Prince Kohl’s voice was silky, as if he were a cat with his prey in reach. Maya’s hand tightened around the bottle of disinfectant she held. She never understood galactic politics and she didn’t understand why her people didn’t just kick those Ve’dran assholes off of Earth. They were humanoid, and the same height as humans, but denser and therefore heavier than humans. Their planet was a bit larger so their gravity was stronger. Maya just didn’t understand what made the world leaders so reluctant to take a stand.
“So you are confident they will accept, without a counter?” the man asked Kohl. Maya’s head turned when she caught movement at the corner of her eye. A guard was patrolling the suite and walked into the dining room.
“Are you having difficulty with that?” he asked gruffly. She looked him up and down. He was wearing a uniform of crisp, white cargo pants and a white, padded, most likely armored, vest. He also had a huge blaster weapon of some sort strapped across his back with a sturdy looking pair of dark grey boots.
“No…I’m not,” Maya said, trying to keep any derision out of her tone.
“Well I suggest you hurry and finish with that. Prince Kohl does not take kindly to eavesdroppers.” The guard’s features were nondescript. He looked like a normal guy, pale blue eyes with dark brown hair cut so low he appeared nearly bald.
“I’ll be finished shortly,” was all Maya said to that, trying not to start anything that would leave her way out of her depth. Of course the guard stayed to watch her while she cleaned. She quickly finished, eager to leave the suite before she ran into the prince himself. Thankfully she was out with her cleaning cart just as the prince’s new dinner was being delivered by hotel security, dressed as a waiter.
“I’ll take it,” she said. “You guys aren’t supposed to be serving meals.”
“Are you sure?”
“It’s no problem.”
The security man nodded and left. Maya was not really sure why she had offered to serve the dinner, because she had thought she wanted to go home and unwind, and try to forget all about what her planet was going through and the unwelcome presence that was the prince.
Well, it would only take a few minutes. Then home.
Chapter 3
Kohl
“I must admit, I grow weary of waiting for these petty humans to come to a decision on the inevitable,” Kohl murmured as he watched the large television screen in the living area of his suite. His fellow Ve’dran diplomats had just retired for the night. He only turned on the television to see the progress of the humans’ decision. Earth’s leaders still had not voted on whether the terms would be accepted or denied.
“The humans are so…disjointed. They’d all benefit from being under one rule,” Sommer, one of Kohl’s most trusted guards spoke up from the rear of the room.
“Perhaps after they accept the terms we can fix such things for them.” Said Kohl, smiling wolfishly. Sommer chuckled. He checked the time on his wrist band and his smile turned quickly into a scowl. His dinner should be arriving, yet where were those lazy humans? Kohl stood and walked into the dining room. He paused when he saw a female setting the table for his food. Though it should have been done already, he silently leaned against the entryway and watched her.
She was pleasing to the eye. Her hair the color of mahogany, her eyes a bright green, her features soft. Her body was petite and inviting. Kohl would have believed her to be Ve’dran if not for his being on Earth. Her form was hidden under the unflattering uniform she wore. Some loose-fitting light brown pants along with a collared white shirt. It would be interesting to see her spread out for him, bared and waiting to provide his pleasure.
“Oh…” the woman turned to see him there, watching her. Her green eyes wide with the surprise.
“Good evening,” Kohl greeted her as she seemed to regain herself.
“I’ll have your dinner set out in just a moment.” Her tone was almost short with him, causing something to stir in his chest. Something past vague interest.
“Very well, you will need to stay once the food has been set out,” he told her, matching her own short tone.
“Stay?” she actually questioned him, stopping her duty even to address him. A female of lesser station. Kohl was briefly mystified. “I mean…sure, okay.” She corrected herself before he could respond and continued her work. She moved deftly and had his food set out within the minute.
Kohl called in one of his guards to of course test the food before he sat to eat. The woman stood beside the cart which previously held his food and Kohl watched her while she watched Meekah taste the food.
Kohl asked her, “What is your name?”
She looked at him with a sort of surprise which she hid almost immediately.
“Maya Lu, and yours?” she said, surprising him yet again. Kohl almost smiled as he imagined the pleasurable things he could do to quiet that straying tongue.
“I am sure you know my name,” he said simply before turning his attention to Meekah.
“All seems well my prince,” Meekah straightened from the table and gave Kohl a brief salute. Kohl dismissed him and watched as Maya Lu prepared to leave.
“If you would, Maya Lu, do stay,” he directed her, his tone not offering a chance of her doing otherwise.
“I…ah, have other things to see to. If you don’t mind,” she said, almost ground out through her teeth. Kohl couldn’t help his smile, he enjoyed making her stay to his will.
“I mind. Though I must admit, it seems… you aren’t very fond of me?” Kohl posed the question to her as he took a bite of the delicately prepared lobster dish.
Maya had had enough of him. She said, slightly sharply, “That’s right. Just like any other human with access to the news, I’m not exactly ‘fond’ of you.”
Kohl was so surprised that he stopped eating for a moment.
“What a tongue you have,” Kohl said slowly. He watched as her arched brows furrowed and a scowl touched her plump lips.
“Excuse me?” she looked at him, head on, her gaze never wavering. Never shifting away or sliding downcast.
“You should be wary speaking in such a manner to me,” he said calmly, resuming his meal.
“As far as I’m concerned, if we both get cut, we’ll both bleed. I’m fine speaking to you as any other being,” she said, almost haughtily. Kohl smiled to himself and slowly finished his meal, watching her as she came to the height of annoyance. Obviously she knew to tread somewhat carefully, or else she would have gone.
“While I finish, perhaps you can make yourself comfortable to spend the night with me. In the bedroom,” Kohl gestured to the direction of the master bedroom and Maya’s jaw appeared to momentarily unhinge.
“Excuse me?” she said. Kohl sighed and stood up from the table to approach her. She backed into the wall behind her, until she could no longer back away. Kohl saw her chest quickly rising and falling. He came to a stop only a hair’s breadth away from her. “I’m not…I am not sleeping with you Kohl,” she stuttered briefly, but her tone was firm enough.
“We wouldn’t be sleeping,” he said, his tone low. He hoped to strike a chord with her and he did. Maya’s eyes drifted to his lips as her breath caught. Kohl could feel the stiffening of his sex and his nostrils flared as the desire to bed Maya Lu blared like a siren within him. Kohl tilted his head inquisitively. He felt the attraction crack like a fiery whip between them and wondered if her senses were the same. Would Maya Lu welcome their bond of lust? Or turn him away, as she said she would?
“I hope you’ve enjoyed your meal Prince Kohl, please do have a good night,” she breathed. Kohl stood in place. Surprise gripped him yet again, but he refused to show it. He simply clenched his jaw and watched as she quickly cleared the table, took her cart, and left his suite. All without so much as a last glance his way.
Chapter 4
Maya
Maya took a deep breath, not releasing it until she was safely in her office. She paced around, wondering if what happened had actual
ly happened. Prince Kohl had really just hit on her! What’s worse is that when he was close to her, she almost wanted to lean into him. But that was ridiculous, the guy was…well he wasn’t a good person. Taking another breath to try and settle herself, she wondered about how long it had been since she’d been with a man. Maybe she needed to get out, flirt a little or something. But right now, her shift was ending.
“Excuse me, Miss Lu?”
Maya turned her head to see the culinary coordinator peeking his head into her office.
“Hey Carlo…” she sighed, waving him into the small space.
“I heard you served the prince’s dinner.”
“Yes. I was up there, and it’s not really security’s job.”
“So everything was all good then?” he asked her curiously.
“Yeah, yeah everything was fine…” she lied. She definitely didn’t want to talk about what Kohl had said up there.
“I’ll see you tomorrow then,” he said, and bid her goodbye. She gave him a hurried goodbye as she got her things together to leave. But before she did she quickly logged into her computer to change shifts around. She wouldn’t be caught dead going back up there. Her cleaning crew would have to get over themselves, but she’d only send her boys up there. No way would she send any of her cleaning ladies up to that pig’s suite. Her guys would have to grow thick skin when it came to Kohl’s guards and that was that.
Once the schedule was sent out she breathed a small sigh of relief and went to go clock out. She called her best friend, Tilly, while walking to the security room where the computer to sign in and out was stationed.
“Hey Maya girl!” Tilly answered in her usual cheery fashion.
“Till! Tell me you’re free tonight? I need a night out on the town or something.” Maya smiled at Harry, one of the security monitors, and made her way to the staff lot behind the hotel.
“I’m so glad you called! I was actually just contemplating going to this DJ concert at Club Z tonight. Are you up for that?” she asked. Maya jumped on it and they made plans to meet up later that night. She couldn’t wait to put Kohl far, far from her mind with a drink or three.
* * *
Come Monday Maya felt as if she were walking into the twilight zone. As soon as she clocked in to work and made her way to her office she found about ten of her cleaning staff crowding her office and the hallway.
“Miss Lu! We really need to talk about this schedule…”
“It’s that Prince Kohl, he’s crazy!”
“He threatens us! With actual weapons! His guards too!”
Maya was shocked at what she heard.
“One at a time please, guys. Now, have you all reported this to security?”
“Yeah, but there’s only so much they can do. You know how he is and how the higher ups are when it comes to him.”
“Okay, okay…we’ll prioritize his room down to only evening clean ups, and I’ll handle it myself…” Maya murmured, a hot annoyance already filling her chest. Or was it something else?
The guys all seem relieved, and some went back to their duties.
“Well if that’s the case then why don’t we rotate if it’s only once a day clean ups?” Eddie offered.
“If you guys are alright with that?” she asked the six or seven who remained. They all gave their approval and she set up the schedule with them present.
Once that fire was put out Maya went about her usual daily routine; making sure everything was in working order in the laundry room, making sure all the cleaning supplies were well stocked and checking on floor rotations; checking which levels were being cleaned, and so forth.
She almost didn’t want seven thirty to come around. That was when she was supposed to clean up Kohl’s suite. She reminded herself that it was only once a week, that the guys would take care of it on other days, and she may not even run into Kohl…hopefully.
Maya checked out a cleaning cart and took the elevator up to Kohl’s floor. It was quiet in the elevator. She could feel her heart thudding.
When she arrived at Kohl’s suite, she stopped outside the door and listened. It seemed quiet in the suite. Maybe Kohl had gone out. She smiled to herself hoping her luck would hold out while she cleaned up.
She knocked, and said, “Scheduled cleaning.” There was no reply so she let herself in.
Inside, she came across no guards nor any sign of Kohl. When she plugged in the vacuum and started it up though, she froze when she saw Kohl step curiously into the room from the reading parlor. He was wearing a normal outfit for once, a simple blue button down shirt and khaki slacks. She watched as a slow smile spread across his lips and was briefly caught off guard by how beautiful his smile was. Prince Kohl was handsome and attractive, and though his attitude often overshadowed his looks, at times it was impossible to ignore. He looked almost exactly like David Beckham, apart from Kohl having almost violet colored eyes. He also had to be about six-seven and was built, but not too bulky. That and Kohl’s gaze was a bit smokier, his voice silky.
“I was beginning to think that I’d driven you away,” he said, his smile then seeming a bit wolfish.
“You did,” she said bluntly. Kohl simply chuckled as he inclined his head towards her and backed out of the room, going goodness knows where. Maya’s usual Kohl-induced bad mood came back and she quickly finished her vacuuming. She had four more rooms to get through and then she was done. Kohl seemed to disappear as she made her way through the full suite. That is until she got to his bedroom.
He came walking out of the bathroom just as she entered the bedroom. The sight of him caused her to drop the laundry bag she’d been holding. He was completely naked, like from head to toe, and dripping wet. She averted her eyes and saw a towel draped on the bed. Half of her was instantly pissed, he’d surely done that on purpose…then the other half of her was shamefully turned on. He was…well he couldn’t be sculpted any better, that was for sure, and the size of him? Maya had no words.
“It seems I left my towel,” he said, his voice as silky smooth as ever. Maya went with the angry side of her and turned her head to look him right in the eye.
“Did you plan this?” she asked in a deceptively low voice. Kohl simply quirked an inquisitive brow at her and she huffed. “Where are your guards? I doubt you actually needed to come out here for one towel, I know for a fact there are plenty in there,” she said, letting the anger creep into her voice and escalate. “My goodness it’s like you have no sense of decency or any manners! What are all you Ve’drans so barbaric? Do you honestly think that if I saw you naked, I’d magically want to jump into bed with you?” Maya let him have it, not caring about the consequences. It was about time that Kohl be knocked down a few pegs.
Chapter 5
Kohl
Kohl continued to smile at the ranting Maya Lu. He wondered if she was trying to force back her own attraction for him by the yelling. Kohl studied her posture; she held herself still even though she appeared angry. Oddly enough he found Maya refreshing, a welcome challenge he’d never had to face before with women. But Kohl could see Maya becoming an annoyance though, it was best he cure himself of his intrigue of her sooner rather than later.
“You speak…very much,” Kohl sighed while Maya half-way through a sentence about how Kohl obviously had no respect for women.
“I—have you heard a thing I said?” she demanded. Kohl walked towards her and she attempted to back away, but stopped when her legs touched the bed behind her. Kohl simply reached around her for his towel and wrapped it around his hips.
“Satisfied?” he asked, relieved he finally got her to cease her rambling. She blinked up at him, some upset still in her gaze, but mostly Kohl suspected she was becoming resigned. To what, he had yet to find out. Though there was one way to find out…he very deliberately tilted his head towards hers and lowered his lips to brush against hers. When she didn’t move, perhaps from shock or surprise, Kohl pulled her closer to him and deepened the kiss. He tasted her tongue and sli
d his fingers into her silky mahogany locks. When Maya Lu’s breath caught, Kohl pressed his hand against the small of her back and pulled her flush against him. His sex, already stiffened, pressed into her thighs.
A small moan escaped Maya’s throat and Kohl felt the all too familiar warmth of lust rising along his spine. He picked her up and she readily wrapped her legs around his waist. It was all the assent Kohl needed. He turned and laid her down on the bed with ease. His lips slid to her neck as he inched his fingertips underneath the shirt she wore. The drive to see her bared to him eclipsed all else in Kohl’s mind. He pushed the white shirt off over her head. She had on demure looking breast wear covering what Kohl hoped to find. He nearly growled in frustration and made to rip the thing off, his eyes meeting Maya’s briefly. Her green eyes were electric, wide with a sort of shock. Kohl recounted his actions and attempted to undo the thing properly. When he fumbled with the clasp she sat up briefly to undo it herself, letting it fall to the floor. Kohl was struck with how steadily she held his gaze; this woman who would seemingly spew venom at him, willingly baring herself to him. Kohl’s chest filled with a collage of emotions he had no patience to sort through.
Instead he let his gaze slide down to Maya Lu’s breasts. Perfect, he had to admit, the full globes were exquisite. He couldn’t wait to see the rest of her. He palmed both of her breasts and pinched the mauve nipples in between his fingers. She arched her back, pushing her chest into her hands. Kohl lowered his head to nibble along the side of one breast as he let them go to undo her pants. He pulled them off, along with her underthings, in one easy sweep. Kohl outlined her waist and hip with his hands before he grazed his teeth along the center of her chest and abdomen, nibbling here and there until he kissed the lips of her sex. He slid his tongue in between the seam, up along her clitoris, and she cried out in pleasure. Kohl looked up to hold her gaze once more. She circled her hips impatiently and he resumed teasing the most sensitive parts of her. His hands stretched up to her breasts, pinching her nipples, while his tongue slid over her clit.
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