by Alyse Anders
“You’re mine.” He licked at the spot before biting down again, no doubt leaving a bruise in the process. “I want the universe to know. If any fool touches you, I’ll kill them.”
The words should have terrified her; to have a man she didn’t know act in such a way and lay such a claim on her without her consent was wrong.
And yet, Lena knew it was right. She wanted to be possessed by this man, knew that despite everything she’d left behind, she’d somehow traveled across the dark vastness of space to find him.
She closed her eyes and widened her legs. “Yes.”
Lena could tell that he’d been holding back, careful not to hurt her to this point. But that restraint was gone with her assent and Rykal went mad with lust.
Roaring, he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder, marching over to a cot that was pressed against the side of the wall. It looked to be too small for his frame but was more than big enough for Lena to stretch out comfortably. With little gentleness, he dropped her onto the bed only to stand over her staring.
Lena had never felt so exposed in her life; stretched out naked and cold, on an alien planet with a cyborg who wanted to claim her for himself. But it was also the most liberated she’d ever felt in her life. There were no rules she had to follow, no society to dictate what her role was and what she needed to do with her life. There was no provisional Earth government to force her into labour that would wear her down to nothing and lead to an early death.
Her escape from Earth had been risky, but had led her to a freedom she’d never anticipated.
She opened her legs wide, loving how Rykal’s gaze snapped to her pussy. He dropped to his knees on the edge of the bed and grabbed her inner thighs with his hands and pulled them apart even further. “You have hair.”
Lena couldn’t help but giggle. “Yes. As red as what’s on top of my head.”
She’d always been considered a genetic oddity back home. There were so few people with red hair and hazel eyes any longer, it had brought her the type of unwanted attention she’d been desperate to avoid. No man had ever looked at her with the same reverence as Rykal; flattering and arousing all at once.
He lowered his face to her pussy and pulled in a long, slow inhale. “The sweetest scent I’ve ever faced.”
Lena gripped the thin blanket on the mattress as her body was half lifted into the air. She squeezed her eyes shut before gasping when he licked a swipe across her pussy, teasing her clit as he went. “Shit.”
“I don’t know how exactly, but I knew you would like that. That you wanted me to put my mouth there.”
“Yes.” She couldn’t help but to strain against the now empty air. “More.”
His mouth returned as he flexed his fingers against the skin of her thighs. Rykal’s tongue was as equally large as everything else about him. The hot flesh teased her, igniting arousal that snaked through her body, setting her nerves alight. She moved her hips in rhythm with his teasing tongue, gasping with each caress against her clit, silently willing him to do even more. Whatever this connection between them was, he picked up on her desires and lowered her to the mattress so he could slide his long finger into her pussy.
“Oh God.” She rolled her head back and forth against the pillow, knowing it wasn’t going to take her long to fall over the edge of pleasure and into blessed oblivion.
Rykal fucked her body with his hand, her juices coating his fingers as he moved inside her. His finger was thicker than some men she’d had sex with in the past – which wasn’t saying much for her previous lovers – and he knew to curl it in such a way to press against that secret spot deep inside her that would push her over the edge.
Her body shook and she lost the ability to hold back; she moaned and sighed, gasping for air as though she were close to death. Her nipples were hard, and the cold air of the room made them electric with their sensitivity. It was too much and not enough; she wanted more than she knew her body could handle, and yet didn’t want things to be so much that she wouldn’t remember.
Rykal groaned against her pussy and moved his hand in such a way that she couldn’t stop the burst of pleasure as her orgasm ripped through her. She screamed as she grabbed at his head, trying to push him away as she pulled him closer; the waves of release burned her even as they sated her desire.
Finally, he pulled away, letting her legs fall to the bed with a dull thud. It took her a moment to find the energy to open her eyes once again, but when she did, Lena was granted with the vision of Rykal kneeling over her, his cock as hard as ever and his blue gaze locked on her face.
“I’m going to mate with you now.”
Lena couldn’t have stopped him even if she’d wanted. And she most definitely did not want him to stop.
Instead of sliding his cock inside her and taking his pleasure. Rykal reached down and turned her around. “On your hands and knees.”
She nodded, though it took effort to make her body comply, wanting nothing more than to give in to her exhaustion and lie there while he fucked her. Once she moved, widening her stance so he could find her opening from behind, she found another tremble of desire roll through her. Shit, maybe there’s something in the water here that makes a woman extra horny.
He grabbed her hips with his large hands and squeezed her hard as he lined up his cock and thrust forward. Lena gasped when he filled her as far as he could go, her pussy clenching around his shaft. Rykal wasn’t gentle with her, but there was still a worship about him whenever he placed his hands on her body. He flexed his grip on her once more as he pulled back. “I’m going to make you mine.”
“Yes, okay.”
He thrust forward hard enough to jolt her body. “You’re mine. Say it.”
“I’m…” She’d never given herself to a man like this before – cyborg, alien or human – and she couldn’t help but hold back.
Rykal let out a sound that could have been a roar or a growl. “Say it. Lena, say it.”
He punctuated each word with a thrust hard and deep into her pussy. Each time he fully connected, her clit jolted and the pleasure began to grow more. She didn’t want to give him what he wanted, scared that it would end things too quickly, that she’d be lying to him or give something that she’d never be able to get back. A part of her soul that she’d need to continue living out here on the edge of the galaxy.
Instead, she closed her eyes and pressed her cheek to the mattress as he continued to fuck her from behind. Her breasts swung, grazing her nipples against the rough material of the blanket. Her body was still sensitive from her previous orgasm, and coupled with Rykal’s raging desire, Lena knew it wouldn’t take much for her to come a second time. What she wasn’t expecting was for Rykal to reach down and hook his arms beneath her shoulder, to then pull her up into a sitting position on his lap. He had the strength to continue to fuck her hard, thrusting up into her willing body as he grabbed her breasts and teased her nipples.
“Fucking say it.” He bit the spot on her neck again, harder this time, marking her. “You’re mine.”
Lena groaned, letting her head fall back against him and giving her body over to him. “Yes.”
“Say it.”
“I’m yours.”
He pinched her nipples, and she bucked down not sure if she was trying to escape his touch or get more of it. “Again.”
“I’m yours.” She sobbed, the pleasure and pain mixing in her to the point where she couldn’t tell one from the other. “Please.”
Shifting his hand, he slid it down her body to her pussy. “Is this what you want?”
Her voice failed her, and all Lena could do was nod and pray that he understood.
“I want to feel your release. I want to smell and hear you. I want you to know that it was me who brought you to this place.”
Oh, him and his filthy mouth. “Yes, yes.”
He pressed his finger to her clit as he sucked on the wound on her neck and thrust up into her. It was all too much and Lena cried out. If h
er previous orgasm was a wave, then this was a fucking tsunami. Her voice abandoned her, leaving her lips parted in a voiceless scream. Her pussy clamped down hard on his cock as he pounded into her. His hands moved back to her breasts as he shifted her so he could press his forehead against the back of her shoulder.
She felt his cock pulse inside her before he tilted his head back and roared. His body shook, his thrusting became stuttered and ragged. His seed filled her, easing his thrusts until they finally stopped.
They sat there, clinging to each other, breathing hard and ragged as the storm raged outside. Lena’s heart still raced, and she didn’t know what her world would now be like. But one thing was certain; she really did belong to Rykal.
All she needed to do was figure out exactly what that meant.
Chapter Six
Rykal couldn’t let her go even as her body went limp from the intensity of her release. Lena was in his arms shivering – this time from pleasure – as her heartrate dropped closer to normal. He was becoming familiar with all her bio scans, realizing that somehow this was how he was aware of her moods, her very presence. It should have been impossible for him to have detected her across the vastness of their sector, and yet there was no way he’d be able to not know how she was feeling from this point forward.
She was engrained into his very psyche.
Sliding his hand across her slick, naked breast, he let his systems note every rhythm her body kicked off, needing to remember her like this – happy and sexually sated. He pressed his mouth to the spot he’d bit earlier and licked it softly with his tongue. “More.”
The whimper that slipped from her was endearing. “Not sure I can handle more.”
“You can.” Reaching out with his sensors, he used the data he’d collected to begin to arouse her once again. “I know your body better than you know yourself.”
Avoiding her pussy and her nipples, he began to stroke her sides, the smooth skin of her inner thighs. She was so unlike his kind down here; no rondollo, the female equivalent of his body that would help drive her arousal, but she had hair between her legs. He shifted her in his arms so she lay stretched out across his lap, her body bowed across him, open and exposed. The hair between her legs was curled and damp from her release, making it a joy to slide his fingers through, teasing everyplace except the one spot he knew she’d want him to touch.
“I can see your arousal growing.” He ran his other hand along the swell of her belly. “I can see heat blooming across you as I do this.” He cupped her breast but still left the nipple alone. “And this.” He circled her clit without touching.
Lena arched up, trying to shift into his moving touch with little luck. “Rykal.”
“Not yet. You have to trust that I know how to take care of you. To give you what you need to be happy.”
She sighed and let her head roll to the side as he continued to tease and stroke her side. Time ticked on in his head, as he manipulated her body perfectly to the point where she was enflamed with desire. Her pussy was wet once again and it would take no effort to slide his cock into her willing body.
Instead, Rykal stood, taking her with him.
Lena let out a surprised squeak, struggling to catch her balance even though there was no way he’d let her fall. “I’ve got you.”
Her surprise turned into a low chuckle. “You’re going to give me a heart attack.”
What he wanted to do was fuck her hard and fast so that she’d never want to be with another man – Grus, human or cyborg – ever again. Setting her on her feet in front of the computer console, he placed her hands on the flat surface and bent over her. “Don’t move.”
She held her breath for a moment before nodding her head once. With her standing the way that he was, Rykal had the perfect view of her naked body. Her limbs were long and her red hair even longer as it reached halfway down her back. That flowing, fiery mane was quickly becoming an obsession with him. Wrapping his hand around the strands, Rykal pulled her head backward as he thrust his cock into her waiting pussy. Now he could feel her muscles around his shaft as he looked down at the possessive bite mark on her neck. It consumed him, knowing that he’d done that to her, that she was his and that he’d do anything in the galaxy to keep her safe.
“Rykal.” She moaned as she began to thrust her hips back against him. “Fuck me.”
Yes.
Yes.
Gone was any semblance of restraint; he knew that they were both long past that point. He fucked her with hard, fast thrusts, each one making his body ache for release. But he wouldn’t come, not until she did first. He tugged her hair harder as he squeezed her hips; he wanted to press his fingers to her clit, to force the pleasure onto her, but knew it would be too much. No, he needed to let her body take control, to drive her pleasure to the peak before he’d be able to push her over the edge. Rykal tugged and fucked her until sweat pooled on her lower back and her skin puckered with bumps.
“Please, please, I’m so fucking close.” Her words were so softly spoken, he wasn’t sure she was even aware she said them out loud. “Yes, yes, just like that.”
He swivelled his hips, but knew it wasn’t going to be enough for her. Instead, he leaned over her body and pressed his mouth to the bruise on her shoulder. “You’re mine. This will always be here as a reminder to anyone who might think otherwise. Mine forever. You will do what I want, what I tell you to do. Right now. I want you to fucking come right now and then I’m going to pull out and come all over your back. Mine forever.”
Lena’s body went tight as a wire, before her pussy clamped down on his shaft and she came with a scream. Rykal groaned and pulled back, knowing he wouldn’t have long to do exactly what he’d told her he would. The muscles of her pussy milked his shaft for what felt like an eternity before she finally went limp. It was only then that he pulled his cock from her, and jerked off until streams of his come exploded from him to coat her back in ropey spurts.
Pleasure overrode his internal restraints, and for one blissful moment he felt like the man he’d been before the war, before his life had been stolen from him. There was no fear, dread, or growing coldness that occupied the spaces in his chest; all that was blown away by the warmth of having and needing this human woman from across the void of space.
He came back to his awareness when he felt Lena’s legs shaking to hold herself up beneath the added weight of his body draped across her. Carefully, he stood up and turned her in his arms to hold her in an embrace. “Thank you, little one.”
Her hands felt so small against his chest, as she placed them against his cybernetics. She seemed fascinated by them, no doubt not having seen something quite like them. “Why placed here? It feels like a panel over your heart?”
The memory of the blaster ripping through his chest and into his skin was perfectly preserved. The pain was as fresh today as it had been then, as was the fear that spread within him when he realized he was about to die.
He’d failed his people, his brother, his fellow soldiers. One careless action was all it had taken and it was nearly the undoing of his people in their fight against the Sholle. If Aidric hadn’t been prepared, hadn’t been willing to sacrifice both their souls to save their people, matters would have been far worse.
“Rykal?”
He realized that he hadn’t answered her. “It was necessary.” She frowned for a moment before it morphed into a yawn. “Let me take you to bed.”
Her eyes widened. “I don’t think I could come again if I tried.”
“To rest. You will need your sleep, for once the storm is over, we’ll need to leave quickly and return to my people before the Grus find us.”
Ignoring her confused expression, he scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the bed. Her eyes were closed, and she sighed softly as sleep immediately overcame her. He tucked the blanket around her, letting his gaze roam over her body. She was so unlike any of the Grus women he’d been with in the past, and yet every inch of her skin was perfec
tly familiar to him. Lena of Earth was the woman who could fix him in a way he hadn’t realized was broken. For the first time since his rebirth, Rykal felt right with the universe.
The communication console crackled to life, indicating that a transmission was incoming. “About fracking time, Darrick.”
He pressed in his code and the screen flared to life. Instead of Darrick’s expected presence, he was now faced with the stern, heartless eyes of Aidric. “You fool. What have you done?”
Rykal couldn’t stop his teeth from grinding together. “What I needed to make sure she was safe.”
“You know nothing about her or her people. They could have been sent by the Sholle to infiltrate our planet.” Aidric leaned forward, moving his face closer to the screen. “You’re putting us all at risk.”
The mere thought of Lena being an operative of the Sholle nearly sent Rykal’s systems into overload. “She and all her people are from Earth. They’re escaping their own wars and chose to come here to find peace.”
Aidric closed his eyes briefly, the only indication Rykal had that his brother was barely controlling his rage. “If that’s the truth, then we would have discovered it after talking with her.”
“You mean interrogation.”
“It’s the same thing.” Aidric straightened once more. “You’ve now made a peaceful investigation impossible. I might be commander of this station, but the high council are the leaders of our people. They are the ones who determine who can and cannot stay on the station, and which actions against us are mandated as detrimental and worthy of attack. You’ve been flagged as being rogue and dangerous. The order to decommission you is the next step.”
It shouldn’t have surprised him, and yet Rykal had to fight to stop himself from stepping away from the screen and ending the conversation immediately. “Why?”
“Why do you think? You kidnapped an alien, injured security personnel and stole a fracking escape pod. You’ve been marked for destruction and the human for imprisonment.”