It did not take long for her to crest into an orgasm, her hips lifting a fraction off of the bed, her back arching towards him. She was a beautiful sight, even more ethereal in the heights of her pleasure. Kohl wanted more, to taste more of her sweetness, to take her to new heights.
He kissed her belly as she reached out to run her fingers through his hair. A low rumble escaped his throat, a sound of pleasure and need. He gently spread her legs for his waist to nestle against her hips, then he positioned his heavy sex at her entrance. Her hands caressed his stomach and chest as he slowly pushed into her. Kohl’s eyes widened, she was both silky and tight inside. She gripped him greedily.
“Kohl,” Maya gasped. Her hands gripped his waist tight as they moved together. Kohl seemed lost in her until they were both moaning with the ecstasy of a shared orgasm.
It took time for them to recover, Kohl’s release had drained him, making his knees weak. Never before had he been so weakened by a woman. Maya Lu tapped his side and he lifted his head to meet her gaze. Her gaze was less inviting, more guarded. A part of Kohl didn’t want that. He was confused as to why so ignored it. He gently slid out of her and sat back on his heels to watch as she got up and gathered her things. She went into the bathroom and came out some time later. Kohl felt as if he should offer her food, invite her to stay. Already his sex stirred at the thought of tasting her again, having her await him in his bed.
“You are welcome to stay Maya Lu,” Kohl finally broke the strange quiet between them. “I must go to the press room soon, but not for a short while.”
“It’s just Maya and…I have to get back to work,” she said hastily. She found her shoes and then quickly left Kohl’s bedroom without another comment. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
“Maya…” he murmured, looking at the underwear she’d left behind. He discarded it into the hamper and went to freshen up and dress. He had business to attend to.
His guards were not present because they were assisting to bring more Ve’dran scientists to Earth. Kohl thought it would be an excellent way to speed up the humans’ decision making in Ve’dra’s favor. If he could bring the personnel that would integrate to Earth as result of the alliance and show the humans how advantageous of a deal he offered, then perhaps they would finally accept his terms. Only Ve’dra’s greatest minds and innovators would be coming to work with their human counterparts in their respective fields.
Kohl was actually excited for the future. Finally Ve’dra would have access to the advancements of the rest of the galaxy. No longer would his planet be so stuck in the past. Kohl hurried to the hotel’s press room to make his announcements to the human media.
Some journalists were there, waiting for him to make his announcement. He went to the podium, and spoke.
“I’ve had you all gathered here this night to inform you and your leaders of the coming integration…” Kohl paused as a wave of questions came tumbling towards him. He held his hands up to quiet them all. “There will be a handful of new Ve’drans arriving on Earth, representatives of our most prestigious institutions in medicine and science. They will be here to offer a taste of what could be should your leaders accept the terms I’ve offered. A taste of the peaceful partnership our worlds can foster through shared knowledge and growth…” Kohl was sure to use the words the humans were known to respond to. Platitudes and the like. He had made note of these techniques after watching hours of speeches from human leaders.
“Prince Kohl, have you been given any clearance or permission to do this?” one reporter made his voice known above the rest and they all quieted for Kohl’s response.
“These few Ve’drans will be allowed onto your planet under the diplomatic provisions already agreed upon between our peoples. There will be no additional guard force, no military of any sort entering Earth space, I can assure you.” Kohl finished his statement and did not stay for any other questions. After a brief nod he quickly exited the room and left the hotel. He needed to be present to meet his people when they arrived at the Intergalactic Space Port not too far away from the hotel.
His car pulled up to the landing stretch just as the sleek black Ve’dran spacecraft was slowly descending from the sky. Kohl stepped out and smiled as he felt the subtle buffeting of air from the craft approaching the ground. He felt the warm gust as a comforting sign of the future for his people.
Chapter 6
Maya
Maya couldn’t believe what she’d done. She didn’t even finish doing her job, but she’d sure as hell ‘done’ Kohl. She took a deep breath and paced around her small living room. After her encounter with Kohl, there was no way she could stay at the hotel. She clocked out an hour early and logged her excuse as ‘feeling sick.’
More importantly she couldn’t even rationalize why on Earth she let herself get swept up by him. One second she was ready to throw her cleaning supplies at him and as soon as he kissed her, her body had completely taken over! What was that though? She’d never been so swept up by a kiss before, and she’d certainly never let things go so far with a man who was basically a stranger. And not just a stranger, but someone pretty hated by everyone else at the hotel, and most of the human race, too!
Maya couldn’t deny though, that Kohl had most likely ruined her for any other guy. Despite everything else about him, she’d never felt such…fulfilment before. He had hit nearly every pleasure spot inside of her and completely blown her mind.
“Damn you Kohl,” she mumbled and went for some wine and a glass. Once she had a generous amount of dessert red in her glass she got comfortable on the couch and turned on the TV. It was left on the news channel and some press conference was being played. It took Maya a moment to realize what was going on. But once she did she couldn’t believe it. Kohl was bringing more of his kind onto Earth and it seemed like he hadn’t even consulted any of Earth’s leaders about such a move.
Shaking her head, Maya took a healthy swallow of wine and called Tilly. She needed to speak with someone about everything or else she’d just explode. Tilly answered on the second ring and Maya simply blurted it out.
“I had sex with Kohl,” she said, her eyes glued to the press conference being replayed over and over by the newscasters.
“Cole? Who’s Cole?” Tilly asked, clearly not understanding.
“Prince Kohl, the one staying at the hotel, the one on the news right now,” Maya clarified. Her voice trembled with something like disbelief mingled with panic. It was truly weighing on her what she’d done. How could she ever go back to work?
“You…what!” Tilly yelled over the phone, her voice going a little shrill with shock. “Maya Lu! How could you?” she added, her disapproval making her words rhyme. Maya sighed heavily.
“I…I don’t know Tilly, I just—one second I was telling him off and the next he was…and we were…” Maya took a deep breath, followed by another swallow of wine.
“Okay, okay, okay…let’s rewind here. I thought you hated that man just like the rest of us do,” Tilly said, her voice considerably more controlled.
“I did! I mean I do!” Maya defended herself poorly. She was all confused.
“I mean this is so out of the blue and so unlike you Maya. What made you do it? Did he…did you even want to?” she asked quietly, as if bracing herself for Maya’s response.
“It was consensual, I didn’t tell him to stop, I didn’t want him to stop,” Maya admitted after another sip of wine. She walked back into her kitchen to refill the glass.
“So why, did you like him this whole time?” Tilly asked.
“No, I honestly didn’t. I mean of course I observed, just like every male-appreciating woman, that he’s gorgeous. But it was overshadowed by his attitude and actions. But then he came out of his bathroom completely naked and it was like he was a magnet. A very hot magnet. I tried to tell him off and let that distance my attraction. But it didn’t happen, he kissed me and that was it,” Maya said in a rush.
“Yeah, I wouldn’t want to
be alone in a room with a naked Prince Kohl. I know he must have been hard to resist. So are you going to keep tending to his suite or what?” she asked curiously.
“No! I can’t, I can’t let that happen again. I feel like I’m betraying my own kind,” Maya admitted.
“So what, after you had sex you just left?” she asked and Maya took a hefty sip of wine.
“Yeah, he offered for me to stay, but I wasn’t going to become his little human plaything or whatever,” Maya eventually said.
“Oh my god did you use protection?” Tilly asked, alarm slammed back into her voice.
“Yes, I’m on birth control remember?” Maya said. Tilly released a breath of relief then.
“Well my advice is to just not be…around him anymore. He’s ‘Evil Prince Kohl’ after all, he can only lead to bad things,” Tilly warned.
“I know and you’re right. I’m not going back up to his suite…ever,” Maya murmured. Though deep down she wondered how true that was. Maya knew that no matter how hard she’d try to resist him, she may very well end up in his bed again.
“I think I should come over tonight,” Tilly said after a moment of quiet.
“Yeah…and hey, bring some wine. I’m out,” Maya said as she studied her wine cooler. There was only one other bottle inside and she was sure they’d get through that quickly. Or at least she surely would!
Chapter 7
Kohl
“Ah, my son!” Kohl’s father, King Omrin IV, greeted him with wide arms and a kiss for both cheeks. Kohl was back to Ve’dra to deliver a brief update to his father and the Ve’dran people of his progress on Earth. Kohl embraced his father, then looked around the grand throne room. He’s missed his home greatly. Compared to Earth, Ve’dra was certainly more grandiose. The royal palace was nothing less than ornate, made to impress even the most refined and jaded eye. It had spacious rooms that seemed to soar into the sky, impressive views of the surrounding islands, and aesthetic of melding with the outside.
“I’ve missed home,” Kohl breathed. His father led him towards the three thrones at the head of the room. Two for his parents, one for him.
“Your people have missed you Kohl. But tell me. How go things on the little blue planet?”
“They are progressing exactly as I planned. Soon they will accept my alliance terms and our people can finally have unfettered access to the knowledge that the rest of the galaxy holds. As you know, I’ve already integrated some of our own from the Innovation Academy onto Earth.” Kohl spoke confidently. He was glad to have brought that gleam of pride into his father’s eyes.
“I am pleased to hear this son, very pleased. It means that my time as king is clearly coming to an end. You will need to lead us into this new age as ‘King Kohl,’” his father said with good humor. Kohl’s chest swelled with many emotions; chief among them being pride, he’d been trying to prove himself as a worthy king for years and finally the high throne was in his grasp.
“It has a good flow to it don’t you think?” he joked with his father.
“Indeed, so how about we make the proper announcements to our people so that we can get to dinner with your mother. She has been coordinating it all day,” Omrin chuckled and led Kohl from the room.
* * *
Kohl sighed as he stepped off of the space craft, back onto Earth’s soil. He’d only been on Ve’dra one day. But the vast distance between Ve’dra and Earth took a long time to traverse, even via hyperspace. When he returned, he had been gone for a week on Earth.
Kohl was greeted by one of his personal guard who stayed back while he traveled to Ve’dra. “My Prince, welcome back.”
“Kelhan, tell me how have things been in my absence?” Kohl asked him as they walked from the craft to an idling vehicle.
“Well my lord…our people have been, in my opinion, difficult to constrain within human social norms,” he spoke with hesitation and Kohl quirked a brow at him curiously.
“What does that mean Kelhan? Give me truth,” said Kohl.
“There was an incident while you were away. One of our own perhaps had too many spirits in him and he assaulted many human males in a brawl. He was locked up within a human prison to wait for his inebriation to pass. During that time some of diplomatic staff grew outraged that the humans had such audacity as to imprison one of our kind…” Kelhan continued to explain what happened, but Kohl didn’t need to hear it. He’d heard enough to know exactly how his kind reacted. Ve’drans did not take insults lightly. It was immediately seen as an insult not to turn the inebriated Ve’dran over to his own kind to be dealt with.
“How bad is it?” Kohl interrupted Kelhan and the guard hesitated briefly.
“Very delicate my prince. Lords Beerus and Fare have been handling the publicity in a brash manner. Threatening to use force against any human to cross a Ve’dran. They have made the humans very wary, words like ‘war’ and ‘dismissal by force’ have been mentioned by the Earthlings several times.” Kelhan quieted as he drove towards the hotel. Kohl’s mood darkened when he saw the amount of human media waiting for his arrival.
“I thought they knew not of my absence,” he nearly growled.
“News of it must have just gotten out my prince.”
Kohl took several deep breaths as he got out of the vehicle and hurried past the cameras and shouts with Kelhan right behind him. He was away from Earth a mere week, and already there was strife. He and Kelhan rode in silence up to his suite. What he saw when he stepped inside ignited his already heated blood.
Maya Lu was at the hands of Meekah and Sommer, right there in his very living area. She struggled under the weight of Meekah who held her down while Sommer went for her pants. When it became well evident that the two had no realization of his presence, Kohl swiftly took Kelhan’s sword from his hip. In two strides he walked towards his two oldest guards and slit their throats with deadly precision. Careful not to harm Maya any more than she appeared to be. He quickly bent down to lift her into his arms and looked at Kelhan briefly.
“You will speak of this to no one,” Kohl barked harshly.
“Of course my prince, I will…attend to this,” Kelhan said dutifully, bowing low. Kohl dropped his sword and walked with a shaking Maya into his bedroom.
There, it dawned on her what he had done.
“Y-you just killed them,” she gasped. Her arms crept around her torso and Kohl studied her face. She had a cut on her lip and her clothes were loosened, but that seemed to be the extent of her injury.
“They would have harmed you, violated you…” Kohl said gruffly. He’d just indeed killed two of his own kind for a human. As things stood between humans and Ve’drans that was along the lines of treason against his own kind. Maya stared up at him in shock, her green eyes large. Kohl silently turned on his heel to get some cloth to clean up her lip. He found a small clean rag in the bathroom and ran it under cold water before bringing it with him to the room. He knelt in front of her and slowly reached out to press it against the split. Hot anger surged in his veins yet again as he looked closely at what had been inflicted on her face, one he saw as being flawless.
“Your people have been out of control Kohl; I came here…I came tonight to see if you were here. Then they—” she paused abruptly and glanced over Kohl’s shoulder. He turned to see Kelhan standing in the doorway.
“It has been done my prince,” he informed. Kohl gave him a nod and watched as Kelhan. He would have to have a talk with Kelhan about this incident. Though he didn’t doubt his loyalties, Kelhan must have been alarmed by Kohl’s actions.
But it was obvious to Kohl now how he felt for Maya Lu, and it was truly unexpected. Part of him saw her as his, and therefore to be protected by him. It was troubling to say the least.
Chapter 8
Kohl
Kohl lightly brushed his thumb over her bottom lip. “Are you unhurt beyond this?”
She nodded and slowly unwrapped her hands from around herself. Kohl wished to comfort her, but he felt
that perhaps she was still too raw after everything that transpired. Her eyes were still so wide, her skin pale.
“I think…I want to go home, I want to get out of this place,” she whispered.
“I can take you to your home if you wish,” Kohl offered. Still shaking, she nodded. He quickly withdrew the cloak he wore over his suit and draped it over her shoulders. She pulled the heavy royal garment close around her shoulders.
“Thank you…” she said softly. Kohl reached into his pocket and pulled out his communicator, paging Kelhan to bring a vehicle around the rear of the hotel. “Is this…what fabric is this?” she asked curiously, her voice having only a trace of tremble to it.
“It is very similar to velvet,” he answered her idly, reading his swift response from Kelhan.
“Kohl, you have to get your people under control…” Maya murmured.
“I am almost embarrassed because of them. It is as if I’m their father who left them with a nurse and they’ve terrorized him.”
“Him?” Maya asked curiously.
“Where certain roles are known to a female here, they are equally as known to males on Ve’dra. As a child, my nurse was a male,” Kohl explained.
“Oh…” was her only reply. Kohl received the notification to meet Kelhan and he took Maya’s hand to lead her out.
“You must tell me the least public route to get to the rear kitchen entrance,” said Kohl. Maya nodded, pointing the way to the staff elevator. Kohl swiftly got Maya to the vehicle without being seen by anyone. He sat in the rear with her as she quietly gave his guard directions to her home. It was small and quaint, and stood on a private street not five minutes away from the hotel.
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