by A. G. Wilde
“Evren,” he answered.
They stared at each other for a few moments, neither daring to move, and then she was throwing herself against him to wrap her arms around his neck. Burying her face against his chest, she allowed her relief to flow through her. “You’re back.”
“I was always here.”
“Don’t be a smartypants.” She giggled. “I thought I’d lost you for a second there on the ship.”
His chin touched the crown of her head as he inhaled deeply. “Never,” he murmured.
As she eased off him, his gray eyes almost overpowered her. They were so bright, vivid—she hadn’t expected him to have such strength when he’d woken up.
She was staring at him, her eyes traveling over his features, when she noticed his skin began to change back to gray, shifting to the form she’d first known him as, his Borxclan form.
“Why are you changing?” Her voice was a whisper because it felt as if she couldn’t speak. There was a gravity in his eyes that hadn’t been there before.
“For you.”
Evren searched his eyes some more. “You don’t need to. Don’t change.” She watched the shift almost pause as she spoke. “Please.”
It took a few seconds for him to go back to his true, dark green form.
“I prefer you like this,” she whispered, her eyes moving over his features as her hand moved to brush over the new bone structure of his face. “This is you.”
His throat moved but he said nothing. Instead, his arms encircled her, pulling her closer to him.
“You were hurt?” It was his turn for his eyes to scour her face and she found herself smiling at his inquiry.
“Only on the inside.” At his immediate frown, she continued. “Hurt because you were hurt.”
She continued letting her fingers move over his face, running down the wide bridge of his nose as her eyes fell to his lips. “My heart was hurt. My stomach clenched...” she raised her eyes to his “...you gave up everything for me.”
“I only did what I needed to do.”
“No,” she shook her head, “you didn’t. You did more. You could have watched that thing rape me. You didn’t need to intervene and almost get yourself killed. But you did.”
His gaze had gone thunderous at the mention of the Tasqal and what the beast had almost done.
“You gave up everything for me,” she whispered, before swallowing hard. “You love me.”
Kyro blinked but he didn’t look away. Instead, the rage that had fired his eyes slowly went away to be replaced with a sort of torment she’d seen before. It was the same look he’d given her when they’d said goodbye outside of her apartment.
“You love me,” she said with surety this time. “And...I want that. I want you to love me. I want to feel loved by you. I don’t want to give up what we have because what we have is special. I’ve never felt this way about anyone before.”
“We can’t.” His shoulders seemed to stiffen underneath her arms. “We can’t. I refuse to put you in danger because of who I am. The Tasqals know who I am now. I will have to go away. Change again. Be someone else.”
At the look in her eyes, he held her closer. “It is for the best. I refuse to let them hurt you to hurt me. I couldn’t...I couldn’t live knowing I am putting you in danger.” He gulped. “You are my weakness, Evren. But you are also my strength. My chets regrew for you, so I could defend you.” He paused. “You are right. I do love you. I love you. I can admit that now. But it doesn’t mean I will put you in danger. It would mean living a life in hiding, secluded. You don’t deserve that.”
He released her so suddenly and stepped away that she felt as if he held her heart and was pulling it with him.
“You don’t understand, do you.” She followed behind him back into the bedroom.
“No.” He turned on her. “You don’t understand. You see this?” He gestured to the room. “I assume my brothers know I am Vorti now, so they had to put us here. This,” he gestured again, “is the type of life I can give you.” The pain in his eyes cut her deep. “This is no life.”
“You don’t get it. I want this,” she countered.
“How could you want this?” He gestured to the room again and she realized he was also gesturing to himself before he turned his back on her, his shoulders tense with unspent emotion.
“Because I want you, you idiot!” She stepped right up to him. “I love you!”
She could see his body still. Right in front of her, his back still turned, it was as if every cell within him stopped moving.
“What?” His voice was so low the words were almost inaudible.
“I love you,” she said more calmly.
“You don’t.”
“I do.”
“You can’t.”
“But I do.” She pressed a hand against his back. “I’ve loved you for a while. I just didn’t know. When I decided to leave to go to the Hub, I turned back. I couldn’t leave...I couldn’t leave without you. I wanted to stay, run away somewhere with you...anything, to be with you.”
There was a moment of silence as he digested her words.
“You love me?” His head turned slightly as he glanced behind him.
“Yes. And you love me. If we have to run away somewhere, then so be it.”
He turned to look at her then, his eyes searching hers as if he couldn’t believe what she was saying.
“I want to be with you...the real you. This you.” She moved closer to him.
Kyro’s throat moved and for a split second, she saw something pass over his eyes. Then he was on her, so fast her breath left her body in a whoosh.
He was against her, lifting her, his body pressing against her as he brought her up against a wall. His mouth met hers in a bruising kiss as his hands found hers, pressing the back of her palms against the wall behind her. Her legs were spread, and she wrapped them around him as a moan tumbled from her.
His kiss, his lips...this kiss was everything. It held promise and need and want. His insides trembled at what he demanded with his mouth, at what his tongue promised as it played with hers.
“Kyro.” She managed to breathe his name as he pulled her dress over her hips, revealing her wet cunt and the roundness of her ass.
Thank God for no panties.
A groan rumbled through him as he pressed farther into her, his arms still arresting hers against the wall.
“Kyro.” Her pussy clenched as she felt him beneath her, the smoothness of his hard cock sliding between them as he rocked his hips.
His thickness spread her pussy lips with each thrust, sliding right through her wetness to rub against her clit.
A moan filled the room that she didn’t realize came from her own body as his cock tortured her so, with a promise of sweet, sweet pleasure to come.
Kyro adjusted himself then, his lips never leaving hers and the feel of his smooth tip at her entrance had her pussy clenching once more.
“I’m sorry,” he breathed, breaking their lips apart. “There is no control,” he said. “I want to take you. I want to take you hard.”
“Then do it.” Her pussy clenched again. “Do it. Fuck me. Fuck me hard. I want to feel every inch of your cock sliding inside me.”
A growl left him just before there was a split instance of pain...and then...euphoria.
She was glad he was the one holding her up for as soon as he drove forward, his cock burying itself deep within her wetness, her legs went weak and her body went limp.
It was such an injection of pleasure that it felt as if her blood had turned to sweet warm syrup.
Kyro drove into her.
Over and over again, his cock filled her pussy, stretching her in agony that never felt so sweet, only to pull out and fill her once more.
She was mildly aware of her screaming his name between the sounds of their skin slapping together as he fucked her raw.
As her clit swelled and throbbed, the first explosion within her had her seeing stars. But Kyro did
n’t stop. He didn’t pause. Thick cock was driving within her without mercy, riding her through her orgasm, the sensation so wild it built another orgasm on top of the first one and she felt herself coming again.
“Tell me what you want.” His thrusts didn’t ease up. “Tell me how you want it.”
What did he even mean? This was already everything, EVERYTHING she could ever want. If he wanted pointers, she had none, but she didn’t even have the strength to answer him at the moment.
All she managed was a series of whimpers as her pussy trembled and clenched around him.
“Longer?”
What?
He was shifting inside her, his cock. She could feel it, growing longer, splitting her in fucking two.
“Thicker?”
A scream of absolute pleasure tore through her as his cock thickened more than he already was, the opening of her cunt being stretched to the absolute limit.
“Ridges?”
Oh, fuck!
“I can do anything you want.” He nibbled her ear as he continued to pummel into her. “Tell me, because I intend to fuck you until your juices are dripping from my cock and running down your legs.”
“Fuuucckkkk!!!!” Her scream split the room as another orgasm rocked through her.
“Take me, Evren.”
“I’m fucking taking you. Every inch of you. I want every inch of you.”
A loud groan tumbled through him as he stiffened against her, his cock pulsing as he released his spend deep inside her, and for a moment, she got the chance to breathe.
But then he was moving again, bringing her to the small bed, he rested her on her back as he settled over her, his cock twitching within her.
“My Evren,” he said, and she felt his cock begin to harden once more.
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She didn’t even know how he was managing to walk around but he was.
She on the other hand was weak in the knees. She couldn’t even feel her legs...and it was wonderful.
She couldn’t wipe the stupid smile she had on her face as she watched him move about, getting food ready for them both.
As he brought a steaming bowl of something over to her, she rose into a sitting position and took the bowl from him.
“What is it?”
“Sogmy stew. Maybe like beef stew? I read about that meal in the data I found on your planet.”
She smiled at him and tasted the meal. It was surprisingly good and his description was accurate. It did taste a bit like beef stew, just watered down.
“You love your data don’t you.” She grinned.
Kyro settled beside her on the bed. “It used to be my one and only love. Now I have two.”
His smoldering gaze never left her and she felt her cheeks grow warm.
Funny she could blush over that when she’d just had her pussy excavated by this very same man.
He watched her eat in silence and she was about halfway through the bowl when she paused to look at him.
“Can I... Would you mind if I worked with you?” she asked. Kyro’s brows took on a slight furrow so she rushed to continue. “I mean, if we’re going to run away and hide somewhere, I will still want something to do. I mean, I used to do similar work like you, dealing with lots of data. I could help in some way. It would be fun, working together.”
Why did she feel so nervous asking this?
Kyro was looking at her as if he wasn’t sure how to proceed. “You were serious about it then...about running off with me.”
Evren swallowed the last of the meal and licked her lips. “Of course, I was. Where you go, I go and no more memory wipe ideas. I want to be with you.”
She could swear his eyes watered or at least became a bit more glossy before he smiled. Once again, his smile made her breath catch in her throat. It lit up his face and transformed it. He was the type of handsome that once you saw it, you couldn’t look away.
“Very well. There is a place I know. An abandoned station near Oxima Prime. We could go there. The comms should still work. We could spend our time going through transmissions. Work off-world helping the Restitution. They’ve wanted to send someone there for ages, but it is so remote and lonely, no one has ever volunteered.”
Evren grinned at him. “It sounds perfect.”
The look on his face almost melted her heart. His eyes held so much repressed joy, as if he shouldn’t dare to believe what was happening, that she wanted to climb on top of him and show him it was all real.
But a sound at the heavy metal door had her freezing as they both looked toward the entrance.
She hadn’t opened the door since they’d been in the bunker and she’d almost forgotten there was a whole other world out there.
The sound came again and she realized it must be someone knocking.
As she rose and slipped into her potato sack dress, Kyro slipped into his trousers and she watched him shift into his gray Borxclan disguise.
The speed of his ability to shift was going to take some getting used to.
Glancing at her to ensure she was ready, he opened the door and dim light from the tunnel leading to the outside seeped in.
“You,” she heard Kyro growl.
“Who is it?” His form was filling the doorway and she couldn’t see who was outside.
“I just came to see if the human was all right, okay?”
“You are not welcome here.”
As she neared the entrance, she saw who it was. How could she have forgotten him?
Shive’s eyes slipped to her as soon as she came into view.
“You.” She scowled.
“Friendly couple you two are.” He smiled, a movement of his lips that promptly dried up when his eyes fell back on Kyro.
“How did you know we were here?” Kyro took a threatening step toward the other male then stopped when Shive lifted his hands in front of him.
“I was waiting for Xul to return. Saw the ship land. Saw them take you here.”
“Creeping in the shadows as usual.” Kyro took another step.
“I meant no harm. I just wanted to apologize to the human.”
Kyro didn’t move. “Then do it.”
Shive seemed to sigh but he didn’t press to enter the room.
“You must have been wondering why I was following you around, watching you. We didn’t get off to a good start.”
“I wonder whose fault that was?” Kyro cut in, eyes narrowed.
“I was just trying to get solid evidence on M’Agunt. I’d been trying to pin him as a traitor for months,” Shive continued, glancing at Kyro. “So, I apologize. For everything.” His gaze returned to her. “Not all of us are bad.”
Evren only nodded. It was all she could do. The memory of M’Agunt’s body ripped to pieces came back to her as a vivid memory.
“You’ve apologized. Now leave.” Kyro closed the door, locking it in place.
The chuckle that tumbled from her came almost immediately. “You can be so rude sometimes.” She laughed. “He deserved it though. He scared the shit out of me when I saw him watching me from the alleyway.”
“He won’t come anywhere near you again.” Kyro turned, pulling her into his arms.
“Mmm,” She planted a kiss on his lips. “No, he won’t because we are going away to our abandoned station.”
A light sparked in Kyro’s gray eyes just as the door made another sound.
Kyro cursed under his breath and he released her.
“Leave us alone,” he growled as he pulled the door open.
“I told you they weren’t ready for visitors.” It was another male voice and the horns that pointed up into the air told her who it was.
She saw Kyro’s shoulders relax as he greeted his friend and captain, resting an arm on Xul’s shoulder as they touched foreheads.
“Good to see you brother.” Xul grinned.
Behind him were several other heads.
As Kyro moved to let them all in, Athena rushed inside, her arms outstretched.
“Evren!”
She was promptly embraced and before she knew it, Piper, Diana, and Song were joining in.
All his brothers had come too, Crex, Yce, Kyris, and even Rokan was there.
Greetings abounded along with oohs and aahs, expressions of being thankful it was all over and that she’s safe, and expressions of how happy they were that Kyro was back on his feet.
Evren glanced at Kyro and their eyes met. It was going to be hard telling all their friends that they planned to leave.
These people were like family to them.
“I still can’t believe this actually happened. I’d thought we were safe here,” Piper said.
“You are mostly safe here, but we still have to be vigilant,” Xul replied.
“We’ll all keep you safe,” Crex said.
“And now that you’re leaving, you will always be safe,” Yce said, looking at Evren. “You too, brother.”
Evren paled.
“Leaving?” Diana turned to her, her red hair flying around her shoulders at the force at which she spun her head. “You’re leaving?”
Evren met Kyro’s eyes once more. “Yes. We are.”
Xul cut Yce a look and Kyris hung his head, his wings jerking as he laughed silently.
“What?” Yce asked. “They were going to let you know anyway.”
“You’re leaving?” Song turned to her, sorrow immediately in her eyes but then she smiled brightly. “It’s for the best. We will miss you though. Where are you going?”
“It’s a place Kyro knows,” she replied, taking the woman’s hand in hers. “I will miss you too. I will miss all of you.”
“Yea,” Athena spoke up. “It is for the best though, as Song said. We could all probably keep busy and not think about losing you with all the humans that we will have to onboard. They still haven’t been able to open the container with the stasis pods yet.”
Evren’s eyes widened. “Still? I mean, I totally forgot about that with all that’s been happening.”
“We will need Kyro to crack the code and get us in. It is paramount that we do so. There’s one human female in there who’s...” Xul trailed off, his eyes flicking to Yce.