They had reached the park and Kenzie was drawn into a group of friends. The talk soon became heated. Weston was rallying them into a frenzy. Trying to map their future plans. She stepped aside and got everyone's attention.
“I’m sorry. I’m tired and I did agree to speak with Steph before retiring for the night.” She moved to walk away and waved Weston back, “I will see you tomorrow at The Watering Hole.”
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Kenzie couldn’t believe the week she had endured. Weston arrived early every morning to take her around Terraneu. There was always some group he wanted her to talk with, some complaint the refugees had that she needed to hear. In her opinion, they were acting like spoiled children and she had almost laughed when they got an eye-opening reminder that this wasn’t Earth.
It was at the dual council meeting a week after their arrival that Kniam had sternly, but kindly, reminded them of the rules. Females took their issues to a female council member, males to a male…period. It was simple and it worked. If you wanted to try your hand at any job, you volunteered to do it. If you wanted to create a new dome, with a new service, you did it. He had continued on with the general rules for dating and mates. Kenzie had caught Knacayn’s eye and she couldn’t look away. His eyes were burning with emotion.
Before she could break away to talk with Knacayn, Weston had stormed away from the meeting, dragging her with him. Kenzie had followed along despondently. The only relief she had from the Earth refugees were her nightly walks with Knacayn. He would come for her when Weston dropped her off. They would tour around the community, Knacayn showed her Terraneu through his eyes. The wrestling matches, the games, the park and swimming pond. She got to feel the mist on her face when it rained. Smell the heady scent of flowers on the night air. Since it didn’t get cold, they were able to stay out as long as they wanted. They laughed, talked, teased and got to know each other.
“We have to branch out on our own.” Weston was railing and Kenzie came crashing back from her private thoughts. She wasn’t sure if anyone agreed. Most of the others were just listening out of politeness. “We need to be more independent.”
“I’m sorry I don’t agree.” She stepped back from the group. When Weston went to interrupt her, she snapped. “Please let me finish.” She waited for everyone to stop sputtering and then continued, “I will be having the change done and staying in this community.” This caused some slight murmuring and she waited for it to die down. “I’m tired of all the fighting and dissemination. I want to live here in peace within the system they have already established. We don’t need extra concessions. We are a part of this community if we want to be. They already have rules in place to keep the peace and make for a content life. If any of you choose to go into the wilds to make a new life for yourselves, I wish you well. I will not be a part of that.” When Weston went to draw her aside to speak with her she stood firm, “Also. I know you may have been counting on my being a part of the female council but I have not been asked—”
“You’ll be asked Kenzie…of course they want you to be a part of their leadership.” Weston spoke again and Kenzie’s temper flared to life.
“Weston. I can speak for myself. I’m sorry to be so blunt but please stop speaking for me.” She broke him off, she didn’t want to hear about a life on the council and being their voice. “I’ll be happy to be friends and talk with you as such, but I will not be bringing any issues to the councils. Kniam made it clear what his expectations are. I’m not going to be a liaison here on Terraneu. That is not a role I want any longer. We are all allowed to make our own lives here. I am making mine.”
“Kenzie you can’t be serious.” Weston tried to laugh and it came out tight, without humor. “You just need a few nights’ rest to come to your senses.”
“That is where you are wrong Weston.” She realized a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. “I’m fully aware of what my decision means and I embrace it.” Smiling at the group around her, a huge smile, full of contentment, she advised, “I want this kind of happiness for all of you. Find what will make you fulfilled and make that part of your life here on Terraneu. Nothing is standing in your way.”
“Kenzie, please re-think—” Weston grabbed her arm as she stepped away from the group and he followed.
“I’m sorry Weston. Life here isn’t going to be like it was on Earth. I would have stayed and made a life there. Working on the new community, dating…” she faltered.
“That dream is gone isn’t it.” He sounded defeated and a part of Kenzie felt beaten for him. “You would have settled for me…which is something I’ve been trying not to see.” He looked at her with sadness pouring off of him.
“I am sorry Weston. You deserve to find what makes you happy.” For all of his assumptions about what she would want, he wasn’t a bad person. He had just been holding on too tightly to the idea of them being together. Perhaps making a life here on Terraneu that would have been closer to Earth. Which she realized wasn’t going to happen. Her eyes had been opened and she wasn’t going to close them to reality anymore.
“You have real feelings for Knacayn don’t you?” he asked and this time, there wasn’t a hint of jealousy or anger, just sad acceptance.
“I do.” She felt like shouting it to the world. She had been trying to say and do the right thing for so long, this time, she was able to say what was truly inside her. She had deep feelings for Knacayn. “I’m sorry to run like this Weston, but I need to find Steph. We can talk again later. Tomorrow at the swimming pond.” She gave him a quick hug and ran along the path to find her friend.
Chapter Twelve
Kenzie paced her room like a caged animal. She had found Steph and told her everything that had happened. Her friend had listened and didn’t say anything until she had proposed her idea. “Are you sure?” Steph had asked and since she was adamant her friend had agreed. “Okay. I’m with you.”
It was hours later, how many Kenzie wasn’t sure. Steph had run off with Mallex and she was left here wondering what to do now. When she heard her door chime, she called out. “Come in.”
She had been in the bathroom getting some water since that is the weird place they kept their glasses. “What—” she had been about to ask, ‘what can I do for you?’ when she ran into a solid form coming through the doorway she knew instantly it was Knacayn. The way her body tightened and her heart raced. Her eyes flew up his bare chest to land on his mouth.
“Kenzie—” his voice was thick with questions.
She wasn’t in the mood to talk. She had been thinking about all the short, sweet goodnight kisses he gave her after their walks. Being a bold new woman, she threw caution and years of waiting to the wind. The glass dropped from her fingers to land with a thud on the ground. Before she could think twice her arms were around his neck and her fingers were finally playing in that sinfully thick, silky black hair at his neck.
Without a word, she urged him to lean down for her. Thankfully he didn’t say anything else and their mouths met. Her eyes had been closed but flew open at the heat his lips generated against hers. When his tongue flicked out, her lashes swept down again and she let herself get lost in the moment. His kiss was unlike anything she had ever experienced. The fullness of his lips pressing into hers, the tang of his tongue as it swept into her mouth. She opened her lips in invitation and he answered with small, thrusting invasions of his tongue that she answered with hers.
She had never felt an excitement like this in her life. One kiss and she was more aroused than all the foreplay she had ever had. Sex wasn’t something she had never sampled, there were guys she had been intimate with. The sensations Knacayn was able to evoke in her were entirely new and altogether intoxicating.
Without breaking the contact of their lips, Kenzie felt herself being pushed back. When the wall became an obstacle at her back, she just used the opportunity to press herself harder against his front. Since he was wearing the usual open black vest, her breasts were able to rub against h
is skin. With only the thin material of her dress between them, her nipples hardened after mere moments. His hard arousal was pressing into her belly, the leather pants did not do a great job of hiding his excitement. Her back was arched and her leg wound around his leg. This allowed her to rub against him. Her fingers were digging into this hair and holding tight while their mouths continued their rubbing, clashing fight for supremacy.
Realizing she was getting light headed, she broke the kiss. His lips instantly went on a trail along her neck to her collarbone. “So beautiful,” he whispered hoarsely. “So desirable.”
“You could say that now.” She laughed huskily.
“I would have said it before.” He answered and she knew it was true.
“Talk later.” Kenzie was feverish in her desire to be closer to Knacayn. In order to keep him from protesting, if that was what he was going to do, she kissed him again. This time with all the desire she felt. The spark that seemed to always be present between them burned hotter and she soon forgot what they needed to talk about. When his hands found her now ripe bosom she gasped. She had breasts…that is what they needed to talk about.
She had done the change with Steph. As a show to the others that she wanted to be a part of Terraneu without reservations. Knacayn’s hands weren’t palming her flat nubs, they were filled with her nicely rounded ones. Who would have figured she would have ended up with a form like this? Her hair fell in waves to the top of her rounded bottom and was a nice auburn color. Her skin was cleared of all scabs, scars, and sores. She was still slightly pale, but since she needed a lot of sunlight to keep her healthy, she was expecting to be nicely tanned soon enough. Her eyes flashed a strange, almost amber color when she had looked in the mirror. She was told by Gwen, the resident doctor, they would take on a purple hue around the edges and then be fully purple in a few hundred years.
When Knacayn’s thumb brushed across her sensitive nipple she snapped out of her musings and concentrated on what she was feeling. Groaning into their kiss, she unlatched her leg from around his thigh and started walking them backward. She needed to find the bed, but as long as she was at it, she figured she would help Knacayn out of his clothes. Running her hands over his shoulders, the vest was quickly thrown across the room. He had been massaging her bottom but had to move his arms away for a moment. When they came back it was to her lower back to play in her hair.
The fastening of his pants was next on her agenda and she made quick work to get them open. His arousal was straining so hard against his pants when she opened the clasp he sprang out. The thought that Knacayn was commando flashed through her mind, then she ceased to care when his marbled warmth was in her hand. How could something be so soft and hard at the same time? Working one hand against him, she used the other to try to push his pants down. She might have had some success if it weren’t for his thickly muscled ass. She couldn’t seem to get his pants over his butt! She would have to break the kiss and let go of his glorious hair to get them off, which she didn’t want to do.
Her dilemma was solved when Knacayn let go of her lower back and pushed his pants off. Taking small steps until they were kicked away, the pants finally went flying. With his hands free of her back, he must have decided to get rid of her dress. His deft fingers made short work of her knots and the dress was hanging on her breasts, then at her hips, then left in a pile in their haste to make it to the bed.
When she had asked for undergarments, she was told they didn’t usually wear the tops, unless it was swimwear. However, she was shown a wide array of panties. The thong she was wearing now was a lacy black number. Feeling the bed hit her bottom she went to break the kiss, but Knacayn must have sensed it too because amazingly he lifted her and with a small bounce she was lying on the bed. Her knees were pushed up and out and Knacayn was bending between her thighs. His hot breath on the sensitive spot on her knee, then her thigh…then the inner thigh and zing. He didn’t even bother to take off her thong before his hot mouth was making her eyes cross. She was almost embarrassed by how wet she was but the sexy growling noises Knacayn was making pushed all other thoughts away. Without moving his mouth from the center of her heat, he lifted her hips and the thong was gone. Now she knew why they made them to be easily ripped off. Nothing was between Knacayn’s tongue and her flesh and he was making the most of the situation. She didn’t last long under the onslaught of his mouth and tongue. With a startled gasp she was spasming and jerking under his hands.
She lay there like a boneless mush, languid with pleasure. She couldn’t possibly move. Opening her eyes to see Knacayn nestling into the spot between her open legs she had to rethink her previous assessment. She might be able to move if needed. Judging by the turgid length of his arousal, it was definitely needed. Taking him in hand as he settled against her she realized with a small thrill that her fingers could barely close around his girth. This might be interesting. She wasn’t a virgin but the partners she had before Knacayn were not as well endowed.
“Knacayn…” she began, only to let go when he flexed his hips forward. “I’m not sure…” she began again when the tip left her opening and he pulled back.
“It will be okay Kenzie.” He was holding his weight off her with his arms at her shoulders. She could see down their bodies as he strained to hold himself back. When he pressed forward a second time, she raised her hips to meet him. This caused him to go deeper, stretching her with his size and she gasped. He instantly stilled and went to pull back again.
“No…don’t stop.” She wrapped her legs around the backs of his thighs. “It feels so good.”
“Are you sure?” He pushed a bit deeper. Flexing back and forth with his hips.
“Yes.” Kenzie gasped breathlessly. She was wetting him with every thrust and knew she would be able to sheath all of him. Moving her hips under him, she drew him deeper, the way she wanted him. He was trying to go slow and gently. Now that he was slick with her juices, she wanted him to let loose. Since harder and deeper was what she wanted, “Harder.” She gasped between thrusts, “deeper.”
“I don’t want to hurt you. You seem so small,” he panted.
“You won’t.” She was writhing under him, trying to show him she was ready. It was all the encouragement he needed. He increased the ferocity of his movements. He wasn’t hurting her by any means, he was just using his body mass to pound her into the mattress. It was the most amazing sex she had ever experienced and it wasn’t going to last long. She could feel him swelling larger and knew he had to be close to exploding.
Taking her legs and drawing them higher until her calves were resting on his lower back she strained against him. She wasn’t able to raise her hips like she would prefer, but this position drew him as deep as he could go.
“Kenzie…don’t…” he thrust deeply a few more times and suddenly stiffened. She felt his release inside her and her body responded spasming along with him. Groaning, he collapsed to her side, drawing her against his length. “You are incredible.”
“I would say the same about you.” Kenzie laughed, her fingers tracing his chest and stomach. Her fingers looked like porcelain against his darkly tanned skin. When she went to go lower, he grabbed her hand and pressed it flat. She was amazed when the muscles bunched and trembled against her fingers. Her touch, could cause that reaction in him? She wondered.
“I need a few minutes to recover.” He teased with a glint of passion in his purple eyes.
“I wasn’t trying to entice you to more sex.” Kenzie joked back, laying her head against his chest. Knacayn decided to join in the exploration. His fingers moved along her back. Fingering her hair and moving to the next spot.
“Do you want to talk about anything?” his voice rumbled through her. The rise and fall of his breaths relaxing her.
“About why I had the change done?” she asked. “Or why I jumped on you when you walked into my dome?”
He laughed and her head bounced on his chest. “Start with why you had the change done.”
“I imagine it was similar to mine.” Knacayn’s voice held a hint of laughter. “So…why did you ‘jump on me’ when I entered your dome?” He rubbed her back softly, “Not that I am complaining.”
Kenzie took a moment to answer. She knew Knacayn was asking her if she was committing to him. She knew before initiating intimacy with him that he would not accept her dating other men. He was just confirming she knew his expectations.
Kenzie began, “I had to be intimate with you so I would know how deep our bond was. I know now, I only want one person to be mine…”
His fingers stilled when she paused. “Which person?” he asked uncertainly.
“Oh, Knacayn. You of course.” She let out a startled gasp when he suddenly pulled her to cover him. Their bodies were touching from hip to chest.
“You will not be disappointed in choosing me.” He ran his hands down her back.
“I know I won’t Knacayn. You are honest. Loyal. Supportive.” She punctuated each virtue with a kiss and soon they were lost in passion again.
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