Alien Romance: Caged By The Alien: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Alien Romance, Alien Invasion Romance, BBW) (Celestial Mates Book 4)

by Marla Therron

  He caught her hand as she pulled it back towards the bars of her cage and leaned in to kiss her again, imitating how she'd kissed him. Pressing against the bars as closely as she could, Penny deepened the kiss, showing him how with careful patience.

  He caught on quickly, sliding his arms through the bars to hold her closer, until she winced at the stab of his armor and he withdrew to shed it with quick, deft touches.

  He couldn't leave her kiss for long, returning to even as he was still shedding the jointed panels of his carapace. Penny helped him with shaking hands, wanting to feel his skin, to know every inch of him.

  He was wearing the same light clothes under his armor as always, and Penny slid her hands beneath his tunic to caress the sculpted muscles of his stomach, feeling them tremble under her touch.

  His mouth never leaving hers, his hands began to explore as well, moving under the loose white garment she'd been given in place of her flight suit to trace her ribs through her skin and cup her breasts curiously. When he felt her rise into his hand as he kneaded them and plucked at her nipples, he seemed to realize he'd found something she enjoyed and redoubled his efforts, leaving her breathless and squirming.

  "This touch," he asked, his own breath shallow with excitement, "My mouth against yours. What is it called?"

  "A kiss," Penny told him, pressing another to the corner of his mouth and gasping as he flicked at the rosy bud of her breast experimentally.

  "And kisses," he asked, "Are they only for lips?"

  "No," Penny felt a thrill of excitement run through her, "You can kiss anywhere."

  "I would like to kiss you everywhere," Tau looked into her eyes with an intense iridescent gaze and Penny's heart raced. She nodded in eager agreement.

  He kissed every inch of her he could through the bars, pulling her close and dragging cloth out of the way to shower kisses over her breasts, her stomach, her thighs. The bars dug into her skin, but it was a sweet pain to be able to feel his lips against her. She'd been watching him all these days, telling him everything, everything except how much she wanted this.

  Her hands drifted lower, towards his hips, and she felt a flutter of nerves, wondering if she dared discover this part of him, wondering what she might find if she did.

  On the one hand, what an incredible moment for the field of xenobiology. Cho would be wild with jealousy. But on the other hand, what if she found they were incompatible, or worse too repellent to each other to even consider attempting it? If they were stopped now by simple biology, Penny's heart would break. But she had to try.

  She ran a hand down his thigh, giving him time to stop her before her palm ghosted over his lap, feeling the not unfamiliar bulge there. He caught her wrist with a gasp, breaking the kiss to look into her eyes.

  "If you do that," he warned her, "I won't be able to hold back. Are you sure you want this? With someone like me?"

  "I don't want it with anyone but you, Tau," she answered, pushing her hand into his pants to grasp him, relieved to recognize the shape of the shaft in her hand. He dragged her closer at once, taking control as he kissed her ferociously and pushed the thin white robe up her thighs to reach her heat.

  He pulled her hips closer to the bars and she fell back onto her hands as he leaned back to examine her. He pressed his fingers between the lips of her sex, sliding against the wet heat there, making her shudder and buck as he rubbed against her clit experimentally. He spread her open wide to look at her more closely and Penny blushed at his frank, shameless curiosity.

  "It's so soft and pink," he observed, exploring every inch with thorough, questing fingers before he even found her entrance, "and so wet."

  His fingers slipped inside her and she moaned, rocking her hips up into the touch, loving how carefully he was learning her body.

  He let go in order to grab her hips, turning her roughly over on to her stomach and pulling her back against the cage. The cold metal of the bars pressed against the bare skin of her backside and the air brushed against her exposed moist folds, making her shiver with a thrill of embarrassment.

  And then, she felt the warmth of lips pressing against her clit, a surprisingly gentle kiss for how possessively his hands were holding her hips. The strange, tingling menthol affect when he kissed her didn't seem to be reserved for her mouth.

  He left icy tingles behind everywhere his lips touched. She gasped, then moaned encouragingly as she felt his tongue, imitating what she'd shown him earlier.

  "Yes," she whimpered, hips squirming back harder against the bars as his tongue flicked against her clit, "There, please!"

  Encouraged, he pressed closer, burying himself in her up to his nose as his tongue lapped at her heat and delved inside her, surprisingly long and agile as it curled against her walls.

  "Almost there," she moaned, "Please, don't stop!"

  If anything he went harder, fingers rubbing her clit as his tongue moved within her until she surprised him with a gush of fluids, cumming so hard she saw stars.

  He pulled back, licking his lips as she squirmed in the after throes of pleasure, her skin tingling everywhere he'd touched her so that every breath of wind was an almost unbearable wave of sensation.

  Caught up in her lingering orgasm, she didn't notice him moving behind her until she felt the heat of his tip pressing against her entrance, already leaking. She tensed as he squeezed her hips and reached back to catch his hands.

  "Wait," she said, suddenly worried, "Is this safe? You won't... die, will you?"

  He smiled and, playful, bent to press a kiss to the skin of her backside.

  "You are not a queen," he said, "Though I would follow you like one. I will not die."

  Then he surged forward, pulling her back hard against the bars as he filled her. He was bigger than she'd expected, driving the breath from her as he pushed in, driving in relentlessly until his hips met the bars of her cage and he was deeper within her than anyone had ever been.

  She could only press her face to the floor of the cage and tremble with ecstasy as she adjusted to his size, spreading around him. She could feel him inside her, and not just him, but the fluid he was pouring into her as well, cool and tingling, and realized another difference between their species. His was one of those that, like many on earth, came continuously throughout the act.

  Even as he was just beginning to move his hips, he was already spilling his alien seed within her, filling up every nook and cranny within her and making her feel even more full than before. And then he began to move in earnest, pulling her back hard against the bars, driving deep into her and grinding against all the places within her that made her moan the loudest, pushing back against him and crying his name.

  The cage shook every time his hips connected and she shook with it, overwhelmed with the sensation of being claimed by him. He was pouring so much into her that it flooded out around him every time he drove in, dripping out onto the floor of the cage. Penny could only cling to the bars of the opposite side of the cage to keep her steady, orgasm building like a wave inside her as he rode her hard.

  He released her hips with one hand to reach under her and rub her clit, driving her over the edge of pleasure once again. She cried his name tightening around him, and a few rough thrusts later, she felt him throb within her, driving in as deeply as he could before releasing a final thick burst of cum. She groaned with satisfaction as she felt him filling her up, before slowly pulling out of her, trailing his seed.

  Penny, dazed, rolled over onto her back, her arms still above her head, and lay there catching her breath. She heard Tau moving but, out of it as she was, didn't notice what he was doing until she felt something close around her wrists.

  She looked up, blinking in confusion, and saw Tau securing a pair of wide, sleek black cuffs to her hands. Yellow lights blinked on the sides of either one, the cord between them looped around one of the bars of her cage.

  "What?" Penny stared, confused, "Why are you?"

  Tau was already moving around to th
e end of the cage.

  "There are sensors in the cage," he explained, "I can't open it unless the restraints have been engaged."

  As she watched, he touched the top of the cage and the door swung open at once, seamless and silent. He crawled inside towards her, the gleam of his eyes almost predatory. Her heart skipped a beat as she realized he was already hard again.

  "During a nuptial flight," he said as he caught her by the knee and pressed a kiss to her thigh, "A male can mate as many as seven times."

  Penny's eyes widened, a shiver of delighted anticipation running through her as he climbed over her. There were no bars between them now, no barrier to separate them. And with her hands cuffed above her head, she was helpless before him. She moaned as he pressed into her again, this time close enough that she could feel the full length of his body against her.

  Close enough that she could kiss him as he buried himself within her and began to move again, slower this time, not fierce hard strokes but long, slow ones, taking his time to devour her, spreading kisses over her throat and breasts, keeping her on the edge of orgasm without but never quite letting her fall, not until he wanted her too.

  He teased her mercilessly for hours, long past the chime and dimming lights that indicated it was time for rest. Only when she was completely exhausted did he finally relent. He lay beside her then, their limbs tangled, still pressing tired kisses to her throat every few moments.

  "I'm so glad I met you," Penny said, her voice weak with happy exhaustion, her body warm with contentment, "I think... I think I love you, Aiten Tau."

  Tau was silent for a moment, taking in the magnitude of those words, before he kissed her forehead and held her tight.

  "I love you too, Penny Allyn."

  Chapter Eleven

  The chime of morning came too early. Penny woke, her arms stiff from still being chained to the cage, her body pleasantly sore but decidedly in need of a shower. Tau woke more slowly than usual, holding on to her and to sleep, reluctant to meet this inauspicious day.

  "Come on, Tau," Penny said after a little while, as reluctant as he was, "It's time."

  He said nothing as he unfastened the restraints from the cage and led her to the bathroom. But as she shed her stained clothing and stepped into the shower, he followed her and pressed her to the damp, tiled wall to kiss her deeply.

  She looped her shackled hands around his shoulders as he caught her by the thighs, lifting her up. She bit her lip as he rocked into her again for what might be the last time.

  When he was done, they cleaned each other, slow and careful and thorough, the gentle movements of their hands somehow more intimate even than the sex.

  Penny helped him with his armor; having watched him put it on so many times that she knew how it fit together by heart now. She wore her flight suit again, and for a moment as she looked down at herself felt the same fearful trepidation she had the day she'd left on this journey. Tau handed her a translator chip to tuck into her clothes.

  "The data has all been transmitted to the regency," Tau explained, fixing her restraints as they stood outside the doors of the Cathedral, "I will present it to the Queen and argue for your innocence. Wait here for now, and you will be brought in for the verdict."

  Penny nodded, trembling with nerves, and he put his hands on her shoulders to steady her. They were surrounded by a squadron of six drones, but Penny knew by now that they were mindless, more extensions of Tau's self than independent beings. She wasn't embarrassed when Tau kissed her, sweet and loving, trying to settle her nerves.

  "I'll keep you safe, Penny Allyn." he promised.

  "I'll wait for you, Aiten Tau." Penny answered.

  He entered the Cathedral, leaving her behind, guarded by his drones. She couldn't hear anything past the huge doors. She could only wait in worried silence, growing more anxious by the moment. If Tau failed, if the regency rejected the evidence and chose to have Penny killed anyway...

  She thought of her team, waiting for her, depending on her. Would they approve of her putting her faith in Tau, letting all their fates depend on him? Maybe she should have tried harder to escape.

  She looked up in surprise as she heard footsteps, and saw two winged males with a contingent of drones approaching, their wings shimmering pearlescent behind them, twitching with agitation.

  "There it is," one said, pointing at her, "Gag it, before it speaks."

  Penny opened her mouth to do just that but the drones around her only stepped aside, deferring to the winged male's orders as its drones stepped forward to slap a strange, waxy substance over her mouth, sealing it completely.

  She could still breathe through her nose, but she couldn't speak as the new drones grabbed her by the arms and pulled her towards the Cathedral doors.

  "I don't know why they left it unfettered like that," the other male said with a scoff, "Don't they know its voice is dangerous?"

  "What do you expect from a half drone mutant?" the first replied, rolling his huge, glittering eyes, "That thing should have been killed when it hatched."

  They pushed Penny, bound and speechless, into the Cathedral and towards the dais where, even from this distance, Penny could suddenly see why the Cathedral was built so large.

  The Queen, reborn and now in her third instar after only seven days, was massive. The size of a two story building on earth, she towered over her subjects, vast and terrifying. She was still growing, even now.

  Penny could almost see her getting infinitesimally larger every few seconds as she molted continuously, her skin drying and sloughing away like sheets of silk from her bulbous, insectoid body.

  The Cathedral's shining walls crawled with activity. More winged males than she'd ever seen in one place crowded around the base of the dais or flitted above, their shimmering wings catching the colored light of the stained glass windows.

  She caught glimpses of workers, their golden shells glinting in the dark, darting through the shadows at the edges of the room at some secret work. Drones were everywhere, guarding the Queen and the males from danger. From Penny.

  They forced Penny to her knees between two pillars of waxy comb and chained her there, Penny searched the crowd in front of the dais for Tau, but when he was in his full armor and surrounded by other drones it was difficult to tell him apart from the others.

  She spotted one whose kintsukuroi pattern looked familiar and watched him for some sort of cue for what she should do, how she should act. But he wouldn't look at her. He barely moved.

  "JUDGE MENT HAS BEEN REACH ED," the queen spoke, her voice impossibly low, reverberating in Penny's bones and almost painful, "THE INVA DER INVI OLATE UT TER UNTOUCH ABLE CAPTUR ED CONFESS ED DIRE DANG ER TO HIVE AND HEARTH VAN GUARD OF VI O LENCE BRINGS BAR BAR IANS TO OUR DOOR."

  The chaple vibrated with the buzzing agreement of all those present. The males shook their glittering wings at her in disdain.

  "SEN TANCE REN DERED," the queen went on, "A MESS AGE TO DELI VER SAN GUINE SCOUTS RE TURNED SANS SKULLS SHALL AS SURE NO FUR THER FOOL ISH FOR AYS INTO SOV ERIGN SPACE."

  Penny's blood ran cold. She'd been prepared for this, but the wild injustice of it still burned in her chest. She stared at Tau, wishing he would at least look at her, be with her, give her some kind of reassurance.

  The queen was leaning forward, shed skins rustling, her onyx mouthparts working hungrily as they descended towards her and Penny realized her execution was to be immediate. She closed her eyes, preparing for the end. She hoped her team could forgive her. She should have tried harder. If she had just done more...

  Suddenly, something collided hard with Penny's side. She opened her eyes in shock as the shouts of winged males and the high buzzling alarm calls of drones filled the air, followed by the shouting of humans.

  "Over there! Break those chains!"

  Penny turned in confusion as she heard Rivera's voice and saw her team storming the cathedral, armed and armored, chitin plates strapped to them by improvised fastenings and stolen st
ingers on their arms.

  A drone was shielding Penny, facing down the Queen with hissing defensive rage. The Queen's massive head turned between this disobedient drone and the insurgents in her cathedral in bestial bewilderment.

  Other drones were slicing at the chains binding Penny, and a second later her team surrounded her, defending her as Salome dragged her to her feet and pulled the gag from her face. There was a strange conflict of drones, winged males shouting orders and her team shouting them right back, drones fighting each other and switching sides as whichever voice controlled them shifted them from instant to instant.

  The queen could have taken control with a word, but she seemed stunned by confusion and indecision. She'd only been a grub a few days ago. This was likely her first action as a fully realized Queen. Penny couldn't blame her for confusion.

  But more importantly, where was Tau?

  "This way!" Rivera called, and the team fled the Cathedral surrounded by a legion of drones, increasingly more friend than foe the further they got from the melee before the dais.

  "What's going on?" Penny asked as they rushed down a hall Penny had never seen before, "How did you all escape?"

  "Tau freed us," Rivera explained, "He's been making plans with us for the last week, in case the verdict didn't fall in our favor. He's determined not to have war between our planets. You really must have got through to him."

  "Where is he now?" Penny asked, stomach twisting with fear, "Where are we going?"

  "Don't worry," Ian smiled at Penny knowingly, "He's coming with us. He just needed to take care of some other things first."

  They burst suddenly out of the building altogether. It was the first time any of them had been outside the hive. They all paused for a moment, stunned, staring out at the softly waving lilac grass, the dark midday sky, the buildings of the city rising like strange papery obelisks from the plain. Like glaciers, she knew most of their structure lay underground, and wondered why the hive dwellers seemed to leave those tunnels so rarely.

  They couldn't pause for long, rushing away towards another building. The drones were leading them, following a latent command from Tau as well as more current commands from Rivera, relayed through Salome in Pakistani.