Kohl nibbled on her neck and jaw as he thrust into her. Then he covered her mouth with his, drinking in her moans and tasting the sweetness of her tongue. Maya was quick to climax, her sex tightening around him in rhythmic pulses. He thrust into her faster, harder, his own release followed by her second orgasm.
“Don’t…don’t put me down yet…” she breathed. Kohl could tell she hadn’t yet regained composure from the dazed look in her eye. He took pride in the thought that only he could do that to Maya. When she gave him permission, he carefully let her onto her feet.
“Maybe I should leave my door unlocked more often,” she joked. Kohl smirked at her as he reached for her soap.
“I was ready to murder any intruder,” he said in all seriousness. Remembering what he’d done before for her, she had no comment.
“I don’t usually leave it open. I went for an evening jog and came back feeling like I overdid it. I ran to the bathroom thinking I had to throw up and left the door unlocked…”
“Throw up?” he asked her curiously.
“Yes…I felt sick,” she clarified, her hand going to her stomach.
“Are you well now?” he asked, feeling like a fool for taking her like that. Without even taking into account how she felt.
“Oh yeah I’m fine. I guess it was just a passing thing,” she said quickly. “But how come you’re here so early? I thought you had that meeting?”
Kohl sighed as he made a lather in his hands and then rubbed the skin of Maya’s shoulders and arms. “Yes, one of my diplomats is a fool. Even worse than I had been I believe. I wanted to kill him so had to leave early,” he explained.
“What? Someone with an attitude worse than yours used to be?” she scoffed. Kohl gave her an ironic smile. She grinned at him innocently in return.
“It gave me perspective…realizing that this was how your people saw me. I did not like it,” he reiterated.
“Well I’m glad you seem to be changing,” she smiled happily up at him. He would do anything to have her smile at him as such all the time. He bent down to kiss her once more, his hands washing her breasts in the process. She and Kohl were to spend quite some time in the shower that evening…
Chapter 8
Beerus
Beerus paced his suite in the height of annoyance. That entitled, prideful…fool of a Prince Kohl thought he could simply ignore his duties? And for what? Beerus went to Kohl’s suite himself and was informed that he was not in. Was he at that ridiculous, ‘Union of Earth Nations’ building again? Coddling those whining, pouting humans? If it were King Omrin present he’d have swiftly bent the humans to Ve’dran will.
But where was Kohl? Beerus grew tired of asking himself the same question. He summoned his personal guard, Kertz.
“Lord Beerus,” the guard was swift and stealthy, exactly the kind of man Beerus needed for the endeavor he had in mind.
“I need you to carry out a task for me. On confidence,” Beerus added. He needed to keep things highly secret. Especially if his suspicions of Kohl were correct.
“Yes, my lord?” Kertz was curious as to the task.
“I need you to track Prince Kohl’s whereabouts and report them to me and only me,” Beerus spoke intently to the guard. Kertz showed no hesitation in his bow.
“Of course, I will see to it swiftly, my lord.” Was his dutiful reply. Beerus watched him leave, then continued to pace. After a minute of silence, he had Caspin summoned back to his suite.
“Honestly Beerus, I think I have had enough of your obsessions for one night,” Caspin sighed as he walked into the suite.
“I sent Kertz to find Prince Kohl,” Beerus told him without preamble.
“What?” Caspin had incredulity and wariness in his gaze.
“Don’t be troubled, I have real reason to be suspicious of Kohl and I just know Kertz will give report of his traitorous behavior,” Beerus ranted.
“Beerus you tread thin ice, as these humans would say. Kohl not too long ago felled his own guards. Men who watched over him since birth! Do not think he will hesitate again to end your life. Not to mention he has appointed Kelhan his viceguard. That warrior is both talented and keen and fiercely loyal to Kohl.” Caspin warned.
“I will take all blame for this if it comes to it. Otherwise…will you stand with me?” Beerus asked Caspin.
“Stand for what cause?” he asked incredulously.
“Of exposing Kohl’s true loyalties to King Omrin!” Beerus exclaimed, as if the answer should have been obvious to Caspin. Beerus watched the hesitation on Caspin’s face. He knew the man must also have sensed Kohl’s shifting loyalties. He was behaving too far outside of the Ve’dran way, not to mention his usual temperament has completely gone. The prince was almost…tame.
“I will remain to hear what Kertz has to report, then I will make my decision.” Caspin said resolutely. He sat down as Beerus continued to pace. “Would you at least be still?” he asked.
Beerus took a seat across from Caspin’s facing the fireplace. They waited in silent contemplation until Kertz returned only twenty minutes later.
“My lord—” Kertz paused when he saw Caspin present. His face seemed confused and troubled.
“It is fine Kertz, you may speak,” Beerus urged him.
“I tracked Kelhan’s whereabouts. As he is Prince Kohl’s viceguard. I found his assigned vehicle parked near a small house just five minutes away. Kelhan was still in the vehicle…and I managed to get close enough to the house to hear Kohl’s voice inside…along with a human woman. It sounded as if they were…very clearly sexual with each other,” Kertz said, slightly embarrassed then.
“On outrage!” Beerus erupted, anger vibrating through him. It was preposterous to think that the crown prince of Ve’dra may be entertaining a relationship with a human woman! What implications could it have for Ve’dra?!
“I believe we should see for ourselves the nature of this, or the severity,” Caspin said, a great deal more level headed than Beerus, thinking that Beerus was being hypocritical. After all, he had used human prostitutes during his stay on Earth.
“We know the exact nature Caspin. Kertz has just told it to us! I say we pay this woman a visit when Kohl is not present. See what spells she might have cast on him…” Beerus barked the words. Of course it was a woman, someone to poison Kohl against his own kind. She was probably sent to seduce him! An agent of the Union of Earth Nations to get Kohl to be lenient and soft.
“We should interrogate her!” Beerus added.
“Fine, we will pay this woman a visit and ask her what her true intentions are for Kohl, although this does not seem like a simple dalliance to me, in the light of things.” Caspin spoke, thinking along the same vein Beerus was.
“I know the exact way my lords. I would be honored to aid in this endeavor,” Kertz said, bowing low.
“To think! Prince Kohl, sleeping with the enemy!” Beerus spat, using a human saying which so aptly fit what was going on.
Chapter 9
Maya
“So do you think it’ll all be settled soon then?” Maya asked Kohl. She lay on his chest, naked of course, while in front of the fireplace. The fire wasn’t lit, but they pretended. It was Kohl’s idea too; she’d learned he had a silly side as well.
“I believe so, the humans have been willing to speak with me and let me clarify several points on our proposal,” he said, taking her hand to kiss her palm affectionately.
“And your diplomats, they’re…cool with everything?” she asked curiously. If he said they acted like he used to then she couldn’t see them being okay with Kohl negotiating in the way he had. Even though he called it, ‘clarifying.’
“They will be when the alliance is finally ‘ratified’ as some of your leaders called it,” he said.
“So once the alliance is ratified then what?” she looked up at him and he smiled.
“Well more of the same really. More of our scientists will come to Earth, and we will create a permanent embassy here. W
ith Earth’s help, Ve’dra will start the process to join the UAP…things will be well.” He sighed peacefully, as if he couldn’t wait for it to all end well and move forward. Maya smiled at him and stretched up to kiss his jaw.
“I hope so…” she said softly, resting her head on his chest once more. She listened to his steady heartbeat, until a wave of nausea curled up from her stomach. She bolted up and ran to the bathroom.
“Maya!” Kohl was right on her heels as she hurried to bend over the toilet. Her dinner of steak fajitas came up in a way she really wouldn’t have liked Kohl to witness. She tried to shove him away, but he stayed to hold her hair out of the vomit, as well as rub her back. When all she had was dry heaves left she quickly flushed and stood up to wash out her mouth.
“Are you alright?” he asked her almost anxiously.
“Yeah…I guess I shouldn’t have had the sour cream, I was suspicious of it from the get-go,” she rationalized, thinking that had to be it. That or she had a stomach flu. What else could it be..?
“Maya?” Kohl drew her out of her head just as the word ‘pregnant?’ drifted hazily through her mind.
“Yeah…” she looked up at him, all sure and strong, worried about her.
“Is there a medicine I can get for you?” he asked.
“Oh, no I have some antacids here and ginger ale. Don’t worry,” she smiled at him and went to go put on a shirt and pajama shorts. With her back turned to him she had plenty of room to start freaking out. Maya was on birth control, but when was the last time she’d had her period? Was it even possible to have a baby with someone from another planet?
As Maya got dressed she prayed and hoped that she had a simple stomach bug. Kohl stayed with her all night after that episode, making sure she was really okay.
Come morning he left her reluctantly. He had to go to a scheduled meeting with the President of the U.S., one of the major Union of Earth Nations members he had yet to speak with. As soon as he was gone Maya actually called in sick to work and then she called Tilly.
“You think you’re what?” she yelled across the phone. “I’m coming over with like five pregnancy tests, don’t do anything!” she yelled, then the line went dead.
Maya knew she was definitely in trouble when Tilly arrived, not twenty minutes later. She barged in, using her key and all. Tilly was like a firecracker, even with her petite size and seemingly kind brown eyes. She was sometimes a force to be reckoned with.
“I can’t believe you Maya Lu,” she said as she shut the door behind her. Maya sighed heavily and went for the plastic bag in Tilly’s hands.
“We don’t know anything yet…” she murmured as she looked through the bag.
“I snagged a few pee sample cups from work so we’re set to run all five tests,” she said as Maya pulled out all the equipment.
“Tilly I’m taking a pregnancy test, not being screened for an infectious disease,” Maya said. Tilly shot her a warning glare, it wasn’t the time for jokes.
“Do you realize how serious this can be Maya? Having a baby with Prince Kohl?” Tilly said.
“I’m trying not to let the gravity of the situation hit me until I’m sure.” But she couldn’t deny her heart was pounding. She took the supplies with her and went to go pee in one of the cups. She decided to take only two pregnancy tests, rather than all five. After following the instructions, she set her phone timer and sat anxiously in the living room with Tilly. It was all so nerve-wracking. She couldn’t even begin to think what having a baby with Kohl would mean. But she did know for sure that if she were pregnant, she’d love the baby just as surely as her own mother had loved her.
When her phone’s alarm went off Maya’s heart froze, she couldn’t move from the couch. Tilly got up and went to look at the tests herself.
“Well…? Well?” she asked Tilly anxiously.
“Here…” Tilly handed her both sticks. They were both positive. The air seemed to leave the room at the same time that she started to hyperventilate.
“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…” Maya couldn’t say or think beyond those few words.
“Hey…Maya, it’s going to be okay. We’ll figure it out one step at a time okay? Take deep breaths,” Tilly urged her to try and breathe, but she couldn’t. Tilly urged Maya’s head down between her knees and she tried to breathe. The technique worked, but Maya was still freaking out.
“How about I go get some food…and then we’ll calm down some more before addressing it?” Tilly offered. Putting the tests in the plastic bag and closing it up, out of Maya’s sight.
“O-okay,” Maya said. Tilly said something about Chinese as she hurried out of the door. Maya needed the quiet to try and wrap her head around it all.
She was pregnant…holy shit.
Chapter 10
Beerus
“The other female has gone my lords!” Kertz hurried into the vehicle with the news. Beerus and Caspin hurried out, they then had to grapple with the timing of the other female most likely returning to the house.
“Beerus, I must urge that you let me speak to her,” Caspin said to him as they hastened to her doorstep.
“Fine, but I will speak if I have something to say,” Beerus told him, effectively letting Caspin know that he wouldn’t truly adhere to his rule. Caspin knocked on the door and just a moment later the woman Prince Kohl was seeing opened the door. Beerus of course noted that she was beautiful, but she also appeared pale, perhaps sickly.
“Um…can I help you?” she asked, confusion and wariness heavy in her tone and expression.
“Yes, we are…associates of Prince Kohl, we were hoping to speak with you privately if that is alright? On friendly terms of course,” Caspin said, his voice as jolly as a traitor’s.
“We have come to learn the exact nature as to your relations with Prince Kohl and who put you up to it of course,” Beerus cut in, pushing past the woman and into her home.
“What the hell? You can’t just barge into my house!” she yelled. Beerus flicked his hand at Kertz, who seized the woman. Holding her wrists securely behind her back and all but carrying her into the house. He held her in the center of the small living space while Caspin followed them all in.
“We have ample reason to believe that you were sent to seduce our Prince Kohl in order to sympathize him to your…kind.” Beerus said with disgust. Caspin gave up in taking the lead of the interrogation. He simply poked around the woman’s small home. There was some sort of mess on the small table in front of the couch. Plastic wrappings and such. Beerus let Caspin investigate. He focused on the woman. She seemed lithe, athletic. She could very well be an agent of the Union of Earth Nations.
“I suggest you speak woman, your silence only adds to your guilt,” Beerus sneered at her.
“You’re insane. I don’t work for any government…” her heated retort dampened as she fell silent, evident of a lie.
“So you do work for a government here? Which? The Union of Earth Nations? Do they pay you well for your whorish work?” Beerus asked. She tried struggling against Kertz’s hold, but could not break free.
“Beerus…” Caspin called his name rather faintly, Beerus ignored him.
“I’m not an agent! I work for the Potomac Grand Hotel! I run housekeeping!” she shouted.
“A servant? Kohl has engaged in an affair with a servant? I find that vastly difficult to believe,” Beerus scoffed.
“Beerus she’s—”
“Tell me, what lies have you been feeding Prince Kohl? What have you been sending him to do at these secret Union of Earth Nations meetings?” Beerus asked her, cutting Caspin off yet again.
“I haven’t sent him to do anything. He goes there on his own volition!” she seemed to believe what she was saying.
“Don’t think for a moment that Kohl values you or what poison you feed him over the Ve’dran way. Over his own people. To him you are simply a whorish human woman, a dalliance. He is most likely using you to learn the best ways to deceive your leaders. As
soon as our alliance terms are accepted, Kohl will return to Ve’dra and forget you,” Beerus spat. He fed her the words to break her defiance. Beerus could not be surer of his suspicions. Kohl had indeed softened towards the humans. He was acting against the Ve’dran way and betraying his people.
“Beerus!” Caspin called his name for seemingly the tenth time. Beerus finally turned around to look at him. “She is with child,” he said, holding up the pregnancy tester. The shock turned Beerus to stone, Kertz actually loosened his grip on the woman. She tripped out of his hold and bolted to the door. But Kertz quickly regained his control over her. She really started to kick and scream though all she affected was the flow of air.
“Get her into the vehicle. We will take her to Ve’dra and let our King Omrin decide what to do with her. No doubt he will want to terminate of that veritable bastard in her womb,” Beerus said, his tone superior, sure. He very well had grounds of eliminating Prince Kohl from taking over the throne. Beerus almost smiled; wouldn’t that be well worth this trouble?
“Beerus, what if Kohl comes after us?” Caspin asked him as they followed Kertz and the still screaming woman to the large black vehicle.
“He will, and he shall find us on Ve’dra, presenting this woman to his father. What can he do then but admit his guilt?” Beerus said, he could not hide the smile from his voice then. They watched as Kertz gave the woman one blow to the head and she went limp in his arms. He put her into the very back and tied her arms and legs in Ve’dran restraint coil.
“We shall go directly to the space port Kertz. Contact Ve’dra with an urgent alert for emergency meeting with our king,” Beerus said. So what if his voice was smug, he was eager to prove Prince Kohl the fool. King Omrin was wrong to trust such a task to someone who was so obviously still a child.
Book 3: Their Vow
After her abduction Kohl rushes to Maya’s rescue. He doesn’t stand for her being treated as expendable. Though she is unsure whether to trust him Kohl proves himself to her. While on Ve’dras he makes it known just how much he feels for her. Finally, Maya comes to see his love is real and allows herself to be all in. For him and their baby. But the honeymoon bliss doesn’t last when they return to Earth. The United Alliance of Planets has finally stepped in to aid Earth in ousting all Ve’drans from the planet and cutting off alliance negotiations. Appalled, Kohl does all he can to make sure Ve’dras can leave on good terms with Earth. After all Earth is Maya’s home and he promised to make things right with her people. Only in Kohl’s efforts to start to rectify the situation he ends up in a dangerous situation. One he may not recover from.
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