Avren: An Auxem Novel

by Lisa Lace

  "I want to be as close to you as I can get," I whispered in her ear and she shivered. "Until we are so lost in each other that we can't tell where the one of us leaves off and the other begins."

  Her hips bucked against me.

  "Yes," she breathed and I knew that if I touched her she would be wet and slippery. But I had her entire body to explore before I got to that. A true Susohnnan male always made sure his sheeranla came first — at least once, sometimes more — before he got anywhere near her secret parts with his manhood.

  And I was nothing if not a true Susohnnan male now.

  I ran my hand gently along her face.

  "You know what I wondered when I kissed you back on Earth?"

  "What?" she said on a sigh, as I continued to trace down her neck — realizing when I got to her shoulder that she wasn't wearing any shirt. I drew my breath in sharply. She came prepared, my Kenna. Distracted by the smooth skin of her arm as I ran my fingertips lightly down to the palm of her hand and traced a circle there, I forgot what I was talking about.

  "Well, what did you think?" she said and I heard laughter in her voice. She knew that I was losing blood from my brain because it was flowing elsewhere.

  "I wondered what it had been like to make love to you. I thought we must have burned up the sheets."

  "Really?" she said.

  "Mm, hm," I said, my hand flowing back up her arm and down her torso, barely brushing the round curve of her full breast. Oh lord, I had missed this.

  I needed her desperately, but I focused on her pleasure. She was all that mattered right now. When I got to her hips and wanted to run my palm over her scar, I was frustrated to find her pajama pants still covering her.

  "Too many clothes," I said, scooting down, pulling her pants and panties off and tossing them across the room.

  She rolled onto her back. Now those plump, juicy mounds were too much temptation. I brushed my hand lightly against one nipple just to hear her gasp. Then I licked the other one and blew on it. Her breathing was coming in fits and starts as her arousal increased.

  Finally, I couldn't hold back anymore. I needed to taste her sweet flesh and I sucked a nipple into my mouth. She moaned and arched her back. She was perfection. She tasted like a female should and I moved over to the other side. She pushed her chest up towards me, urging me to take her deep. And I did, suckling her and nipping her hard bud until she wriggled beneath me needing more.

  "Kenna," I said in my language. "You're perfect. You're so perfect. I love your breasts, your ass, your hot wet sheath. I can't wait to bury myself deep inside you and make you come so hard you scream."

  "Oh, that's sexy. What are you saying?" she said breathlessly. "You're reciting the alphabet, aren't you?"

  I chuckled but I didn't answer, unable to translate at the moment with my lips around her nipple.

  I slid my hand down the skin of one of her creamy thighs, lightly brushing the triangle of curls between her legs.

  So perfect. A triangle. As if The Three had designed females in their likeness to honor these bearers of life. And I wondered briefly if Kenna would bear a child someday in the future. I knew that triangle had pointed the way to bliss more times than I could count, but none more than Kenna's did, right at this moment.

  "Dar," she said my name like a prayer. "Dar, please."

  I loved when she begged like that, almost incoherent with need. She was not sure what she needed, but sure that I could give it to her.

  I never felt more like a male than when she begged me to make love to her. I plunged my finger into her. She was more wet than I had ever felt her before — and slippery. She was like silk and I couldn't get enough of rubbing up and down her soft petals. I needed to put something else in there. Something she would enjoy even more than my fingers.

  "Dar!" She sounded wild but I had at least one orgasm in store for her before I joined our bodies as one.

  KENNA

  He was driving me mad. After all the weeks of being pent up with wanting him, I needed him to take me hard, fast, and soon. But no, he was going slow. He was being thorough.

  And he was going to drive me insane.

  "Dar," I said again more urgently.

  He didn't answer me, only slid down my body until he lay between my legs.

  "Relax, Kenna."

  I swallowed hard and let my legs fall outward. He reached his hands underneath me and cupped one of my round buttocks in each hand.

  "Perfect," he said again.

  Then his head dipped down and I felt his tongue barely touch my clit. It was enough to send shock waves through my entire body and make my hips arch up towards him. He chuckled, knowing his power.

  He licked up my entire slit, making me shiver and moan. He knew how to pleasure me. Soon I felt waves of heat rolling over me and a sheen of sweat appeared all over my body.

  "Hot," I murmured. "So hot."

  He popped his head up for a moment to look at me, as I lay with my legs spread exposed and open to him — my body an instrument that he was an expert at playing.

  "You'll be hotter soon, sheeranla."

  I loved it when he called me that.

  His tongue slid right into my tight depths and he thrust it in and out while his hand flicked my clit. A moment later, I couldn't hold back anymore and I came — fisting my hands in his hair and moaning his name.

  "Again," he said, as he moved up and kissed my scar.

  "Do you want me, Kenna?"

  "Yes. Yes. Yes." And I still did, even though my first orgasm was still shaking my body. He positioned himself so that his cock was pressing at my entrance. My body was still spasming and convulsing, the waves of bliss hitting me over and over.

  He didn't wait for me to finish and pressed his way inside me. We both groaned at the sensations. It had been so very long. He filled me up completely and I lay there as my body shook, enjoying the feeling of having him so close.

  Soon he was thrusting into me and I felt the heat start to build again. Abruptly he pulled out and flipped me on to my stomach. He pulled my hips up so I was kneeling and I felt him line up to my tender flesh and sink deep inside again.

  "Yes," I groaned.

  His hand came around and played with my hard little nub that was still sensitive from the first orgasm. But in a minute, the passion grew and the feeling of him pounding into me from behind along with his hand stimulating my clit was too much and I came again.

  As soon as he felt me go, he pulled out and rolled me on to my back again, thrusting back in and barely skipping a beat. The walls of my sex squeezed and contracted around him as my climax ripped through me.

  He bent his head and sucked on one of my breasts. I moaned, unable to believe that my body was still able to respond after two orgasms. What had he told me once?

  My body was capable of far more than I knew, if I would just let go.

  He was pounding into me, looking for his own release but the angle he was hitting as he drove into me again and again was stimulating all the right places. Every slam of his pelvis into mine electrified my clit over and over.

  I let go of all rational thought. I let go of what was possible for my body. I let go of everything and just trusted Dar. Because I loved him. I loved him so much my heart ached. I loved him so much.

  As we gazed into each other's eyes, my third orgasm exploded inside me, the most powerful of them all, by The Three.

  I screamed and it seemed like I couldn't stop coming. My body shuddered and the ecstasy rolled over me. Dar stiffened and pressed his hips hard against me as I writhed in pleasure under him. Then he completely collapsed.

  My breath was coming short, he was so heavy, but I loved the feeling of his weight on me.

  A moment later, he rolled us both over so that I was on top and he was still inside me.

  I laid my head on his chest, glad he hadn't pulled out right away. I loved feeling him inside of me and knowing that he was here with me — all of him.

  "I love you, Kenna." he sai
d, running his hand down my back and relaxing completely beneath me. I felt limp. There was no way I could move, even if I wanted to. After three mind-shattering orgasms, I probably wouldn't be walking for a week.

  "I love you, too, Dar. I need you so much. I had such a hard time doing without you when you were gone." I felt a tear leak out of my eye. It had been so hard.

  He lifted his head so he could kiss my forehead.

  "Never again, Kenna. I'll never leave you again. I promise."

  "How can you say that, Dar? How can you know?"

  "Because we're going to be together forever," he said, totally serious. Then he added, "My mother said so."

  I laughed then and rolled off of him, making a little sound of sadness when we came uncoupled. I pressed my naked body all along the length of his and laid my head on his arm.

  "Speaking of which..." he said, his eyes suddenly becoming more alert. I held my breath.

  He rolled over onto his stomach, leaning on his elbows so he could look me in the eyes. Our left hips were side by side. I scooted up on the pillows, feeling wide awake and a tiny bit nervous.

  "Kenna..." He started. Then he trailed off, looking puzzled. Maybe I was wrong about what I thought that he was going to do. "Do you have a middle name?"

  Where had that come from?

  "Yes."

  "It's important. I need to know it."

  "You do?" He nodded vigorously. I shrugged. "My full name is Kenna Alessandra DeAndrea."

  He looked a little skittish.

  "It's beautiful."

  "Dar? Are you all right?" He placed a finger on my lips, silencing me.

  "There are traditions that must be upheld," he whispered. Then he spoke in his usual voice with a tone that was quiet but strong.

  "Kenna Alessandra DeAndrea. You have been with me in my most painful moments. You have loved me with your body, your mind, and your spirit. You have given more than a woman should have to give in order to be with me." He paused then and touched my scar.

  "I love your intelligence, your beauty and your talent for bringing life, whether it's with plants, people, or me. I love how you make me mad with desire, and how you have been there for me whenever I've needed you. I want to do the same for you for the rest of our lives."

  I held my breath and searched his eyes. He meant it. Every word. I knew the truth when I heard it. He kissed my forehead, then my right cheek, and then my left — a triangle, of course.

  "Kenna Alessandra DeAndrea, would you do the very great honor of marrying me?"

  Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. My breath was coming too fast and I was feeling too much. I couldn't answer. The words wouldn't move past my lips.

  "Kenna?" he said and then he looked worried. Shit. When was he not going to doubt my love? When you stop hesitating at important moments, you idiot, I chided myself.

  "I'm overwhelmed, Dar," I said, truthfully, still unable to say the words that I wanted to.

  "Overwhelmed because you don't want to marry me and you don't know how to tell me?" he said, looking sick to his stomach. "I think I might have grossly overestimated your feelings for me if that's the case."

  I closed my eyes. This was all falling to pieces because I was a chicken shit.

  "Darvish Shu'in," I said, opening my eyes again. "Sorry, I can't remember all the other ones."

  He didn't say anything just waited for me to go on.

  "I have loved you almost since we first met. You have made me more me since the moment I met you. I love how you make love to me. I love how you drag me around the galaxy on your crazy adventures."

  He grimaced but I didn't stop.

  "Okay, maybe you don't drag me with you, but I tag along." I smiled, going on. "I love waking up next to you and feeling happy because you're there. And I swore when you lost your memories, that if I ever got you back, I would never ever take you for granted again."

  His eyes got a soft look in them and he took my hand.

  "Will you give me a chance to show you how much you mean to me, every day for the rest of our lives? Will you let me wake up next to you so that I can appreciate you every single morning and thank The Three and God and whatever other deities were involved in bringing my curvy ass all the way across the galaxy to find you?"

  He smiled and squeezed my butt.

  "Will you marry me, Dar? Even though I don't say the right thing at the right time and you keep wondering if I care about you. Will you let me prove it once and for all by marrying you, so that you never have to wonder again? Will you?" I said and then waited, my heart in my throat, for his answer.

  "This is very unconventional," he said, instead.

  I slapped him on the arm.

  "If you wanted a traditional female, you shouldn't have fallen in love with a human," I said. "Now answer, damn it."

  "You first," he said, smiling now. "You feisty thing. I asked first, so you have to answer first."

  "Is this what being married to you is going to be like?" I said.

  "I hope so," he said and then laughed. I loved to hear it.

  "Okay, okay. I'll marry you. What about you? Will you marry me? I answered, now it's your turn."

  "I will marry you, Kenna," he said, leaning in for a brief kiss. "With all my heart."

  Then he moved over and pressed our scars together. I gasped and saw stars. The shot of energy blasting through my body was incredible.

  "Dar," I panted. "What was that?"

  "That was the feeling of a love vow being sealed with our scars, Kenna."

  "I'll get engaged all over again if we can do that one more time," I said, still unable to process how good that had felt. "It's almost as good as sex with you. And that's saying a lot."

  "If you want to get engaged again, we can do it again, Kenna," he grinned. "Whatever you want, sheeranla. Whatever you want."

  The next morning after some hot, wet shower sex, Dar had brought us breakfast in his room. I thought he was hoping to get lucky again but he was just being romantic.

  "I guess we can let your mother announce our engagement at your cousin's wedding," I said.

  Dar turned a thousand watt smile on me.

  "I guess we can," he said. "Hey, you know what?"

  "What?" I said, tucking into my toast and scrambled eggs. He said it was weird to eat bird ovum, but he got it for me anyway.

  "I wrote myself a note one night when I had my memory back for a few hours."

  "Yeah?" I said, not really paying attention. I was so starving these days. It seems I could hardly get enough to eat. "Are you going to eat that?"

  I could not believe I was offering to eat his weird animal meat. I had been eating on Susohn for some time and I still could not get used to the fact that their meat is blue.

  He frowned. "No, I'm done."

  "Can I have it?" I said.

  "Sure." He handed me his plate and I tucked in. "I wrote myself a note that said: Propose. Propose now. Don't let her get away or you'll regret it the rest of your life."

  I stopped eating to stare at him.

  "You wrote that to yourself?"

  "Yep. But I didn't want to act on it, especially since you were adamant that you weren't going to get engaged to me when I didn't know what I was getting myself into."

  He grinned at me.

  "Well, see? Full disclosure," I said, taking another bite of the weird meat and trying not to look at it before I put it in my mouth. "I wanted to make sure you were going in with your eyes wide open."

  He laughed.

  "Indeed."

  "I have something to tell you," I said, finishing the last bite and pushing my plate away.

  "What's that?" he said, looking interested.

  "Well, I've figured out what I want to do with my life, other than marry you and give your mother grandchildren. Wait a second. They will be our children, won't they?" I said, suddenly nervous about what strange Susohnnan child-rearing customs I might not be familiar with.

  "Yes, Kenna. Of course they will be our children," he
said, rolling his eyes. "Now, what were you saying? About what you want to do with your life?"

  "Well, you're a king and as much as I've loved zipping around the galaxy with you, it's really not much to build a life on. Once we're settled somewhere I can grow things. Herbs and medicinal plants, you know?"

  He nodded, his face lighting up.

  "I would prepare them the way my Gran taught me. I would be a medicine woman, I guess," I finished, looking at him nervously. Would he say I was ridiculous? Would he laugh? I hoped not.

  He looked absolutely joyful.

  "That sounds wonderful, Kenna. And you would help people heal the way you helped me on Dobu and the way you healed Elara's eczema?"

  "Exactly," I said. "I would feel useful, like I was doing something good with my life. Do you think I could do that?"

  "Of course. I think it's amazing. I know some people on Susohn that can teach you about the plants that grow there and of course you can have a greenhouse. You already know about growing Earth plants in other environments, so you would just have to figure out Susohn. We'll get you whatever you need."

  "You sound more excited than me," I said, laughing. I felt better about the future than I had in a long time.

  "We've made nearly all the repairs necessary and we just need to restock and take on more crew on Susohn. Then we'll be ready to hunt down that..." Jakk stopped himself from swearing but it was a near thing. "That space squid and the last alien ship that's hiding out there. We'll be arriving on Susohn in an hour or so."

  "That's perfect, we'll be getting off there, then," Dar said. "Kenna and I have a wedding to plan and a garden to grow."

  Dar put his arm around me and I caught a wistful expression on Elara's features. Her glance darted to Jakk and then away again. She was hanging around at the back of the crowd on the bridge and she faded as we continued to talk.

  I made a mental note to go talk to her before we got left the ship. I wondered if I would ever get to see her again. It would be a dangerous mission, hunting down those aliens.

  "You're engaged?" Jakk said, a smile spreading across his face. "Congratulations, Dar."

  He made the sign of The Three and then slapped Dar on the back and kissed the triangle of The Three on me — one kiss on the forehead and one on both cheeks.