However, there were many concerns following her first tryst, namely Kels’s reaction to it. “Wouldn’t it get you in trouble?”
“You’re worth it.”
That made her smile. “Thank you. Just when I start thinking Kels is almost likeable, he shows himself to be a jerk.”
Pana sighed, his irritability fading. “Actually, he’s a great man. His duty is warring with his honor, and now loyalty is pulling at him.”
“Loyalty to Briel?” Guilt tugged at Maryam.
“To his best childhood friend, though his conscience to our Matara is no doubt worrying him as it does me.” Pana explained Kels’s relationship with Sebist.
“If not for this friend and the idea Sebist should get first crack at me, he’d be fine with what happened between us?” Maryam wondered at her relief now that she understood Kels wasn’t blaming her for the romp with Pana.
“He likes you, Maryam. He acts like a jerk because he feels awful about your current situation and being the reason for it.”
Maryam mused at the strange twists and turns her life’s journey had embarked upon. “What’s your take on this Dramok Sebist?”
Pana took a while to answer, as if reluctant to respond. “He’s terrific. As fine and upstanding a man as you can imagine. He’s worth every ounce of angst Kels is going through.”
“Do you think I should join his clan? If I had any intention of staying on Kalquor, that is.” She couldn’t believe she asked such a question, but going home to Earth had ceased to be an option. She may as well consider all alternatives—though something within her rejected the idea of any clan that wasn’t Pana’s. Even if Kels was unhappy about it.
“Sebist’s clan would give you the moons and the stars of the empire if you agreed to be their Matara.”
“You admit that grudgingly.”
“I’d rather explore my clan’s chances with you.” Pana kicked the floor, his head bowed as he admitted to it.
Maryam’s heart’s pace quickened.
Impossible. She couldn’t join a clan. Especially not Kels’s, not when he erupted with bitter conscience every few hours. She needed to put such a notion right out of her skull.
The sound of the distant door opening drew a sigh from Pana. He rolled his eyes theatrically at Maryam, but there was tension in his stance. Maryam assumed Kels was returning.
However, the Imdiko’s attitude changed after a couple of seconds. He cocked his head and grinned. “It must be Dergan returning.”
“I don’t hear anything.”
“Exactly.”
A moment later, Dergan appeared at the ‘doorway’ between the bins. He glanced around, his expression grouchy. “Where is he? I want to yell at him some more.”
“He’s not here.” Pana chuckled.
“Oh. Well.” The Nobek glanced at Maryam. His face reddened, and he stared down at his boots.
Great. He was remembering her naked. “This isn’t a bit awkward, is it?” she smarted off, acknowledging her humiliation with sarcasm. Heat move from her throat to the top of her scalp.
“Should I leave?”
“I’ve been ordered to not touch her again,” Pana sighed.
Dergan glanced up at him. His lips wrinkled from his teeth in a show of temper.
Maryam’s pulse quickened. Did the Nobek realize how sexy he was when he was angry? Danger lurked beneath the surface, darkening his stare, making that muscular body tense. No doubt the fact his irritation wasn’t directed at her helped fuel the nervous excitement his warrior aura brought out.
Meanwhile, Pana brightened. “Kels didn’t mention anything about you two getting to know each other better. I can watch.”
“Pana!” Maryam threw a pillow at him, her face flaming hot.
“Well, you were checking Dergan out.”
“She was? You were?” Danger was replaced by glee. The Nobek’s grin, openly lascivious, make Maryam laugh despite her embarrassment.
“Rogues, both of you. Fine, you’re easy on the eyes, Dergan. I admit to ogling.”
“Kels made it clear I should keep my distance too.” He phrased it like a question.
“I have no intention whatsoever of joining Sebist’s clan.” Maryam realized belatedly she sounded as if she were encouraging Dergan to pursue her.
What was with her? She was begging for trouble. Yet her encounter with Pana had brought slumbering urges to life. Maryam missed being with a man. Being held. Consumed with passion.
Pana had started something Maryam didn’t want stopped. The realization stunned her.
Meanwhile, Dergan contemplated her, his expression telling her he turned the matter over in his mind. “Kels was adamant that if any clan had a claim to you, it would be Sebist’s. He’d rather cut off an arm than disappoint his friend. However, I just had a crazy idea that might put the problem to rest.”
Maryam leaned forward, patting the bed next to her in an invitation for the Nobek to sit. “You have my attention.”
Dergan shared his idea, and Maryam agreed it was an excellent one. Carrying it out took a few minutes of planning and even fewer to implement. After it was done, the trio congratulated themselves with high spirits.
Along with intense camaraderie. Maryam was amused and chagrined to find herself snuggling with Dergan and Pana. She was astonished at how normal it felt to do so with two men.
Who was this woman she’d become in such a short space of time? Had she been this way all along, without realizing it?
She voiced some of her warring instincts to her companions. “Just so you know, I can’t imagine having to live with three men in a marriage-type situation. One was difficult enough.”
“It’s obvious from what you’ve told us that your previous relationship was not a good match.” Dergan gazed down at her, his strong features gentled from the smile he wore.
“It wasn’t even arranged,” Pana reminded her.
“You have a point. I was engaged for a year before marrying, believed I knew him—yet when the situation turned difficult, he left me.” Maryam concentrated on their arms embracing her, holding her in a warm cocoon. Unlike her ex, Dergan and Pana gave her their complete attention as she remembered the hurt of that period.
They’d get that whole bit of ‘for better or for worse, in sickness and in health’ right. They were doing it now, when they were barely more than acquainted with her.
Why do these aliens have to be so damned perfect?
Dergan interrupted her thoughts. “What are you smiling about?”
“Am I? I suppose I’m amused at the turn this abduction has taken. My kidnappers have become my trusted confidantes. It’s bizarre.”
“So maybe we’re not too awful?” The Nobek’s grin and hopeful tone widened her smile. She shook a finger at him.
“Hey, I told you—I’m not a three-man woman.”
“Maybe clanship is more than you can envision. Yet you’re curious about being with two of us at once?”
Their arms tightened around her, and they eased closer, sandwiching her between themselves. Maryam’s body hummed with arousal. Curious? Yes. Willing? Hell, yes.
Why not? She was already judged and sentenced as far as Earth was concerned.
Pretending nonchalance, Maryam took her time answering. “Hmm. It’s an idea. It could be worth my while, but I might have to be encouraged.”
“Ah. Well, I�
��ll have to see if my powers of persuasion are up to the task.”
Dergan kissed her, his lips moving sinuously against hers, his tongue teasing entrance into her mouth to taste. Electricity sizzled throughout Maryam as his large palm covered her breast. He kneaded it expertly, plucking through her blouse and bra at the brazenly hard nipple.
Another hand, slipping under her shirt and bra to touch bare flesh. Pana’s breath warmed Maryam’s ear, his tongue tracing its whorls as she writhed under their accomplished attentions. Her panties were soaked.
“The rumors of Earther female frigidity are criminally exaggerated,” Pana whispered. “You are a passionate woman, more than capable of satisfying two men.”
She intended to prove him right.
Maryam traced Dergan’s impressive swells of muscle as he continued to plunder her mouth. Pana had been carved, but the Nobek was another level of brawn. He made Maryam feel fragile, and she imagined he was capable of breaking her in half with a mere flick of a finger. The idea lit her with eagerness, and she wondered why.
Another image, that of him holding her down as he claimed what he wanted, all he wanted. As Pana had. Her sex spasmed at the raw fantasy. It convulsed again when she imagined herself at the mercy of both. It wasn’t hard to envision when Pana held her blouse and bra out of the way, so Dergan could access her breasts with his rough, calloused paw.
Who am I? she wondered again.
Dergan broke the kiss, leaving her lips tingling. They felt swollen and bruised, and Maryam moaned at his show of strength. His intense gaze left her trembling.
“What do you enjoy?” he whispered. “Or should I ask my clanmate?”
“Command her, my Nobek,” Pana said. “Perhaps I could hold her down for you?”
Maryam’s breath caught, and her eyes widened. Her heart boomed with such ferocity, she feared it might leap out of her chest.
A slow, knowing smile spread over Dergan’s mug. “Yes. Pin her to the bed so I may freely explore all of her.”
The next instant, Maryam’s shirt and bra were tugged off, fluttering through the air. Pana gripped her wrists, pulling her down so she lay beneath Dergan, her arms immobilized over her head. The position stretched her torso, bringing her breasts up, as if to present them to the Nobek.
He accepted the invitation, mauling her with hands, lips, tongue, and teeth. Maryam cried out as he nipped her, but she thrust toward his voracious mouth, eager for more.
“That’s it. You’re his to enjoy,” Pana told her, his gaze bright with enthusiasm as Dergan devoured her. “I’ll see to it you give him all he wishes.”
A dim part of Maryam’s brain wondered if Pana could read her mind. How had he intuited her desire? Was she so transparent?
It didn’t matter, not when he kept her vulnerable to Dergan’s voracious appetite, not when her secret fantasy was being played out with erotic perfection. Not when she was desperate to be filled once again, filled as only a Kalquorian man could.
“Soft woman,” Dergan growled, his words muffled against her. He tugged at her skirt, pulling it from her hips. It slithered down her calves, puddling at her ankles. Her panties quickly followed. The Nobek lifted her legs, freeing her of the last of her clothing. Leaving her naked, exposed.
He lifted from her, standing upright and stepping back to view her splayed across the bed. Pana grinned at Dergan and held her helpless, rubbing his palm over her breasts, belly, and mound. He grasped the thigh closest to him and lifted up and away, opening her for the Nobek’s perusal. “She has a lovely pussy, doesn’t she?”
Dergan’s strong jaw clenched. He licked his lips as he stared at Maryam’s sex, and she whimpered at the hungry gaze riveted on her.
Pana inhaled deeply. “Smell her. She tastes as incredible as her scent promises. See how wet she is? How ripe for the taking?”
Dergan’s expression turned bestial, and Maryam’s heart skittered in outright fear. He looked more animal than man in that instance, and real terror coursed through her.
Yet her pussy convulsed in anticipation, enthralled with the man’s beastly aspect. When he flung himself to his knees, swooping down on her womanhood, she cried out more from eager anticipation than fright.
That was nothing compared to her shout when his lips and tongue moved over her pussy, licking her folds and kissing her clit. Lightning flashed across her vision. She tried to buck, unable to control her body’s reaction, but Dergan’s weight held her down—which only increased the thrill.
“Ancestors, yes. He’ll eat that pussy, then he’ll fuck it. You’ll come for him.” Pana leaned over her, staring into her face as he tweaked her nipples. The zaps of pain he dealt jolted straight to her clit, transforming into exhilaration. He squeezed the full mounds until they ached, heightening his mastery over her.
Two thick fingers entered her, pumping as Dergan sucked her swollen clit. She squalled, overcome. Pana gently slapped each breast, adding heat to the sensations overwhelming her. She jerked desperately against the men, but could barely move.
“Mmm, are you trying to escape us? Trying to break free? No, little Earther, you’ll stay right where you are. We’ll take what we wish from you. There’s nothing you can do about it.”
Maryam groaned, feeling wonderfully helpless. Dergan’s fingers pumped in and out of her sex, their tips forcing heady friction that set her eyes rolling. Pana’s lips pressed to hers, and their tongues twined together.
They kept at her until her cries were continuous. Thoughts tried to form but were shredded before she could realize them. All was sensation; delicious, exhilarating sensation.
She kicked violently when Dergan’s mouth left her and his fingers pulled free. His low chuckle answered, along with the soft purr of a seam separating.
Pana ended the kiss, leaning back so Maryam could see Dergan standing between her legs, draped over the edge of the sleeping mat. The fly portion of his formsuit was open, exposing his dark, swollen shafts. He stroked the pair in each hand, looking down on her with rabid lust.
“I trust you’re still stretched from your encounter with my Imdiko,” he rumbled in a thick voice. “If not, you’ll adjust soon enough.”
He scooped her leg in the bend of his arm, tilting her hips to greet the oncoming cocks. She shuddered as the primary’s tip probed her pussy. He was as big as Pana. His sexes were veined, livid lengths, appearing bigger with every second he paused. He watched her, letting anticipation turn her shivering into quakes.
Then he was thrusting in, making her yield. Maryam gasped at the surge of ecstatic hurt, too overwhelmed to do more than jerk. They were both slick with passion, and he entered fast despite the snug fit. The violent friction set off a burst of raw elation, and Maryam raced straight to the precipice of orgasm.
Dergan stared at where they melded together, his chest heaving as if he’d run a marathon. He moaned low in his throat, and his cocks jolted. “Fuck,” he breathed.
“That was close,” Pana chuckled.
The Nobek gripped Maryam’s hips, forcing her still while he recovered control. She whimpered as climax receded, leaving her aching.
“Please,” she whispered.
“I like the sound of that,” Pana smirked. “Do you hear her, my Nobek? She’s begging for it.”
“I hear her.” The bigger man’s eyes glittered as he looked his prize over. “I say we give her all she can handle. Did you have her mouth
yet?”
Pana froze. The sharp, sweet scent of something cinnamon-y wafted in the air. “Not yet.”
“It’s time you did. Our lovely companion wants to taste you. Don’t you, Maryam?” When her pussy convulsed, he barked a strained laugh. “I’ll take that as a yes.”
Serve both at once? It was shocking and enthralling to visualize—how much better would the actual experience be?
She found out in short order. Within a couple of seconds, Pana knelt over her, straddling her shoulders. His cocks, released from his formsuit, hovered over her. The cinnamon-like scent intensified. Would he taste as good as he smelled?
Still gripping her wrists in one hand, he used the other to nudge his smaller shaft out of the way. Then he lowered, his primary descending toward her open mouth.
Hot, smooth skin, strangely soft though it covered steely flesh, filled her senses. The sweetish-spicy nip of his flavor danced over her tongue. Maryam moaned. He did taste delicious. Far better than her ex-husband had.
The angle wouldn’t allow her to accept much of him, but she did her best. Her tongue twined around Pana’s offering, to delight him and herself. His breath caught.
“Mother of All, help me.”
The strain in his tone brought a rush of pride to the fore. Maryam might not have the experience of a Kalquorian, but what she did, she did well.
Pana’s hips lifted and dipped, fucking her mouth. Taking up the same rhythm, Dergan pulled free until only the tapered tips of his sexes remained within her. Then he thrust, filling her yet again.
It was Maryam’s turn to go breathless. The double fullness of Kalquorian male moving within, along with the titillating carnality of another using her for oral satisfaction, was incredible. Being held helpless to their desires, playing the sex slave Earth had insisted Kalquorians wished her to be, was the most exhilarating thing she’d experienced. Maybe the thrill of such a liaison was perverse, but Maryam couldn’t remember ever feeling so alive. So vibrant. Each sense was energized, allowing her to experience hyperawareness of her body, of the men filling it.
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