by Eden Ember
But I was not a fragile thing to be held delicately, and I wanted nothing gentle. I needed to feel his passion, not his empathy. My core heated, and I knew that anything less than unashamed passion would be enough. I broke our kiss and opened my eyes, looking at his dark eyelashes as our foreheads touched. I waited for him to open his eye and when he did, I could swear I saw a fire blazing deep and dark in his eyes that rivaled the desire I felt for him.
I slid my hand up his leg and as I stopped over the rock hard bulge that I knew was waiting for me; I felt my thighs rub together, trying to appease the need in myself. Except there was only one thing that would satisfy me in that moment. And from the delicious low growl from Elgan, there was only one thing that would satisfy him.
I crushed my lips to his, his tongue dancing with mine. My hands searched for the opening in his pants as he pulled the furs from my legs. He spread my legs apart, shifting his in the small space so his legs were between mine.
There wasn’t enough room in the small ship to do this, but neither of us cared. I found the opening to his pants, but he reached down, taking both my hands into his and bringing them to his lips, kissing each finger one by one.
“There will be plenty of time for that.” He said between kisses. “But come here.”
He let go of my hands and reached over, grabbing my ass with both hands and pulled me onto his lap.
Even on his knee I had to look up to look into his eyes, such was the difference in height between us.
He watched my face, his eyes fixed on mine, as I felt his hands glide down my body, over my breasts before teasing one of my nipples between his finger and thumb. His other hand continued downwards, over my tummy and towards the heat that I couldn’t deny.
I bucked involuntarily the first time his rough fingers found my folds. His touch was still too gentle. I didn’t want him to treat me softly.
A series of slow circles with his fingers drove me close to the edge. “Harder.” I begged.
“There’s plenty of time for that too.” He promised. “I will please you in every imaginable way, a dozen times over.”
He leaned down, his mouth finding one of my nipples, his hand found the other. My fingers clung to his shoulders as he managed to short-circuit something inside me, sending intense shock waves straight to my clit. Deeper circles and strokes pushed me closer to the edge, and I heard myself moan with the pleasure.
His tongue flicked over my nipple as his fingers relentlessly drove me wilder. I writhed against him.
“Harder!” I begged again.
Then it came, rocking me to the very core. I heard the wetness as his fingers drove inside me. Waves of ecstasy and desire drove my body wild.
He looked up, a devilish glint in his eye. “Again.” He demanded.
“What?” I said in shock. I couldn’t come like that again… at least not now.
“Again.” He demanded. His eyes roamed my body, watching me in satisfaction as his hand cupped my pussy. A moan escaped me and he rewarded me with his slow smile.
“Yes. Again.”
That time, his hands were all that existed in the entire cosmos. The only thing that mattered was in this small ship, floating through space. He growled his satisfaction as I climaxed again and again.
He held me close, running his hand up and down my back.
I would return the favor… and then some. I started kissing him deeply as I reached for the buckle on his pants again.
He laced his fingers through mine, halting my exploration.
“Not here,” he lowered his head on my shoulder.
“But I wanted -”
“Shh…” he breathed, “This is not about me.” He kissed my skin where he rested. “There will be plenty of time for that. I do not wish our first time to be inside a cramped Varbox like some adolescent male who has not yet become a warrior in his parents’ borrowed rover.”
“That sounds kinda hot too.” I teased, wiggling against him.
“Female, if you tease me much more I’ll bury myself in you right here.”
“I’d rather you um… didn’t?” Kefiz’s awkward voice came over the Varbox’s intercom.
I felt Elgan freeze beneath me, tension turned his already taught thighs beneath me into iron. He reached down to the furs below us, placing one on the box I had been sitting on before setting me onto it. He took one last hungry kiss from me before presenting me with the rest of the furs and turning back to navigate the ship.
“How long, Kefiz.” He said seriously.
“Um… we searched for your comms then when the Varbox came back online, we listened - but only for a moment and when we realized what we were listening to, we turned the volume down and waited for the sound wave readings to um...” his voice stopped, I could imagine the male searching for the right word. “Finish.”
“We?” I could hear the displeasure in Elgan’s voice.
“Just about everyone who could fit in the main deck.” Gandrox’s voice said. I heard a female’s giggle in the background - Allegra, or Jules.
“How far away are we?” Elgan turned to the matter of finding our way back onto the Torq Runner., I’d stay here with him, alone, with the comms very much off, for as long as he wanted.
“The vortex from their hyper-speed exit hurled the Varbox about a bit when the Updread left, but we kept track and followed once your signal reappeared. We thought you’d seen us?”
I nudged Elgan and pointed. The Torq Runner was now in front of us, slowly moving out of our vision. We must have been rotating around, not that I could feel the movement at all.
“Now, can you pair come back on board before the Updread returns with half a dozen other ships?” Gandrox grumbled.
The sensors had detected the Updread had exposed us to radiation, so we were sent to the Torq Runner’s sanitation chambers. Who knew the fun that could come from a joint sanitation cycle? Still, Elgan insisted to only satisfy me.
The medics still deemed our radiation levels were still to be too high to return into the Torq Runner’s deck and Gandrox insisted we spent time in the medical bay. Elgan had pre-empted the protocol would want us to be solitary, but he refused, insisting that we would isolate together.
We both looked ridiculous in the gowns the medical team had insisted we wore. I looked around what Elgan grumbled was a small medical pod. It had been designed for one Aaran, so while Elgan thought it a little small, it was double the size of Myerha’s apartment in Gael. Four days in here alone with Elgan, no interruptions? Yes, please!
We wanted privacy, so we systematically covered all the monitoring cameras with whatever we could find. Then Elgan crushed their microphones one by one in his hand. A shiver ran down my spine as I watched his power.
When the space was finally our own, he stalked across to me, pulling my gown over my head and throwing it into the corner of the room. With a look of defiance that sent a ripple of desire up my back, he ripped open the one they’d insisted he wore, only to reveal his warrior body to me in its entirety. I had already glimpsed his cock in the sanitation chamber, but now I could see it in its full glory.
I reached down as I took him in my hand, enjoying the hiss that escaped his lips as I stroked the hard length. Each time I reached the bottom shaft, I took my time to caress the nub that waited for me there.
He’d explained that it served a purpose in fertilizing with Aaran females, but while it didn’t affect fertilization with Terrans, other males had informed him that it would provide a very, very, pleasing stimulus to a Terran female.
I watched in awe as it thrummed in vibration every time I ran my fingers across it. I clasped it with one hand as I took his cock into my other hand.
Elgan snarled, as his head rolled back. “Enough.” He said darkly as he grabbed me, throwing me over his shoulder and smacking me roughly on the ass.
My giggle of delight echoed around the sterile walls. He threw me down on the bed. I spread my legs for him as he lay on top of me, his elbows bearing his
weight. His cock teasingly close to the only place that mattered.
“I love you, Diamond.” He whispered. “I want to spend the rest of my life loving you, pleasing you and providing for you.”
“If you want to please me, then you’ll fuck me. I want to feel your cock inside me.” Knowing the microphones were all obliterated gave me the confidence to say what my body wanted, no, needed from him.
“I need you to fuck me, Elgan, fuck me hard. Claim me as yours, because I want this. I want you. I want to feel sore and know it’s because you filled my pussy.”
I knew I was already drenched, and I watched the fire blaze in his eyes as he slid himself inside me. The feeling was glorious. Stretching me and filling me, a pressure that my body readily accommodated. I felt my hips roll to meet him.
He started slowly, but deeply. Every time he entered me completely, his nub vibrated around my clit.
Holy fuck, that felt good. I’d felt nothing like it before and three long, lusciously deep strokes later I could feel my release building.
Sometimes he’d pull out completely, taking a moment to rub my clit with his cock, the wetness driving my sensations even higher, before he drove back into me, holding me down as his nub pulled the climax from me, I felt the walls of my pussy clench around his cock, as I called his name.
But Elgan wasn’t finished. Again and again he fucked me. On the bed, over the bed, against the wall, in the small shower room, before returning to the bed again. Our sweat-drenched bodies writhed together in a primal dance. He lifted my leg, holding it up as he entered me.
The position felt deeper - even more intimate if that was possible. He clung to my leg as he pounded into me. His eyes hungrily roamed my body.
“I love to watch your pussy as I enter you.” He said roughly. “How you look when you come on my cock.”
His words brought a renewed fire to my body. I bucked against him as he slammed into me. An idea shimmered in my brain and I reached down. Elgan’s eyes widened as I traced a line down his towards his cock. I grabbed his nub and stroked it, giving a slow laugh of satisfaction as his eyes rolled.
It vibrated harder in my hand and he lowered down on me so the vibrations reached my sensitive clit, but I stroked it faster, matching his punishing rhythm.
Still, his relentless rhythm drove me further, until my climax poured over him. My guttural screams pushed him over the edge and into his own release, pushing me to come yet again. I could feel the walls of my pussy clench in their own greedy rhythm, claiming every drop of my mate.
Exhausted and breathless, we both lay there, staring into each other’s eyes. I wanted to form words, but they refused to materialize. A warm, divine feeling of contentment seeped through me. Elgan’s strong arms wrapped around me as he kissed me softly.
“No harm will ever come to you again. I swear it on my life and on the honor of my warrior’s oath.” He whispered, “You’re mine, Diamond.”
“I know,” I whispered. “And you’re mine, too, baby.”
Chapter Fourteen
Elgan
As soon as Diamond drifted off to sleep, I maneuvered myself carefully. I did not want to waken her, but as Chief Navigator, I needed to check with the deck. I needed to ensure they had followed the trajectories I had ordered.
By now, the ship should already be nearing the third wormhole.
The door to the shower room closed behind me as I tapped to bring my new comms device to life. It would learn my gestures, but until then, it was proving to be a pain.
“Status report.” I kept my voice low, not wanting to wake Diamond. She needed the rest and I would have nothing disturb her.
“All looking good, sir.” Muihal responded, his face smiled through the display. “We’re on route to the next wormhole. ETA 2 hours.”
I nodded. “Excellent work, Muihal.”
“All systems are tolerating the extended wormhole travel very well too, sir.” he continued. “Just as Jules had promised.”
“Beep me when we near the Zeta Empire’s territory.”
“Sir.” he nodded.
“Thank you.” I replied. “Dismissed.”
I’d expected nothing less from the ship’s junior engineer and the improvements she’d been making to the ship. From what I’d observed of her as I’d watched over Diamond, Jules was dedicated and intelligent - albeit that she was very, very reserved. She worked tirelessly, and to me, her brave actions of delaying Gandrox’s departure from Coriogre only raised her worth. Jules had also messaged Diamond’s comms to ask how she was feeling. My heart filled with pride as Diamond talked, giving her the briefest of rundowns before explaining that she had to get back to her mate - to me.
Diamond was opening herself to me, emotionally. Acknowledging to others that I was her mate filled me with more pride than I could have imagined.
For the first time in longer than I cared to remember, I thought of my parents. Their faces were fuzzy and distant in my memory now, but I could still hear my mother’s voice. I pictured introducing Diamond to them both and how they’d talk together.
Mother would pretend to be shocked at Diamond’s coarse language but it wasn’t much worse than the words she had used herself. Father had always chided her for it, but even when he did, it was with a smile and a gentle kiss, telling her that a female so caring was far above words that were so rough.
Diamond could talk only in swear words for the rest of our lives and I wouldn’t care. She was safe. If I was being truthful with myself, the way she’d talked when we were in bed, only heightened my arousal.
My cock responded to the thought. No matter how much either of us liked the idea, he would have to wait: my mate was resting, and I would not disrupt that for my selfish pleasure.
I stretched, looking in the mirror at my reflection. The male who stood before me wore a lazy smile and nothing else.
If that was all I continued to wear for the duration of our quarantine, then I was content. I would make sure that Diamond wore the same.
I washed my face before deciding to return to my mate. Even just laying with her, watching the slow rise-fall of her back as she lay facedown, asleep, was intoxicating.
I went to return to our bed but halted, just short of the point where the shower room’s door would open automatically. I couldn’t contain the excitement I felt, even as I commanded my comms to request a video call with Gandrox.
Although I was certain he was already expecting it.
Gandrox responded. “Are you both well?” He filled his first words with worry. Our medical team had been unsure about how the radiation might affect Diamond.
“We are fine.” I beamed.
“Good.” his face turned impassive. “Then make sure you remain that way. I would like to hear your ideas about how fourteen observation cameras and microphones all stopped working within the first few minutes of you entering the medical pod.”
“Radiation?” I offered, knowing full well he was teasing me. He would have tore the things off the walls to ensure privacy with Allegra if he’d been in the same position.
“I suppose that’s one name for it.” he smirked, “but I’m not convinced you have called to discuss medical comms devices.”
“No, Captain. I haven’t.” I replied, looking behind me, even though I was well aware that Diamond was not in the room. “But I have a request. It’s about the item I gave you many years ago, the one you placed in the Captain’s Compartment?”
An enormous smile plastered across his face. “Then Allegra was right.” he said. “Although why I even tried to bet against her, I do not understand.”
“She never seen it.” As far as I’d knew, we had hidden the box in the same spot since I first joined the Torq Runner and that was a long time before Allegra crossed our path.
“No,” he waved the thought away. “She has not seen that, but she suggested something along the same lines.”
“Then you’ll know I’ll be requesting a change of chambers as soon as we’re
cleared to leave this pod.” I felt both relief in saying the words and excitement in them being true. My chambers were small and functional, but not worthy of a Warrior’s Mate. I’d never accepted the chamber upgrades until now.
“Already in hand.” he’d expected the request. “I’ll have the box taken to your new chambers where you can open it again for yourself.”
“Thank you.” I said, honestly. I had expected to feel resentment to Gandrox, after his initial refusal to find Diamond, but his apology about it, even though it was through the comms, had been genuine to both Diamond and I. When she told him she had thought she’d seen the Torq Runner that day on the elevator deck, I watched his face fall as he realized the full implications of what his decision could have been.
He was an honorable Aaran, doing the best he could for his warriors and to end the war.
“Good night, Elgan.” he said, with a wink. “Sleep well.”
Diamond woke early, with a start. Although troubled dreams had broken her sleep just moments before. I was already awake and whispered to her as she wrestled in her slumber. Conscious or not, I wanted her to know I was by her side always. I would do the best I could to help her fight the demons of her dreams.
She gasped for air as she jumped up on the bed. “No!” she yelled.
“It’s alright,” I whispered. “You’re safe. Everything is ok.”
She gave me a confused look before melting into my arms, “It is, isn’t it?”
“Yes, you’re safe now, baby.” I said, pulling her closer so I could kiss her forehead.
We lay there in a comfortable silence for a moment, each content in our own thoughts until Diamond spoke again.
“How far behind are we in the mission because of me?”
I sat round, pulling her round to face me. “It’s not because of you.” I said, moving to make eye contact again. “None of this is your fault!”
“Doesn’t matter whether it’s my fault or someone else’s…” she insisted. “I doubt the refugees would see it that way. They need help now and the entire ship ends up off course for weeks because of this.”
