I could do nothing under his control, surely someone else would have been more suited for this freedom.
"It's nice out, I will give you that." he remarked, his arms folded and his back sliding against the wall. He thinks he looks so cool.
I smiled at him in that same genuine manner that has arisen in my heart. I was quite shocked when it had first occurred, he had simply said a few kind words to me and the next thing I know, my lips are curving upwards and i'm falling for him. Those nights of lust and passion were slowly developing into something much, much more fiery on my part at least and I knew that he was feeling it too. There was a certain gentleness that he possessed when dealing with me that he hadn't had before.
I blinked a couple of times as I glanced over the wide range of stars glimmering in front of me. Each one seemed to shine brighter than the last. I wondered if Earth was somewhere out there, I didn't even know which direction we were headed in so it was quite difficult to understand where we were, I suppose it didn't matter.
My hopes for a rescue was slowly but surely being withered away during my time under his rule. I didn't have that same drive that I had earlier and it was quickly dwindling, settling in my heart like the embers of a dying flame. My hands fold on my lap and I hang my head while thinking about Penny, she was truly going to get the short end of the stick.
I mean, at least I liked my captor, a little bit, even if he could be a self-centered ass most of the time, he was tolerable and not to mention incredibly sexy. This prince sounded like he didn't know his ass from his elbow, a fool with even less regard for decorum and rights than old Rel here.
"I want to thank you for doing that today. I know that you didn't have to." I remarked whilst stifling a yawn. It was late and the time for me to return to my quarters was quickly approaching but I needed to hold on just a little bit longer. "Talking down your captain I mean."
"He's a fool." Rel curtly responded, his face unchanging but the hints of amusement were showing on his lips as they curved upwards ever so slightly. "He deserves all the insults hurled at him."
"So you don't like him in the slightest huh?"
"I never said that...Well perhaps. I am working for this group as a matter of convenience more than anything else. When I return home I will cut all ties with them. Completely."
"And you have no friends? No other connections that you can hang onto and value? This crew is your life?" I asked him with the disbelief surfacing in my curious tone. My brown eyes drooped while I looked over at him, my lips pursing while I felt the weight of my cheeks attempting to pull me down into slumber.
"I do not. I know nothing of my family, nothing at all. I was raised alone, my friends on this ship are good men but I still regard them as temporary. It's nothing personal, just the profession." he grunted while shutting his eyes and hangin
g his head. His hair shifts around his horns and he licked his fangs once while his talons dug into the metal flooring below.
"So you don't understand love then?" I asked mindlessly. I had no idea where this conversation was headed towards and I had nowhere to steer it to but I wanted to understand him a little bit better and perhaps Rialan culture a bit better as well.
"Love? I understand it completely, it is something that I have never held." He sighed and kicked off the wall to take a seat next to me. His hands fold over his thighs, his eyes locked with the stars in front of him. "I have no need for it."
"Then you can't understand why I want to save Penny then can you? You can't understand why I need my friends freed. You don't know why I care so much..." I muttered while turning towards him to gauge his reaction. He says nothing and merely keeps his eyes on the blanket of black.
He keeps silent and shuts his eyes as if to calm himself down. Was he getting angry again? Was he feeling sadness? What was the emotion that was rushing through him at this point in time? I sighed and shook my head, despite all the progress we've made over the last couple of days we still can't seem to find the time to have finally understood one another completely, he still doesn't understand my need for freedom.
"All those bits of light, and some shall never ever see them or reach them. Strange isn't it? The darkness just consumes all that it can until the night wins out." He gestured towards the stars "That is the fight of light in this universe it seems."
"Only if you allow it." I countered with a glare.
My eyes slowly relaxed and I found myself leaning into him, my head brushing his shoulder as he gently rested an arm around me and pulled me in. I should have denied him the right and brushed his hand away but I allow him regardless for some reason. I didn't know why I did but for some reason just needed the comfort right about now, even when everything was going wrong.
And once we returned to the bedroom things took a sharp turn.
"You dare to resist me again?"
"You're just some stubborn alien prick that can't admit that what he's doing is wrong! You can't just hold us all in here, I'm not going to be used for you to breed!" I growled at him.
We had been discussing the fate of Penny and my other crew members on the way here and the entire time I had been trying to confront him with the virtues of freedom and choice and yet they were alien concepts to him. Apparently back home on Rial women were expected to simply submit to men should they request breeding for that is how it has always been. Humans had a drastically different view on things in general it seemed, my talk of freedom wasn't getting to him at all.
"You've never been a prisoner fool. What could you possibly understand about freedom?" I growled out while glaring at him. He scoffs and waves his hand in front of me to wave away my concerns.
"Spoiled dick." I grimaced and snarled at him while he marched over and lurched over me with his head dangling above mine. He glances down at me with those red eyes that burn intensely as I load back up at him and shook my head.
"And we play this game yet again do we human? Submit already. It's your fate. I am your ruler now and you will do as I say and be my mate, as it is the fate of all women that bond with a Rialan warrior." He growled with a vicious grin spreading across his face as he caressed my shoulders.
And that damn arousal struck once again.
"Submit." he whispered into my ear.
"No." I whimpered.
"Spread your legs, show me those ample mammaries that you have. Let me taste you, smell you, you want to feel this pleasure don't you? You feel it the same way that I do." he stated as my body fully gave in and part of my mind submitted as well.
Ironically during the time that we had been together, the sex had decreased the closer that we got. It was inevitable that our conflict led to more sex due to it being an immense turn on but by the end of it, I could barely understand it all. I didn't know why I wanted him so badly but I just did. Every inch of him conveyed a sense of lust and passion that was so ...ravishing, that was so overpowering. I couldn't hope to resist it for long and I knew now that he wasn't all that bad. At least he wasn't as much of a savage brute as his compatriots were.
And part of me liked him ...He was funny when he needed to be, caring if he tried, he could change and i've seen bits and pieces of him change.
So I leaned in and said yes, I pressed my face up against his chest and let a flirtatious expression spread across my face as I said:
"Then claim me. Make me spread my legs." I teased and he growled as he pushed me onto the bed and got on top of me.
He stripped off my shirt without hesitation, I thought he would have simply clawed it off of me but apparently, he understood the value of cloth now and took his time. I stripped the clothes off of my body and tossed them to the side as the fabric fluttered before striking the floor. I glanced him over with lustful eyes as he reached out and caressed my now bare bosom.
"Oh..." I moaned softly as those long fingers of his grazed my nipples, he just brushes all of the flesh on my chest and I groaned out as I felt my body heating up from his touch.
"This is your idea of punishment now is it? Heh I guess you aren't that smart after-ALL!" I moaned as he leaned in and gave each of my nipples a quick lick with that textured tongue of his. I groaned and shrieked as he gently bites my nipple and tugged it. I groaned and my face flushed while the heat on my folds grew and grew. He hadn't even touched that part of me yet.
"You're enjoying this aren't you? You can't help but obey me and moan. You can't help but obey your mate." he whispered into my ear and I moaned. "You can't resist me."
"I can't. You're right I can't resist. Fuck this is so good." I grimaced and shook with pleasure while he continued to suckle and kiss my mounds while giving me the occasional peck on the lips.
Each kiss of his was filled with more passion than the last and I savored the sweet taste of his lips. His body was so rugged, it was bare for me to see and I took full advantage of it by dashing my fingers along his abdomen and his arms, feeling every inch of muscle on his body while he continued to do his work.
It was so satisfying to feel him flick my nipples with his tongue or gently caress them with his lips. All that I could think about was wanting so much more from him.
My skin seems to quake as I slid underneath him while I felt his hands caress my hips. His touch is gentle and yet firm and every breath of his that scratched my neck causes me to shiver underneath him. I feel his hands glide downwards to the spot in between my legs and lightly caress my folds. I moaned and shivered as his fingers press against my panties until he kisses a path down my belly from my breasts to reach my crotch. He slipped my pants off deftly and lets them fall to the floor. A bundle of black cloth lays near my feet as he spread my thighs and pressed his tongue up against my folds.
"Oh god." I groaned as I feel the heat collecting on my sex. He gently brushed my pussy with his tongue and I feel an immense amount of heat swell in my chest as he continued to do his work. His lips pursed as he kissed my clitoral hood and even flicked it with his tongue, causing me to squirm and cry out for him.
"Yes! Yes!" I moaned. "Don't stop, I need you. I need you now...Oh fuck i'm so wet..." I whined while he continued to slash his tongue over my folds. He lets out a low growl which vibrates his tongue just as it brushed past my folds and the pleasure is overwhelming.
"Admit it human. You don't want to be free from me, that's the last thing that you want. I enjoy the taste of you and you enjoy me tasting you so why not simply submit to your desires? I understand that this feels especially good." he states right as he begins to flick my clit with the tip of his tongue. The heat on my cheeks collects and I shrieked while arching my back and gripping the sheets beneath me. "It is the right of a Rialan to claim his mate, to use them to pleasure himself. Luckily for you, I enjoy seeing you scream for me, seeing you moan and beg for more. So how about this for a way to punish you." he said as he le
aned back and stood in front of me proudly. His tongue had slithered out of my sex and was sliding across his lips, all of that sweet juice collecting on his tongue as he looked me over with those feral red eyes of his, I need him more than I had needed anything else.
"Please, please don't stop." I moaned, my submissive side was taking over completely and I had to admit that I wanted it. I had wanted to fight him, to deny him the right of claiming me but the physical lust that overtook me was far too intense to allow such a thing to happen. "Please just let me come on your tongue, please pleasure me my mate." I groaned and shut my eyes as I spread my legs even more to encourage him to return.
Unfortunately he wasn't buying the bait and simply stayed in place.
"Serve me and you shall receive your reward. This is your punishment for your insolence, you should learn to obey me my mate. It is what your pleasure hinges on." he growled out with a self-satisfied grin as I began to crawl towards him, gazing at the hardening bulge that was pressing against the fabric of his shorts.
I reached out towards it and he gave me a nod as a way to grant the all clear and I stripped the straps of his waistband before tugging the suit down. His strong arms hold me in place and my forehead rested against that rugged abdomen of his while my fingers run down those muscular thighs. I dragged the pants down to his knees and savored the smell of his member, it was so intoxicating, so lustful. I licked my lips as that rigid shaft tensed and throbbed with the heat of passion, a rush of blood fills my cheek as I watched the anticipation drip from his tip, his entire member was waiting to be consumed, to be savored, a manhood that easily dwarfed the potential of human men in both size and pleasure.
"Do it." he spoke firmly as if this thought had been on this mind for a long while.
He had told me that his species derived pleasure from breeding and their women got slightly less pleasure than men. It was an alien concept to him that he could do anything outside of actual intercourse but he was a natural at it for sure. That was why he could do what he did the first time we did this, that's why he could bring me to a climax so easily. There was a natural skill and dexterity that he had that surpassed everything else.