Chapter 26

"When didyou have time to do this?" my mate gasped as she wandered out into the backyard nest. I had parked the ship in a spot so that when she walked out, she would see the full scope of what I had prepared.

"Once I was accepted into the Mated Marriage program, I received permission to begin preparing a nest on Earth." I smiled as I watched her face and the awe on it as she looked around at the comfortably sized space in front of us.

"I thought our nest was going to be on the moon," she gasped. "This is so much better. The moon is a nice place to visit, or have a studio, but this…. I can throw a serious party here."

I glanced at her as surprise washed over me.

I hadn't expected her to change her mind on additional males so soon. But if she wanted to host a mate selection party…

"I have several people in mind," I offered.

"Of course, you should invite anyone you want." Jessica reached out to squeeze my hand. "We are such a great power couple for this. Everyone is going to want to meet you. I bet I can make this a serious red carpet event. Real cream of the crop attendees."

She turned to look back at the sprawling property in front of us.

"It's so perfect." She clasped her hands together. "Do you seriously own this?"

"We," I replied.

The property was a strange example of the human wealth divide. Nestled into the middle of the city that Jessica had come from, it was completely private, even from the street that curved around the front, huge bushes disguising everything behind them with carefully sliced sides that shaped them into a wall made out of cylinders. In front of the bushes was a tall wall. There were two entries from the street, the main one and a second, more discreet one I wasn't sure what it was for.

The entry path made a circle in front of the house before exiting the same way.

There was a large separate building that was sunk down deep into the ground where it expanded. It was cement and completely empty, with lines on the ground that offered spaces for at least twenty human ground vehicles.

We were in the backyard, as my mate put it, which was a flat green space filled with a uniform grass that stretched out for a sizable distance, before dipping into a stream that appeared to run through our nest property and the ones on either side.

"Who knew this kind of space existed in the middle of LA!" Jessica exclaimed. "I mean, I knew there were mansions, but this is like so close to everything. How does anyone have a backyard this size? I could plant a small farm here. Oh, we are so hiring a full time homesteader and turning this into something muuuuuuuch better. At least a section of it. We'll keep a part of the lawn, especially the part next to the pool."

She let out a squeal.

"Tell me the house has its own theater? It has to, look at this thing!" She whirled and rushed in through the open air food preparation and dining area which was structured with a white marble, running her hands over the attractive counters before vanishing into the house. "The doors open all the way to the outside! They do it in the living room too! Oh my god, there are two kitchens. This place literally has a servants' kitchen."

I followed after her voice, stopping in place as she popped out of one of the connecting side hallways and appeared in front of me.

"I don't know how I feel about servants." She planted her hands on her hips.

"You will not need to hire them unless you wish to provide employment of such to others." I smiled. It was clear she was not aware of the full benefits of having a nest full of mates dedicated towards helping her create her dreams. She was not going to have to lift a finger to do a single thing she didn't actively want to do.

Jessica grinned and then whirled, rushing back through the house.

I followed her at a sedate pace. The open air option of this house and the wide hallways were ideal for my body. I had also made some modifications to make it more comfortable for myself, but it already had most of the things I desired.

Hopefully they were the things my mate loved as well.

She popped out of another room, crossed the hallway in front of me and rushed into another. I waited as she pingponged back and forth across one of the sections of the house that held living quarters. There was another one on the other side of the indoor atrium that part of the pool was inside of, passing under a clear windowed wall to create an indoor and outdoor body of water.

When she went through the large set of doors at the back of the house and entered the large suite I had set aside for her, I followed after her, having to stop suddenly to not run into her as she skidded to a halt, pressing both her hands to her heart.

"This is…" She turned to look at me. "I never, ever in a thousand years thought I would ever say this, but this is too much. I don't need a house this extravagant. There are so many people who could use this home. You could fit so many families in here, it isn't… I don't feel right. I mean, actually it feels really right in some ways, but in others, I don't know."

"You can have as many people as you want live in your nest," I offered gently, moving around her to slide next to the nest I had installed. I modified it from what my species preferred, using materials that I had read were more preferred by human women. I had added a large variety of colors and fabrics, piling them around on the custom made mattress I had sunk into the floor. There were climbing branches all over the ceiling of this room that had required a great deal of reinforcement. "It would mean a great deal to me if you accept this nest."

A lot of the house required structural reinforcement. It was a lot of work to prepare it for my mate and to be suitable for my bulk, and I hoped she wouldn't reject it.

I was willing to do the work to set up a new nest of course if she didn't like this one.

But I liked this one.

She stepped closer to me and my attention snapped to her as she placed her hand lightly on my abdomen. I flexed, giving her hard ridges to run her fingers over as she gently dragged them downwards, pulling her hand back before she brushed the edges of my slit.

She was looking at where her fingers didn't touch, before glancing up at me, a small smile curling on her face.

"You haven't once made a move on me," she said. "You came on so strong before our wedding, and I've been all over you on our trip, and you haven't done anything."

Excitement hit me like a lightning bolt in a thunderstorm, striking the base of my being and sending a thunder of anticipation shuddering through me. I had smelled her arousal. I knew that her body wanted me, but I had held back.

"The experience of helping you with your medication disturbed me," I offered the clarity of my mind. "It made me feel uncomfortable to be sexually aggressive with you, though I know with time and a deepening connection with you that will fade. My desire for you is still very prevalent."

"I don't have any hold-ups from that experience if you're worried about me in any of that. It was intense, and I didn't enjoy it, but I can see how we can rework that whole scenario and make it into something fun instead. In your culture, how do your females initiate matings?" she asked. "Do your males usually wait to be seduced?"

"No." I slowly moved and she turned in a circle to follow me as I curled around her. "There are many ways a male can entice and excite to try to initiate a mating. For the female, she usually wraps herself around a male, seizing him in the way you did when we met, and mates."

"What do you want to do to entice me?" she asked. "I want you to do it."

I slid my tail in between her legs and tightened around her suddenly, lifting her up so she was caught in my grasp, part of my tail pressing in between her legs.

"Oh," she gasped.

I moved my entire body around her, undulating and dragging my flesh against her, massaging her muscles, caressing her entire body. She shuddered, both of her hands going to the part of my tail between her legs as she squeezed them together. I continued moving until she was entwined in a sea of me, lifted and wrapped up.

I flicked my tongue out to catch the scent of her arousal on the air, intoxicating like a flower just starting to bloom.

I spread my hood out around my face, cycling the colors of desire.

Her head tilted as her eyes roamed around my hood, following the shifting patterns.

"If a female is not interested, a male would not be allowed close enough to even consider enticing her." I added a rumble through my whole body to match my voice, making sure that the vibration echoed through her body. I could feel her relaxing in my grip even as the muscles in her lower body tensed as I continued my slow teasing. "Once allowed to entwine, mating was ensured."

She pushed her hands down against my tail, lifting herself up in the nest I'd made of myself, gasping as I slid myself between her legs again as she moved.

"Do you…" She was having trouble getting the words out so I paused in my sliding and vibrating. "Do you feel like mating is ensured now?"

I wanted to say yes.

She was in my coils, having given herself into my grasp and the scent of her arousal was growing stronger by the moment. She was completely within my power. It would take very little to remove her coverings and slide inside her.

Except she hadn't indicated she was ready for me.

But my mate needed more.

I let the indicators of my desire and affection ripple across my display hood.

"Mmmmm, my mate, you are unique to me and this marriage is unlike anything I imagined," I rumbled. "Mating is never ensured, it can always stop at any point." I slid my coils a little slower, grasped a little looser, keeping the friction but giving the space for my words to sink in. "When I press my mouth between your legs and taste the sweet nectar of your cries, it is not ensured. When I slide my pleasure rod inside you, impaling you until your body trembles with need for me, adjusting to what I have in store for you, it is not ensured."

I shifted her up, lowering my upper body at the same time, taking her thighs in my hands and spreading them apart further as I pressed my hips in between hers, lining up her cloth covered opening with the slit that was barely keeping my hardening members in place. I grabbed her ass with my hands, controlling her as I slid her up and down against my body, rubbing her so she could feel the hard press of me under my skin. I held her gaze, watching as her lips parted and her eyes rolled slightly up before she began to move with me, licking her own bottom lip with a tiny, pink tongue.

She reached down and put her hand lightly on one of my wrists, pulling it up and away from her bottom. I followed her lead as she placed my hand on her bare belly, under her top covering. She slid my hand up until I was cupping one of her breasts. She had on an additional covering under her top, one that had a hard wire that curved around the bottom of her mound. I slid my hand over it, noticing her arching her back and pressing against my touch when my thumb slid over a small spot.

It was the spot where I had seen her mammalian nipples when she had stripped naked for me back at the moon base.

"I will do what I want with you now," I stated.

"What is it you want to do?" she moaned. "Tell me."

I slid my hand a little further up, finding the edge of the covering and pushing it down so that my hand fully cupped the bare flesh of one of her breasts. I ran my finger over the small textured peak, finding it and gently pressing it between two fingers, I rolled it, watching her reactions, finding the touch that caused her hips to grind further against me, her own body rolling in a beautiful wave.

"I will remove your coverings." I leaned down and pressed my face into the bare skin of her belly, where her top covering had slid up. I rubbed my face against the enticing soft squish of her, trailing my lips down as I found the edge of her leg coverings and hooked them with my fingers, undoing the small button latch and zipper that was there. "I will feast upon your desire and cover my face in your smell."

"Oh, that's… I'm glad we aren't having guests over," she laughed. The sound morphed into something else entirely as I used one hand to pull her leg coverings down, my other hand switching to her other breast.

"I will ensure that you are well satiated before any other males come to court you," I growled as I pulled back and lifted up so I could rip her leg coverings off over her feet, pulling her legs up and in the air where they fell back against my chest, eliciting a giggle. "They will not be able to come near us without scenting how focused I am on your pleasure."

She covered her face with both her hands.

I reached down, grasped the small piece of fabric that covered the apex of her thighs, and carefully slid it up her legs towards my face, my fingers caressing her skin.

"Oh, we are really doing this," she gasped out as I pulled them off over her feet.

I shifted my hips so that my slit pressed against the drenched hair that covered her mound, letting her feel the outline of my length, still held back.

She sucked in a gasp, her eyes widening as she looked up at me.

"Are you…" She didn't finish her question, and instead, she bent her knees and moved her legs to either side of me, wrapping her legs around my waist and crossing them behind my lower back, pressing my opening hard against hers. "Can you…."

I waited, feeling her slick opening sliding against me.

It felt like I was on fire, like there was an inferno raging through my entire body. Both of my rods were rigid under my skin, straining to be free, demanding that I lock myself into my mate and find physical bliss in the sensation of her body gripping tight around me. One of the benefits of a human mate was that their bodies had to to be worked to fit one of my species. My lower pleasure rod was made to change my mate, but on one of my species, it often had to help her channel shrink in size before mating, ensure that my mating rod could fulfill her pleasure.

With humans, it was the opposite.

And I was absolutely desperate to feel the ache.

"What is it you want?" My own words were rough in my throat, scraped by the demands of my body aching to fill hers. "Say it."

"No, you say it," she shot back.

My mate was a horrific tease, but that just meant she wasn't ready yet. A ready mate would beg for what I wanted to give her. She was teasing me because she needed more.

I grasped her legs, easily pulling them apart from where they were hooked behind my back, and with one swift slither, I wrapped my coils around her and then hauled us both up into the air, sliding over the branches I had installed and repositioning so that she was dangling in the air in front of my face.

"Woah, what…" Her hands clutched against the soft skin of my tail as I held her securely around the waist and under her shoulders. I flattened my display hood so it was smooth against my body and couldn't cause harm, and then dove in between her legs. I brushed my face against her wet fur, taking a deep breath and inhaling the heady musk of her scent as her legs draped over my shoulders.

"What I want is for you to be so aroused that you struggle against me and demand that I extrude so you may have your full satisfaction." I let the lips of my mouth brush against her lower lips as I spoke, adding a full body rumble to it so that she could feel the vibration from where my lips pressed up through her entire body held in my grasp.

She let out a guttural moan.

I took that moment to lick her fully, from the wet hole in between her legs, dragging her own moisture up as I flattened my tongue, spreading the outer folds of her lower lips as I smeared my salvia and her slick over her inner folds, lathing the swelling pleasure nub between her legs.

"Fucking extrude already," she cried out. "I want to touch you too."

"Make me," I growled against her nub and then began to work it furiously, circling and lavishing it with the full intensity of my devotion, sucking and following the rocks of her hips as she twitched and thrashed against my hold.

Then her legs wrapped around the back of my neck, her thighs squeezing against my skull.

I held her as she cried out, her voice a symphony of pleasure.

As her frantic movement subsided, I slowed down, licking her slowly and languidly. She twisted in my grasp, glancing down at my aching slit. It was painful, but that didn't matter. I would stay tucked away inside until she was ready.

"How?" she gasped out finally. "How do I… make you?"