“You—what?”
“Those women… I took them only to search out for a mate. However, I would never intend to harm them. After I found you, I told my men to wipe their memories and return them to Earth.”
Tessa didn’t accept it, “You sent them back? Four hundred years after you took them? My kind doesn’t live that long, Alpha the Greatest.” She hissed.
“We die after eighty, maybe one hundred years. A mere blink of an eye for you!”
Ceff looked somewhat repentant but his expression was still soft, “I am aware of that. I wouldn’t be so cruel to send them to a place where they wouldn’t survive… I made the proper arrangements. New memories, new hope. My kind can do that.”
His hips rubbed against hers, dragging up and down between Tessa’s thighs. Each touch drew out heated gasps through her lips and she found herself giving in once more.
“I’m not a monster, Tessa.”
A hard groan burned through her throat and Tessa was rubbing back with equal vigor. His mouth pressed to hers again and his hands dragged down to play figures against her breasts.
Each touch was electric fire that made her writhe and mewl and whimper. His fingers took in the pert pebbles of her nipples, humming as she arched her back when he rubbed in just the right way.
“Fascinating,” he groaned against her neck and Tessa found she couldn’t hold back. “I’ll have you know, Tessa.” Tessa whimpered.
“After researching, we have come to find that your species can match well to mine, you want to know why?”
His fingers dragged down toward her sex. Tessa groaned hard.
“Because your design is so tuned to the joys of pleasure… yet you lack the mental link to experience every bit of pleasure.”
“Wh-what are you saying?” She gasped.
“I will show you.”
He flicked his tongue against her neck and one of his fingers reached around her neck to press into the base of her head. All too suddenly, she was overwhelmed with a new experience. She could feel hardness between her legs but that hardness felt like it belonged to her.
She could feel such powerful arousal harden almost painfully against her lower stomach before realizing that the hips and thrusts she was feeling were not from her body but from the body Ceff felt against his hips.
It was so abrupt and strange that it took a long time for her to realize that Ceff was channeling what he was feeling into her. Tessa let out a cry, shaking her head until the link broke and she was back in her own body, safe and sound.
“Ah, I suppose that was too much for you.” Ceff chuckled.
“It may have been too much for me as well. You humans experience so strongly.”
“Ceff…” Tessa pleaded.
He paused over her.
“That’s the first time you’ve ever spoken my name.”
Tessa shivered and suddenly she was drowning in pleasure once more.
This time, when she came, Tessa was fully naked and turned over to her belly, her back arched to expose her nudity to Ceff’s bare hips. Ceff did not take her swift and fast, but did take her in such a way that Tessa was screaming before he even so much as touched her.
She was shaking and sobbing with desire, arching herself further so that she might feel him. Finally, Ceff pressed himself into her, slowly at first, but Tessa couldn’t help but shove her face against the bed to scream her release.
He started to pump into her then, slipping further and further within her before Tessa let out a sharp groan. He withdrew slightly and the discomfort raging awfully between her legs ebbed into something phenomenal.
“How is it your kind calls this…?” He muttered, voice composed yet airy.
“Fucking?” Tessa groaned in response, her walls clamping down on his length.
“Amazing… you respond to the simplest stimuli.”
He withdrew and pushed back in, his hips like pistons against hers and drawing out incredible moans from Tessa’s sore throat.
“Ahh, yes,” Ceff groaned and Tessa was twitching hard.
“You have an incredible tightness, Tessa. Curious as well.”
His commentary made her want to push hard against him, so she did. Her movement took him by surprise and he returned the action with a fierce shove of his own. Tessa let out a high-pitched scream at this, and when he continued, she couldn’t hold back from coming yet again.
Still, he bucked, back and forth while his fingers searched over to the front of her folds and began to rub. His direct attention to her clit made Tessa come again, the intensity never fading and making her slump hard onto the mattress.
Ceff didn’t stop nor did he slow, keeping up a brisk pace as she gasped and begged him for ultimate release.
He pulled away to throw her over on her back before plunging deep within her again. Her hips were held by his arms as he continued to thrash into her and Tessa felt her body go limp with pleasure.
He began to speed up and her body twitched in response to every shove. It took some time before Tessa was coming again, and she was coming so abruptly that she blacked out for a few moments after that.
Finally, she felt something hot and scorching swirl within her and she let out a small sigh. Ceff let out a low moan and Tessa couldn’t fully watch him, too dazed and exhausted to see.
All she remembered after that was that he was suddenly laying at her side, kissing around her breasts until she faded into sleep.
When she woke, the last of the night was fading to daylight and Ceff was still kissing around her body.
“Ceff…?” She groaned.
“You’re awake,” he muttered, his tongue flicking over on a spot of her neck.
“You sleep so soundly.”
She was conflicted with new emotions this time and she said nothing as he dragged his mouth over her body. Finally he pulled away until he was facing her.
“I did not disturb you?”
Tessa shook her head, keeping her mouth closed. She didn’t know what she felt now.
There were still traces of distrust in her heart, yet there was also the undeniable energy between them, the undeniable connection that made her feel like she was in the right place. She was starting to get tired of so much confusion.
“Speak to me,” Ceff urged gently.
“I don’t know whether or not to trust you.” Tessa said after a long and thick silence.
His lips pulled into a small smile, and her stomach wobbled.
“What can I do to change your mind?”
Tessa frowned.
“I don’t know… I want to hate you… I want to leave this place. And yet…”
“And yet?”
“And yet, I don’t know why I want you so much.”
His smile broadened, “Perhaps we were meant to be together.”
Tessa looked away, unsure.
“It can’t be that simple.”
“None of this is simple… shouldn’t be alright for just that to be simple?”
“I don’t know.”
Ceff dipped down to press his forehead to hers.
“You will see, Tessa. You will see that we are true mates. I promise you. On the Night of the Falling Star, you will see.”
And the first time since Tessa showed up there, she found herself hoping—just slightly—that it could be that simple.
Chapter 6
He hadn’t expected it to change like it had. Never in his life had Ceff felt so… taken by a female before. His heart beat with powerful strength the more he was around Tessa and he found himself being taken aback by her passion, her ability to see into things so incredibly.
She was a fierce person, loving and hating and feeling with every bit of her heart. It was astounding to see someone so small feel so much.
The first time he enacted a connection with her, he became overwhelmed with not just the surprising sensitivity of her body but with the profound range of emotions that coursed through her body all at once.
How could someone l
ive with so much rampant feelings?
Ceff didn’t know if he could fully judge her any time soon.
Tessa did something so few dared to do, and that was challenge him on a daily basis. Her hatred for him had only spurred his desire for her more. She was so passionate and driven, he wanted to press her between his legs and buck until his knees went numb.
Instead, when she finally gave in to her emotions and attacked him that night, it was not lust that drove him to press her to his bed, but the sincere desire to make her see he was not evil.
That night, when Tessa finally succumbed to him, Ceff had found something in himself that not only surprised him but completely shocked him.
He had not expected anything like this to come from a connection with this human female. Every taste, every touch, every bit of sensual connection drove him to an unknown brink that made him crave not just for her body, but for her mind.
Ceff never knew he would fall in love with a human woman.
And yet, he did.
And he wanted to love her with everything he had.
He wanted to spend every second of every day with her, and after that night, he was delighted to know that she did not rebuke him.
When he approached, she would only glance at him and he would be pleased to see that her eyes were no longer filled with fear or anger, but with genuine curiosity.
He spoke to her and the more they spoke, the more he found her walls crumbling before him.
Suddenly, when she succumbed to him, it wasn’t just her body that reacted. He could see the change in her eyes as she met his gaze as their hips collided and ground hard together.
Her eyes slowly followed his, her mouth reaching back to gather his lips against hers and test the tethers of his devotion.
He wanted her so much… this beautiful human woman who challenged him harder than any other creature he had ever met. He loved her to the point where it hurt so much.
He just wished that maybe she would be able to love him too.
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Everything changed.
Tessa knew this because she wasn’t recoiling from him. Suddenly, his touches were more than prodding and demanding to give into pleasure, but soothing and gentle. Where he had so mercilessly driven her to orgasm before, he nurtured her to climaxes that made her see the stars of her youth and reach for him a little more.
Tessa found herself wanting to be with him more. She craved his touch, but not as a second wave of energy, but sincerely.
When they spoke and he spoke of his subjects, it was with such warmth that the more he told her of his planet and of its people, she started finding those same beautiful things that demanded love.
The living stone and earth no longer frightened her or creeped her out, because she found that there was a true harmony between these people and the planet itself. She connected to the ground here in ways that she had never been able to feel in her life.
It was amazing, alarming, but wonderful.
It all headed in a direction she was never expecting… And Tessa couldn’t find any more things to tie her back from wanting to be with Ceff.
Whenever they met, the idea of “fucking” was wiped away, until all that made sense to call it was making love. Her heart grew warmer and warmer toward the Alpha dragging delicious moans from her lips, and toward the man who showed her a world through the edge of his power.
For the first time in her entire life, Tessa felt like she belonged.
She felt like she finally had a family.
Or close to it anyway.
An idea hit her one day, just a few days before the Night of the Falling Star and she couldn’t help but feel nervous when Ceff arrived at their bedchamber.
“You have something on your mind.” She should be disturbed by his innate ability to practically read her mind, but this time it came as a relief.
“A favor…” she said.
Ceff rose a brow.
“A favor?”
“Bring them back to me…” When she turned around, Ceff’s expression was pensive.
“Your sisters?” He asked, but the way he said it was slightly teasing. They both knew it had been a simple ruse. Now, Tessa wasn’t quite so sure it was one anymore.
Sending those women back to a planet where everything would be nothing like they had left it was cruel, false memories or not.
Tessa nodded.
“They are the only humans that I know could still be alive…I want them here.”
Ceff looked baffled. “Why?”
“Because I am a loner in this planet,” she said.
“I want to have someone who may understand me. I’ve never had friends before… and they were the only people I trusted when I came here. They may very well be the last of my generation at this point.”
“Very well,” Ceff said after a long moment.
“I will bring them back to you.”
It was then that Tessa realized that she might actually care about him; because the happiness that bloomed in her chest was so palpable she actually ran toward him and leaped into his arms.
Ceff had let out a small noise of surprise, but gathered her in his arms.
“Thank you,” she whispered.
“Certainly.”
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The Night arrived finally, and the planet was abuzz with energy and ecstatic desire to see the Greatest finally wed to his mate.
Citadel brimmed with lively energy that Tessa could feel deep within her bones. There was a vibrant hum in her limbs that she could feel was reverberated within her chest and Tessa found herself in the company of Yana after Ceff left to take care of the major parts of their wedding.
It made her smile somewhat, that this planet had things such as weddings. It was a coincidental similarity that put her racing heart somewhat at ease.
“You look beautiful,” Yana said as Tessa glanced down at her clothing.
The dress was a vibrant series of colors too strange for Tessa to begin to describe, yet it shimmered and felt like solid liquid and it was such a bizarre sensation, she found herself rubbing her palms over the fabric—if it could even be called that.
“A perfect bride for our Greatest.”
“I appreciate it, Yana.” Tessa said gently. “Any news on my sisters?”
Yana beamed up at her.
“They should be here within the next half day. Our Greatest worked hard to bring them back in time for the wedding.”
“Do you think they will make it?”
“We shall see.”
The day was spent in customs that seemed strange to Tessa, but they no longer appeared like awful things. The planet thrummed and the buildings there moved, changing to adopt appearances that looked magical.
Tessa was astounded at the way this planet lived so harmoniously with its people, and she could not help but feel a budding affection grow in her breast when she saw how the children here played with the long and strange trees. There was a beauty that affected her in her heart and she wondered that maybe her being here was a good thing.
She had been a simple orphan girl living in a world that hardly cared for her. She grew in cold streets and wished on colder stars for a chance of a better life.
She had never believed that she would be finding it here… so far away from her home—no… Earth. This place now… Rusneon would be her home.
It was with this new outlook that Tessa was embraced in when she walked up the grand staircase set up for the ceremony. She saw Ceff ascending in the opposite staircase, spiraling closer together until they were upon a tall dais and staring at one another.
When he looked at her, his eyes were wide and soft and when he hesitated to reach for her for one second, Tessa smiled. With a small and almost imperceptible nod his expression lit up like a star.
When their fingers curled together, Tessa felt a myriad of emotions that made her feel uncertain, but happy. She wasn’t afraid… but she wasn’t also completely sure either.
It was not until
the sky above them—all black and blue and purple gradients dotted in brilliant spreads of stars and constellations—burned bright with the sight of an immense meteor slicing through the sky, did Tessa feel that at least this wasn’t a bad thing. Her heart had changed.
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“What are you thinking about right now?”
Ceff’s voice was gentle as they retreated into his large bedchamber. The colors in the room had changed, embracing soothing tones that embraced Tessa when she stepped into the room.
“You.” She answered.
His arms wrapped around her waist, and she could feel his erection on her thigh as he moved them toward the bed. Tessa remembered the fury of allowing him to take her, shocked at the release he had been able to coax from her body.
His influence had been strong enough to make her collapse in sheer desire, but now, it strummed through her nerves and made each breath his mouth parted on her skin feel like a smoother heat.
Tessa didn’t fight back this time, enjoying the way Ceff’s touches elicited soft moans from her mouth.
“I must have you,” Ceff groaned in her ear.
“I want you.”
Their travel to the bed was a stumbled mess of tangled limbs and intertwined tongues. His flavor was addicting and desirable and each passing groan only made her heart open a little more to his ministrations.
The dress she wore was easily discarded until Tessa was lain on the bed and looking up into Ceff’s eyes with wonder. He met her gaze with half-lidded eyes, affection pushing his lips upward into a beautiful smile that lacked the arrogance of when they had first met.
Curiously, Tessa ran her fingers down his skin, taking in its strange hue with soft hums of satisfaction. This time was not rushed and so Tessa indulged in every sound her caress on his body pulled from his lips.
He was so susceptible to her nips of lips and teeth that it made her more and more astounded that she was in the arms of such a creature.
A push of courage allowed Tessa to press against his clavicle and urge him on his back. Ceff did not protest but his eyes met her with widening curiosity.
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