Sahvin's Mate

by Clarissa Lake

  “Gosh, Sahvin,” I said as I set a plate of food in front of him on the little table in our quarters. “How is it that we fucked for hours and I still feel like I want to rub myself all over you.”

  “It’s biological,” he said and picked up the pronged spoon to take a bite of food. “Pheromones and hormones drive us to mate and the endorphins released during mating release more pheromones and hormones that keep us mating repeatedly.”

  “I feel like a cat in heat,” I said. “I missed third meal yesterday, and I am famished, but this constant arousal makes it hard to concentrate on anything but our next romp in the bedroom.”

  “Believe me, I understand,” Sahvin said. “This food is wonderful, and I feel the same way. It is why in my culture we are automatically given seven to ten days off duty when we declare meomee.”

  “That’s how we bond? Just keep having sex?” I said trying to wrap my head around it. “Not that it’s a bad thing. I’m getting fond of being in your arms with you inside me. I have never been this attracted to anyone in my life.

  “It is the same for me, Nora,” he said with a sexy grin. “Bonding is both sexual and emotional. We mate then we talk. We talk while we are mating. We eat together, bath together, and mate some more. It has always been our way.”

  “I guess it sort of works that way for the Farseekers. But, it’s nowhere near this intense.”

  “You’re telling me,” I said, “even with clothes on sitting here eating with you, you still turn me on.”

  I had gone down to get food from the mess hall. Sahvin’s clothes were beyond hope, so I also stopped at stores to pick up their equivalent of fatigues for him. I guessed right on the size.

  “This is true for me as well, meomee,” he told me. “I am hard for you even now. But I am too hungry to mate right now. It tastes so good after eating only food bars for months. They only gave us the bare minimum to keep us alive.”

  “It must have been awful for you there---for all of you guys. Seeing the condition, you all were in as you came aboard was heartbreaking. I can’t even imagine all that you went through.”

  “I couldn’t have before I went through it,” Sahvin said. “On top of the hard labor and long hours, they took pleasure in tormenting us. They whipped us and beat us for any little infraction or just because they felt like it. On top of that, we were hungry and tired all the time.”

  There was a distant look in his eyes and pain at the memory. “Before Commander Maktu strode in to tell us we were being rescued, I had begun to wish for death to end the nightmare. Day by day, I grew weaker, and I knew the day was coming that I would drop from exhaustion and weakness. Then, they would have probably beaten me to death like they had some others.”

  “Oh, my God,” I gasped, and tears welled in my eyes. “Sahvin, I’m so sorry that happened to you.”

  Remembering how they all looked as they came out of the shuttle into the cargo bay, they looked like refugees from a concentration camp, broken and half starved.

  “I would do it all again if I knew I would find you meomee at the end,” he said fervently.

  I didn’t know what to say after that. I just got up and went around the table to hug him. I wanted to take away his pain and make him feel the love that was growing inside me. I realized as he pulled me onto his lap that I was becoming attached to Sahvin emotionally.

  Once we started kissing, passion flared between us anew. We couldn’t get close enough with those hindering clothes between us. Sahvin picked me up and carried me into the bedroom so we could take them off make love---again.

  Yes, love. It was amazing how in sync I felt with him after only twenty-four hours in his arms. In between the peaks of sexual pleasure, the height of which I’d never experienced in my life, we talked and shared the secrets of our souls. It hurt so much less than before that we might never be able to go back to our homeworlds again because home would become wherever we could be together.

  CHAPTER SIX

  SAHVIN

  For the next ten days, Nora and I barely left her cabin. We spent the time between mating getting to know each other. We came from similar backgrounds. The average lifestyle on Narova is more affluent than the average on Earth. But I was raised in a close-knit family born of meomee. Seeing the love my parents shared, I knew that I wanted that kind of mating as well.

  But I also wanted adventure that was not to be found on Narova, so I joined the Alliance Law enforcement. I never dreamed I would have to be kidnapped by aliens from another sector to find my Earth born meomee.

  Bonding with Nora was the balm to my soul that I needed after my ordeal on Breskaa. Even though I had been told this would be so, the bond growing between us was profound. We were so high on endorphins, I felt like I would do anything possible to make her happy and I would protect her with my life.

  As the intense lust meomee recognition waned, we discovered we had much in common. I loved her as my mate, but I liked her as a person as well. It soon became time for us to discuss the course of our future together.

  “Before you came to us, I planned to stay on with these Farseekans. We would have been sold as slaves if not for them,” Nora said. “With your military training and law enforcement experience, I think they would welcome you to join them. I would like to stay if you would.”

  “Of course, meomee. I feel like I owe it to the Farseek Mercenaries to help free their people as they freed me,” I said, smiling at her, “and brought me here to you.” I leaned over and kissed her as we were sitting on the small sofa in her quarters.

  “I’ve missed ten days of training to mate with you,” she went on. “I will have to ask if I can continue and if you can stay and join them.”

  “Perhaps we should go together,” I suggested. “Since your friend Harper is Commander Maktu’s solmatu, he should understand that what we share is the same.”

  “I’m sure it is, but their bonding didn’t take him away from his duties as ours did us,” she explained. “Your mating pheromones were so strong that everything I ever thought about getting to know a man before mating went out the window.”

  “Idiom,” I said, “That’s an idiom---out the window.” Even though I am fluent in English, I don’t always get all the nuances.

  She chuckled and smiled at me. “Yes. But you were on Earth for quite a long time. Normally, humans socialize and get to know a potential mate for weeks or even months before actual mating takes place. Some only mate after marriage. Most don’t mate first then fall in love like we are.”

  “Yes, I did come to understand that. It is not all that different for sapiens on Narova. Felines are different except when they mate by consent.” I explained. “Meomee recognition is different. Our bodies give off the pheromones in

  voluntarily beyond our control. It is not always a welcome occurrence.” “It was very unnerving when it happened,” she said, “but when we fucked for the first time, I knew it was right. It was the best sex of my life.”

  She giggled and blushed adorably. I wanted to kiss her, but I knew if I did we would get sidetracked.

  “May I use your tablet to com the Commander to set up a meeting with him?” I asked.

  “Of course,” she said and went to get it from the table. “I will just set up the call for you. His translator does work for English.”

  Nora said the commands and Commander Maktu was available to my surprise.

  “Hello, Commander. You may not remember me, but I am one of the men you helped rescue from Breskaa,” I began.

  “You are the Narovian,” he replied, nodding in his hologram. “How can I help you?”

  “I wish to join you for your mission to free your people. Nora is my equivalent to your solmatu. She wished to stay on mission with her Earth friends, and I wish to be with her because we are meomee. I am a trained soldier and law enforcement agent.” I explained. “I want to help as you have helped me. Also, I don’t want Nora to be punished for missing training because of meomee bonding.”

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��That won’t happen. The same regulations for solmatu would apply,” he said. “I will let Sergeant Namotu know that your absence from training is justified. Sahvin, pay a visit to our Medic for an exam to be sure you are fit for duty and for it to determine if a language biochip can be engineered for you.”

  “I hope it can,” I said. “The chip I got from the slavers was unbearable. The bastards cut it out with no pain blockers. Barbarians.”

  “We got our bio-synthesizer on Halor. They offer some of the best technology in the Consortium. None of the people who receive chips on Halor had any adverse effects.”

  “I will do this,” I told him. “And I wish to thank you for getting us out of that hell hole. I was expecting to die there.”

  “I’m glad we could free you. Welcome, to the Farseek Mercenaries. No sentient being should be a slave to anyone. It would be wrong for us to leave any of you behind to have your lives stolen from you.”

  “It will be my honor to assist you in this quest.”

  Commander Maktu inclined his head subtly in acknowledgment and added, “Once you become oriented, someone from navigation will be contacting you to have you look at our holographic star charts. Perhaps you can find a familiar point of reference to locate your star system.”

  “I will certainly try,” I said.

  “My congratulations to both of you. Sergeant Namotu will contact you on when and where you should report,” said the commander who then signed off.

  “I thought the commander would understand as he has recently experienced solmatu himself as well as his lieutenant,” Nora said. “I should probably take you up to the medic to make sure that gorgeous body of yours is in tiptop shape.”

  She draped her arms around my shoulders and kissed my cheek, hugging me and nuzzling my neck. I pulled her on my lap and kissed her full on the mouth. She parted her lips readily to let my tongue caress hers, and I knew we would not be leaving our quarters for a while.

  My cock stirred to attention almost as soon as she put her arms around me. I needed to mate with her to tame it before we went out among the others on the ship. I also needed to satisfy my Nora so she would not be distracted as well when we left our cabin.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  NORA

  I had only meant to give Sahvin a casual hug and kiss, but then I couldn’t resist pressing my lips against his neck and nibbling his delectable skin. I don’t know whether it was more of his pheromones at work, or merely my own attraction to him, but I wanted him.

  As he pulled me onto his lap, into his arms, I could feel his erection against my butt. When he kissed me and our tongues met, my entire body seemed to clamor for his touch, the feel of his hands and lips on my skin. Sahvin had a way of making love that turned my whole body into an erogenous zone. This was one of those times.

  After a long passionate kiss, he carried me into the bedroom and took off my clothes and then his. I pushed back the cover and lay down. He got in after me and knelt beside me on the bed.

  “Your body is so beautiful. I want to stroke every inch of your smooth skin and pleasure you with my touch before we join our bodies with my cock inside you,” he said, his voice soft and seductive.

  He spoke to me in English with that enchanting accent of his. “Close your eyes and just feel my fingers caressing your skin.”

  He started with my face, letting his fingertips glide over my face ever so lightly. Slow even strokes of his fingers gradually working their way down my body made me feel as though I were floating. Before he got past my shoulders, I started to tremble with desire. My nipples peaked and my inner walls clenched, and my breathing was punctuated with soft sighs.

  Sahvin lingered maddeningly on my upper chest then circled below my breasts before circling them around closer and closer to each nipple. He lingered over my sensitive peaks, gently stroking them. Then as if he couldn’t help himself, kissed each one and sucked it briefly until I moaned softly at the exquisite sensations surging straight to my core.

  I felt almost like I was floating as I arched to his touch, loving the feel of his hands on my skin and the sound of his voice. Sahvin was tender and passionate, and he brought that out in me as well. Anytime I said that to him he would tell me that is meomee. It was as close to unconditional love as I would find.

  As he continued over the rest of my body at length the bud of my sex throbbed continuously. The pleasure of his touch was indescribably breathtaking. I murmured his name frequently and hummed in pleasure as I became a quivering mass of arousal under his hands.

  Once Sahvin reached my feet he completed his soft caressing and began kissing his way back up my legs. My heart was throbbing, and my breath was fast and shallow. The closer he came to my core my muscles began to tense. My clit and inner walls throbbed and contracted and it could hardly lay still. All it took was a kiss to my center, and I broke into the most intense orgasm Sahvin had instigated yet.

  I screamed an inarticulate wail of ecstasy as he tongued my clit lapping at my juices in and around my slit. He held my hips as I bucked and writhed in my orgasm that seemed to intensify with each swipe of his tongue. Even when he stopped, I was still writhing in the throes of orgasm, moaning, “Oh, Sahvin, that was unbelievable. I don’t think I’ve come so hard in my life.”

  He just grinned at me, eminently pleased with himself for satisfying me so completely. As I came down from that euphoric high Sahvin started kissing his way back up my body over my belly and rib cage, taking his time like we had all day. Well, we mostly did, and I had no willpower to object to his loving. If I sensed he wanted me, I became aroused.

  I was so sensitized by then that I came again when he just sucked on my nipples. He was no longer even touching my pussy. What a lover he was!

  Finally, he lay beside me and pulled me close dropping light kisses on my face. He held me against him, and we just cuddled there until I came down from the multiple orgasms he’d given me before he made love to me again for his pleasure as well as mine.

  Wanting to give him the same pleasure he gave me, I urged him to fill me and take his release. Our bodies slammed together as we made that journey to the summit of our passion and the ecstasy of orgasm. I never ceased to be amazed at the joy we shared in each other. I understood why he said he would go through all the hell he had if it brought us together at the end.

  How could I not fall in love with this gorgeous, passionate man?

  It was a good two hours later when we finally made our way to the Medic in sickbay. The AI medic ran a complete body scan of Sahvin to find that he had some healed cracked ribs where he had been beaten and kicked by one of the guards. Otherwise, he was in good health and even better spirits. His genetics were just different enough than homo sapiens that the generic translator injected by the slavers didn’t work. The AI Medic synthesized one that was tailored specifically to his DNA and he had no problem with rejection. Even better, it was working within a few days so that Sahvin could begin orientation.

  He didn’t like the idea of my training for combat, which didn’t surprise me at all. But I assured him that I was not looking to go into battle, but basic weapons training was required for us to remain with the crew. Scarlet’s and Harper’s standing with the crew was assured because they were solmatu to the first and second officers of the ground force whereas Sahvin had no status in the crew.

  Even though I would go on to train as a Medic, I was required to know primary weapons use and self-defense techniques. I could relate to his concern though. I was his mate, and he feared that some mishap would befall on me or I would be put in danger by being part of the organization.

  “But the Farseekans were home minding their business when they were attacked and taken by slavers.” I reminded him. “I was at my home emptying my mailbox when I was taken.”

  “I know, it’s just that you are my soulmate. Even though it hasn’t been that long, I would be lost without you.” There was a hint of imagined bleakness in his eyes that touched my concern for him.

>   “And I feel the same way. I don’t want to see you endanger yourself either,” I assured him. “But, I know you feel like you owe them for setting you free the same as I do. I think we both want to pay it forward.”

  “That means to free someone else as we were freed, right?” he asked.

  “Exactly.”

  “I agree we should do that,” Sahvin said.

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  SAHVIN

  “Hey, Nora, Sahvin, good to see you out and about,” Scarlet said as Nora, and I entered the mess hall together for third meal three days later. “Get your food and come join us.”

  We did exactly that. Although I would be happy to sit with my Nora alone, I also wished to know her friends. I recognized Scarlet from the night we arrived, but I hadn’t yet met the man she had with her.

  “We haven’t seen you two in days,” Scarlet commented with a wicked smirk.

  “You know how it is, Scarlet. We have been---bonding,” Nora said with a little laugh. She set her tray on the table across from the other woman and introduced me to Pyrr Avantu. He nodded his acknowledgment, and I mimicked the gesture and sat down across from him.

  “You probably haven’t heard,” Scarlet began. “The people we rescued don’t want to go back to Farseek until we go to Julconi to rescue the people taken there as slaves.”

  “How are we going to transport over three thousand people?” Nora asked. “We’ve already got them packed in the cargo bay like sardines.”

  “We’re going to steal a transport big enough to carry them all,” stated Pyrr in complete seriousness. “There is a huge shipyard about three weeks out in the Teglia system. It is only a slight detour between here and the Julconi system so we are going to explore the station there for a ship that will suit our needs.”

  “That makes sense,” I nodded.