Chapter 5
Rothgorg and Uika promised to take good care of the still sleeping Madison Edwards. Jul went to his office, and for the first time he would have rather been home. Rex was there when he arrived, late again.
“Is she really that good in bed?” Was there a trace of bitterness in Rex’s voice?
“I don’t know. I haven’t had the chance to enjoy her yet.”
“What has been keeping you out of work? You even come here when you’re ill.”
“It’s true. I tasted her.” Jul whispered the words quietly.
“So, you’ve bought yourself a resonate. Are you going to sell her services? Raette will be the first in line.”
“I’m not selling her. She’s not just any resonate. She healed Bink…he wasn’t born mute or lacking intelligence. Slavers crushed his throat. She healed him with a touch, didn’t even know she was doing it. When I tasted her, I felt her soul. I don’t know what to do, she wants to go home.”
“Don’t be a fool. She’s yours. If it’s too much for you, I’ll pay you two years wages and take her off your hands. I’ll even pay for the translator too. Think on it, but we’ll keep this between us. If word escapes about her, you’ll never get a moment of peace. You’ll be bombarded with requests. And if the king finds out what she is, he’ll confiscate her without any payment to you. Sending her home would be equally cruel. Their world is smaller and their lives are shorter. By the time you return her, everyone she loves will be gone. In just her short time here, years on Earth have passed.”
Jul knew his friend was right. Keeping her would be a challenge; keeping her a secret might be impossible. “I… She’s been hurt and is very weak right now. If I call a doctor he might realize what she is and report it.”
“What are you doing here? Go home and care for her.”
Jul nodded. He was glad he’d confided in Rex. His friend wouldn’t let him down. He turned to leave, but the expression on Rex’s face stopped him. “So you’d really like to own her?”
Rex looked embarrassed. “She’s unique…yes, I’d pay handsomely for the opportunity to sleep with her.”
Hearing his friend admit it was disconcerting, but Rex continued, “You know how much sleeping with her would mean to Raette, can you honestly keep such a treasure to yourself?”
Jul wasn’t the type of man to be selfish. However, after seeing into her could he do this to her? She was almost completely untouched, and she’d lived in a world where sex was a hidden thing. Madison Edwards wasn’t prepared for what Rex would do to her. Rex would be gentle, but Jul had tasted her and understood her in a way that one without that bond would never know.
“I’ve made up my mind. Rex, I care for you and Raette like family. There is only one way I will consent to this—you must taste her, Rae too.”
The stunned look on his normally confident friend’s face was priceless. “Are you insane? The bond we would form with her…with each other, it’s not something we could ever change. Are you willing to let us have that kind of connection with your resonate? We’d always feel her and want her. I know Raette better than you do, she’d never be able to be content with just one night. Are you willing to force this on the girl? I can see how you care for her.”
“The three of us can protect her. I can’t do it alone. You’ll have as much of a stake in her wellbeing as I do now. I took too much blood from her, so we’ll have to wait to do this. The girl will have time to adjust to her bond with me. Humans aren’t like us. They are weaker and feel so much more than we do. You can’t imagine what I feel…the echoes of her emotions are beyond description.”
“Go, care for her, Jul. I’ll take care of business and talk with Rae. When you return we can make plans for this thing, but yes, I want this. I won’t lie. I want her. This type of bond became outlawed centuries ago. They’ll kill us if they find out. Are you really willing to risk this and share her?”
“Yes.”
A moment of solidarity passed unspoken between them. Rex nodded. “Go.”
Jul rushed home to find Madison was still unconscious. Oh, great mother, I pray I haven’t killed her.
As he gazed at her, his heart filled with worry, he saw her eyelids flutter.
Chapter 6
Madison opened her eyes. She saw Julstavius next to her bed, his strange eyes looking at her, full of concern.
“I-am-alive.” She felt much more comfortable with the strange language as it fell from her mouth. That wasn’t the only difference she noticed. Her heartbeat felt…different, and her eyesight seemed sharper. “What did you do to me?”
“We…I… You’re more than a slave to me now. I’ve tasted you, and there’ll be a link between us forever, until death. In your world a term would be wife, or more accurately concubine.” He paused.
She wondered if the horrified feeling in the pit of her stomach reflected on her face. Suddenly she felt an echo of pain over her reaction; she’d hurt his feelings.
He continued. “I can never formally recognize our bond. You’ll always be a slave, even if I want to free you with all my heart. I feel you as you feel me. What makes you human is in me, and what makes me Alburionian is in you. This will be a rather difficult adjustment for you. My people have very different physiology, it will make everything you experience…bolder. Your feelings will change. You’ll have more of our morality and a dulling to the depth of your emotions. I, on the other hand, I’ll have a dulling of my senses and a strengthening of my emotions.”
Feeling the truth of the words only made them more terrifying. “I’m afraid.”
He looked sad. “I know.” They sat quietly for a long moment before he broke the depressing silence. “I may lose you. What you are…it’s unique to humans and rare. The bond we share is only possible because you’re a resonate. You can take pleasure and emotions and echo it back, magnify it, and create intense experiences. I thought this kind of sexual gift was a myth, until now. The blood bond I created with you was the only way for me to be sure. It’s true you are a thing of myth and wonder. I’m so very lucky to call you mine. My people ingest the blood of those we love so we can always find them. It works due to an enzyme in our bodies that creates a link, but when we drink from a resonate it merges us with the human so deeply it’s actually illegal.”
Madison felt horribly confused by all his woo-woo mystical blood talk.
“If the king discovers what you are, he’ll have me killed so he can drink from you and keep you for himself. If someone else discovers you, they’d kill me and sell your sexual services illegally, underground. You could make someone on my world very rich, very quickly.”
His words were terrifying, mostly because she experienced the absolute certainty as he spoke them. He meant them, each of them. She also saw something else behind his words.
“I don’t want to bond with your friends.”
His eyes widened a bit as if he didn’t realize just how completely merged they were becoming. “I know, but we must. To keep you a secret I need allies, Rex and Rae already know. I trust them with my life. You…we’ve time to get used to this. The desires we feel will be open and experienced by the four of us. When one feels pleasure, we will all feel it, when one hurts we’ll all hurt. This is not ideal, but it’s the only way.”
Looking at him, feeling everything caused a burst of something profound inside of her. She felt such caring and compassion for this man, even if she should hate him. It terrified her. Lust mixed in with all the other emotions, and she was filled with a deep desire to watch his face as he came. His eyes changed, the echo of the thought reached him because Madison found herself pinned to the cot. His breathing was heavy, and she felt his erection pressing against her hip.
“Sorry,” he said in a hoarse voice. He backed away, and she felt him smothering the animal instinct he’d experienced to take her hard and fast. She felt the echoes of his needs and some of them honestly frightened her.
She reached for him and pulled him back. “Don’t go
, please.” She wanted it as badly as he did.
“You’re weak.” He looked so unsure, and it touched her heart.
“Give me your strength.” Those words broke him; she felt it when he gave in.
“Mine.” The word was a growl as he began to remove her simple tunic.
She allowed him to do as he wished, knowing it heightened his desire. When he looked at her breasts, she blushed. He’d seen them before, but this time she knew what he was thinking. Her nipples hardened just from the look in his eyes.
“I want to taste them. I want to fuck you until you can’t walk.”
She giggled, knowing he’d meant for her to hear those thoughts.
“I want you too.” Shyly she threw the thought back at him. Seeing his pupils dilate she knew those four words affected him deeply. When she took a deep breath she could actually feel his desire, and it heightened her own. She’d never felt so sexual before. In the past she’d never been the one to initiate sex, but now she reached out to unfasten his belt.
He watched her awkward movements, and she could feel how much he wanted to rip off his clothes for her, but resisted. Because of the link they shared, she knew that as much as he wanted to take her, he also wanted to savor it. She was his slave, but in that moment, she was also his master. The power of controlling his desire rushed to her head.
Jul groaned, and she relished the sound. She should hate him, but his exotic looks and muscular body made her forget it. When she freed his cock, her breath caught. Beautiful, even with her limited experience she knew it was special. The girth and length were almost a little frightening. These people were larger than humans—everywhere it seemed. She knew he could see her thoughts as easily as his own as she caught the echo of how much he liked what she was thinking. It was strange to have him in her head.
He reached out and gently rubbed her nipples. When he suddenly pinched them, she hissed. He did it again, but with more of a rolling motion this time. She sighed. Seeing his feelings through their telepathic link frightened her. She understood what his people liked. Sweet, tender sex wasn’t the norm. She remembered the terrible body leash Raette had used on her. It made her pussy ache just remembering the sensation. She’d never been into anything kinky, but as she feed off Jul’s desire, she suddenly wanted him to teach her to enjoy brutal domination. She blushed at the thought that she couldn’t just think it, she had to tell him, because she knew how much it would please him to hear her voice the words out loud.
“Julstavius, I want you to make love to me. Show me what it can be like…your way.”
He groaned, and the sound was pure pain. “I want you, but we must wait until you’re stronger. We must wait until the four of us can be together. If I do this with you first, you’ll always be a little more mine, and as much as I want that, it would cause the others, and ultimately you, pain. I can’t allow that. You are too precious to me.”
She tried to hide her crushing disappointment, but the bond wouldn’t allow it.
“Please. I want you so much right now. I should hate you, but this thing between us, it’s amazing.”
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He groaned. Crushing her to him, his lips devoured hers. She’d broken down his resistance. His hands caressed the exposed skin; her naked body caused his heart to beat faster. His cock swelled with anticipation. She looked so innocent and vulnerable. His mouth dipped to her breast, and he suckled the large dark nipple like the most succulent of fruit. Hearing her soft panting made him growl. He’d never felt such an overwhelming surge of possessiveness. Pleasuring her was his greatest wish. He’d never given much thought to pleasuring women, but suddenly feeling her needs he wanted to hear her scream, make her forget all lovers that had come before him.
Jul switched to her other breast. His fingers found the one he’d just abandoned, and he delicately squeezed and rolled the damp jewel. Her small hands twisted in his hair as she held him to her body in desperation. Hot and demanding, his mouth devoured her, and Jul smiled as she gasped. He could smell how wet she was. Pushing her back on the cot, he moved to spread her legs wide. Feeling the echo of her need and uncertainty, he kissed her flat stomach and then looked into her eyes.
“You are beautiful. I’ll never let you go.” For the first time I understand why humans are so special. She’s giving me a piece of her soul, and I love her, more than any other being.
Her body quivered. Dropping a tender kiss on the mound of soft curly hair between her thighs, he spread the folds and his hungry mouth found the nub hidden there. Tenderly, his tongue swirled it, and her soft cry urged him on. He experienced the sensation along with her, and it shook him to the core. He enjoyed every second of her pleasure as if it were his own.
Relishing the taste of her womanly musk, he sucked the nub harder until she was on the very edge of an orgasm. Plunging a finger into her tight, warm pussy, he wiggled it until he felt the ridges inside of her. Her soft mews encouraged him to work harder. Soon he felt the shattering sensation of pleasure ripple from her consciousness to his own. He moaned against her, his own body on the verge of ecstasy. His cock ached to be inside her.
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“Not yet, I want to take you in my mouth, Jul.”
His needs were as plain to her as hers were to him it seemed. She knew he was holding back loving her in the tender way a human woman expected. It made her want to please him all the more.
She stood, and he sat on the cot. Kneeling in front of him, she wrapped her arms around his waist. She licked the delicate drop of pre-ejaculate from his cock, and he hissed.
“I don’t want to come in your pretty mouth. I want to feel your hot, wet pussy.” Jul’s words were almost a moan. She could feel the longing she heard in his voice.
“I’ll stop before you come. I promise.”
She could feel an echo of everything he felt. Hot, moist heat covered his cock as her mouth wrapped around him, and she began to bob her head up and down, driving him crazy with the tender pressure.
“Madison, sweet, hot woman,” he mumbled.
She could feel his enjoyment at what she was doing. Everything was magnified to an excruciating level as the echoes of the shared pleasures passed between them. Feeling what he was experiencing and knowing that he had reached the point where he didn’t think he could take any more caused her pussy to clench, needy for his cock. She might be a slave in his world, but in this way she held all the power. The knowledge intoxicated her with lust.
In a swift move, he picked her up and pulled her to his lap. Slowly he pushed inside her, causing her to cry out.
“Jul, yes, oh, you know…yes.”
They moved together in a sensual rhythm, and feeling the combined sensation of their bodies brought about a crushing orgasm that swept them into a mindless fog of pleasure. She screamed his name, and he smiled in response.
As he filled her with his essence, grunting and panting against her, she could feel that she had become everything to him. The depth of his need for her left her awestruck. Jul didn’t just want her body, he truly cared for her. This unique link left no room for games and pretense, just honest emotion.
When he’d finished coming, he looked into her face. Tears ran out of her eyes. She felt his alarm.
“Have I hurt you? Please tell me you’re unharmed. I like this tenderness. It is so different from the way my people make love. Someday I will show you my way, but not today. I know my people are larger and stronger, why didn’t you stop me from hurting you?”
She put her fingers softly against his lips. “Shh, I’m not hurt. I can feel you loving me. I’ve never felt so beautiful or important before. I love you too, Julstavius. I thought I wanted to go home, but all I want is you.”
He held her in his arms and gave her a loving, reassuring squeeze. Kissing her neck, moving the hair from her face, he sent her his thoughts. “I’ve never seen anyone as magnificent as you are, woman. You are no longer my slave. I am yours. I give you my heart in willing servitude.”
She was sitting on him with his cock still inside her, her legs wrapped around his hips. Standing, he carried her into the bathroom. He turned on the water, and they stood kissing under the spray. His cock began to grow again, still inside of her welcoming heat. When he let her go, she slid down in front of him, taking his cock, slick from their loving, into her mouth. Her lips clamped around his sex and quickly she had him hard again.
Water ran down her hair and body, leaving her in a misty cascade of sensation. She felt every droplet of water as it splashed her supersensitive nipples, bringing them both pleasure. Her skilled mouth and special knowledge of his sensation brought him to another orgasm. He felt her body spasm as she came too, just from his residual pleasure.
Jul pulled her up and lovingly began to cleanse her body. She knew his thoughts. She felt the contentment and pleasure that touching her brought him, and realized it scared him a little.
“I’m scared too.”
The link had grown even stronger. She understood why this was illegal for his people; no person should need another as they needed each other. She felt him panic at the fear that something might happen to her.
“Calm down, love. I’m safe. I’ve got you to protect me. I don’t want to lose you either. We’ll be all right. You’re just not used to feeling these human feelings. It’s my humanity making you overact. I love you, Jul. No one will take me away from you if I can help it.”
Worry darkened his eyes. “Humans have been known to become impregnated by other people, my people. Those women die during childbirth. Why didn’t I think to use a barrier?” He moved to take her into his arms. “Humans are such a delicate race. I’ve been careless with you.” He pulled her close, weeping into her hair. She felt his embarrassment as he wept. The water poured over them, and he stood holding the cleansing stone in his hand, sobbing like a child.
“You know it’s the emotions, they are taking control. You’ll have to practice keeping them from overpowering you like this. Humans are born with them, but they are hard for us to calm at times too. A barrier for the future is wise, but we have a saying on Earth—don’t cry over spilt milk.”
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