Chapter 30

CHAPTER THIRTY

VYA

I was as horrified as I was mesmerized when he finally grunted and stilled inside of her. She gave another full-body shake. Then another.

Their juices dripped from her as she moved.

"And that is why I choose not to pleasure mate with your kind, Oaiu," S'doifu said. "I would never survive."

Oaiu smiled at S'doifu. "Is there ever…any reward…without risk?" Her words were punctuated with more head-to-toe shivers.

Mtinash wrapped an arm around her waist and turned them to sit with her in his lap.

Another person arrived with some plates. He looked like S'doifu. Pink eyes. Lean, thin arms but thick, muscled legs. However, he was clothed. He set the dishes he carried on the low tables and bowed his head toward Oaiu.

"May the light bless you for the pleasure you provide."

She nodded to him and leaned over to take something from one of the plates. A large amount of glittery liquid gushed from where she and Mtinash were connected, coating Mtinash's pants. She made a relieved sound then hissed and shook again.

Catching my eye, she said, "I have yet to find another species that can deliver as much pleasure as Mtinash's. It makes the time spent knotted more enjoyable."

"Knotted?" I asked.

"We are locked together until his knot is small enough to safely withdraw," she said. "Have you not mated with—" She shivered violently again and hissed. "Have you not yet mated with Khorahn?"

"No," Khorahn said. "She had no translator to understand what mating with me would mean, and I did not want to accept what might not be willingly given."

His statement warmed and confused me since we'd had sex. Well, at least with one of this cocks. But maybe both were needed for mating? I decided to save that question for later.

"Are these foods safe for Vya?" he asked.

The man who'd been gazing adoringly at Oaiu said he would check and asked what species I was.

"Human. From Earth in the Senwar system. Take care in who you ask, though," Khorahn said. "They are a protected species, and she was involuntarily removed from her planet."

I twisted to look at him. "How did you know it was involuntary?"

"No female would willingly endure what you did," he said. "And it is because of what you saw and experienced that I'm afraid you won't be allowed to return to your planet."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Atal, check the data pics and find something suitable for our guest," Mtinash said.

The male walked away as Khorahn's hand skimmed up and down my arm.

"Why can't I go home?" I repeated.

"The Oebri are working to maintain a cooperative and peaceful image of the systems' races with your home world. They need the trade treaty with Earth. Desperately. As do hundreds of other races trying to join the treaty," Khorahn said. "How do you think news of an abduction will affect Earth's relations with the systems?"

"We already know people are being abducted," I said. "That was why Earth signed the treaty in the first place."

"Which is proof that the Oebri do not play fair, my beauty," Mtinash said. "It's why the rest of the systems have learned to be wary of them."

"I don't understand."

"A few Oebri data pics fell into my hands. They detail the discovery of a new race with fertility rates unheard of anywhere else in the systems." Mtinash's voice grew rough. "Pregnancy can result within a lunar-rev of breeding."

Oaiu's mouth opened, and she screeched with her tail flailing. Mtinash caught it in his hand and stroked it before she could wrap it around his neck again.

When she caught her breath, she laughed. "That's new. You've never reknotted before." She patted his arm. "I wish I could give you the young you long for, Mtinash."

He nodded and thanked her, all while looking at me with heat. Was it unusual to have a conversation with a guy while he was cock-deep in another woman at the same time he was sending all the "I want you vibes" possible? For me, yes. But for everyone else on the cushions, apparently not.

"Not allowing me to return doesn't make sense, though."

"Doesn't it?" Mtinash asked. "Your planet signed to protect its females, and since signing, the Oebri have been painting a happy little picture of how your planet is safe because of them, haven't they?"

"Well…sort of. The news has been reporting on all the tech we're gaining and how many lives are being saved because of it. There have been a few articles about unauthorized ships in orbit and how the fey are doing their best to ensure more people aren't being abducted. Their protection isn't perfect. Obviously."

"Have any other females returned from abduction?" Khorahn asked.

I knew what he was getting at, so I didn't say anything.

"It would be better to learn the truth yourself," Mtinash said. "I have the means for you to contact the Oebri without anyone knowing where you are. You can ask questions, receive answers, and decide for yourself if you want to try to return."

"Why can't they know where I am? What exactly are they going to do to me if I try to go back?" I asked, feeling a small thread of worry.

"Sister, you have no reason to fear your safety," Oaiu said. "Any male would risk his life to protect you simply for being female."

"Not any male," I said. "There's a whole race willing to kill me for a handjob."

"I don't know that phrase," she said.

"A handjob means stroking a man's cock with your hand. Usually, until he comes."

"Comes where?" She blinked at me, conveying her confusion.

"Um, ejaculate?"

"Ah," Oaiu said.

"A handjob," S'doifu said thoughtfully. "I like that term. Perhaps I will provide that as a new service."

I wasn't sure what to think of that statement.

"Back to your question, Vya," Khorahn said. "The systems need breedable females. If you request to return to your planet, I believe the Oebri will stop you at the nearest station and attempt to persuade you to volunteer as a mate to one of their kind instead."

"Attempt to persuade? We've both seen how they enslave women," Mtinash said with a hint of anger.

"Enslave?" My thoughts went back to my time with the shelled aliens, and I shuddered.

Khorahn tipped my head up so he could study my expression.

"Do you need another scent-marking to calm yourself?" he asked gently.

I almost asked what he meant, but then the dozens of times he'd doused me in his sparkle spunk filled my mind. My core clenched around nothing, and my lips parted at the intense need that shot through me—the need to sit on his lap and take him deep like Oaiu was doing to Mtinash.

Oaiu screeched again, and I heard more squelching sounds, but I couldn't look away from Khorahn. My gaze dipped to his mouth.

He growled softly a moment before he kissed me. I whimpered into his mouth and arched into the hand that was kneading my breast. For the first time in my life, I had an orgasm from just that.

He swallowed my loud moan then kissed my temple as I went limp in his arms. His fingers continued to toy with my breast.

"Extraordinary," I heard Mtinash say.

Oaiu's soft hisses barely registered as I recovered.

When I finally lifted my head, I saw she was still seated in Mtinash's lap but leaned back into him, her eyes partially closed, and she shivered nonstop. The position gave me a clear view of where they were connected. His spend steadily seeped from her. And as I watched, his shaft twitched, and a new flood emerged.

"I believe Oaiu will never forget this pleasure mating," S'doifu said with a smirk.

"I don't understand," I said, looking up at Khorahn.

"The scent of your arousal is provoking."

"Provoking. Enticing. Addicting. I will give you anything you ask if you choose to stay with me." As Mtinash spoke, he gripped Oaiu's hips and thrust even deeper.

Her eyes rolled back in her head, and her tail flailed again.

"Um, thank you for the offer. But I'm not the type to steal someone else's man, and Oaiu seems to like you a lot. I think I'll stay with Khorahn." I had a horrifying thought, and I looked up at him. "You're single, right? No wife is waiting for you somewhere?"

"No other female has chosen me," he said.

"Good." Another thought occurred to me. "If my implant thingy helps me understand you, how can you understand me?"

"I also have an implant. It's standard for those who leave their homeworlds or those who have contact with many other species."

"So you've had an implant all along? You've understood me all along?"

He gathered me close and smoothed his hand over my arms.

"Why does that upset you?"

"How do you know I'm upset?" I asked instead of answering. I barely felt upset. In my head, though, I was having a bit of a meltdown. All the things we'd done. The ways I'd begged him to touch me. How I'd bossed him when he'd been licking me.

My cheeks flushed, and I wanted to hide.

"I can smell your emotions."

"As can I," Mtinash said. "If you are not pleased with Khorahn, stay with me."

"You already have a girlfriend, and asking me to take her place while you're still shafts deep in her is just rude. Stop," I snapped.

S'doifu sniggered. Mtinash apologized. And Khorahn released the clasp on his pants.

"What are you doing?" I asked, catching his hand when he would have reached between us.

"You are agitated. Allow me to calm you," he said.

"No."

We stared at each other for a long moment before he dipped his head and withdrew his hand. I grabbed both his arms and wrapped them around me, content to take comfort from just being held.

"Are human females territorial regarding their chosen males?" Mtinash asked.

"Male. Singular. And most are."

"Thank you for sharing this information with me."

Atal returned with another covered plate. "According to my inquiry, these are safe foods. Some food reactions have been reported. I've forwarded the recommendations, cautions, and counter-stims to your ship."

"Thank you, Atal," Khorahn said as the man uncovered the plate.

The steaming pile of moving noodles had me climbing Khorahn like a tree. The dish was removed, and it took a full five minutes of snuggles and reassurances that he would never feed me "terra-formers" before my pulse calmed.

"Please allow me to scent-mark you," Khorahn said. "Your distress is unnecessary."

"Public bath time is unnecessary," I muttered.

By the time Atal returned with another option, Oaiu was awake and able to disengage from Mtinash. His long cock slipped from her with a wet plop as she stood. The amount of shimmer that gushed from her was impressive and a lot less shimmery than I'd witnessed from Khorahn.

"It was a pleasure—and I truly mean that—to meet you, Vya," she said. "I hope we can meet again in the future." Oaiu walked away into the trees, without a backward glance at Mtinash.

"Greedy, uncaring female," he said with a frown at his glistening semi-hard length draped on his lap.

"Allow me," S'doifu said, standing.

If I thought he was going to pass a rag, I was wrong. S'doifu sat beside Mtinash and leaned down to start licking and sucking him clean.

My core clenched around nothing again.

"Thank you, S'doifu," Mtinash said, leaning back to look at me. "Does the new dish please you?"

I brought the cracker-like thing I'd been nibbling on to my mouth again as I squirmed on Khorahn's lap.

"It's good. Thank you. When can I call the Oebri?" If I had to watch another round of sex, I would be riding Khorahn without a care about who might be watching.

"As soon as you and S'doifu are finished," Mtinash said with an easy smile.