Irresistible: A SciFi Alien Mail Order Bride Romance (TerraMates Book 9) (36 page)

Occasionally, I would wake to feel his hand cupping my breast and his mouth kissing me, while he wedged his knee between my legs, spreading them apart. This morning was one of those times.

I melted immediately, my body responding by pressing up into his. I loved morning sex. I thrust my tongue into his mouth, feeling the need to be in control today. He groaned, and I felt his erect cock pressed against my inner thigh.

We kissed for an unusually long time. I think he wanted to remember what it was like to kiss me for the first time. I had no complaints. Tangling tongues with Jidden was one of my favorite activities.

He crawled down my body and nipped my already hardened buds. Spreading my legs, he licked my clit and my hips bucked. I didn't want him to hold me down today, and I tried to squirm away. He pinned me more firmly with his strong hands so I couldn't escape. When I struggled, he suckled me harder until I saw stars. My climax wracked my body thoroughly, and I seemed to melt into a puddle by the time he finished with me.

He slid back up my body and began playing with my breasts again. I didn't respond. I was mildly annoyed he had not let me free.

After a few moments, he ran his hand down my body and up my inner thigh. His hand cupped my sex, and one of his fingers slid inside me.

"You're slick," he whispered. I felt myself get even wetter at his words.

He slid his finger up and down, rubbing my folds and stimulating my clit with the base of his palm at the same time. I tried not to react to his caresses, but my traitorous body responded without my permission. When I couldn't hold it in anymore, I moaned, and he smiled smugly.

I wanted to hit him, but that might make him stop touching me, so I lay still and let him do as he wished. When I felt a second orgasm rising inside my body, I batted his hand away and pushed on his chest, making him lie down.

"What's this?" he asked.

"Have you ever made love to a warrior woman?" I said. I sat up. My voice was hoarse with lust.

"I thought I've been making love to a warrior woman for some time," he said.

"You've been making love to a warrior woman who decided to be submissive," I informed him. "There's a difference."

He raised his eyebrows, looking intrigued.

"Lay back and enjoy," I ordered him. In bed, this soldier would follow my commands.

I started on his face. I kissed him all over, grateful we were together again and could make love. I had missed him so much. I kissed down to his neck, licking and sucking, enjoying the taste of him. There was something different about the feeling of a Surtu that was difficult to describe. I moved further down his body, arriving at his nipples and sucking them. I couldn't resist biting him a little and licking the same place to take away the sting.

He made a strangled sound and I smiled seductively, continuing past his waist. When I got to his cock, I licked my lips in anticipation and took his balls in my hands, massaging them. I kissed all around his cock, and touched him at the base, but I didn't take him in my mouth.

"That feels good, Terra," he muttered with his eyes closed. "Please."

I waited, running my tongue up the underside of his cock, loving the feeling of power.

"Please," he said again.

"Please, what?" I asked innocently. I needed to make him ask for it. I needed him to beg for it. I needed to be the one in control.

"Please suck it."

As soon as he said the words, I kissed the end of his cock and took it into my mouth, sucking the sensitive tip and feeling gratified when his breathing sped up.

I pulled off momentarily, licking him again. When I took him for the second time, I took as much of his cock into my mouth as I could, feeling it hit the back of my throat. I relaxed and tried to fit more of him inside me, but it was impossible. He was huge.

Instead, I wrapped one hand around the base of his cock and squeezed, while I fondled his balls with my other hand. My head bobbed up and down on his shaft.

"Terra, stop or I'll come," he said. I paused immediately. I didn't want him to arrive yet. I gave him one last kiss and climbed back up his body until I lay flat on top of him with his cock between my thighs. I kissed him softly, calming both of us down.

The feeling of him down there, close to where I wanted him became overwhelming. I sat up, straddling him. He gave me a smile as I lifted myself over his body. I eased myself down onto him an inch at a time, allowing him to spread and stretch me. He penetrated me deeply when I was on top. I felt him rubbing my G-spot as he entered me.

Oh yes, this was what I needed.

I was in complete control as I began to move over him. He tried to thrust up into me, but I wouldn't let him. He quivered as he struggled to hold himself back. I enjoyed watching his individual battle.

"Terra," he said, biting off my name desperately.

"I'm in control, alien. This one's mine," I said sternly. Then I gave a command. "Lie still."

Like the loyal soldier he had always been, he followed orders. But I could see a fire smoldering in his eyes. I knew I would pay for my behavior in the future.

He filled me completely. I moved faster, riding him, my breasts bouncing. His thick cock was rubbing in all the right places, and I touched myself.

"That's beautiful," he said, watching me rubbing my clit.

I felt the passion rising in me. I loved him so much, and I wanted to show him. He reached up to twist my nipples. I gasped, letting him do one thing to me as I moved faster and faster, slamming down on him harder until I convulsed, finding myself washed away in beautiful waves of splendor.

When he saw I was gone, he grabbed my hips and drove up into me several times — taking me up again — until he released a loud groan, his gorgeous body shuddering beneath me as he stiffened, spilling himself inside me.

After a long time, the incredible climax finished and I collapsed on him.

"I love you," I said into his neck.

"And I love you, Terra."

"How did you like making love to a warrior woman?" I managed to say in my post-orgasmic haze.

"It is unbelievable," he said. "But you are always unbelievable to me, Terra."

He kissed my head, and his warrior woman cried a few happy tears. Forgiveness felt refreshing.

* * *

A
fter our intimacy
, Jidden and I fell asleep in each other's arms. Jidden distracted me. The day began with a flurry of showers, getting dressed and eating breakfast. It was not until mid-morning before I thought about Lucina.

"Jidden, I don't like the thought of Lucina being on her own without back-up. She needs support. Let's locate her, and confirm she has her situation under control. If she does not need our assistance, we can come back, but if she does need help, I want to be next to her and provide it."

"You're right," he said. "She doesn't need to run into trouble by herself."

We armed ourselves and headed out of the cave. As it turned out, all my worrying was for naught. We encountered Lucina, Kylu, and Mrs. Whitmore coming towards the outpost only a short walk away from the cave.

"Lucina," I cried, running to her. She met me, and we hugged each other tightly. "I'm glad to see you are all safe. I can't believe you rescued your mother! It's wonderful to see you, Mrs. Whitmore."

I smiled at Mrs. Whitmore, then released Lucina so I could hug her mother.

"It's good to see you, too, Terra."

Lucina cleared her throat and glanced at Kylu.

"It wasn't much of a rescue after all. I found her easily, but got into a little trouble."

"Being dragged off and assaulted by a Surtu is more than a little trouble," Kylu said with a frown on his face. "He was only alive temporarily. We made sure to put that animal down. Lucina won't need to worry about him coming back to get her."

I looked over at Kylu out of the corner of my eye. He had a possessive expression on his face when he talked about or looked at Lucina. Since when did he care what happened to Lucina? Did they even know each other? Lucina had an embarrassed expression on her face and gave Kylu a pleading look.

What the hell happened out there today?

"Did you two go out together? I'm glad you had a partner, Lucina," I said.

"We only met this morning," Lucina said. She was blushing.

"I had a bad feeling something might happen when she left alone," Kylu said. "I followed her to see if I could be of assistance."

"You followed her?" Jidden said, scowling at Kylu. "Like you followed Terra?"

Shit. Right now was his first introduction to the Surtu I kissed. Oops.

I tried to speak without stuttering. "Jidden, this is Kylu, my friend. We're nothing more than friends. Kylu, this is Jidden, my light-bonded."

"Terra told me you helped her. I appreciate it." Jidden said without emotion.

"No problem," Kylu said. I breathed a quiet sigh of relief. The encounter had gone better than I had anticipated. Jidden hadn't killed Kylu, so that was a positive outcome.

"I tried to talk to Lucina before she left, but she blew me off. She looked like she had a mission on her mind. I know the females from the Fortuna are trained warriors, but she seemed small and helpless."

Lucina frowned and made an insulted sound.

"That was what I thought before I saw you in action," he amended. Lucina looked slightly mollified.

"We're not supposed to look like we can take care of ourselves, remember?" I reminded her. "It was part of the ruse of the Fortuna to look like a bunch of helpless women."

"That's right, but it doesn't feel good to hear someone say it." She frowned at Kylu again, who raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"I promise I don't think that anymore," he said, grinning. "Please don't kill me, warrior woman."

"I could, you know," she said fiercely. Her dark look and aggressive tone were a stark contrast to her tiny frame and angelic blonde hair.

"I know," he said. "I know."

The rest of us watched their conversation with interest. It was as if a relationship was developing in front of our eyes. Mrs. Whitmore whispered to me, asking if I knew anything about Lucina and Kylu. I had no answers for Lucina's mother. Everything here was new to me as well.

"I had the same idea you did, Terra. I wanted to make sure she wasn't getting herself into a situation that was too big for her."

"As it turned out, I needed some help," Lucina admitted.

"You did a damn fine job, considering the circumstances," Kylu said.

Lucina shrugged. "Kalij found me," she told us, looking around at everyone.

"Kalij?" Jidden said. "But he's dead."

"We thought he was dead," Lucina said. "Apparently you Surtu can be harder to kill than we imagined. Fore spared his life. In exchange, Kalij was working on special projects Fore didn't want anyone to know about."

"That bastard," I said. "What happened? Are you all right?"

"Thanks to Kylu, I am," Lucina said, giving Kylu a surprising amount of credit.

"Anyone would have done the same," Kylu said.

I felt a cloud of shame envelop me. Anyone would not have done the same. While I had made love with Jidden, my friend's life had been in danger. I could have been with her, fighting Kalij myself.

"I watched my mother's house. I intended to go in and break her out, but when I tried to get into the backyard, I got entangled on a plant. Kalij appeared out of nowhere and held me at knifepoint, taking me to an abandoned building. Apparently he'd been often thinking about what he missed on the Fortuna."

All of us frowned, but she continued her tale.

"Kylu came in and stopped him before anything happened, but it was uncomfortably close," she said, looking nauseated at the thought.

We were all silent, reliving the moment in our memories or imagining Lucina's peril. Kylu seemed mildly embarrassed. He didn't want to be held up as a hero in front of us at all.

He couldn't stop himself from speaking, however. "I did what anybody would have done in the same situation," he said, trying to downplay his part in Lucina's rescue. I, for one, would be eternally grateful to him for saving my best friend.

Jidden spoke up. "Why didn't you save her sooner?" he asked. He had a suspicious tone in his voice. "If you were following Lucina the entire time, you saw everything that happened to her. Why didn't you stop him when he took her away from her mother's house?"

It was a fair question.

Kylu looked like he didn't want to tell us. Was there something more to this story? Why hadn't he rescued her at the first possible moment?

"That's right! Why didn't you save me earlier?" Lucina said, looking as suspicious as Jidden. Kylu had rapidly lost his hero classification.

I wasn't concerned. I was sure he had an explanation. He seemed to be a good man, and I didn't think he had done anything wrong. Jidden and Lucina would need to be convinced because they didn't have firsthand experience with Kylu the way I did.

He rubbed his nose and looked away, not meeting anyone's eye. If I didn't know better, I would guess he was embarrassed. His behavior did nothing to allay Jidden and Lucina's suspicions. If he didn't provide an explanation soon, they might both start attacking him.