Avren: An Auxem Novel

by Lisa Lace

  His hot mouth was sucking and licking my tight buds, sending lightning bolts of pleasure to my core. His talented fingers had my petals spread, and he was rubbing the length of me where I was so slippery for him.

  "By The Three, you are wet, aren't you?" he said, sliding one finger inside me.

  It felt good, and I made a sobbing noise. And right then I needed him inside me. I lifted myself and positioned myself over him. I rubbed myself on the tip and heard his harsh, uneven breathing, then I allowed myself to drop suddenly — impaling myself on his straining shaft.

  He groaned, and I pressed my forehead against his.

  "You're amazing, Kenna. You're incredible."

  His hands were everywhere. On my ass, squeezing my cheeks. On my breasts, massaging. He kissed me again, deep and so provocatively that I felt my hips buck again.

  Dar thrust deeply inside me then, and I arched my back. He took a nipple into his mouth, sucking and making me gasp. Without warning, he lifted me off of him.

  "No, please," I said. I knew I was begging, but I couldn't seem to help it. I needed him inside me so badly.

  "Patience, Kenna. I need to take you properly. In the bed, where I can fuck you hard."

  "Yes, please, fuck me." Had I just said that?

  He had me on my back on the bed in an instant and covered me with his large hard body.

  "Please?" I said, my voice pleading.

  "By The Three, Kenna if you talk like that, I'm going to come right now."

  "No, please. I need you to come inside me," I said. Somehow it seemed important. "Wait. What about protection?" He had already been inside me, but still, maybe it wasn't too late. The good girl inside me was trying to do as society taught her - never have sex with a stranger without protection. The bad girl in me didn't give a crap whether we used protection or not; she just wanted to be fucked.

  "Protection?" He seemed confused. "Yes, I will protect you. I promise."

  I didn't push it any further. Maybe they didn't use condoms. And right now, I seriously didn't care. I knew I wasn't thinking straight, but my mind wasn't in charge anymore. All I wanted was to have him deep inside me with nothing between us.

  He kissed me on the forehead, gently. And then drove into me so hard, it took my breath away. He filled me completely and immediately began thrusting.

  Oh dear fucking lord but this felt good.

  I changed the angle of my hips slightly, so he was grinding more on my clit and immediately felt my orgasm begin to rise. He had me pinned and I writhed beneath him as his rhythm increased. The waves of heat began to wash over me as my climax started.

  "Oh, oh, please. Oh, fuck. Oh."

  I convulsed under his heavy weight, and he pounded into me even harder as my sex spasmed around him. Then he stiffened, his magnificent body shuddering as he released himself inside me.

  He collapsed on me for just a moment, then took his weight on his forearms again. He kissed me again, slowly, before he rolled off.

  "That was unbelievable," he said.

  Limp and satisfied, with a big smile on my face, I had to agree.

  DAR

  I got up and left as soon as she was asleep. Leaving was normal, it was what I did. I didn't like facing a scene where the woman wanted more than I could give.

  I went back to my real quarters but couldn't sleep. Sleeplessness was not normal. I didn't know what was going on, but I couldn't stop thinking about Kenna.

  I knew what I would do. I would go back to her and hold her for awhile. But when I went back in the middle of the night to the room where we had made love, I found that she had gone.

  When faced with the mussed up and empty bed that we had so recently shared, I felt something I hadn't felt about a woman in a long time.

  Regret.

  I regretted leaving her so soon. My heart had a strange feeling like something was missing, but I wasn't sure what. I had comforted myself with the thought that I would find her in the morning. We were a small, closed population, and I was the king. She would be easy to locate.

  I didn't know what I would do when I found her, but I knew that I had to see her again.

  "Does this database have every Susohn in the Complex?" I asked Mana the next day. She walked over to where I sat with my computer screen. She sat down on the couch and looked at my screen. She tapped a couple of times on my keyboard.

  Then she nodded.

  "Yes. That's everyone."

  "Shit." I linked my hands, twisting them in dismay.

  "What's wrong?" she said.

  "Yesterday when I went to the party..."

  "Yes?"

  "I met this girl."

  "Oh." The word was completely emotionless, and her face gave away nothing of what she thought.

  "Mana. I...I liked her." I stared down at my linked hands. "I wanted to find her again."

  "Oh." The word spoke volumes this time. I could hear surprise and something else. She was pleased.

  "Will you help me find her?" I said.

  Mana, my oldest friend, studied me for a long moment.

  "Yes, Dar. I will."

  An hour later I was frustrated beyond belief. We couldn't find her. No one who had come with us was named Kenna.

  "Dar," Mana said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "Have you thought that maybe she gave you a fake name?"

  "A fake name?" Of course. That was it. Why else couldn't I find her in the database? I slapped my forehead. "Of course. But why?"

  "I don't know. But you're not going to find her in there," she said, pointing at the screen that hung in the air. I tapped my watch, and the screen and keyboard disappeared.

  "Right. I'll go look for her."

  I thought I had searched everywhere. I had dressed in my blue coveralls and cap, and I had wandered the Complex. But I hadn't found her. It was like she had gone up in a puff of smoke. Mana told me that either she didn't want me to find her, or our paths simply hadn't crossed.

  It didn't matter which was the case. Either way, I didn't have her. It was the last day of the mating cycle when the urge to mate is the strongest, and I had relieved the pressure twice already today. But my hand was nothing compared to the soft body of a female, and I was aching for the mystery girl.

  I sat in my office, staring out the window.

  "Your highness? Would you like some lunch?" Mana was standing at the doorway with a tray.

  I shook my head and sighed.

  "I'm going to look once more," I said, standing up and beginning to pull the blue coverall over my work clothes. "Any sign of the AEA?"

  This time it was Mana's turn to shake her head and sigh.

  "Nothing."

  "Well, keep watching. If they are going to strike, it will be when we least expect it and when we are the least prepared."

  She nodded once and left with the tray. I went outside again to search the Complex more thoroughly. I was going to find this girl, no matter what.

  This section of the Complex contained a second set of quarters and laboratories. Scientists used these labs for preparing the seedlings and analyzing samples. The humans had given us half of the building for our use, but they were still working here.

  I knew she wouldn't be in the human work rooms, but I wanted to be thorough. What if she had got lost? What if she was curious about what they were doing and had come in to see? The whole area was empty now because everyone was at lunch in the cafeteria — human and Susohn alike.

  It was hopeless. I would never find her.

  I moved to the door of the lab I had just searched and turned to search another room.

  And there she was!

  Like a mirage, she disappeared into the room at the end of the hall. I took off running after her before she could get away again.

  I knew that chasing a woman was beneath me. I knew that I was not a dignified king. I knew that some random female I had slept with shouldn't be this important. I knew that I should stop now and let her go.

  But somehow I couldn't let her slip a
way again. I wanted to call out her name, but it wasn't even her real name, and I'd be damned if I would call out a lie. So I ran in silence until I got to the room. She was pushing on the fire exit door, about to go outside.

  "Wait," I called out, and she froze.

  Slowly she turned around.

  "Dar?" she whispered.

  "I've been looking for you," I said, crossing the room in four steps and taking her hand.

  "You've been looking for me?" She put her other hand on her chest, and the sight reminded me of her soft breasts and how it had felt to touch them. I felt my need rising. It is always the strongest on the last day of the mating cycle.

  I had the urge. Here. Now, if she was willing. And by The Three, I prayed she was willing.

  "I know you didn't give me your real name," I said, stepping into her personal space. She gazed at me, her eyes round and a look of wonder on her face.

  "Actually…"

  "I searched the database to find you, and there isn't a single Kenna."

  She looked away, pressing her lips together.

  "I don't blame you. I'm not angry," I said moving closer until our chests were just barely touching. "I'm just a stranger to you. You have no reason to trust me."

  "You're not a stranger," she said.

  I smiled, moving my face towards her, intent on touching her full lips that demanded attention.

  "No, I suppose not."

  Then I captured her mouth. Oh, by The Three, she tasted sweet, and I wanted more of her. I put my hand on her ass and pulled her sharply towards me so she could feel my aching need, and she made a soft little sound in her throat.

  I tried to keep my brain in control long enough to ask.

  "Do you want me?" I managed to get out.

  "Here?" She looked shocked. "Right now?"

  I nodded, unable to speak with the effort of not taking her right that very second.

  "I'm late."

  I didn't know what she was late for, but it didn't matter. All that mattered was convincing her to stay a little longer since that seemed to be her only objection.

  "You're already late. You'll just be a little later."

  She still said nothing.

  "Please?" I said, feeling desperate. "Do you want me?"

  "Yes," she said as if she had just decided. She looked up at me, eyes excited. "I do."

  She glanced at the door, and I left her for the two seconds it took to lock it. I was thankful it didn't have a window. I quickly wedged a chair under the knob of the fire exit door, just in case, and returned to her.

  "You're still sure?"

  "I am," she said, pulling my head down to kiss me passionately.

  I lifted her up so that she sat on the counter, and she spread her legs, bringing me as close as she could.

  "I've been thinking about you, too," she whispered in my ear while I kissed her shoulder and neck.

  "I can't be slow," I said, meeting her eye. "This is my last day, and the urge is too strong."

  "Bring it on," she said, a look on her face that said she knew the power she had over me.

  I had my coverall and pants off in a second. A moment later I unzipped her coverall. What I saw, then, made me pause and, if possible, I got harder.

  "You're not wearing anything underneath your coverall?" I said, my voice raspy with lust.

  "It's hot," she said by way of explanation.

  "You're hot," I said, undoing her bra and letting it fall. I licked and twisted my tongue around one of her nipples till she moaned. I could hear her breathing in shallow pants as her desire built.

  I made quick work of her white cotton underwear, and when I touched her between her legs, she was so hot and slick that I couldn't wait a second longer. I'm a tall man, and the counter was at the exact right height for what we were about to do.

  I hooked my arms around her legs and pulled her to the edge. Pressing up against her opening, I plunged into her heated core. She gasped as I embedded myself deep inside her.

  Panting, she gazed into my eyes as I pinned her there against the counter.

  Mine.

  She was mine.

  And her body arched up to meet me.

  Yours, it seemed to say.

  I'm yours.

  I thrust into her over and over, my rhythm getting faster as I got closer to my release. Suddenly, she bit down on my shoulder to silence her cries as her sweet body was rocked by a jarring, pulsing climax that seemed to go on forever.

  The feeling of her muscles clamping down on me put me over the edge, and I shot into her, filling her with my seed. I rested my head on her shoulder, gasping in completion.

  We heard a sound at that moment that had us both moving, worried that we were going to be caught — like a couple of adolescents. I pulled out, and she gave me a look of regret like she still wanted me inside her. I put on my pants, and she was into her underwear, bra, and coverall in record time. I smiled at her when we were both dressed, and she grinned back.

  Just then we heard something that sounded like an explosion and the walls shook.

  She gave me a look, and we rushed for the door. I threw it open and ran out into the corridor.

  "Dar, wait," she called after me. "You don't know if it's safe to..."

  I lost her words in the deafening noise of a second explosion.

  Before everything went black, I had time to think just one thought.

  I still don't know her real name.

  KENNA

  Holy fuck. I didn't know what had just happened. But it didn't sound right. Outside the room, I saw Dar lying on the floor. He was unconscious but hopefully alive.

  I glanced down to where the sound had come from and saw that the ceiling had caved in, and debris completely blocked the hall. We would have to get out through the fire exit. We, I thought to myself as I knelt down beside him. We were going to get out. There was no way that he could be dead.

  "Dar?" His pulse was regular. I checked him over the way my Gran had taught me. He had a few cuts and bruises but otherwise he seemed fine. No serious injuries. Except for the fact that he was unconscious.

  "Dar," I said again, feeling worried. I checked his vital signs again.

  And waited.

  Finally, he groaned and moved.

  "Dar?"

  He opened his eyes and frowned.

  "I can't see."

  He struggled to sit up, and I helped him get his bearings.

  "We have to get out of here," I said. "There could be more explosions."

  "Is that you, mystery girl? Why are you whispering?" he said.

  Oh my God. He had hearing damage and obviously flash blindness from the explosion. I hoped neither was permanent.

  I pulled on his hand, and he got up with difficulty. Then I shouted in his ear.

  "We have to get out. There could be more explosions."

  He nodded.

  "The terrorists. They'll be looking for me."

  They'll be looking for us both if they're trying to kill everyone here, buddy. We needed to get out. Now.

  He took hold of my arm, and I led him carefully back into the lab until we got to the door. I opened it slowly and looked out. It seemed as though the coast was clear, so I led him as quickly as I dared across the field towards the forest.

  The experimental project had been on this planet for a long time. We were just the latest group to come work on it. The very first group planted a boreal forest. I grew up in woods like these. My grandmother taught me everything about these forests, and I knew them best. That's why we were going there. It was the forest that surrounded the Complex: the other forests were further away.

  The second group of humans to work on the project had tried a tropical rain forest, which had sort of been a failed experiment. But some of the trees had survived. And the third group had recreated the African savannah, which seemed to be doing quite well on this arid planet.

  Each piece of the forest was fifty miles by fifty miles. It would be easy to get lost in, I h
oped. We were almost to the edge of the woods when I heard another explosion. I didn't look back; I just pulled Dar into the safety of the trees.

  After making him walk as far as I dared into the forest, I let him sit down beside a little stream. We took a drink and kept walking. He didn't complain. He only grunted when he hit something by accident because he couldn't see it. I didn't know how far we needed to go to be safe from whoever was bombing the Complex. I got us as far as I could before nightfall, taking a meandering path that would be hard to track.

  Finally, we got to a little clearing where there was clean water and trees and branches in the area to make a shelter. I thought I had seen some edible plants but prayed we wouldn't be here long enough to need either the food or the shelter.

  What I had spotted that would be truly useful would be the wild chamomile growing nearby. We had passed it before we had come to the clearing. I wasn't sure about its authenticity, but it seemed to be thriving here. It would soothe Dar's eyes while they recovered.

  Thank God it was a warm day. I found a soft spot and helped Dar sit down. He curled up with his hands over his face.

  "You okay?" I said.

  A muffled sound came from behind his hands.

  "Dar. Are you okay for a minute while I gather some supplies?"

  "Yes," he said, taking his hands away and then putting them back. He didn't sound too good. I was worried, but I needed to get those flowers. I could make him a compress that would make his eyes feel normal again. At least I would be doing something to help.

  I quickly went back to the spot where I had seen them and gathered several handfuls, putting them into my handkerchief. Then I hurried back to Dar.

  I sat beside him and fashioned a simple compress in my handkerchief with the chamomile petals and cold water.

  "Hey, Dar," I said, loudly. "Are you awake?"

  He grunted.

  "I've got a compress for your eyes. It may help them feel better."

  He didn't say anything, but only took his hands away and rolled onto his back keeping his eyes closed. I didn't like seeing the commanding guy who had made those two jerks back off last night so helpless and hurt. But I was glad I knew how to help him feel better.