by Lisa Lace
Chapter Twenty-Seven
EMMY
I leaned into Ven’s side, putting my arm around his waist. He smelled wonderful. I couldn’t wait to take him home. It was our one-year wedding anniversary today, and I was going to give him a gift he would remember for a long time. The new lingerie I was wearing was only the first part.
Distracted by Ven’s delicious scent, I had missed whatever Morley was talking about. We were part of a small crowd of archeologists in a beautiful new building. Morley was making a speech and would soon cut a ribbon opening the Morley Davidson Wellness Center featuring the Silver Mestolo of Zelia. Modern technologically-based security heavily guarded the ladle. No more rolling stone wheels.
The plan was for the center to treat terminally ill patients who were incurable. People could take a drink from the ladle, then get educated on how to keep themselves healthy. A wellness center had been Morley’s dream since he first learned about the ladle. From the time he started on the adventure to heal his brother, he had focused on this goal.
Surprisingly, Abel was at his side. He was shocked by his near-death experience and went through a change of heart. He apologized and asked for Morley’s forgiveness. Reconciling with his brother made Morley happier than I had ever seen him before. He loved his brother and was deeply hurt by their schism.
I was happy for my mentor and planned on working with him for a long time. We had all taken a drink from the ladle, of course. We expected the single drink to increase our life span by thirty years.
Ven had found a purpose in his life. He decided to go back to school and was taking courses in archeology. He had discovered a new interest. Once he graduated, we would work side-by-side, hunting down artifacts and learning from the wisdom of the ancients.
In the ceremony, Morley was cutting the ribbon. Ven squeezed my hand, and we smiled at each other, briefly releasing our hands so we could clap. He leaned down to whisper in my ear. “I can’t wait to get you home.” His breath sent tingles down to my core.
“Oh?” I tried to play innocent. “Why would that be?”
“I know what you’re wearing under your dress.”
I blushed and bit my lip, trying not to smile. “I have a present for you.” I gave him a coy look.
“As long as it’s not something dusty and old, I’ll take it. I’ve had enough of that to last a lifetime.” He grinned at me.
“I wouldn’t give you an ancient artifact for our anniversary. This gift is much wetter and is definitely alive.”
His eyes darkened, and I drew in a breath at the sight of his desire.
“I’ll search for that treasure any day, my love.” He gave me an intense look that set my core on fire. We made our way to congratulate Morley. Now that the ceremony was over, we were ready to go home. Neither of us could wait to celebrate our first year of marriage.
We hurried home, both of us on edge. As soon as we entered the bedroom, he pushed me up against the door and started kissing all over my body. Soon we were both so wound up that we couldn’t wait another minute. He quickly stripped off my dress and made quick work of his clothes.
He paused for a moment when he saw my bright red lingerie. It was a red satin bra and matching panties. “Those look fantastic, but right now, they’ve got to go.”
I didn’t care as long as he fucked me immediately. I could wear them another time. In fact, I didn’t have to wait for him to undress me. He was naked already, and I pushed him onto his back on the bed. His eyebrows flicked up. I usually let him take the lead, but not this time. I needed him. I was going to take what I wanted.
He moved back until he was against the headboard. He watched me slowly undo the clasp of my bra and pull it off. I heard his breath catch when my breasts came into view. Then I slid out of my panties and dropped them on the floor, crawling over to him, ready to take him and make him mine.
I had already soaked my underwear, so I knew I was ready. I positioned myself over him and slowly took his cock into my body. He filled me, and I closed my eyes in ecstasy at the sensation of being penetrated deep inside my core. I sank completely, covering the last inch of his cock and making our pelvises flush.
I couldn’t speak. I felt my orgasm building already, and I had barely moved. I raised myself up and let him push back inside. It felt amazing. I rode up and down on him, increasing my pleasure. He rubbed against my G-spot in a way that drove me crazy.
“That’s good, Emmy. Ride me.” Ven moved his hands to my hips. He leaned forward and took one of my nipples into his hot mouth. I gasped at the feeling and started to rock faster. He sucked hard, then switched to the other side. That was enough.
I came hard, moaning and contracting around him. He held my hips still and drove up into me several times before he stiffened and emptied himself into me. I wrapped my arms around him and held on as shudders wracked my body. The bliss continued until I finally stopped moving and collapsed with my head on his shoulder, feeling spent.
After a while, he whispered to me. “You’re my treasure, and I’m glad I found you. I love you.”
“I love you, too.” I had a lazy grin on my face. He said kissed me until I forgot treasure hunting, archeology, and everything except for him.
“Now that you’ve found me, what are you going to do with me?” I gazed into his eyes.
“I’m going to hold onto you and never let you go.”
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TERRA
The new planet was beautiful, but it was not my home.
I left the bed I shared with my alien lover and looked out of the window of our small hut onto the lush jungle below. In this place, we were both aliens.
Our world belonged to neither of us, but it was the only refuge we had now that the Surtu had conquered Earth.
The Surtu. The words were a curse as much as they were a blessing. Having travelled across the universe, the Surtu had come to Earth. Their mission was claiming human women as their mates.
Their females were dying from an incurable disease. The Surtu possessed a unique healing ability, but it was not enough to save them. No one understood how their light healed people. Whatever mysterious forces allowed their powers to work didn’t enable them to eliminate their disease.
Humans were the
closest genetic match in the universe to the Surtu, evident by our physical resemblance. The Surtu were taller and stronger than humans. They had large elfin eyes with flecks of light that danced around the pupils, but we were similar in every other way.
We could mate. Our children grew up healthy, strong, and resistant to the disease the Surtu women suffered, especially when the child was conceived within a light bond.
Our bodies were not a gift we gave freely. The Surtu invaded Earth under the proclamation that they were doing so to prevent their extinction. They declared that women were sacred to them. Everything they said was technically accurate, but their desperation had made them cruel. Humanity was their salvation, but the Surtu were taking us by force.
Our hope lay in some Surtu like Jidden, my lover. My light bonded. A minority of Surtu soldiers had formed an underground network. They helped men, women, and children escape to our new planet, which was in a secret location.
They knew Earth would not succeed in its fight to defend itself against the invasion. The fleets of Surtu ships that made up its military did not outnumber those of humans, but their strength, technology, and ability to heal made up for it.
For me, Jidden was the blessing in everything, the positive that shined within the ash. He had saved me both with his love and with his deeds.
He brought me here almost a month ago, rescuing me from a long journey that had turned me from a mousy pacifist to a lethal assassin with dark auburn hair – Nightshade. I wore the color black like a shield, guarding myself against those who wished to destroy me.
I didn’t have to worry about that here. I was safe, for now, because of Jidden.
In the distance, two suns woke the land with their rays. The sun that appeared smaller was the larger of the two. It was an illusion. One sun was farther out within the depths of space. Its size deceived those who saw it in the sky. It was easy to believe the smaller sun was inferior to the larger one that dominated the day, but it was foolish to judge by size alone.
I clenched my hand against the frame of the window of the hut and felt agitated. The Surtu hierarchy would learn they were wrong about humanity just like people were wrong about the smaller sun. They thought they were the master race, free to torture, and take, and kill.
They were wrong.
Sweat dripped down my hand, falling into tiny crevasses where the wood frame bit into the flesh of my palm. With two suns, it was inevitable that profuse sweat continuously poured from our bodies. The daily rainfall usually washed the sweat away, cooling us just like it cooled the land. The water created lush jungles that surrounded us. The humidity also created unbearable heat.
I tried to focus on something other than my physical condition. Somewhere beyond those suns was Earth. I thought of my family and wondered what had become of them after the Surtu took over. They weighed heavily on my mind, but I was here, and they were there.
I glanced over at Jidden. He lay feverishly on the bed, and his dark hair was messy. It was difficult for both of us to sleep.
I couldn’t ignore the distance growing between us as a couple, and I feared nothing would be the same again.
ONE MONTH EARLIER
We were safe, but the Earth was lost.
Onboard the rescue ship, I held onto Jidden tightly. Part of me wanted to cry, but my anger wouldn’t allow the luxury of tears. It was red and vicious. The rage exploded inside me like a volcano and took away the hope I had when we first took off.
My one solace was Jidden. His love made the wound of losing Earth to the Surtu bearable.
Jidden was of the Surtu. Technically, he was the enemy, but he was no enemy to me. Once serving only himself, Jidden had sacrificed everything to be with me. If anything, he was my savior. His light had helped bring out my inner darkness, and that part of he had achieved something good.
At least, if killing three men could be considered good. Although they trained me to be a warrior, I had recently taken a life for the first time. I had shot the men to save the innocence and integrity of a boarding school full of young women, but it was still a shock to see blood on my hands.
Before the Surtu had invaded, I did not think myself capable of violence, but the truth was, we are all was capable of violence. There wasn’t anything pure in nature. A doe could lead a man to his death if it chose.
“I shot them,” I murmured into Jidden’s shoulder. His presence was steady and comforting. In fact, it was the only comfort I had left.
“They’re dead.”
“And more will be,” he predicted. “You will likely kill again. In war, we kill to protect those we love. And we kill to protect those who can’t protect themselves.”
“Don’t,” I said. I reached out to stop him. “I don’t need a lecture of what’s justifiable and what’s not. The lines are too blurred. I can’t process it right now.”
“Then tell me what you need me to do.”
I stepped back. I appreciated Jidden’s support, but he was mistaken. “I’m not upset that I killed. I’m glad I killed those men. I feel no remorse at all. That’s what worries me – my apathy.”
In reply, Jidden placed both his hands on top of my head and smoothed down my mousy brown roots. Beneath his touch, I felt a light flow of electricity that was warm, like a hearth in winter. When he was finished, he held out a strand of my hair for me to see.
The entire length was now a dark auburn, reflective of the type of warrior I had become. I had fashioned my new self after the Surtu goddess Jidden had told me told me about – Nelti, a goddess who was equally dark as she was protective of those she loved.
“You are no cold-blooded murderer,” he reassured me. “You are strong, adaptable, and resilient. Whether you call yourself Terra or Nightshade, I accept you and love you for whoever you want to be.”
I was in awe and moved by his speech. I caressed the strand of hair with my finger. “Is the change permanent?”
“As long as you want it to be.”
Jidden’s dark blue eyes were full of intensity and sincerity. The flecks of light around his pupils dancing with a heated devotion. It sent a flush of arousal coursing through my body. He was much taller than me and had the body of a well-trained soldier, but my desire to feel our flesh collide was much deeper than a superficial attraction. Our souls were connected and light bonded beyond our physical forms.
We stood alone in a corridor of the rescue ship, but our isolation wasn’t guaranteed. Still, I reached up and grabbed Jidden by the back of his head, pulling him towards me in a kiss that would make a hooker blush. His tongue took charge of mine as he pressed his body against me, matching my need. I wanted him to take me here – forceful and unrelenting with my back to the wall. To tell him so, I reached my hand down and wrapped it around his erect cock.
We weren’t alone.
“That’s enough,” a woman with blonde hair commanded briskly, finding us in the corridor. “We’re about to land.”
Reluctantly, I let my hand drop, barely acknowledging the woman. I didn’t even know who she was.
“Terra, this is Delia Godfrey,” he said. He spoke her name with respect and that told me she had a high rank. Jidden was once the Lead Officer of his ship within the Surtu military, and he revered hierarchy.
“General Delia Godfrey,” the woman corrected. “But you can call me Godfrey.”
Godfrey didn’t look anything like what I thought a General should. Her dark blonde hair was long and styled into a high ponytail, like a model on a runway. Her demeanor was rough and unapologetic. She wore camouflage cargo pants with a gray sweat-covered T-shirt; it was tucked tightly into her waist.
“I heard how you saved those girls at the boarding school, and the townspeople hiding in the barn,” Godfrey said. “Not bad, for rookies.”
“We’re not rookies,” I insisted. I wasn’t offended. Godfrey seemed a person who would bond over banter. “I am Commander of the Fortuna.”
“You were Commander of the Fortuna,” Godfrey said quickl
y. “There is no more Fortuna.”
So she was serious. I stood up straight. I wasn’t going to have my title revoked so quickly, not after all the hardship I had endured. “Our space station may have been invaded and converted into enemy headquarters, but the heart of the Fortuna lives on – in my women and me. As long as we are alive, the Fortuna still exists. We will continue to protect our people on Earth, and we will do whatever it takes.”
Godfrey was impressed. “Good,” she stated. “Our people need it.” Then she walked away, leaving Jidden and me alone in the corridor again.
“Where did you pick her up?” I muttered, unsure if I liked the woman or not.
Jidden seemed uncomfortable beside me. “I’ll explain later. Are you ready to land? Our new home is waiting.”
I shook my head in disagreement. “No. It is a refuge, one I am thankful for, but it is not home. Earth is home.”
“Surt is home,” Jidden echoed, surprising me with his sentiment. I had thought he considered ships his only home, jumping from one to the next like a frog on a lily pad, chasing a fly.
“Where is your ship?” I asked.
“At the refuge with your sisters.”
My sister warriors. I longed to see them. So when I asked the next question, I tried to keep it free of judgment. “Why didn’t you stay on Earth?” I asked. Jidden had helped the women of the Fortuna escape captivity from the Surtu men by loading them onto his ship and flying away.
I wish I had been with them. Instead, I had stayed behind to open the hatch in the docking bay, allowing their ship to leave. My sentence for doing so had been to become a slave to Captain Fore, the Fleet Captain. He had been Jidden’s superior.
“We never made it to Earth. We couldn’t travel by light without immediately revealing our location to the Surtu, who watched the skies. Traveling by light is quick, but it is not discreet.”
From personal experience, I knew he spoke the truth. When Jidden had first boarded the Fortuna with his men, he changed his physical form to brilliant light. It was blinding. I had experienced the transformation only once personally. It was when I had light bonded with Jidden, sealing our fates together.