by Mira Maxwell
He pulls my shirt over my head, exposing my bare breasts to him. I quickly cover myself and look over my shoulder.
“Kjallak could walk in at any moment…and you’re wounded!” I tell him, scolding him for his carelessness.
“Kjallak!” Lodyn shouts.
“Yes,” he shouts back, sounding like he’s quite a distance away.
“Patrol the front and back of the ship. I’ll come and relieve you in awhile.”
“Yes, sir,” he says.
Then he looks back at me and pulls my arms away from covering myself.
“Nothing to worry about, my love,” he says as he leans down and pulls my nipple into his mouth. I can’t resist him when he uses his tongue in such a skilled way. I wrap my arms around his head and pull him even closer, making it impossible for him to stop. “Besides, I have yet to take you from behind and now that the thought is in my head, my cock has taken control over all of my sensibilities.”
“You can take me any way you’d like, my alien lover.” He chuckles at that and the sound vibrates through me, making me instantly wet between my thighs. “I just have one request.”
“Anything.” He slides my pants down my legs and I step out of them, standing completely naked before him on the bridge. I’ll never think of this room the same way again. “Kiss me first…down there.” I point to my pussy and give him a shy smile. “I love the way your tongue feels on me.”
Without a reply, he goes to his knees in front of me. He takes one of my legs and drapes it over his shoulder, effectively opening me enough so he has complete access. With one hand on his head and one hand supporting myself on the console, I let my hips rock in motion as his tongue licks me.
“Put your fingers inside of me,” I say. He slides a few fingers inside of me while his tongue continues to work me over. I can feel the orgasm building inside of me. I push his head against me while I rock my hips. He curves his fingers slightly and the change in direction brushes over my G-spot, making me come hard. My legs have gone weak from pleasure and Lodyn has to hold me up so I don’t fall onto the floor.
He stands up and leans me over the console. His hands spread my legs and then he pushes his cock into me from behind. He stretches me, filling me to the max and even though we’ve had sex before I’m still not used to his size. While he holds my hips, he starts thrusting in and out. I grab onto the console and hold on for the ride.
“You are the most amazing pleasure I have ever had,” he says. I’m pressing my hips back into him, taking as much of him as I can. He feels so damn good I’m obsessed with the pleasure he gives me. When his hand slides around my body and his fingers start working my clit, it only takes a few more thrusts before I’m lost in my second orgasm. Somehow as he pounds away inside of me it makes the sensation that much more intense. He growls behind me, his chest vibrating, sending tingles down my body as his cock begins to throb inside of me. His hot cum shoots inside of me as my pussy grips his cock and pulls every ounce of his pleasure from him. He wraps his arms tightly around me and holds himself inside of me as his orgasm subsides. His hands grip onto my breasts and he massages me as we enjoy how we make each other feel.
“Is your stomach okay?” I ask, out of breath. I’m sitting on his lap and we’re both on the floor so there’s a good chance I’m putting pressure on his wound.
“I can’t feel it,” he says. “All I feel is your amazing body.” He runs his finger along my pussy making me shiver in his arms. I lean back and let my head rest on his shoulder, nuzzled into his neck. I’m not sure how long we stay like this but neither one of us wants to break the connection.
Finally I say, “We should probably get dressed before Kjallak comes to see what’s taking you so long.” Somehow I lift myself off of his body and collect my clothes off of the floor. I’ve just pulled my shirt over my head when I look at Lodyn. He’s staring at me with an intense look in his eyes.
“What?” I ask.
“I have an idea,” he says. I’m not sure if he’s being mischievous or if he’s just nervous. I feel his conflicted emotions, though, and I want to yell at him to spit it out. “I’ll help you find your team, you’ll finish your mission and deliver it back to Earth.”
“Yes, that’s the plan so far,” I say.
“Then I was thinking you could come back…when it’s over and your mission is complete. We could travel as far away as we need to in order to find a safe place to live. You could take your place at my side as my fated mate.”
This is more than I could have hoped for when this all began and I find myself holding back tears. It’s such a relief that he’s choosing me after all of the ups and downs. “Are you asking me to marry you?” I ask.
“Marry me?” he asks and I can tell he’s not sure what that term means.
“On Earth, when you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you ask them to marry you. You exchange rings and have a big celebration. A wedding. Do you have something like that on your planet?”
“I suppose we do. You agree to be my fated mate and we stay together as long as we both live.”
I throw myself into his arms and kiss him, letting my feelings flow from me. “I’d say it sounds like the same idea,” I say, kissing him hard. “And yes, I think you have a great plan. I will return when my mission is over and we will live the rest of our lives together.”
We lose ourselves in our kiss. When we finally pull away and gaze into each other’s eyes, we’re both overflowing with happiness. Even though Lodyn is exiled and on the run and I will have to leave him to finish my mission, but for now, we’re together. And once we tie up the loose ends, we’ll be free to spend the rest of our lives together.
I’ve never been happier.
Epilogue
MARGO
“It’ll be fine, my mate. It is well-hidden, nothing will bother it while we’re gone.” Lodyn can sense my apprehension to leave the Sparrow behind after all of this. She’s finally up and running again and now I have to leave her behind. “The mountains are unpredictable. We have to make the rest of the trip on foot.”
I know he’s right. Even before we landed on this planet, my team and I knew that we’d have to leave the ship at some point and make the last leg of the journey into the mountains on foot. Lodyn’s right, we’ve hidden the ship well and I’ll lock it up tight before we leave.
I hoist on my backpack, heavy with all of the supplies we’ll need for this long of a trip into the mountains. “We need to get going so we can cover a lot of ground before nightfall,” Lodyn says, putting his arm over my shoulder and pulling me close.
My indecisiveness is quickly replaced with an excited anticipation for seeing my team again. “Yeah, lets get moving. I’ve been away from them for too long.”
Thankfully the path we take into the mountains slowly meanders upward. We’re following the Huln Mountain Pass, which will eventually lead us to Brums Pinnacle and the sole purpose of our mission on Attala. Hopefully this is where the rest of my team will be.
“Tell me about the rest of your team,” Lodyn says as we walk. He leads the way, I’m following closely behind and Kjallak is bringing up the rear. We need to walk single file through the pass. There are spots where it becomes extremely narrow and other parts are covered with the strange catalpa trees.
“Diana is our team leader. You’d like her, she’s like me in that she’s very headstrong. I know how much you like that about me.” If he could look at me I would wink, but he senses the teasing tone in my voice.
“You do frustrate me with your stubbornness at times, but you are strong and smart. I like all of these things about you.”
“She’s probably right at home on your planet. She has climbed more mountains on Earth than I could even name. I would imagine she’s planning how she can climb all of these mountains,” I say, using my hand to wave above us at the picturesque scene of mountaintops for as far as the eye can see.
“That’s impressive,” Kjallak says from behind me. �
�Perhaps she would like company.”
“Ha! Look at you, already hoping you can find a mate of your own,” I say.
“I figure now that we’re breaking the rules, I’d like to experience the joys of mating as well.” He chuckles in the playful way he has about him. “So tell us more about these other women.”
“Let’s see. Savannah is our team doctor. She’s a sweetheart, you’ll both love her. Natalie is the team’s engineer. It would have been incredibly helpful if she could have stayed at the ship with me, but she was injured when we crashed. She would have had us back up and running in no time. And then Mina. She’s super smart. And I mean super smart in the sense that she probably knows more about this environment than you two do. And you’ve lived here all of your lives.”
“You study about other planets on Earth?” Lodyn asks.
“Yes, very much so. It’s how we knew that your planet contains a mineral that we could use for exactly the purposes we need. It isn’t found anywhere else that we know of. You don’t study the other planets around you?”
“We don’t. I suppose there could be people in the city that do and we just don’t know about it. Our lives are very singular. We don’t spend time questioning and learning, we follow orders and keep order,” Lodyn says.
I think about that and it’s so interesting to me. “So if you would have found a mate before you chose to be in the guard, would you have been able to choose whatever profession you wanted?”
“If we found a mate, yes. If you don’t find your mate you either need to become part of the guard or choose exile,” Kjallak says. He’s following closer behind me now and I’ve piqued his interest with our conversation.
“Exile? But why?” Before waiting for either of them to answer I continue. “Who makes these rules anyway? They seem so ridiculous to me. Why would you be exiled when you could serve a different purpose in the city?”
“To take away choice. Our planet is different from Earth,” Lodyn says as if I need him to explain what is clearly obvious to me. “The city wouldn’t survive without protection from the enemy tribes and dangerous creatures. The prime minister knows this so he creates rules that will be in the best interest of the members of the city. If Attalans would choose not to join the guard, the city would fall.”
An image of the Salthu warriors flashes through my mind and it makes me tremble. Like Lodyn explained, there are tribes of Salthu living scattered all over. If they ever came together to make a stand against the city, it would be a terrifying sight.
“No need to worry, my mate. I will never let the Salthu put their hands on you again.”
I’m still not used to the whole telepathy thing. It startles me when he says things that I’ve only been thinking in my mind.
“I know, Lodyn. You know I feel safest when I’m with you.” I answer him out loud because I need time to get used to communicating without talking. “I think I’d like to know more about some of these dangerous creatures you keep talking about, though. I obviously have seen the Argali but you make it sound like there are a lot of other things to be weary of.”
“Actually, my love, I think it’s better if I don’t tell you about all of the things that could kill you out here. Just know that if you see something wild, run.”
I stop walking and just stare at his back for a minute. For someone who is supposed to be able to sense my emotions, he sure says the wrong thing sometimes.
“There is nothing to worry about, princess,” Kjallak says, walking up beside me. “Most things only come out at night. And we plan on hiding away in a cave where nothing can get to you.” He smiles down at me and all I can do is shake my head. “Keep moving so we can reach the caves before nightfall.”
That gets me moving again. “How much longer do we have before we’ll stop for the night?”
“We need to reach the top of this path. There we will find somewhere to sleep for the night.”
“Can we make a fire in the caves?” It’s selfish but it gets really cold out here at night. The memories of shivering my brains out locked behind creepy bones in a Salthu cave will forever be burned into my memory. I didn’t think I was going to make it out of there alive. I remember having thoughts of how tragic it would be to have survived so many things in my life only to succumb to the cold.
“It’s possible. Some creatures that we want to avoid will be attracted to the warmth but if the cave is deep enough it might work. Otherwise Kjallak and I have heat cubes that we can use. As long as we only use them at night they shouldn’t run out of power.”
“Well any kind of heat sounds good to me.” I don’t know that I’ll ever get used to the frigidly cold temperatures on this planet but I know one thing for sure…I’ll always be warm as long as I have Lodyn by my side. My thoughts digress to being held in his arms and how warm and safe that feels. His skin is almost hot to the touch when our naked bodies come together and it creates an amazing sensation.
“You need to stop, my mate. There is nowhere I can take you right now to satisfy your thoughts.”
I flush red with embarrassment. “Lodyn!” I say, out loud.
“Don’t worry you two,” Kjallak says, “I’ll take first watch tonight.”
We continue this way for a few days. We travel as far as possible during the day and seek out shelter from caves once night falls. Kjallak always offers to take first watch and even though I thought it would embarrass me that he knows we’re having sex, I lost all reservations about it the first night. It has become our nightly ritual; Lodyn either makes a fire or starts the heat cube and then we make love until I’m exhausted and need sleep. Lodyn definitely has impressive stamina.
Each time we’re together it gets better and better. As we learn more about our bodies, we are able to give each other an intense amount of pleasure. It’s the worst time of night when Lodyn leaves me to relieve Kjallak. The fire keeps me warm but the safety that I feel with Lodyn’s arms wrapped tightly around me isn’t the same. I trust them both with my life, I just prefer to have Lodyn where I can see and feel him.
Finally, on the fourth day of our journey I give in to another superficial desire. “Lodyn, would you wash my hair tonight?” We’ve found a cave for the night and he has a fire blazing toward the back. I’ve been melting snow each night and giving myself a sponge bath but I haven’t done anything with my hair yet. I’m worried I’ll be too cold if I get my hair wet and then it freezes.
“I can do even better than that, my love.” He’s looking very proud of himself and it’s so sexy my heart is full to bursting. “Come with me.”
I follow him out of the cave and am happy to see there’s still a good amount of daylight left. I was curious as to why we stopped earlier tonight than we have been most nights. We walk up the side of the cave and follow where the ground levels out. After walking through nothing but white snow and dull brown trees for four days, I notice it immediately when there is green vegetation.
“Oh my God! Is there a hot spring around here?” I ask. Green vegetation can only mean one thing…water.
“Yes. I don’t know how big it will be but I noticed the tuft of green leaves and knew what it must be. They’re very rare on this planet but when you find one, it’s like you’ve stepped into a tropical paradise.”
He takes my hand and leads me around twists and turns until we reach a thick area of vegetation. Pushing our way through, we come out into a small clearing. There’s a small pool of clear blue water hidden away in its own private paradise. There’s steam rising off of the water and I can’t wait to dip my body in warm water.
“The air is still so cool in here but somehow the water is warm. How is that possible?” I ask.
“Supposedly it is from the thinning of Attala’s crust in these places. At least that’s what I remember learning about when I was a boy.”
I smile at the thought of him as a boy. I’ve never asked him about his life before he became a warrior. So much has happened to us since we’ve met, it never came up.
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“Is it safe to get in?” I already have my hands on my jacket, ready to unzip it and get my clothes off as quick as possible.
“Yes, but just to make sure…I’ll go first.” I watch as Lodyn undresses and then steps down into the water. “It feels very hot to me, you’ll like it,” he says.
He reaches out his hands for me and I quickly strip down. The cold air turns my nipples into hard buds and gives me goose bumps on my skin. As soon as I slide down into the pool and into Lodyn’s arms, though, I moan with the pleasure of it. So overwhelmed with feelings of bliss, I kiss him ravenously as he holds me in his arms. Maybe this pool is also an aphrodisiac because I want Lodyn in a bad way.
“I can’t believe how much my life has changed since I’ve come to this planet,” I say to him while we kiss and touch each other. “You make me feel so amazing, Lodyn. I love you so much.”
“I love you too, my mate,” he says. He drops us down into the water so we’re submerged up to our shoulders. I’m straddling his waist and his erect cock is pressing against my pussy, making me swollen with desire. I rock my hips against him, letting his cock slide through my swollen lips. “You have a healthy sex drive my love. So greedy for my cock.”
“And you love giving it to me, don’t you,” I say, between our hungry kisses. We’re kissing and touching as if we haven’t been alone together in weeks. Our desire to be together is so strong, I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to be away from him.
“I love giving you everything you need.” He carries me over to the far side of the pool and lays me down with my back out of the water and my legs dangling. “Tell me you need me,” he says, standing above me. I reach down and touch myself, feeling something close to pain now that he has withdrawn himself from me.