Chapter 26
By the time they got back to the villa, Jo was fast asleep. Acorus picked her up and carried her inside. The guards saluted him and opened the door into the main chamber, striding across to the bedroom, Acorus pushed the door open with his foot, and carrying Jo to the bed dropped her onto it unceremoniously.
Waking with a start Jo glanced up at him, then scurried up the bed as she saw the expression on his face. He looked more furious than she had ever seen him. Grabbing her ankle he pulled her towards him. Jo squealed and tried to get away, kicking out with her other foot. As he grabbed that foot he growled “Big mistake, Jo. When will you learn to do as you are told?”
He hauled her towards him, pushing her dress up as his hands travelled up her legs. When she was close enough, he let go of her legs and pulled her over his lap, exposing her bare buttocks. Jo struggled and swore at him, then she gasped “Be careful, don’t hurt the baby”.
“Not fair, Jo, I don’t intend to hurt the baby, only you!” then he leaned over and kissed each cheek, then raising his hand he slapped her, once on each cheek. Jo yelled and tried to get away as he kissed each cheek, and slapped them once again. Tears ran down her face, mostly from anger, as he hadn’t used any of his strength to really hurt her. Picking her up like a doll, he stripped her dress off with one fluid movement. Laying her back on the bed he casually held her in place while he stripped off his own clothes, then flinging one leg over her, he took her face in his hands and lowering his mouth to hers, kissed her passionately. Forcing her lips apart with his tongue he conquered her mouth, not letting her go until she stopped struggling. As he released her mouth she gasped for breath saying “You bastard, if you rape me again, I will kill you”.
He laughed “I’m not going to rape you. I’m going to make love to you. Isn’t that what you call it on Earth?”
Still holding her down he brushed his lips over her face licking up her tears. As his hand worked his way down to her breasts, he looked into Jo’s furious eyes and said “You are the most difficult female, other than my sister, that I have ever known”.
“I don’t want you to make love to me. How dare you hit me and expect me to want you?”
He sighed, “I didn’t hit you, I tapped your bottom and I think you should ask your body what it wants, as I’m getting mixed messages”.
As he moved his head down and captured a nipple in his mouth, Jo moaned and bucked trying to get free. Taking her taut nipple between his fingers, his mouth moved on down kissing her swollen stomach. She moaned and tried to say no, but as he moved past her belly button and gently licked her labia, sucking the cap of her clitoris into his mouth, he found the hard nub of her sensitized sex, she stopped struggling and just moaned. As he tasted and teased her she moaned “Acorus, please”.
He lifted his head and asked “Please what? Stop or carry on”.
When she didn’t answer he said “Now, you keep quiet” and he continued what he had been doing.
As her body squirmed and her breaths came in little gasps he moved himself over her, resting on his elbows but allowing his erection to tantalise her. Again she said “Acorus please” and once again he asked “Please what?”
She muttered something and teasing her he asked “What was that?”
Thumping him with her fists she grabbed his bottom and pulled him into her, yelping in shock at the size of him. When he went to move out of her she yelled “Fuck me, you bastard!” which he did, thoroughly.
When they were lying, sated, with his leg still draped over her she said “How could you do that to me?”
“Do what? Fuck you?”
Furious she tried to sit up, but he held her down saying “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t tease you. I smacked you, gently, because if you are coming to Earth with me, you must learn to do as you are told. You shouldn’t have put yourself forward without asking me. I don’t think it’s a good idea, with you having your first child. We have no idea how it might affect you, and it’s safer here with Ileya and other doctors to look after you. However I agree that you are the obvious choice, but I would rather have sorted out all the problems without Andea knowing. She is our Queen, very clever and a brilliant politician but she is also unaware how a Sceriae/human baby debilitates its mother while in her womb”.
Jo lay there thinking hard. She realised that she hadn’t trusted him to do the right thing. Not for her but for the girls to be abducted for Scerior. Acorus left her to think and getting out of bed, went to have a shower.
When he came out of the bathroom, Jo was curled up fast asleep. He stood looking at her, her tear streaked face still beautiful, her tussled hair spread over the pillows. Pulling the creased, messed up cover over her, Acorus kissed her on the forehead and went to visit Kylie and Anna.
When he entered Kylie’s room she was curled up in bed reading. As she looked up and saw him, her face lit up, but when she saw how miserable he looked, she threw her book down, pulled the covers back on the bed and held out her arms to him. As he climbed into bed next to her she pulled his head down onto her chest and just cuddled him. She lay cuddling without moving, while he slept, only moving away from him when Anna woke up for a feed. She thought she had managed not to disturb him but as she nursed Anna she felt his eyes on her. She smiled shyly at him, but didn’t cover her breast. They knew each other too well for her to be shy. She didn’t ask why he was sad, knowing that he would tell her if he wanted her to know.
Acorus lay their thinking how peaceful it was here with Kylie. No arguments or complications, she was so compliant, never initiating any sexual moves but never denying him anything he wanted to do with her body. She would be so easy to love. But he didn’t. He cared for her and liked her, admired how she had adjusted to life on Scerior. She was liked by everyone of whatever race, and she was a fabulous mother, showing a brilliant example to all the Earth females.
He decided that he didn’t like ‘love’. It had caught him in its web before he even knew what love was. Why did he feel like this? For a female who was, too clever, too ambitious, too bloody minded and didn’t want to be pregnant, he had thought that, that was a major part of being a human female! He suddenly focused on Kylie; she had obviously asked him something and was looking at him with quizzically.
“Sorry, I wasn’t here”, he said.
She laughed and said “You mean you were miles away”.
“Well not miles, just in Jo’s bedroom” he laughed.
So she repeated her question, asking why he was so low. Wondering if he was being disloyal to Jo, he told her what was the matter, even smacking Jo’s bottom. When she asked if he had hurt Jo, he said no, it was just really a love tap, and that he had explained why he was angry with her, and also that they had made love. Kylie told him that she understood why he was so angry, but she also understood Jo.
What he had to remember was that Jo was different from herself, Julie or some other females he had known. She had planned her life, worked hard to achieve the grades needed to get into university. She’d had a lot of sadness which she hadn’t let derail her.
Also she desperately needed to help people, usually the ones who didn’t have things easy. On the star ship she had been horrified that the girls had been killed, because they had failed health tests. As she came to realise how the Sceriae thought she had grown to admire them in most things, but the killings were stopping her from embracing life on Scerior completely.
When Kylie stopped talking about how Jo felt Acorus smiled “Why didn’t I notice how clever you are?”
“I’m not clever, Jo’s clever, I’m just observant and like watching people. With Jo especially. What you see is what you get”.
“Yes that’s true, she can’t hide what she thinks or feels”.
“Oh, Acorus, you are like men everywhere. You’ll never be able to understand women” Kylie smiled secretly to herself.
/> As Anna nodded off to sleep Kylie placed her in her cot and climbed back into bed. She cuddled up to him, realising that, for the first time since she had come to Scerior, he didn’t want her body. He just lay there deep in thought. She wanted to reach for him but was incapable of making the first move. If he spurned her she knew that it would break her heart and would change their relationship for ever. Eventually she fell asleep; Acorus tucked the bed cover round her and quietly left the room.
As he shut the door behind him Kylie woke up and put her hand out to feel for him. When she encountered emptiness, she curled up into a ball and cried herself to sleep.
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Acorus stood outside Jo’s room, trying to decide whether he should go in to her or leave her to sleep until morning. Feeling angry at the feelings he had for her, he walked up and down the main chamber, getting angrier at each step and muttering to himself in Sceria.
As he was walking away once again, Jo quietly opened her bedroom door and stood watching him. Turning back he suddenly saw her and stopped in mid stride, she had her eyebrows raised, her head on one side and her lips pursed. When he stopped and looked at her in confusion, she went to him and taking his head in her hands pulled it down to hers. Looking up into his eyes she smiled shyly and kissed him gently on the side of the mouth.
He in turn grasped her face, but he kissed her hard and passionately. As she returned his kiss he swept her up into his arms and took her back to bed.
Chapter 27
When Jo woke up the next morning, Acorus was wrapped around her. She was lying with one of his legs under her buttocks and the other draped over her. His erection nestled along her groin and stomach, held between his arms her breasts were squeezed by one huge bicep. The only parts of her body that she could move were one arm and her head.
Not wanting to wake him she lay as still as possible even though she was far too hot
Thinking about the day before, she realised that in her desire to go to Earth with Acorus she hadn’t acted wisely. She should not have put herself forward in council but waited until she had Acorus alone. Feeling that his authority over her was being questioned he had reacted as most men would.
However he hadn’t smacked to hurt her, he hadn’t raped her and he had made love to her twice. Promising herself that in future she would behave more diplomatically, she allowed herself to doze off once more.
They were both woken by a sharp rapping on the door. Acorus shouted “Come in” causing Jo to quickly release herself from his arms and legs. Laughing at her shyness he sat up in bed as the door opened and Khala stepped into the room saying, “Lord, you told me to wake you at this time. You have a very busy day”.
Acorus leapt out of bed, not worrying about his nudity, which caused Jo to blush deeply and pull the cover up to her chin.
“Thank you Khala” Acorus said “I will shower as will Lady Jo-Anna. She can help with my armour. You go and order breakfast and tell Lady Jo-Anna’s ladies that she will need them once we’ve showered”.
Going to Jo’s side of the bed he pulled the covers off her and said “Come and wash my back”.
Once in the shower he turned to her and soaping his hands he washed her breasts and gently ran his hands over her swollen stomach, down her groin and finally round and round her sensitised labia and clitoris. Standing behind her Acorus had her captured, his erection almost with a will of its own seeking entrance to her sex. Lifting her onto him, he moved gently inside her. To balance herself she pressed her hands against the wall and moaned with desire as he teased her. Suddenly he could tease no more and he quickened, but still careful not to harm their child. They both shouted as they came and holding her gently Acorus relaxed so Jo could stand on her toes.
As he eased out of her, she felt dizzy and lent against the wall to steady herself. Instantly he was concerned and lifting her, he wrapped her in a large fluffy towel, and laid her on the massage table. She tried to assure him that she was fine, just pregnant, but he insisted on fetching her Escorii. Wrapping a towel round his waist he opened the bedroom door and shouted for Tchu and Tjai.
They came running, as did Khala. Leaving Jo with Tchu and Tjai, Acorus and Khala moved into the bedroom, where Acorus dried himself and Khala helped him with his armour. Sending Khala to make sure breakfast was on its way, Acorus went into the bathroom to see how Jo was. She was lying comfortably on the massage table, with Tjai gently massaging her. Tchu was holding a drink and giving Jo little sips via a straw. Going to her Acorus asked if she was feeling better. She assured him that she was fine but Tchu was frowning at him. Raising an eyebrow he asked her if he was in trouble, to which she retorted, “You expect too much of my Lady, she is only young, having her first baby. Too much to learn, too much to do, too much you!” and she wagged her finger at him.
Pressing his lips together to stop himself from laughing, he said, “That is why you and Tjai must accompany us to Earth. If she insists on coming she needs to have your expert care”.
Tut tutting at him Tchu said “You forget who you laugh at. It is not funny. I am angered at you”.
Pulling himself together he said “I’m sorry, I’m not laughing at you, but Jo is” and he pointed at Jo, who said “Don’t you get me into trouble with Tchu. You should know she knows everything”.
Tchu wagged her finger at Acorus and said “We will come with you of course. But you” and she pointed her finger at Acorus “Will do as I say. No more too much sex, you’re too much sexy!”
To which Acorus couldn’t stop himself from bursting out laughing. Jo went bright red and she too burst out laughing, holding her stomach as she did. Tchu shook her head and left the bathroom muttering to herself, “They both too much sexy!”
Tjai who had been standing open mouthed, told Jo that she had finished her massage and would go and see about breakfast. Jo picked up the kaftan that had been left for her and slipped it on. Acorus stood in front of her and taking her chin in his hand lifted her face up to his “Are you sure you are alright. Maybe I shouldn’t mate with you while you are pregnant?”
Looking up at him she realised how worried he was, so instead of telling him not to be silly, she explained “Acorus, it’s quite normal for a pregnant woman to feel dizzy, some actually faint. And because these babies grow so quickly, I’ll probably find a lot of things to be unusual. But making love gently will not harm me or the baby”.
Taking her in his arms he buried his nose in her hair and said, “If anything happened to you, I don’t know how I would exist!”
Cuddling into him as much as his armour would allow Jo replied “And if I lost you I don’t know how I would go on”.
Kissing her forehead he suggested that they must have breakfast, and going into the main chamber, they found it laid out for three, and Kylie was sitting at the table. Pleased to see her Jo hugged her and asked after Anna. Then as they sat down Kylie turned to Acorus and said that she was pleased to see him as she had something to ask him.
When he told her to ask away, she told him that while he and Jo were gone, she’d like to move to the nursery with Anna. As she wouldn’t be having any more children she would like to be with her daughters, and also help the other girls, with their human side. Teach them about art and human music. She’d asked the governor of the nursery if she would be welcome and she had been thrilled at her ideas.
Acorus frowned “You mean you don’t want to live here? Couldn’t you go to the nursery everyday?”
“It will be lonely here with you and Jo gone. At the nursery I’ll have loads of company and I’ll feel useful” Kylie explained.
Jo felt uncomfortable, as if she was pushing Kylie out. Which being honest, she was. She didn’t like Acorus going to Kylie when he was unhappy with her, and couldn’t bare the thought of him having sex with her. Even though Kylie had been with him first she wanted him exclusively for herself. She knew that K
ylie loved him but also knew that although Acorus liked her and was fond of her, he didn’t love her. Making an excuse Jo left the table and went into her room. It was up to Acorus and Kylie to sort things out between each other.
Sitting in the chair in her room she tried to sort out her feelings, everything was so strange; life since she had been abducted had been very odd indeed. To say that she would have to think differently from how she would on Earth was an understatement. What if another girl caught Acorus’s eye after they’d been together for a while? Officially she wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.
He’d obviously enjoyed sex with Kylie and Julie, or he wouldn’t be so good at it. She blushed at the thought of what he did to her body. Also he’d raped the girl Sussanah, so he wasn’t above that! After all he was male and everyone said that a man’s brains were in his trousers. Head in her hands she sat worrying about whether she could cope with everything. Acorus found her like that when he went looking for her. Worried that she was ill, he strode to her side saying “Jo-Anna, what is wrong? Don’t you feel well? Shall I call Tchu or Ileya?”
Smiling at him she replied “I’m perfectly well, just feeling overwhelmed with everything that’s happened. Is Kylie ok? I feel awful, if she’s miserable, is it my fault? Have you done or said anything to hurt her?”
“No I haven’t hurt her. I think she needs to feel useful, and thinks she’ll be more useful at the nursery. Maybe she’ll talk to you, as I must go. There’s so much to see to before tomorrow”.
Jo wanted to tell him that Kylie wasn’t her problem, but instead she said “I’ll talk to her, you go and do what you have to do”.
Leaning over and kissing her head he left, relieved that how females felt wasn’t his problem. Like males everywhere he was a coward when it came to talking about feelings.
Sighing, Jo went to find Kylie who fortunately was still at the table. Jo could see that she had been deep in thought too.
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