by Averi Hope
All I want is him. Him inside me. To end this pain.
His large hands swept aside her barely there top, cupping her small breasts before rolling her nipples with his thumbs.
Gasping against his lips, she froze. Pleasure traveled from her breasts to her womanhood. She could feel her wetness. She felt so empty. Too empty. Grinding against him, she cried out as his hot lips released her mouth and went to her breasts.
“Oh, gods!”
“Enough!” He groaned, wrapping his hands around her ass. He slid out the door, and brought her around to the back of his machine.
She barely had time to glance at the soft blankets there before he carefully set her down on top of them. He climbed into the back next to her.
Above her, there was a sky strewn with strange stars and foreign constellations, under her was hard metal beneath a cool blanket. This isn’t how I pictured my first time with Raiden, but somehow it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s with him.
Their gazes met.
“Are you sure?” he asked, the rings around his eyes were no longer dark, but a deep satin red, matching the burning hot desire beneath his flesh.
In answer, she reached down, pulling his cock through the slit in his underclothes and grasping him tightly in her palm.
His eyes looked wild as he reached for her, stripping off her shirt in one smooth motion and sliding off her skirt in the next.
She leaned back onto the pillows, naked before him, her thighs spread wide. The female who had lived the past years in the Garden of Virtue would never have imagined being so bold in front of a male.
But that female was gone, replaced by one in the throes of her mating frenzy. And this female wants that big, beautiful hardness inside her, making her scream.
As his hot gaze ran over her, lingering hungrily on the V between her thighs, she didn’t feel embarrassed, she felt painfully swollen and empty. There’s that word again. I never felt like my womanhood was empty until now.
Clenching his teeth together, he pulled off his black shirt and shed his shoes, pants, and underclothes. Kneeling before her, he was naked and proud. A perfect study of the male form. Arms large and corded with muscles. A stomach and chest hard and flat and free of hair.
“You’re so beautiful,” she whispered.
His brows rose. “Beautiful? No, female, you are beautiful.”
As if to demonstrate his point, he moved so that he hovered just over her. With skilled fingers, he brushed back the hair from her face, his gaze drinking her in. Then, he leaned in, taking her lower earlobe between his teeth and biting gently.
“Oh!” she cried, surprised by the unexpected combination of pain and pleasure.
She arched against him. Her breasts and womanhood ached. Why is he biting my ear?
Next, his mouth found her throat. At first she barely felt the tiny kisses that he rained down her neck, but her need seemed to grow with each small touch. At the junction between her neck and shoulders, he sucked.
She cried out, grasping his shoulders. Over and over he sucked, moving down her shoulder and back up her neck. The sensation made the hairs on her arms stand on end. What is he doing to me?
His hands joined the slow torture then, sliding between her breasts, but avoiding her nipples. They continued down to her belly, where he stroked circles around her belly button.
“What? Why?” she gasped, wiggling beneath him.
“Preparing you for me,” he gritted out.
As he lifted his head from her neck, she realized how much touching her like this was costing him and the realization thrilled her. Sliding her hands from his shoulders, she moved her hands down his chest, trailing the hard lines of his muscles.
“Stop,” he ordered gruffly, his voice going lower in warning.
But now that she’d started, heard his need, she didn’t want to stop. Using one hand, she dug it into the back of his hair and leaned forward, mimicking him as she sucked on his neck.
He froze. His breathing stopped. “You don’t want to do that, little girl.”
She sucked harder, and the hand that had trailed down his chest finally reached his stomach. Fluttering her fingers against the flat plane, she hesitated, then grasped his cock.
He bucked wildly, then batted her hand away. “You asked for this.”
She spread her legs wider, feeling the tip of his manhood as it brushed along her womanhood. “Yes. Oh, yes!”
He pressed himself into her womanhood, not yet entering her core. With careful strokes he moved himself just within her outer lips.
I’m going to explode!
Wrapping her legs around him, she tried to pull him into her core. But he resisted, continuing his slow torture until every muscle in her body was tense. Until her head was thrashing back and forth. And then, his tip entered her.
Their breathing sped up, matching each other’s speed. He slid into her slowly, inch by inch. Her inner muscles clenched him each step of the way. When he reached her barrier, he froze.
“Sure?”
She nodded, unable to find the words.
So fast it left her crying out in shock, he broke through her barrier. Her nails dug into his back as she clutched him to her. Tears pricked at the corners of her eyes. It hurt.
Taking in deep breaths, she realized he hadn’t moved since that moment. She felt her inner muscles squeezing him, holding him so tightly it was almost painful. But then, slowly, pleasure began to replace the pain.
She shifted, taking him deeper, and realized that he was letting her lead. Inch by inch she used her legs to pull him farther inside her until she reached his hilt. The feeling of something so large and hard inside her felt strange, and yet so right.
“Ready?” he asked, the word ragged, as if torn from his lips.
“Yes,” she said, without hesitation.
And then began the most intense, pleasurable feeling in her life.
He slid in and out of her, moving slowly at first, then faster and faster. His hot mouth took her mouth, sliding his tongue inside her, stroking her in rhythm with his hard cock.
She cried out against his mouth and arched her back, breaking their kiss, and suddenly his mouth had captured one of her hardened nipples. He sucked hard, almost painfully, while his hands gripped her thighs more tightly.
And then, it happened. She felt his Mating Muscle. The unique part of the Elementa anatomy that came out only during mating sex.
They both froze.
She’d never seen one, but she’d been educated about it. It nestled at the base of his cock, almost unseen except during mating sex. Like a long tongue, it slid down the length of his cock and tentatively parted her lower lips. Within seconds, the tip of it had found that magic spot in her body. The same one he’d been licking earlier.
It flicked at her clit, slowly up and down, drawing a scream as it moved against her. Raiden pulled back out of her, continuing to plunge in and out as his Mating Muscle flicked her clit with increasing speed. She thrashed beneath him, something building inside her. His mouth took her other nipple just as his Mating Muscle wrapped around her magic spot and squeezed.
She crashed over the edge into enormous pleasure, screaming, arching, slashing his back with her nails. She saw stars as her inner muscles held the hard cock inside her wet core and he settled into deep, pulsing thrusts, letting her feel every inch of him . Every nerve in her body sizzled and exploded. Goosebumps erupted over her flesh, as her vision blackened.
Her voice was ragged from screaming, but she couldn’t stop. Her head felt light, even as he continued to pump, his Mating Muscle squeezing her magic spot as his hot mouth sucked most of her breast into his mouth.
And then he exploded, his hot seed filling her insides.
The sensation only deepened her climax. She gasped, pulling him closer as he shook and groaned on top of her.
It took several minutes before his Mating Muscle released her magic spot, but still his cock remained inside her. Wet. Hot. Filling her empti
ness.
Sweet satisfaction poured through her as she held onto him.
At last, he rose up, his gaze meeting hers.
But instead of seeing pleasure in his eyes, they were narrowed. “Who the hell are you? Because you’re no damned human.” His gaze swept to her earring. The one nearly identical to his own. “Are you…are you an Elementa?”
Chapter Ten
Saura stared at him in complete and utter shock. “Did you just ask if I’m human?”
There was no way… no way he could do this with her and not recognize her. He couldn’t think I was someone else all along, could he? The gadget on her ear concealed her unique skin tone and eyes from the humans, but it wasn’t as if she was a completely different person.
And how many betrothed males ever share a bed with another female? Her breath caught in her chest as realization dawned. That’s because they rarely have a chance to.
He pulled out of her and sat down beside her, glaring. “Did you hear me?”
Yes. Yes, I heard you I just can’t believe it.
She was still shaking from her orgasm. Her limbs felt weak. But as her pleasure, and then shock, faded, anger flashed through her with an intensity that was overwhelming. “You thought you were mating a female from this planet the entire time?”
His eyes widened. “They’re called humans. And this is called Earth. They belong here. I belong here. The question is, what the hell are you doing here?”
Grabbing some of the bedding from beside her, she covered herself. “Apparently, mating a male who would lay with a strange fe—human.” Her words were clipped as she turned away from him. I will not be jealous of one of those…humans. But the angry voice in the back of her mind was screaming. He’s been with them! While I was waiting for my betrothed, wondering, lonely…
He grabbed her by the upper arms and pulled her toward him. “Someone tampered with my ship. Should I assume you had something to do with that?”
She didn’t even think as she wrenched her arm free and smacked him across the face. Hard. The sound of her strike seemed to echo in the dark woods around them.
“Why would I do that? I’m the female who risked everything to save you. You, you arrogant, unfaithful piece of—“ She was shaking with anger.
He rubbed the spot where she’d struck him. “What do you expect? You come sauntering into my bar, with bare breasts and no underwear, and you’re telling me none of it was a part of your grand plan? You didn’t want me fucking you?”
“You rude, arrogant…” She moved to smack him again, but he caught her hand. Growling low in her throat, she tried to smack him with the other hand, but he caught it, too. The blanket fell from her chest and, as his gaze flickered to stare down at her bare breasts, she went wild with rage thrashing, kicking, screaming, and fighting him.
Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew it was some combination of her crazed body during her mating frenzy and the blue pill no longer suppressing her emotions, but she couldn’t stop it. Even when he climbed on top of her, pinning her arms and legs down, she fought him.
At last, when her rage had spent itself and she had no strength left to fight, she met his red-ringed pupils. Her eyes narrowed in bitter hatred. “Raiden, you can’t imagine how wonderful it is to have spent years waiting for you in the Garden of Virtue—only to discover you are not a male worthy of me.”
His head snapped back as if she’d slapped him again. “Saura?”
She turned her head away, not able to meet his gaze. “What must it be like for you to realize that instead of mating a human female whose name you didn’t even know, you were mating the woman betrothed to you since birth?”She couldn’t hide the bitterness in her voice.
“Saura…”
Her eyes sprang back to him at the wonderment in his voice.
His gaze ran slowly over her face, his expression turning from bewilderment to understanding. “No wonder you seem so familiar. No wonder I couldn’t help myself.” He shifted, freeing her arms, his hard manhood pressing firmly against her womanhood.
She brought her arms up, her nails sinking into the muscles of his chest, trying to push him away. Even as the muscles in her belly contracted and her core grew wet once again.
She gritted her teeth together. I will not want him. I will not let him touch me again. “Get off me.”
He didn’t move. “You have to understand—“
“Now.” Her breathing was ragged. “And I don’t have to understand anything.” Anger boiled within her even as a shiver of lust ran down her spine.
My damned body wants him again already. The traitor.
His gaze held hers for a long moment, and his voice came out soft, almost gentle. “I just can’t believe it’s you. That you’re here. After my ship crashed, I wondered if I’d ever see you again.”
“Yes,” she said, looking at the moon just over his head. “I’m sure you’ve been really lonely since coming here. A planet overflowing with females, who, it seems, often take you to their beds.”
A darkness came over his face. “I have not been unfaithful to you, even though I could have been.”
A humorless laugh exploded from her lips. “How could I believe that? You just mistook me for one of them, as if it was natural.”
“Don’t doubt my word.” His voice held an edge of warning.
Her brows rose, and for some reason, she wanted nothing more than to punish him. I gave myself to him, completely and utterly. I allowed him inside me, taking the first step to tying us together for eternity. And he…he wanted sex and nothing else.
“Fine. You were never with one of them. It was your first time. Like mine.” She shoved at him, and this time, he climbed off her. Wrapping the blanket around her body, she found the remains of the human clothes she’d been given. She cringed at the thought of putting them back on.
He watched her. She could feel his gaze. He made no move to cover himself or speak, just stared.
“I was sent here for a reason,” she said, her words cold. “To bring you back to Hope before our people arrive to this backwater, godforsaken blue—,” What is the name of this awful place? She remembered from the video, “…Erth.” She spat the name like a curse.
“It’s called Earth,” he corrected patiently, then held out his shirt.
His patience made her even angrier.
“This might be more comfortable,” he said calmly, “Let’s dress and return to my home.”
She took the shirt and pulled it on while he dressed, wishing she could tell him to go burn in the eternal fires, but keeping her feelings to herself. I just want to be anywhere but here.
When she was ready to climb down from the ancient machine, he offered his hand. She ignored it, sliding down onto the soft forest floor by herself. He opened her door when they reached it. Head held high, she climbed onto the seat.
Shutting her door, he gathered the blankets from the back and stuffed them, with more force than she thought necessary, back behind his seat. Then, he started the human junk pile on wheels once more and turned them around, going back to the dirt road.
An uncomfortable silence stretched between them.
He has no right to be angry. In lying with me tonight, believing I was a stranger, he broke his word to me. He betrayed me. In spirit, if not in deed.
Yes, she knew some males would take other females to their bed even when betrothed. But on our homeworld, on Falaytious, females were so rare that a male seldom, if ever, had an opportunity to lay with another female. Only the occasional widow sought out unmated males to keep their beds warm.
But Raiden must have had limitless opportunities since arriving on this hideous Erth.
She tucked her knees into the shirt and wrapped her arms around her legs, staring at the dirt road as they bounced along it. It was easy to be angry with Raiden, but the truth was, she was more hurt than mad.
“How long have you been here?” he asked, staring straight ahead.
For a second, she didn’
t want to answer him. But what was the point? It didn’t matter how she felt, she needed to get him back to Hope before Kaemon tried to take over the throne. Her feelings, no matter how they twisted in her belly, couldn’t be allowed to impact her mission.
“I arrived earlier in the day.”
He inhaled sharply. “How did you arrive here ahead of the fleet?”
“They sent me ahead on a Starspeeder.”
“Alone?”
Goose bumps erupted on her arms. “Alone.” The word came out a whisper.
She’d been afraid then, but she’d also been filled with hope. In her mind, she’d imagined that their beautiful, perfect romance would unfold at last. Even with every other dream that had crumbled to pieces since leaving the Garden of Virtue, she’d had that. Now, strangely, she felt like a ship that had run out of fuel.
Closing her eyes, she leaned her forehead onto her knees. I just want to sleep. Tomorrow is soon enough to deal with all of this.
“Saura…I might not have known it was you, but I reacted this way because it was you.”
A hand seemed to squeeze her heart. You knew Raiden as a boy, not as a man. He was always good with words. In time, you’ll learn whether he means what he says. Or if he is smooth with his words, like so many Khars before him.
Suddenly, they came to a stop. She looked up. The lights from their human land vehicle lit the small wooden building in front of them. His home. It was dark and quiet. And not at all the kind of place I imagined Raiden living.
“The cabin isn’t much, but it’s home,” he said quietly.
Not like the boy I remember. So much about him has changed. He might look the same, but I really don’t know him at all anymore.
He turned the key and the lights on the land transporter died and the vibrating stopped. The quiet seemed to grow as he opened his door, the metal groaning with the movement. He slid from the seat and closed the door, leaving her alone in the dark.
She tried to open her own door. But for the life of her, she couldn’t figure out how it worked. A second later, it pulled open. Raiden offered her his hand again, but she refused it. It’s a small power, but it’s the only one I have at this point.