by Sue Mercury
“I fear I am no longer socially acceptable,” he murmured into her ear. “I am hard as a rock and aching for you, little human. Fluxx, I am going to pound you so hard. I meant what I told you the other day. I want to pump you full of my seed over and over again. I want to make you sore between your thighs and leave no doubt in your mind that you now belong to me.”
Her breath hitched and she squirmed in his arms, but he didn’t release her. He growled and called out a verbal command to his ship. The lights around the vessel illuminated and the boarding ramp descended. He carried her aboard and immediately called out for the ramp to retract and the ship to enter lockdown mode. He had no wish for them to be disturbed.
As he headed down the corridor, in the direction of his quarters, Belle peeked out from his embrace, her eyes wide as she looked around his ship.
“I will give you a tour of my vessel soon,” he said. “After I claim you.”
“Thanks, I’m really looking forward to it.” Her cheeks reddened. “I mean I’m looking forward to the tour. Oh,” she said with a groan, scrubbing a hand over her face. “I-I am looking forward to our mating too. I-I’m just going to stop talking right now.”
He chuckled and carried her into his quarters. The door zipped shut behind them, closing with a faint click. “I know you’re looking forward to our mating, little human. I can smell the wetness that’s gathering between your thighs.”
“You shouldn’t keep smelling me like that. It’s pretty much an invasion of my privacy.”
He inhaled a deep breath and growled. “I cannot help scenting your arousal, sweet Belle. It is not my fault your scent is so pungent when you become excited.” He chuckled when she shot him an outraged yet playful look. His spirits rose further. He was enjoying this teasing interaction between them, for it brought a certain tension to their growing relationship, an undeniable spark of eroticism, even though he hadn’t technically mated with her yet.
Star God, he was drawn to this little human like no other. The exact wording of the mating vows returned to him and as he stared down at her, he repeated them silently in his mind, just to be sure he would get it right. He wanted everything to be perfect during their first time. He wanted her to remember this day for the rest of her life and look back upon the consummation of their mating union with fondness.
Still holding her close, he sank down on the bed and kissed her soundly, allowing his tongue to vibrate against hers as he reveled in her moans and whimpers. Not for the first time, he mused that she made the most adorable noises. He also kept taking deep inhales through his nose, just because he couldn’t get enough of her feminine scent. He pulled away from her and sat her next to him on the bed, anxious to get her clothes off. The sooner he undressed her, the sooner he might bury his face between her thighs.
She peered at him for a moment, her eyes clouded with what he thought was worry, then her gaze flickered around the room and she finally stared at her lap. Her hands were shaking at her sides, and he noticed her legs were trembling too.
He grasped her chin, guiding her eyes to his. “You have nothing to fear, my sweet mate. Though I have promised to pound into you, I will not truly hurt you. You are a precious gift to me, a gift I will thank the Star God for every day for the rest of my life.” He paused, his chest swelling with emotion. “When I arrived on Earth, there was a darkness inside me that I feared would blacken my soul forever. But being in your presence these last few days has given me hope. For the first time since the war, I’m warm and light inside. Perhaps I’m doing a poor job of explaining what I feel for you, Belle, but it’s as though you’ve healed me, as though you have saved me.” He cupped her face and pressed a lingering kiss to her forehead.
Chapter 19
As though you have saved me.
Khann’s declaration repeated in Belle’s mind. His affectionate profession stunned her and for several long moments she simply stared at him, unsure of how to respond. How could she admit to feeling a warmth for him too after what his people had done to Mikkal? Her heart brimmed with conflict.
He saved you too, she reminded herself. He’d promised to look into what happened on the Dreusha Outpost. He’d promised to always take care of her and Amie. And he’d also promised to bring Molly back to New Vaxx and allow her to select her own mate. How could she lump him in with the cruel bloodthirsty Vaxxlians who had stormed the Dreusha Outpost? She couldn’t, and she felt the final thread of her resistance snap.
She reached for him and cupped his huge face in her hands, needing to touch him and peer as closely into his eyes as she could. His were glowing a deep green shade and he looked so handsome it nearly took her breath away. She could scarcely believe this big strong warrior was about to become her mate. For life.
“Khann,” she eventually said, “I feel a warmth in my heart for you as well. I was nervous about meeting you, and to be honest I worried you might be cruel, given what the human girl at that outpost told me about the Vaxxlians who killed her adoptive father. But I’ve watched you interact with Amie and every time you make her smile my heart sings. You saved my life and you brought me hope. You are a decent male, more than decent—remarkably warm and kind and even funny—and I feel honored and lucky that I will be your mate.”
Khann grinned. “My brothers would be shocked to hear someone refer to me as ‘funny.’ They often tease me for being too serious.”
She chuckled. “Well you are funny,” she said. “The games you play with Amie, you just always know how to make her smile. I’m glad you’re going to be her father. I know you’ll take care of her and protect her always.”
He placed one of his hands over hers and leaned into her touch. “I would give my life to keep both you and Amie safe, little human. Know that there is nothing I wouldn’t do for my new family.” He paused and his eyes shone brighter. “Thank you for telling me the truth of your feelings for me. I think it is only a matter of time before we fall in love.”
Love. She’d never thought she would love again. After losing Mikkal and then Dalton, she had thought herself incapable of ever experiencing the emotion again. She’d thought Amie would be the only person in the universe of whom she was capable of feeling any tenderness at all. But with Khann… her heart ached with grief at the possibility of losing him. She resolved that as soon as she could, she would tell him the truth about her upbringing. But for now, she wanted to mate with him, wanted to officially seal their union.
He kissed her shoulder and proceeded to lift her dress up, pulling it over her head and tossing it to the floor. She sat next to him, wearing nothing but a bra and panties, as well as a pair of slip-on sandals. He reached for her feet and drew her shoes off, then started undressing himself. First, he removed his belt, which still held his blaster, carefully placing it on the bedside table. She watched in fascination as he yanked his shirt off next, but she soon gasped at the large but faded scars that crossed over his chest.
“What happened? And why haven’t your nanobots healed you?”
He glanced down. “I was captured and tortured by the Irrcons,” he said, his gaze suddenly appearing haunted. “But I managed to escape before they killed me. As for the nanobots, this happened early on in the war, well before the nanobots were developed. The injection I eventually received healed some of my lingering injuries, but the scars are permanent. I hope they do not bother you.”
She swallowed hard and fought back a shudder. “The scars don’t bother me, Khann,” she said, giving him a comforting look. “I’m so sorry that happened to you. I’m glad you’re okay.”
“It’s but a memory now,” he said, moving closer to her.
She noticed that beneath the scarring, his chest was a large expanse of hard muscles. At first, she thought he had a perfect eight-pack, but upon further inspection, she found it was a ten-pack. She could easily imagine him escaping the Irrcons, or anyone else who tried to hold him captive.
Her gaze traveled up to his sizable biceps. He was built like a god and lik
ely as powerful as one. And he was about to mate with her. Her pulse accelerated and her blood heated. Pangs of aching desire affected her between her thighs, and she was fairly certain her panties were soaked through by now.
Her mouth went dry when he rose to his feet and kicked his boots off. He met her gaze and unfastened his pants. She gulped hard as he began tugging them down. His thighs were massive and muscular, and she couldn’t stop staring. Every inch of his huge body was perfect. When her gaze fell upon his immense erection, she couldn’t restrain a gasp. Her eyes widened.
“Wow, Khann. I, um, I can see how you might make me sore with that thing.” Her face heated and she squirmed in place, imagining how it would feel when he finally impaled her with his big, thick cock.
“As wet as I suspect you are, little human, I do not think you’ll have much difficulty accommodating my size.” He waggled his eyebrows in a playful manner that both warmed her heart and helped ease her nervousness.
He kicked his clothes aside and approached her, his impressive manhood jutting out in front of him, a pearly drop of precum on its tip. She had the sudden urge to lurch forward and take him into her mouth, but before she could achieve her goal, he had her flipped on her back and was ripping her panties off. After he tore them from her body, he tossed the remnants aside and applied the same treatment to her bra.
“I’m going to taste you first, Belle.” He eyed her center. “Spread those thighs and present your pussy to me. I’m going to feast upon you until you scream my name and tremble under a quaking release.”
A thrill rushed through her and she parted her legs. Pleasure coiled tight in her center and he hadn’t even touched her yet. When he lowered his face between her thighs, she quivered with need and whimpered. The first touch of his tongue to her nether folds sent a jolt of sensation spiraling up and down her entire body.
She fisted the covers in her hands and squirmed against his mouth. He licked at her slowly, patiently, and she soon realized he was attempting to tease her. She gave a growl of frustration. He was lapping his tongue everywhere but the part of her that throbbed the most fervently—her pulsing clit.
She reached down and ran her hands through his dark locks and gyrated herself against his face. “Please, Khann. Please.” Her breasts felt heavy, her nipples tight and aching. She was breathless and filled with so much longing she thought she might scream. If he didn’t show her mercy soon, she might even succumb to temptation and reach down between her own thighs.
“Ask me to tend to your clit, little human.” He peered up at her, his eyes still glowing bright green. “Ask me to feast upon your swollen pussy and make you come.”
Khann waited for Belle to follow his instructions. He shot her a stern look when she hesitated. Her chest heaved up and down under her increasing breaths and his mouth watered when he looked upon hardened nipples. He would suckle upon those peaks soon enough, but for now he wanted to taste her essence, to feel her fall apart upon his vibrating tongue.
“I’m waiting.” He lifted an eyebrow at her. “Ask me, little human.”
To his shock, she started reaching between her thighs. He gave her hand a gentle swat, and once she obediently returned her hands to her sides, he placed two fingers at her wet entrance and started pushing them inside. She closed her eyes, a deep, needy moan escaping her.
“Okay, okay,” she said in a breathless rush. “Please, Khann. Please will you, um, tend to my clit and make me come?”
With his digits still lodged inside her, he bent down to satisfy her request. He pushed his fingers further into her depths and ran his tongue in circles around her engorged clit. The nubbin pulsed against his tongue as if asking for more. As he thrust his fingers in and out of her pussy, he vibrated his tongue upon her clit, basking in her noises of pleasure.
Her folds were wet and swollen, her clit even more so, and he mused that he would never tire of feasting upon her like this, of bringing her to bliss with his mouth alone. He increased the vibrations on her nubbin and pumped his digits faster, going even deeper than before.
“Oh!” She writhed on the bed and his cock hardened at the sight of her lost in the building ecstasy, sensations he alone was creating within her.
Moments later, she shattered to pieces, crying out his name as she undulated her center against his mouth, her fingers digging into his scalp. He withdrew after the last shuddering quake affected her, wiped his mouth on the back of his hand, and looked upon her wetness, his gaze focused on her still-engorged clit. She was just as responsive in bed as he had imagined, and they hadn’t even completed the mating ceremony yet.
He waited until she caught her breath, then he sat up and pulled her onto his lap. He ran his hands through her hair, caressing her and holding her as she came down from the heights of pleasure. Her eyes remained clouded for some time, but eventually her gaze cleared and she met his stare, a dreamy look about her.
“Khann,” she said, “that was… wow.” She gave him a small smile and he hugged her tighter.
Still holding her, he reached into a pouch on his belt and withdrew a small black box. He opened it and withdrew a dainty silver bracelet that was surrounded by rare gemstones from his native Vaxxlia. He slipped it onto her wrist and closed the clasp. “I want you to wear this always, little human, as a reminder that our hearts and souls have joined as one.” Before they’d departed New Vaxx, he and his brother Myadd had visited a skilled artisan in Starrzia to have identical bracelets made for each of their mates, Axall’s mate too, deciding it would be wise to present gifts to their human females.
She blinked back tears and smiled up at him. “Oh, Khann. Thank you. It’s beautiful,” she said, moving her wrist around so the gemstones would catch the light. “I’ll never take it off.”
“It is time we repeat our mating vows, sweet Belle.” He brushed her hair from her face. “And then I will drive my cock into you and make you mine.” He growled deep in his throat. “My mate. My female. Mine.”
Chapter 20
“Repeat after me,” Khann said, his throat burning with emotion. “I give you my soul, my body, and my heart.” Stroking her cheek, he waited for her to utter the first part of the traditional Vaxxlian mating vows.
“I give you my soul, my body, and my heart,” she said, tears brimming in her eyes.
“Upon this mating, I am yours and you are mine.” He kissed her forehead and breathed in the scent of her.
“Upon this mating, I am yours and you are mine,” she repeated, smiling at him as a lone tear cascaded down her cheek.
He pressed his lips to her face, kissing away the tear. “May the Star God bless our union.”
“May-may the Star God bless our union.” She sniffled and another tear escaped. He kissed this one away too. “Is-is that the whole thing?”
“Yes,” he said, meeting her eyes. “Now we must physically join our bodies. Then you will belong to me, in the eyes of my people.” A sense of power and responsibility flowed through him. He had never been charged with the care of a female before. He liked the feeling and he silently promised himself to always put her needs first.
“I’m ready, Khann,” she said, her voice coming out a bit hoarse.
He placed her on the bed, carefully laying her head on the pillow, and urged her thighs to part. He rested the tip of his hard cock at her wet entrance, aching with the need to be buried deep inside her. He ran his length up and down her slit and gripped her hips, steadying her for what was to come.
When he surged forward, driving all the way inside her, she cried out and reached for him, wrapping her arms around him and digging her nails into his back. A steady growl issued from his throat. Fluxx. She was so tight, this small human female who had captured his heart. He withdrew from her center, only to drive straight back in an instant later.
He moved slowly at first, wanting to give her time to become used to his size. A tiny female like her was not built to accept the manhood of a Vaxxlian, but they would make it work. Gradually, he b
uilt his speed. Thrusting became easier as her moisture grew, her body finally welcoming him inside.
Her inner muscles clamped down around his hardness, testing his resolve. But he continued on and managed to refrain from spilling himself in her depths just yet. The sound of flesh slapping flesh soon filled the room as his scrotum struck her bottom with each rapid drive. He tightened his grip on her hips and pounded her harder. A haze of desire consumed him.
To his astonishment, her face contorted, and she cried out in pleasure yet again, tossing her head from side to side as she found her release.
As he joined with his human, he never once broke eye contact with her. Eventually, he released her hips and cupped her face, leaning down to kiss her as he continued ramming into her tightness. Star God, he had never in a thousand years imagined it might be like this. The experience of mating with his human was transcendent.
When his balls tensed and a jolt of sensation shot up his inner thighs, he couldn’t hold back any longer. Still kissing her, he growled into her mouth as his cock jerked inside her, his seed finally spurting into her.
It was done. Belle officially belonged to him.
Not yet withdrawing from her center, he pulled her to his chest with one arm and hugged her. Next, he placed a kiss upon her forehead, her eyelids, and her cheeks, seeking closeness with the sweet human female who had thoroughly entranced him. Until the end of his days, he would have no other.
“Belle,” he said, “my Belle.”
She reached for him and stroked her hands through his hair.
“Did I hurt you?” he asked, though he doubted it was possible. Though he’d mentioned making her sore during their mating several times, in truth the nanobots would prevent such an injury.
“No,” she said after a moment. “I-I feel remarkably fine.” She gave him a mischievous look. “Come to think of it, I’m not sore at all. I daresay you, Mr. Big Alien Warrior, didn’t pound me hard enough, after all.”