by David Aries
“Only for a couple of months,” Akko said. “It’s not that bad. There’s no monsters, and you can warm up food in the vent. The chairs are comfier than they look, too.”
“I can vouch for that last one,” I said while brushing my hand over a recliner. “Hello, old friend. Miss me?”
Surprisingly, the chair didn’t reply.
I wasn’t planning on lingering, but something else caught my eye. With a small laugh, I crouched and picked up what was hiding behind the seat. “Look what we’ve got here.” It was the bevelinium handcuffs that had kept me trapped.
The moment she saw them, Akko blanched.
It didn’t stop Faris from staring at her.
“D-don’t look at me like that,” Akko said as she hid behind her tentacle locks. “I already apologized… a-and I never mistreated him, either.”
“You handcuffed him to a chair.”
“B-but I did it with care!”
“Ease off her,” I said to Faris while twirling the cuffs around a finger. “Sure, she was a little heavy-handed, but it all worked out in the end. Besides, as far as hostage holders go, she was a great host.”
“See?!” Akko said with surprising enthusiasm in the face of a rather meager compliment.
My stomach growled. “In fact, I wouldn’t mind tasting that cooking again right now.”
Akko stiffened up. “Wait right there, sweetie! I’ll be back in a moment.” She dove head first through the entrance and vanished down the hallway.
Well someone’s eager to impress…
If it ended with my belly full, I wasn’t complaining.
We took the chance to get comfortable, with me popping my bubble and Faris removing her diving gear.
Saying that, there wasn’t much to do or see. Without piles of Akko’s stories scattered around, the cabin was rather bare. The only thing of real note, apart from the two of us, was the handcuffs.
I grabbed the metal bands and pulled.
“What are you doing?” Faris asked.
“Seeing if I can break these cuffs,” I said as I put everything into making them go snap.
I pulled and pulled until I was red in the face, but the connector didn’t budge.
Faris looked at me like I was a moron. “Aren’t they bevelinium? You don’t stand a chance.”
“As I can see,” I said through gritted teeth before finally calling it quits. “This stuff is ridiculous.” All my extra strength, and I wasn’t getting anywhere. “Why aren’t they making everything out of this? Imagine bevelinium rollerbots.” We’d have been Swiss cheese long before making it to the Inner Core.
“It’s rare. There’s a reason its presence turned Free Bevis from an ice ball into a planet.”
“Rare, yet I ended up trapped by the stuff,” I said, sneering. “It’s a good thing I managed to talk Akko around. One wrong word, and I might have been stuck as her sex toy.”
Faris’s eyes popped open. “What?!”
I snickered. “Don’t worry about it… actually, that reminds me.” I took the chance to kiss Faris. “Payment for not being able to do it properly earlier.”
A warm flash spread across her mocha complexion. “Sex toy made you remember?”
“Hey, it’s not like I’m saying I think of you that way—that couldn’t be farther from the truth. I mean, I do find you exceedingly sexy… but that’s besides the point.”
Something told me Casanova wouldn’t be shaking in his boots, yet the red hue in Faris’s cheeks grew brighter. “You do?”
“Of course! Haven’t I made that very clear over the past few months?” She’d have to be as dense as a blackhole not to have noticed how captivating I found her.
Something told me she was well aware and wanted to hear it again anyway.
So… I indulged. I stroked my hand over her cheek until I was cupping her chin. “I’m completely mad about you. Not a day has gone by since we mated where I haven’t been stunned we’re together. Sometimes, I lose track of what I’m doing and think ‘how did I end up with someone so incredible?’”
I was well aware that sounded like the words of some playboy shamelessly trying to get into a girl’s knickers, but it was the truth. Even though we’d been together for a year, it wasn’t uncommon for me to freeze when I noticed Faris and lose myself in my thoughts.
And not just her, of course. I did the same for all my mates, although Faris didn’t need to know that. Why ruin the mood that had turned her face as hot as her signature breath?
Seriously, her demure expression was to die for.
“I love you, Faris,” I said as I drifted in and gave her lips another dose of attention.
When I tried to back away, Faris followed. She lunged forward, forcing a kiss upon me.
Well… ‘forcing’. I didn’t exactly resist. If anything, I revelled in her hunger.
This was no peck on the lips; it was a tongue-entwining embrace reserved for the most passionate of lovers.
Faris moaned into my mouth as she made me prove my words with actions, cajoling me all the while. She grabbed my arms and pushed me back, tripping us onto the chair I’d spent so many days locked to.
I hardly noticed; I was too focused on the enchantress straddling me. Her kisses were quite the attention stealer. They made it hard to think about anything but her amorous embrace.
Click.
Hard, but not impossible. My eyes sprung open as I took note of that curious sound. I tried to shift my arms, but they didn’t budge, even when Faris stopped holding them.
Yet something was, and I had a good idea what.
“Faris?” I said when she gave me the chance, struggling all the while. “What are you doing?”
“Akko got to do this to you, but I don’t?” Faris said. “That’s not fair.” She started unbuckling my armor. “I want a turn.”
“Didn’t you just chide her for doing this to me?”
“Shut up.”
As someone who knew this armor well, Faris had no problem stripping me down to my black undersuit.
“Now what?” I said. “Hurry and uncuff me so I can take this o—”
Faris stabbed a claw into the fabric, right over my throat, and sliced down until she’d created a slit that reached just below my belly button.
“Hey, I need this,” I complained.
“You’ll live,” Faris replied as she tore the cut lower, exposing the crown jewels I had hidden beneath.
Going commando was kind of expected in this skintight get-up.
“You’re excited,” she said, red eyes drinking in my shape.
“Of course. I’ve been tied up and stripped by an alien bombshell who spent the last minute snogging my throat off. It would be weirder if I wasn’t.”
Such was the curse of being a red-blooded male.
After a small pause, Faris brushed a finger along my hardness, causing it to twitch. “So this is how Akko had you…”
“Minus the rest of my clothing and being awake.”
“I see the appeal,” she said before lowering herself so her breath brushed against my member. “I’m not sure I would have let you go.” Her lips moved closer, making their first tantalizing contact. “I might have kept you here.” And another. “All mine.” And one more. “Forever and ever.”
Electrical euphoria surged through me. I jerked every time she touched me—every time her lips embraced my shaft.
I could see Faris keeping me as her own. Who said an alien dragon couldn’t be as greedy as those from fiction? I’d felt her possessive grabs many times during our nights of passion. What was this but one stage further? Kept her as her personal lover, unable to escape from her heated clutches.
Faris didn’t leave it as kissing. Her mouth was eager to please, and that it did. After treating my length like her lover, she enveloped me in a manner all men dreamed of.
I bucked into her lips, hips able to do what my arms could not.
She didn’t like that; Faris held my thighs steady so she could play th
e role of mistress. This was her fun, and I was just along for the ride. She decided how fast she moved, how deep she embraced, and how close I got to the edge.
And the answer was unbearably so.
I tried to bite back my moans as my insides bubbled like a volcano about to burst. One last push was all I needed to surge over the edge.
But Faris didn’t deliver.
She pulled back when I was at my limit, leaving me stranded with nowhere to go but down.
“Not yet,” she said, throwing her armor off as fast as she could, followed by her undersuit.
As always, her naked caramel-colored body was to die for, and there was no missing the glisten of excitement sparkling between her toned thighs.
Faris climbed on top of me, a single hand pressing me into my chair-prison. “Akko never went this far, did she?”
“I-I don’t think so,” I said, breathing racing. “We only did it when the cuffs were off.”
She grinned. “Then allow—”
“I’m back!” Akko said as she burst back into the room, fish in hand… and caught a nude Faris moments away from having her fill of a handcuffed me. Somewhat unsurprisingly, her face turned tomato red. “W-what are you two doing?!”
Faris gulped. “W-what’s it look like?”
Akko didn’t hurry her response; she looked us up and down while gawking. After several passes, she finally said, “You… how could you do this behind my back? In my old home, too.”
Any pride Faris’s expression had held vanished. She looked more like an employee being chewed out by their boss.
Nudity aside.
“This is outrageous,” Akko continued, “turning this place into a sex den the moment I leave. How could you do that without me?”
I flinched.
Wait, what?
Akko started stripping out of her armor with all the grace of someone trying to escape a straitjacket. “H-he’s my man, too. If you get to play with him, so do I.”
Faris exhaled. “Fine. If I must…”
“Hey, whoa,” I said, squirming in my restraints. “Don’t I get a say in this?”
“No.”
“I-it’s not like you’d turn us down anyway,” Akko said.
I mean, she’s got a point.
Finally, Akko managed to get out of her armor and the undersuit beneath, unveiling the lavender curves which drove my mind wild.
“I-I also think I deserve an apology for sneaking behind my back and mocking me for cuffing him now you’ve… you know,” Akko said while fidgeting with her fingers.
Faris pouted, well aware what Akko was after.
Akko squeaked and threw her hands up. “B-but, of course, if you don’t want to…”
She didn’t, Faris definitely didn’t, yet she sighed and surrendered her throne.
So much for that dragon greed…
Akko swept in before Faris could change her mind. Her fingers glided over my thighs as she crawled between my legs. “I-I can’t believe this is happening. It sure brings back memories, doesn’t it?” Her cheeks, already flush with color, seemed to burn that little bit brighter.
“Lots of memories,” I said with a grunt as my rock-hard manhood swayed, longing for attention.
Stupid pent-up arousal.
Akko’s enchanting green eyes took notice. They followed like a pendulum’s swing as her face drifted closer, tentacles sliding over my hips. “I-I’m guessing Faris has already… you know?”
I nodded.
“But… that’s no reason I can’t too, right?” she said moments before history repeated itself.
However, this time, I was awake for the full thing.
I’d felt Akko’s touch so many times since then, but never before had it caused such a thrill. Reminiscence and pleasure merged together, amplifying her tongues every stroke and the sensation of her soft, plump lips.
My hands convulsed in their metal prison as the storm in my loins returned with a vengeance.
Akko was too good—too beautiful. I was about to lose control.
As the heat rose inside me, Akko pulled her mouth away, leaving me dangling on the edge.
“Ohh, I can’t take it anymore,” she said, voice sullied by needy gasps. Her body felt hotter than ever, likely in no small part due to the hand that had been missing from my body throughout. Its saturated fingers helped her into the same pose Faris had been in before we’d been interrupted.
This time, there was nobody to stop the inevitable.
Akko dropped her hips and took what she wanted, joining us as one.
A current of raw magic raced through my body. An uncontainable moan escaped my lips.
Being pampered by her mouth was good, but it couldn’t compare to this.
As she demonstrated.
Akko threw her head back as she moaned. “Yes! Oh, I’ve missed this. Even if it hasn’t been long… I’ve needed this so bad.” She wasn’t messing around. Her hands pressed me down as her hips worked up an energetic rhythm.
This was our first time doing this deed since Ulium had been destroyed. That was a lot of pent-up stress waiting to be relieved.
And what could be better than this.
Akko went wild. She bounced on my lap, truly treating me like her toy.
I was happy to receive. Each stroke amplified the spell leaving me tingling to the very tips of my extremities. I couldn’t stop moaning.
Could anything get better than this?
In a sense…
Akko and I were enjoying ourselves, but Faris wasn’t. She stood nearby, watching with a face like a scolded child.
“Faris,” I said, unable to talk properly through my moans.
“What?” she mumbled.
“Come here.”
“Why?”
“Just do it.”
While pouting, she lumbered closer to see what I wanted.
When I got the chance, I leaned in and kissed her chest.
She squeaked, putting a crack in the mask she’d adopted.
The fractures widened as I kept up my assault, lips refusing to show her bust mercy. I paid particular attention to her reignited nipple that felt so damn good brushing beneath my tongue.
It took no time at all for Faris’s high-pitched squeaks to break free. She leaned her weight into me, smothering me into her bosom, while she reached down to ride her fingers.
Now this was more like it.
If there was one downside to spoiling Faris’s chest, it was that I couldn’t see Akko’s beautiful face as she felt the full force of a sexually-charged heaven.
“Brandon! Sweetie!” she moaned as her body refused to stop, filling the room with the echo of our flesh colliding. “I’m close! So close. So very close.” Her fingers curled, clawing my flesh. “You too, sweetie. Do it. Fill me. Together. Let’s do it together.”
Could she feel I was close or was it just her desires flooding free? I didn’t know; I didn’t care. It was a wish I was happy to grant.
It was a wish I wanted to grant.
The heat within me built for a third time. There were no two ways about it, I was about to blow. My body refused to be denied again. This time, I would have my fill.
This time, I would reach the apex.
Akko made it happen. With a squeal, with a shudder, she reached nirvana and ordered me to do the same.
I obeyed. All the pleasure of the known universe washed over me. My body answered both our prayers, pushing us to revel in ecstasy for as long as we could.
By the time I was done losing myself in a world of hedonism, Akko had shifted from sitting high to resting on my torso for support.
“Oh, sweetie,” she rasped. “That was incredible. You don’t know how much I needed that.”
I chuckled and said, “I beg to differ.” She hadn’t exactly been trying to conceal her emotions.
Something I personally adored.
Another was the way she leaned up and lazily kissed me on the lips. “Thank you, sweetie. I couldn’t ask for a bett
er boyfriend.”
“Anytime,” I said, in no rush to escape her affection.
Faris cleared her throat.
Akko and I jolted. We pulled our lips apart and stared at Faris.
Her cheeks were burning like vats of lava. She squeezed her thighs and shaking juice-stained hands together. “When’s my turn?”
My mouth curled back into a grin. It appeared I wasn’t escaping these cuffs just yet…
Chapter 21
“Beep boop,” DD’s voice said through the cruiser’s speaker system. “I have completed my repairs. Please return to the hangar at your convenience.”
It went without saying that we set off straight away, our second meal since coming to Akko’s room barely having time to settle in our stomachs.
“Talk about a miracle worker,” I said as we dashed through the underwater tunnels. “I thought we could be here for days.”
If my gut was right, it had been little over half of one.
“She’s been incredible,” Akko said. “And to think I was worried about her being an android.”
“Hey, it’s not like an android means she’s some human-killing Terminator.”
“You should tell The Alliance that,” Faris said.
I chewed my bottom lip. “How can they consider DD a threat? She wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
“They don’t know that,” Akko said. “To them, she’s the first step to another war.”
“And I’m calling bullshit. Look how much she’s helping us! How could anyone consider her an enemy? If anything, they should give her a badge of honor.”
Instead, they were waiting with a crusher.
“Is there seriously no way we can help her?” I asked.
“No,” Faris said.
“If we did, we’d become the most wanted criminals in the universe,” Akko said, gulping. “I-I don’t want that. I mean, I want to help DD, but I can’t become an outlaw! I don’t have the heart for it. Just thinking about it makes me go all…” She grabbed her chest as her breathing raced.
I rubbed her back. “Nobody is becoming a criminal. We’ll… I don’t know. All I can say for certain is she doesn’t deserve to die. And, after everything she’s done for us, it’s our duty to try and find a way to help her.”
Neither Akko or Faris disagreed, but they didn’t offer any solutions.