She wanted the memories of the last years wiped out. She hadn’t seen a sun rise or set in so long. It was time to start anew. She pressed her butt closer to his cock, grinding in slow circular motions. The feel of hot skin penetrated the shirt, her eyes closing as she realized he was entirely naked. If she had known that, she would have gotten this party started hours ago.
Taio reached down and lifted her leg over his. While one hand leisurely massaged a breast, the other rubbed her clit.
“Did you sleep well?” he asked.
“Yes.” She twirled her hips again. “But I’m starting to really enjoy my morning better.”
“I aim to please.” Taio dipped a large finger in her wet pussy. Eva raked her nails across his thighs. “We can do this every morning.”
Eva tugged the shirt over her hips. Taio’s shaft nestled hot against the crack of her ass. “Where am I going to stay while I’m here?”
Taio grabbed her hips, lifting her off the bed to slide his cock between her legs. “What do you mean by ‘while you are here’? This is your home now.”
Eva slid her slick heat along his shaft, shuddering as the hard ridge of the head pressed over her clit. Reaching between her legs, she pressed it against her. She pushed back, trying to force the large head to breach her small opening. It didn’t work. Taio held her hips firmly in place and pushed up hard. Eva gasped as the head filled her sore and swollen sheath, stretching her painfully.
Taking his time, Taio slowly moved in and out, letting her adjust to his thickness. The pain subsided with each slow thrust. She buried her head in the pillows, panting as pleasure overrode all her senses.
As her moans were muffled by the pillow, Taio’s deep moans filled the room. She wrapped her arms around the pillow as his speed quickened and his thrusts became harder. Holding her in place, Taio pumped deeper, his hips slapping against her ass. She cried out as his cock stretched her to the max.
Just when she thought she would split in two, Taio thrust deeper with a roar. The feel of his hot liquid spurting and coating her walls was enough to send her over the edge. Her walls contracted as her climax met his.
Taio rolled onto his back and positioned her to lie on his sweaty chest. His dark, damp chest hairs pressed against her cheek as she made circular patterns in them with her fingers.
“Exactly how far away from Earth are we?”
“Eva, it doesn’t matter.” He stroked a hand through her hair. “The Loconuist are there, it’s not safe, you can never return.”
Eva closed her eyes against the mental blow. “I miss it.”
“Tell me, what do you miss most?”
Everything. “For starters, music. I miss music. I would give anything to hear Drinks Up by A.O. Or even log onto the Internet to catch the latest Orangey and Purple webisode.”
“I do not know what ‘the Internet’ is, but we do have music. Some of the best musicians have traveled over great distances to perform on Sonis.”
She rolled her eyes, doubting they would have Afro-Punk on Sonis. “It won’t be the same.”
“In time, you will learn to call Sonis home.”
“Don’t sound so confident, ‘master’. I’m a slave here. It can never be home,” she mumbled. “But what I miss most is Ally.”
“She is your family?”
She shook her head. “I joined up with Ally and her husband, Jim, during the invasion. But we became family in the short time that we were hiding from the aliens. Jim died before we were captured. Ally and I watched over each other on the spacecraft.”
He kissed her on the top of her head and gave her arm a reassuring squeeze. “Eva, the odds of finding her are not in your favor.”
“I know, Ship told me. But he also promised to help me look for her.”
“Ship will do his best to keep his promise.”
For a moment she lay in silence, wondering how Ally was faring. What kind of person she had been sold to, if she was a slave as well. Her head popped up. “What about some kind of slave buy-back program?”
Taio frowned. “You are mine, to keep. You’ll stay here with me.” Taio’s arm gripped her tighter.
She rested her head back on his muscled chest. “Taio, I’m not slave material. Even though I was given to you, I still think I should have the opportunity to buy my freedom. I could work for it.”
“You have a job.” He flicked a finger across her nipple.
“No, a real job. A job so I can pay you back.” She pinched his nipple in return.
“This is the only job you need. I plan to keep you very busy.” He rubbed her leg and gave it a playful pat.
“What about training your guards? I could help with that.”
Taio laughed. “As I told you before, males and females do not train together. You will not find a female training on Sonis at all. That is not their place.”
She lifted her head to stare at him. “I could change that.”
“A female’s place is not on the training field. She is expected to clean, cook, serve or attend to the children.” He waved his free hand in the air as he talked. “Oh, or she can serve as a personal assistant to a male.”
“The same as Mazel?”
“Yes, Mazel has served me for a very long time.”
Eva squinted, wondering just how well she served him.
Taio laughed. “Not in the capacity you are thinking, little one.”
“What about Rasha? Does he have one too?” She lowered her head back on his chest. The hairs tickled her ear and cheek, but she nuzzled into them anyway.
“Rasha is between assistants right now. But that position is not for you. I already told you what your job will be.”
And if he had it his way, she would be doing her “job” all day, every day. Sheesh, their combined juices were still leaking out of her. Oh shit! She squeezed her eyes shut.
“Umm…Taio? Do you have anything here to prevent pregnancy?” Shit, shit, shit, she mentally kicked herself. Birth control hadn’t been on her mind in a very long time. This was a fine time to remember it, after the fact.
“We welcome every pregnancy that occurs on Sonis. But if you are wondering about yourself, do not. My race has never been able to procreate with other species beside our own.”
“Oh. Okay.” Her heart slowed to its regular pace. At least she didn’t have to worry about that while she was here.
Hmm…no kids, ever.
She shook her head. No need to think or worry about children. She needed him to give her some measure of independence.
“Taio, I want a job. I mean, I’ve worked since I was fourteen years old. I have to be able to provide for myself.”
“A Sonis female is not burdened with such things. Either her mate is expected to provide for her or she remains the responsibility of her father until she does mate.”
“I don’t mind being burdened by working, really. My first job was mopping floors at the local ice cream parlor.”
“Is that what you did before you were taken from Earth?”
Eva choked. “Oh God no. Believe it or not, I actually moved up in the world. I have a bachelor’s degree in nursing and worked at a hospital, a health facility, as a registered nurse…umm, healer.”
“You had more jobs than one?”
Eva laughed. “Yes. On Earth, we worked. Men, women and children.”
“Then you should feel privileged that I have brought you to Sonis. Your only responsibility will be to take care of me.” She could feel his chest puff out under her head.
“Taio…”
“Eva, you are mine, that part is nonnegotiable. But I can assure you that I will never treat you as a slave.”
Eva lifted to her hands to stare down at him, her hair framing her face and draping his chest.
“How do you get the other slaves acclimated into this society? Were they born slaves or were they forced into it?”
“To be honest, we don’t have slaves on Sonis.” He cleared his throat and looked away. “You, ah, are the f
irst one.”
She punched him in the chest. “You have got to be kidding! I’m the only slave on this entire rock!”
“Yes.”
Eva threw herself onto her back and pulled the cover up to her neck. Taio reached to pull the cover down, but she slapped his hand out of the way.
“So there has got to be room for negotiation. If I can’t work for my freedom, I can do something else. And no, sex doesn’t count.”
She was the only slave? Really? No wonder everyone stared at her last night. She was the only freaking slave here!
“The head of your household, your father, would negotiate your terms. Since he is not here, as your owner, I would serve in his place and I reject the terms.” Taio shrugged, as if he had the problem solved.
“I have to figure out how to spend my time here. I can’t sit around waiting for you to get hard.” Just then, a thought hit her. “Can I work for you? Ship mentioned something about a business?”
“Eva, my businesses aren’t accommodating for females.”
“Businesses?”
“I have Sonis Mercenary, which is run by my younger brother Kiehle. I haven’t participated in the day-to-day operations of that company for over ten cycles. Then there is Sonis Gold. We mine for gold and sell it throughout the galaxy. Neither business is suitable for a female.”
“So those are out.” She crossed her arms over her breasts. “I can tell you now, I’m not kitchen or cleaning material. And while we’re on that subject, I saw the clothes in the closet. Thanks, but I’m going to need something less…girly.”
“Eva, the female clothes are traditional Sonis dress. I can’t allow you to dress as a male.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.” She waved a finger at him. “We are negotiating.”
“And I told you, I do not negotiate with females.”
“An exception has to be made because I don’t have a father. I’ve been negotiating for myself since I was emancipated at sixteen. I think I can handle this.”
“What do you mean? The fathers of Earth did not make decisions for their female children?”
“It’s not that. I’m an orphan.” Taio crumpled his brow in confusion. “I didn’t have a mother or father. I lived in an orphanage.”
“I don’t understand.”
“It’s a place where children go if they don’t have a mother or father to take care of them.”
“But—”
“But that’s not what we’re negotiating. I want to be able to wear the same kind of clothes that I wore on the vessel. I think it’s only fair. I gave up the idea of working, now it’s your turn to give me something in return.”
He was silent in thought for a moment. “Okay, you can keep your clothes. I’m not sure how the other females will react to such a thing. A female in males’ clothing.” He shook his head in disbelief.
“They’ll get over it.”
It didn’t take her long to figure out Taio was right. The females on Sonis didn’t want anything to do with her. She waved and smiled as she passed them in the halls. Instead of a return gesture, everyone averted their eyes and pretended she didn’t exist.
Mazel even tried to help out, but not even her teaching of “Sonis” ways did anything to get the other women to open up to her. The males avoided her, but she expected Taio had a hand in that. But to be ostracized by the females was unexpected to say the least.
Could they all be this hung up about clothes? If wearing gowns was a requirement for friends, she decided to resign herself to being alone.
Chapter Twelve
The past week had been nothing but a test of wills. Apparently Mazel hadn’t gotten Taio’s memo about the clothes. That woman didn’t take no for an answer.
Every morning, Mazel laid out a gown, prodding her to wear it, trying to make her a “proper” Sonis female. Eva was not a dress kind of girl. She was a jeans and t-shirt or scrubs kind of girl. And if Mazel wasn’t bad enough, Taio imposed one rule after another.
Eva sat on the grass-covered ground, the suns’ rays beating down on her back as she watched the sandy field fifty yards in front of her. A protective covering was flung haphazardly across her head and shoulders. She had strict orders to keep the covering on at all times; otherwise, Taio would not have let her come back out into the suns.
The covering wasn’t heavy or cumbersome; it just made her stand out as…different. No one else she’d encountered so far had to wear a sun blanket. But no one she encountered had sunburned shoulders, arms and face either.
She scoffed when he first told her—no, commanded—she wear it at all times while she was outdoors. She couldn’t get skin cancer in a couple of days, and besides, all she would need to do was take a quick trip to the healing bay to be cured. Taio hadn’t found the humor in that. He didn’t stand down and neither did she.
The first time she had tried to leave the palace, she found that Ship had created some kind of force field around all the exits that wouldn’t let her through. By heavens, they intended to trap her indoors with an invisible shield that stopped only her.
It pissed her off, but secretly she admired their Star Trek kind of technology. Threatening Ship did nothing to bring down the shield. She was finally forced to go back to her room and retrieve the blanket. Ship was officially on her shit list now.
She would think about plotting her revenge on Ship later, but right now she was wondering if she scooted up a couple more feet, would the guards on the field notice her. So far, Taio felt strongly about two things, the protective sun blanket and the training field. Well, technically, I’m not on the training field.
Since the first day of finding it, she couldn’t stay away from the excitement this place held for her. She understood why he was worried for her. The men were gigantic and the weapons were unfamiliar. Fighting! She clenched and unclenched her fists under the blanket. She wanted to hit something.
Hard.
For the past four days, she had come out to the training field, and each time had inched a few feet closer. The men didn’t seem to notice her proximity. She just hoped Taio would also be oblivious to her pursuit as well.
A group of guards practiced with the jango, a fighting sword that had almost the size and look of a javelin. She wished she had one herself to hold and practice with. She sat mesmerized as the guards swung the body-length, metallic weapon with ease. The suns’ rays reflected off them, creating a spectacular light show.
“Wow. This is great.”
Eva looked up to see a female with pale-pink skin, short, hot-pink spiky hair and coal-black eyes staring down at her. Eva blinked back her surprise. Where had this chick come from?
“I’m Lo’Ren.” The pink female plopped down next to her.
“I’m Eva.” The female’s arm brushed against her own. Eva scooted over.
“Ohh, royal guards.” Lo’Ren looked toward the guards training on the field. “I don’t know about you, but the sight of their glistening bodies always makes me think of all the wicked things I can let them do to me.”
“Umm, so, you came to watch them train too? I thought I was the only female who came out here.”
“I came to sit with you. I’ve never been out here before. The royal guards are an added bonus.” Lo’Ren smiled and winked.
“Sit with me? Why? Wait. Did Taio send you?”
“Yes. My job is to be your friend.” Lo’Ren smacked her on her back.
“I’m good. I don’t need you to follow me around.” Eva closed her eyes and muttered under her breath. “How embarrassing, now he’s finding me friends.”
“Don’t worry. He didn’t make me, I volunteered for the job.”
Eva groaned. “He asked for volunteers? How many volunteered for the job?”
Lo’Ren laughed.
Eva opened her eyes. “That bad, huh?”
“I was the only one.”
Eva groaned again.
“But I wanted to.” Lo’Ren cut her eyes sheepishly at Eva. “Anything to get out of cleaning dut
y.”
Eva laughed. “Something tells me you aren’t from Sonis.”
“It must be the hair.” Lo’Ren ran a hand across her pink mane. “Born and raised in Briel, a small work colony in the Lintag asteroid belt.”
“Wait. You grew up in an asteroid belt?”
“Briel’s finest at your service.” Lo’Ren pinched the tips to make her hair stand up even more.
“I didn’t know anyone could live in an asteroid belt.” Eva turned back to the field. A month ago, she didn’t know anyone could live on a moon either. “What are you doing on Sonis? Were you forced to come here?”
“No, no, no. I came on my own. Sonis is supposed to be a growing settlement. Maybe in about three…five…ten cycles.” Lo’Ren looked around at the almost barren landscape. “Speaking of my employer, here he comes.”
Eva glared at Taio as he walked to her.
“What are you and your new friend doing?” He smiled down on her.
Lo’Ren smiled back. “Feasting our eyes on royal guards.”
Taio’s smiled dropped to a frown and Eva rolled her eyes. That was what the lout got. Maybe next time he wouldn’t pick friends for her who volunteered for the job.
“I like those fighting things they have. Look at all the pretty colors,” Lo’Ren said.
“I could have one made for you if you like,” Taio said.
“I don’t want one. I just like watching the guards with them.” Eva and Taio both turned to look at Lo’Ren. “Oh not talking to me.”
“You could?” Eva squinted as she looked up at him, the suns at his back.
“I could, if it would keep you from sneaking closer to my training field.” He crossed his arms over his chest and stared down at her.
“But Taio, the men don’t even mind I’m here. Why can’t I train with them? I told you, on my planet, men and women trained side by side all the time.
Of course, males and females didn’t train side by side all over Earth, but right now she didn’t want to get into specifics about training with him.
“And I have told you, these are not ‘men’, but warriors. Warriors training with females is not a tradition we practice here.”
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