by Becca Van
Palk didn't ever want to see such pain in her eyes again. He vowed then and there to do everything he could to show his mate how much he already loved her, even if he couldn't voice those words to her just yet.
Chapter Six
Hakk could see that River was seriously thinking about accepting him and his brothers as mates. He wanted to grab her, pull her onto his lap, and sink his throbbing cock into her sweet-musky smelling sex, but held back. She needed to make her own choices and he wasn’t about to do anything to jeopardize her agreeing to be theirs.
He could no longer smell or feel fear coming from her. In fact he would say the exact opposite was now a possibility. He could only sense a small amount of her emotions and knew that if she did mate with them, he and his brothers would be able to feel everything she did, and right now, her soul was reaching out toward them.
He didn’t realize he was holding his breath until his lungs began to burn but when he did he release the air in his lungs and inhaled deeply. A rumble formed in his chest as the scent of her desire assailed his nose eliciting his body to tighten even more. He’d never been so hungry in his life and the famishment in the pit of his belly had nothing to do with food and everything to do with his mate.
Hakk would give her the universe if she asked and he could get it for her, it was hers, but he already knew that she would never ask for the impossible. She was sensible and logical and although she was probably feeling out of her element right now, she wasn’t hysterical. The question she’d just asked filled him with hope that she was seriously contemplating being their true-mate. It was really hard to keep his hands to himself. The only reason he hadn’t made a move on her was because his raging desire was somewhat appeased by having her hand in his.
“What are you thinking?” Palk asked.
“I–I…don’t...” River frowned and sighed.
“River, talk to us,” Hakk lifted his free hand and cupped her cheek. “If we know what you’re worries are we can talk them through with you.”
“I had a really good job back on Earth and I loved it. The two men I worked for were nice and they paid me well.”
Hakk tautened at the mention of her working for two males, but as he went back over her words and tone in his mind and realized she’d spoke of them with respect and not admiration or desire, he relaxed once more.
“What was this job?” Stryk asked.
“I was the personal assistant to the owners of a land broker firm. I loved helping them out and felt fulfilled.”
Hakk picked up on the fact that she’d said she was happy with her work, but not once had she said she was happy with anything else.
“Were you happy when you weren’t doing this…job?” Toak asked before Hakk could. Obviously his brothers were on the same track of thought as him.
“I had a nice place to live and was very independent,” River said.
Stryk palmed her cheeks and stared into her eyes. “That doesn’t answer the question, River. Were you happy with your life?”
Hakk sucked in a breath when he saw moisture gather in her eyes and glared at Stryk for causing her emotional pain, but his older brother ignored him.
“No. I was always alone.” Two tears leaked from the corner of her eyes and Hakk’s heart clenched and ached at seeing her so sorrowful.
“We would do everything we could so that you only ever feel happy, River,” Palk said quickly.
“If I did agree to…mate with you, what would happen?”
Hakk’s heart leapt again but this time with excited anticipation.
“We would join our body to yours and the moment we spilled our seed the true-mate bond will start to form,” Stryk explained in a raspy voice.
“This true-mate bond can’t be…broken?”
“No. The only time a bond is broken is when we no longer breathe. If you die so do we. The true-mate bond is not only a bonding of our bodies but of our hearts and minds as well.”
“Oh… So I would feel what you were feeling and you would feel what I was?” River asked uncertainly.
“Yes,” Hakk answered. “We will also be able to communicate with thought.”
“You’re telepathic?”
“Yes,” Stryk replied. “As you will be if you agree to be ours.”
“Wow, that's amazing?”
Stryk nodded.
“Will you explain this alliance you’re trying set up? I’ve had a lot of experience talking to people and maybe I could help bring the leaders of the other planets around.”
Hakk watched River’s expressions as they explained about the alliance and their nemesis the Pendag. He could see that she understood everything they told her and knew she would be a formidable mate. She was intelligent, as well as beautiful, and he couldn’t wait to claim her as his own.
* * * *
“You know, it doesn’t really make sense,” River muttered.
“What doesn’t?” Palk asked.
“The Pendag poisoning your water. Why would they do that if they need it so badly?”
“It wasn’t only our water they were after. They wanted our females and the illumcrystal,” Toak stated angrily.
“Again, it doesn’t make sense. If they wanted your women, why poison the water and kill them off. Are you sure it was the Pendag who did this?”
“The elders are never wrong,” Stryk stated emphatically.
River wanted to argue but decided against it for now. She had a feeling the Pendag were innocent but she would need to find any and all information on the race and evidence to the contrary if she was going to prove her mates wrong. Her insides lit up with excitement. She loved researching and finding facts and she was good at it. Maybe she’d found something to occupy her time after all.
However right now, being surrounded by four tall, brawny, handsome male aliens, was doing her head in.
She felt like her body was on fire and the more she inhaled their spicy masculine scents the more famished she got.
Although she knew she was taking a big risk in accepting them as her mates, she wanted to. More than she’d ever wanted anything in her life ever before.
River released Hakk’s and Palk’s hands and stood. Stryk rose as well and took a couple of steps back.
“Are you…like human men?” she asked and licked her lips nervously as she lowered her eyes to the floor. Heat suffused her cheeks at her bold question and although she wanted to know the answer to that question, she was embarrassed over the way she’d just blurted it out there.
“From what you’ve told us of your males, we are nothing like them,” Stryk spat his answer with apparent disgust at being compared.
When she raised her head and saw the anger in his eyes she felt bad, but he had misunderstood what she was asking and she wasn’t sure she had the confidence to clarify what she wanted to know without humiliating herself even more. But then she figured out that if they were to have a relationship she needed to know for a certainty that they could have sex with her. For all she knew the bulges in their pants were nothing like a human man’s penis. Maybe they had tentacle like appendages and if that were the case there was no way in hell she was letting them touch her.
“That’s not what I meant,” she finally managed to whisper and hoped her face wasn’t as red as it felt but since she was a red head and her complexion was pale she knew she probably was.
“What is wrong? Are you ill?” Toak stood and hurried over to her. He frowned down at her as he cupped her face between his large, warm hands. “Your face has gone red and it is hotter.”
“Call Damk,” Stryk ordered, rushing to her side. He placed a hand on her lower back under her shirt and until then River had forgotten that she was only wearing her ripped shirt and panties. How could she have forgotten something like that? Under these circumstances she would have been embarrassed to prance around half naked, but none of these men had made her feel like she was vulnerable at being so scantily clothed.
She trusted them. How and why after knowi
ng them for only hours she wasn’t sure and didn’t really care. All that mattered was she get her answer so she could move forward. She would worry about any repercussions later.
“I’m fine,” River said and side stepped away from Toak and Stryk. When she saw Toak move toward the door she hurried after him and placed her hand on his arm. He stopped and met her gaze.
“What is this ailment?”
“It’s not an ailment,” River murmured. “A human’s face goes red and hot when they are embarrassed, and because I have fair skin it shows up more.”
Toak frowned and then clasped her hand before lifting it to his mouth and kissing the back of it. “Why would you be embarrassed?”
“Because when I asked if you were the same as a human man…” she licked her lips nervously, “I meant down there.”
Toak followed her gaze and stared blankly at his crotch. When he lifted his gaze to meet hers again he opened his mouth and then closed it quickly again. As she watched his eyes she saw comprehension dawning and her face got hot once more.
He released her hand and keeping his gaze locked to hers undid the leather ties holding his leather pants together. River held her breath as he pulled them apart and then with way more force than necessary he shoved his pants down over his hips until they were at his knees.
She looked, blinked and gasped. The man was massive in more ways than one and from what she could see his cock was almost the same as a human’s. The head was a dark bronze color but it was a lot bigger. His shaft was long and thick and a slightly lighter shade than the helmeted crown. River licked her dry lips and when Toak groaned she met his gaze for a brief instant and then she dropped her eyes again when he fisted his cock and began to slowly pump his hand up and down.
When she saw three raised pieces of skin where the head and shaft met she wondered what they were for but then she imagined how those ribbed bits would feel sliding in and out of her wet cunt and she whimpered. Her gaze dropped lower and she gasped when she noticed how big his balls were. They looked full and swollen as if primed full of seed which was ready to explode from his body, but what snagged her attention was the base of his cock. It was thicker there than anywhere else and although she wanted to ask why she was at a loss for words. There was no hair on his pubis, groin, or legs and she wondered if that was a natural affliction due to genetics. Not that she thought it as an affliction. In fact she thought that as a plus because if she ever gave him or the others a blow job there would be no need to fish strays from her mouth or out of her teeth. She shuddered at the thought. Disgusting. But there was nothing disgusting about the man standing so confidently in front of her stroking his own dick and she wondered if he’d taste as good as he looked.
“Are we so different?” Toak asked in a husky voice.
She met his eyes and shook her head and although she tried to keep her gaze locked with his she was fighting a losing battle. The man was magnificent and she was dying to explore.
Her nipples were so hard and aching she wanted to massage them herself to relieve the pain. Her pussy was dripping wet and continuously clenching forcing more of her cream out onto her folds and onto her soaked panties.
She startled when she felt heat against her back and looked over her shoulder to stare into Stryk’s hungry gaze before turning back to stare at Toak’s gloriously naked body. She didn’t even realize she’d lifted her hand until it connected with his ripped abs and then she trailed her fingers lower until her fingertips were on his cock.
Toak released his cock and stood still as if waiting to see what she was going to do and when she felt the heat coming from his dick and smelled his amazingly, yummy aroused scent she was a goner.
River wrapped her hand around his shaft and wasn’t at all surprised when her fingers didn’t meet. Everything about him was large and his cock was no exception. She pumped him a couple of times and then trailed her fingers up to the top and caressed the three ridges underneath the head. When Toak made a growly sound she released him and pulled back, worried that she’d hurt him.
“River…” Toak swallowed audibly and then spun away from her.
He’d obviously forgotten about his pants around his ankles and he stumbled a few steps before catching his balance. She had to swallow down her nervous giggle.
“I’m sorry,” she finally managed to whisper as Toak kept his back to her and breathed in deep noisy breaths.
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” Stryk whispered. He wrapped an arm around her waist from behind and pulled her back against his chest. Her skin tingled even through her ruined shirt and she knew the sensation was due to his birth-ident mark.
“I didn’t mean to hurt you, Toak.”
He looked at her over his shoulder and licked his lips. “You didn’t hurt me, sweetkins. What you did felt so good, I couldn’t take anymore.”
River sagged with relief and then straightened up and took a few steps away from Stryk. For what she was about to say, she needed to see all of their faces. “I accept.”
She saw all of them tense but none of them spoke and she wondered if she would need to clarify her statement but when Toak kicked his pants away and stalked toward her she knew they knew what she was saying.
And then she was in his arms.
He lifted her up until she was eye level with her and crashed his mouth over hers.
Chapter Seven
Toak’s heart surged with elation and then he was kissing her. He was so hungry for his true-mate he was shaking and he wanted to devour every inch of her body, but he settled for starting with a kiss. He swiped his tongue over her lips and growled with satisfaction when she immediately opened to him and he delved in deep.
River tasted so good, there was no way he would ever get enough of her. Just smelling the sweet scents coming from her skin had him hard and aching and when he smelled her desire his cock jerked and leaked pre-cum. She moaned into his mouth as their tongues mated in a dance he’d never thought to experience and he hoped that he wasn’t being too rough with her.
When he lifted his head and looked into her hazy passion-filled eyes his heart soared with joy. He had put that look on her face, in her eyes and although he was hungry for more, he was also nervous. Because they had no females, he’d never had sex. It didn’t matter that he knew how to pleasure a female and that he and his brothers had already brought River to her peak, he was more worried that he would hurt her in his eagerness to join with her.
“Say the words, River,” he said as he shifted her in his arms and carried her over to the large bed.
“I–I agree to be your mate,” she murmured.
Toak lowered her to the mattress and then crawled up over her so that he straddled her hips. He pushed the material covering her arms down and then off of her completely before flinging it over the side of the bed. He studied the contraption binding her breasts but couldn’t see how to remove it. “How do I…”
River pushed up and then reached around behind her and the taut fabric across her breasts loosened. He wanted to tug the unfamiliar garment away but didn’t want to scare her with his aggression, so waited for her to remove it herself.
He stopped breathing when she pulled the tethers down her arms and removed it to reveal her luscious breasts. The skin on the tops of the mounds was gathered in tight and the tips were hard and pointing straight at him. There was only one piece of covering left, and he would get to see all of her beauty. He couldn’t wait to feast on her with his eyes.
“So damn gorgeous,” Toak said with awe. She was absolutely amazing and he wanted to touch her everywhere all at once. He shuffled down the bed on his knees and hooked his fingers into the small piece of cloth hiding her sex from view and then met her gaze. “May I?”
River nodded and he gently pulled the covering away. The aroma of her desire got stronger and his mouth watered for a taste of the sweet honey but he wasn’t sure he had the patience to do that because he wanted his cock buried in her tight, wet heat as he claimed he
r. He perused her sexy body with his hungry gaze and when he saw the small strip of hair on her mound, saliva pooled in his mouth. He couldn’t not take a taste. Even though he wanted to be buried deep inside of her, the perfume of her pussy was calling to him and he couldn’t ignore it.
Toak placed a knee between hers and growled with appreciation when she made room for him by spreading her legs. He looked at her soft plump folds and hunkered down until he was lying on his stomach with his mouth close to her cunt. His hands caressed up the outside of her thighs and then wrapped around her legs to hold her open and he lowered his head.
The sweet flavor of her honey exploded on his tongue and making him moan and delve for more. He pushed his tongue into her pussy as far as it would go and curled the end to scoop her juices out and swallow it down.
* * * *
River was on fire, her blood so hot it was a wonder her skin hadn’t melted off. When Toak pushed his tongue into her pussy, her inner muscles clenched and her whole body quivered.
The mattress dipped on either side of her and she opened eyes she hadn’t realized she’d closed to see Hakk, Palk, and Stryk watching her hungrily. She ran her gaze over their naked bodies and her heart rate sped up even more. They were all so big and strong, handsome and sexy, and their erect cocks were huge. Stryk nodded at Toak and when he withdrew his tongue from her pussy she wanted to moan with frustration, but then Stryk somehow managed to get in behind her and she reclined against his body between his spread legs.
Stryk moved her hair to the side and began to lick and nibble down her neck and on her earlobe sending sparks of pleasure to shoot down to her already sopping pussy. Hakk leaned over and took her mouth, kissing her with a wild abandon she matched. She’d never been the center of such manly attention and she loved it, but she also wanted so much more.