by Maia Starr
“Who else did you see?” I asked.
“I saw Veiras,” Baca said.
“Shit. I knew it,” I said.
“Knew what?” Jix said.
“I have had some suspicion that Veiras is leading the opposition and he means to be violent about it.”
“Why did you not share this with us? We are hybrids too,” Jix said.
“Because it was only a suspicion. But now with the vision, maybe it is right,” I said.
“Shit,” Baca said.
“I will speak to my father first thing. We are too drunk to leave this night. If there is opposition out there that is strong and wanting to fight, then we cannot be caught drunk and off guard,” I said.
“Yes, that is a good idea,” Jix said.
We were all quiet as we contemplated what could happen if the vision that Baca saw was real. This was not going to be good. My brother and I fought, but not for real. I knew that something was brewing, I could feel it in the air, but I did not know exactly what that was.
The next day I went to my father first thing in the morning.
“But father, what if the vision that Baca saw was real?” I said to him.
“Son, you said yourself those visions of his change all the time. I am sure this one will too, and it was probably not what Baca saw. If you were there with your brother, Baca, and Jix, then you all must have been against Veiras together.”
“No, I don’t think it was like that, father. Baca said I was fighting against Greia.”
“Son, I hate seeing you like this. First, you were filled with depression for your human, and then you turn that depression into paranoia. I can not see you allow yourself to go from sadness to madness and then sadness again. It is not worth losing my son’s mind. Go,” he said.
“Go where?” I asked.
“Go to Earth. Go get your human,” he said.
“What?” I said.
“I mean it. Bring her back here. You are not going to be happy until you have her with you. I have seen those signs before, the same ones that you are showing.”
“You have?” I asked.
“Yes, on myself with your mother. I could not see straight unless I knew that she was mine,” he said. “Now go, but you must leave this instant. Tell no one where you are going or that you are leaving at all. Do it as quietly and as secretly as possible. We can’t have a repeat of what happened to you last time. No one must know you are gone. I will tell everyone you are depressed in your hut not to be bothered,” he said.
I ran up to him. I gave him a big hug. Then I shifted and ran out onto the veranda and took flight. I took a short flight all the way down to the sandy ground. I would be walking to a ship and not flying to it. I did not want to draw attention to myself. I quietly opened the door of a ship that was not mine. It belonged to my father’s fleet, but it was a general ship used by general warriors. It would not be suspected of being my ship. I climbed in, and in seconds I was roaring through the clouds of Kelon and out into space. I could not believe what I was doing. I was just recklessly going after Melody. I loved her. I needed her, and now I was going to have her back in my arms. I did not care about anything other than finding her again. I did not know how I would do it, but I was going to try to do it without being noticed by the humans.
“Computer set course for Earth,” I said.
“Setting course for Earth. What is your landing destination?” it asked.
“Los Angeles,” I said.
“Setting course for Los Angeles,” it said. Then all I had to do was sit back and wait. Soon I would see her again: my human female.
Hours later, I had arrived. Finding out where she lived was not very hard. She was the daughter of the president, and there was ample information in the Earth archive information that we had stored over the years. She lived not far from the beach where I had taken her from the first time. It was a quiet, sleepy beach village in the night.
It was very dark, with no moon that night. It must be very late, I thought as I realized that no one was stirring. I sat on the roof of a home. I looked across at the open window of the home of Melody. I quickly and silently flew into the window. I thought I would have to walk around a while to find her, but I was wrong. Instead, she was sleeping in the very room that I flew into as if she were leaving the window open for me. I walked over to her. She was delicate and petite under the sheets. I stared at her for a long time. I wanted to just look at her. Her long hair was splayed out across the pillow around her. The white sheets hugged her hips as she lay on her side and her sleeping face was beautiful. I put my hand on her leg and ran it up toward her thigh. She moaned. Her moan was seductive, and it was the best sound I had heard in a long time.
“Melody,” I whispered in her ear. She stirred.
“Oh, Cylo,” she said, but she did not wake. She was dreaming. I smiled at her. This was too much fun to pass up.
“Do you want me to take you? Say you want me to take you,” I said, taking control of her sleeping mind.
“I want you to take me. I want you to take me,” she repeated.
“What do you want me to do to you? Tell me what you want me to do to you,” I whispered.
“I want you to kiss me,” she said. I planted a kiss on her lips. She moaned.
“What else do you want me to do? Tell me,” I said.
“I want you to touch me,” she said. I put my hand on her waist and then moved up to her breasts. She sucked in a sharp breath of air.
“Yes, Cylo, that feels good,” she whispered.
I couldn’t handle any more of this. I needed to hold her. I scooped her up into my arm and held her body close to mine. I covered her mouth with mine. She stirred in my arms. Then she woke and struggled for a second, and then she melted and sighed.
“It’s you, it’s really you,” she said.
“Yes, I’m really here,” I said. She wrapped her arms around me. She held me tightly.
“I can’t believe you are here; are you real? Am I dreaming?” she whispered.
“If this is a dream, then I am dreaming too,” I said. Then I laid her down on the bed, and she looked up at me as she rubbed her eyes, waking up.
“Melody. I missed you so much. I could not be without you,” I said. Then I kissed her.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
MELODY REEVES
I was having an incredible dream. I was sleeping in my bed, and suddenly Cylo was in my room. He had his hands all over me. Cylo was whispering in my ear and kissing me. It was the best dream that I’d had in a very long time. Then as I lay back, rubbing my eyes and looking into my dark room, I realized that it was not a dream and that it was real.
“Melody. I missed you so much. I could not be without you,” Cylo said to me and then he kissed me. The kiss was very real, and I could feel him on me. I was awake!
I pushed him away. “I can’t believe you are here. You are really here,” I whispered.
“Yes, I am here. This is not a dream. Shall I turn on the light?” he asked.
“No, they will see,” I said.
“Who? Who will see?” he asked.
“My guards. They are outside my house. Remember, I am the daughter of a president.”
“Oh yes. Your guards,” he said as he leaned in and kissed me again. I melted against him. Cylo moaned as he kissed me. “You have to keep it down. They cannot hear us, or they will come busting in here,” I whispered.
“I understand. But can you keep it down?” he teased as his hands moved over my breasts. I moaned in response. I had longed for this, and now I could not believe that he was really with me again. Then I remembered. I was pregnant with his offspring. I knew that I should tell him at that very moment, but I did not want him to stop. He moved down and licked my naked breasts under the sheets. He was not in dragon form, and I realized that he must have flown in the window and shifted.
“Do you always leave your window open?” he asked.
“I have since you returned me to Earth. I hoped t
hat you would find my open window some day,” I said.
“I thought so,” he said arrogantly.
I laughed at him. Then he stood up and yanked the sheet off of me. I now lay naked on the bed. “I can’t stand it anymore, Melody. I have waited too long. I need to be inside of you, Melody,” Cylo said.
“Come to me, Cylo,” I said.
He stepped back and took off his loincloth. Now, Cylo stood naked in front of me. He was a perfect physical specimen. His muscular thighs were around his rigid staff. His brawny stomach was ripped and toned. His arms were thick, and I wanted them around me. Even though he was not shifted into dragon form, he still looked very alien to me. It would be obvious to any human that he was not human. It was his nine-foot height, but also something else that I could not put my finger on. Whatever it was, I wanted this alien inside of me.
“Say it again,” he said.
“Come to me, Cylo,” I said again. He groaned and then crawled into bed with me. The bed creaked under his massive weight. This alien warrior of mine was solid and strong, and I hoped that my bed could handle it. I had hoped for so long that he would come to me on Earth, and now he was here. I knew just how risky this was for him and all the Draqua but I had to see him. To me, at this moment, it was worth the risk.
“I missed you badly,” he said as he moved between my thighs.
“I have not been able to stop thinking about you, Cylo,” I said.
“I have not been able to stop thinking of you every second of every day,” Cylo said to me.
Then he pushed himself inside of me, just an inch. We both moaned in satisfaction. My body longed for Cylo. It had been waiting a long time, and now I was finally having him. He moved in and out slower as he hovered over me. I was careful to put my hands on his stomach. I did not want him to put his weight on me. I now had a secret baby inside of me. I did not want to tell him yet, but I did not want him to press on me either.
It felt good. It felt really good to be carrying his offspring inside of me. I was going to help him carry on his royal line. Now that he was here with me, I felt really good about it. There was something very romantic about having Cylo make love to me while I carried his child. I felt more connected to Cylo than I ever had before. I thought that he felt it too, the way he was looking at me, though he did not know why this new connection was there. I would tell him in time. For now, I wanted to enjoy the moment. I wanted to enjoy the sensations.
“I missed you, Melody,” Cylo said again. “The entire time that I was coming to Earth, I could only think about kissing your full lips again,” he said as he kissed me.
“And touching your hair again,” he said as he touched my hair. I moaned at this sweetness that Cylo was laying on me. It felt good, and I did not want it to stop.
“I missed you, Cylo. I thought I would never see you again. That broke my heart,” I whispered.
“It broke me to be apart from you too, Melody,” Cylo said.
Then he covered my mouth with his. He kissed me deeply as he moved his thick, long cock in and out of me. He moved slowly with deliberate moves as he looked at me in the dim light of the bedroom. Then he kissed me again and again. We moved together slowly until I felt the climax building up inside of me. It was a familiar sensation, and one that I missed.
“I’m going to cum,” I said loudly.
“Shh… he whispered. “We do not want to get caught,” he said.
I grabbed the sheet and pulled to my mouth. I bit down on it. Cylo smirked at me arrogantly as he moved in and out of me. I couldn’t contain myself anymore. I bit down on the sheet and then exploded into orgasm. Restraining myself was sort of a fun sex game. Cylo seemed to enjoy it quite a bit. Then he moved faster and faster. I kept my palms on his chest, pressing him up and away from my belly. Then he began to breath heavily. I felt the pulsations moving through my whole body. It was complete torment. Then, finally, I felt the vibration began to be less and less as my orgasm moved through my body, until it was a small pulse. But then Cylo began to groan loudly.
“Shh… Cylo,” I said. “You will wake the neighbors and bring the guards.”
He bit down on his lower lip, and I enjoyed watching his face. His dark strands of hair moved with each thrust that he made. Then he groaned,” I’m releasing.”
I pressed my fingers into his hard abs. He was so damn sexy and strong. I could be turned on by him forever, I thought. He moved in and out of me slowly. Then he stopped. He looked at me and kissed me again. Then he rolled onto the bed and off of me. We lay there breathless enjoying the after bliss of our orgasms.
“We don’t have much time, and we shouldn’t linger,” Cylo said.
“What? What do you mean?” I asked.
“We should go. We should get to my ship,” he said.
“You want me to go with you?” I asked.
“Yes, of course. I came back for you. I came to get you to be my wife and my lifelong mate, if you will have me,” he said.
“What? But what about your father and brother?” I asked.
“My father the king is the one that told me to come get you. This was his idea,” he said.
“Yes!” I said rolling over on top of him and kissing him. I placed small kisses all over his face. He laughed.
“But I can’t just disappear again. I have to do this right this time. I will have to come back in a year for a couple of weeks in order for this to work. I am going to tell my father that I am going away to do some writing and be alone. The only way he won’t start a search party for me is if I tell him that I will be back,” I said to Cylo.
“I understand. We will have to see about the visit in the year from now, but I think it will be fine if we are careful and if it will keep you happy,” Cylo said.
“Yes, it will,” I said. I pulled out a pad of paper and pen and began to write a long letter to my father. I had to be as detailed as possible. Then I was done.
“I have to make this look like I actually packed up,” I said as I went to the window and closed it. I drew the shutters and turned on a light. I packed as though I was going on a writing retreat in the woods. I left the note in the middle of the table. Then I turned off all the lights and opened the window once more.
“We need to stay here for a while. Turning on the light probably drew some attention,” I said.
“I understand,” Cylo whispered to me. “I need to shift anyway,” he said.
“I will never get tired of watching you do that. When could you do that? What age were you?” I asked knowing that I was asking because I was about to have a hybrid child.
“I was able to shift after I turned ten years of age. It was something that I had been expecting and couldn’t wait for it to happen,” he said with a smile.
“I bet it was a lot of fun,” I said.
“Yes, it was. It still is. I think even you were getting used to flying with me,” he said.
“Yes, I think I am. It is fun. Are we going to fly out of here? Where is your ship?” I asked.
“Yes, we are going to fly out of here very carefully and quietly. The ship is only two buildings away on the roof of a house,” he said.
“Okay, I think we have waited long enough,” I said as I peeked out the window. I could see the secret service cars and the men in them seemed to be reading from their Draquas. I pulled on my backpack and draped a messenger shoulder bag on me. “I am ready,” I said.
Cylo stood in front of me and lifted me up. I wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his neck and nestled my head into his neck. Then he took flight out the window. In seconds we were on top of a building and next to the invisible ship. I only saw it once he opened the door and the inside of the ship appeared.
“It is still like magic to me,” I said.
“You are magic to me, Melody,” Cylo said to me. Then we climbed in, and before long, we were shooting into the blackness of space. A few hours later, we were in hyper speed and shooting back to Kelon.
“Are we a safe
distance from Earth?” I asked.
“Yes, we are far from there,” he said.
“And Kelon?” I asked.
“We are not there yet; a few more hours before we are even close to it. Why do you ask? Do you want to make a pit stop at our favorite planet of Tiok? See our friend the lake monster?” he teased me.
“No! Absolutely not! I never want to go back there,” I said.
“Then what?” he asked.
I debated telling him, but I knew that I could not keep this secret baby to myself anymore.”I am carrying your offspring. I am pregnant.”