by Unknown
“Thank you, Alpha,” he said and moved towards the bridge as Daylon headed for the exit.
“Oh, Delsin.”
“Yes, Alpha?”
“When you have her, try to remember that this is home. I went through a considerable amount of time and expense to finally get you back. Don’t think I’m prepared to allow you to fly off again.”
Daylon had admitted that he’d paid Parmia and a woman from Telmira to pretend to hire him to “capture” Parmia as a sex slave. “Alpha?”
“I don’t expect my credits to be wasted as you traipse across the galaxy again. Although I loved and respected my father, I don’t share his views. I lead a more enlightened clan. We’re now ready to welcome and embrace all our scattered kindred brothers back into our clan. Daria and I want you where you belong—back with us—at home.”
“Alpha, I’m not sure I’m ready—“
“We insist on your return, Delsin and are not prepared to accept any answer from you except yes.”
Delsin felt a rush of emotion. He inclined his head. “Thank you, Alpha.”
* * *
Alone in her private quarters aboard the transport, Parmia paced until her legs ached. Then she sank down onto the bed, fighting back tears. The life she had envisioned on the neighboring planet of Aeolia no longer held any appeal. Even though she had prepared herself for the loss of Markes’ protection and companionship, she hadn’t expected to fall for Adarinas.
She had been a fool to sneak away without talking to him. Now, even if she went back, he would think she’d participated in drugging him. How would she ever convince him that he had touched her heart so deeply she was prepared to embrace his way of life and be his woman? She was prepared to stay with him—even if his interest in her only lasted until he settled down with one of the tiny blondes his people preferred.
Parmia shook her head. The sooner she accepted the fact that she was on her own, the sooner she could conquer this incessant urge to sob. Placing a hand on her belly, she bit her lip. She could feel changes in her body that told her the seed of her lovers had found their mark.
Soon, she’d have a new life on which to shower her love and affection. No. She’d welcome two new lives into her world. At some point, she knew her children would want and expect to know their fathers. But for now, she was alone and having second thoughts about the advisability of having allowed her belly to be swelled.
But what woman with her ability would have chosen not to allow her belly to be swelled by a Centaurian Stallion? The foal growing inside her would help to repopulate their dwindling ranks. Despite all her prior misfortunates, she would soon have the honor of bearing a Centaurian Stallion foal and the shifter cub of the only male who had ever touched her heart and emotions.
She undressed and got into bed, tearing her thoughts away from the lives growing inside her. For now, she had more immediate concerns. Hopefully, the problem with the transport would soon be resolved and she’d waken on Aeolia to begin her new life. Once there, she’d take a few weeks to come to terms with her swelling belly and her life without Markes and Adarinas.
She came awake abruptly in her darkened quarters to find a tall figure standing by the doors. Reaching for her newly purchased side arm, she sat up, and trained the weapon on the upper body of the figure. “Stay where you are or I’ll shoot. I always hit what I aim at,” she warned.
“I’ll bet you do.”
At the sound of the deep, warm voice, a wellspring of emotion burst in her. She sank back onto her hunches, allowing the side arm to slip from her fingers. “Why are you here?”
He stalked across the chamber to stand by her bed. Curling his fingers in her hair, he eased her head back.
While she couldn’t see his expression in the dark, she knew he could see hers.
He brushed his free hand against her cheek. “Since I met you, I’ve been tricked, shot, and drugged. None of the three are among my favorite things.”
He sounded angry. She sucked in a breath. Was he there for revenge? If so, what form would it take? Had she been a fool to drop her side arm? She reached for it.
His hand shot out and closed around her wrist before her fingers could close on it. “You won’t need that.”
“Why not?”
“Lights low.”
In response to his command, a soft glow lit the chamber.
She blinked and met his dark gaze. While he didn’t smile, the warmth in his eyes sent a surge of relief through her. Her eyes welled with tears and she leaned against him. “I never intended to do anything to hurt you.”
He slipped his arms around her, drawing her closer. Bending his head, he brushed his lips against her ear. “What the hell are you doing on this transport when you knew I was waiting to talk to you?” He stiffened and glanced around. “And where is that ancient weapon of yours?”
She stiffened. “He’s not ancient!”
“Never mind what he’s not. Where is he? Do I need to worry about being shot again?”
“No. Markes is on his way to get a systems upgrade. I’m on my own now.” She bit her lip.
“And you miss him?”
She nodded. “He’s been my protector and only friend for the last five years. Now he’s gone, I’m all alone.”
“And afraid?”
“Yes.”
“Are you afraid that now he’s gone you won’t have anyone standing between you and your lusty clients?”
Hearing the disdain in his voice, she shivered. Clearly he didn’t value women who earned credits with their bodies. “I’m retired now.”
“So I was your last client or should I say Daylon Adar was your last client?”
She compressed her lips. “You know?”
“He told me he hired you and the Telmiran to trick me into returning home. That’s a charming way you choose to earn credits.”
She inhaled slowly, struggling to suppress tears. “I didn’t know you when I agreed to take this last job and I needed a big payout so I could retire some place quiet and Markes could have the systems upgrade he’d earned and needed to resume his military career.” She curled her fingers in his shirt. “And Daylon promised me you wouldn’t be hurt. He didn’t hurt you. Did he?”
“No. He’s my alpha and my cub mate.”
Tears of relief rolled down her cheeks.
He cupped a hand over her cheek. “Why did you leave when you knew I wanted to talk to you?”
“I was afraid of what you’d say when you knew why I’d been waiting for you in the shifter den.”
“Are you trying to tell me you care what I think?”
“Maybe I shouldn’t, but I do.”
“Why?”
She shook her head and looked away.
He slipped a hand under her chin and lifted it. “Why?”
“Because I…when you touch me, I feel something I’ve never…”
“Never felt with anyone else?” he asked when she allowed her voice to trail off.
She nodded.
“I know the feeling.”
“Oh…you do?”
“Yes. I do.” He inhaled slowly. “Get dressed. We’ll have to continue this discussion on my cruiser.”
“Let’s talk now.”
“The captain is ready to resume his trip. If we don’t get off soon, he’ll take off with us on board. We can continue this discussion on the return trip to the Blue Desert.”
“If I get off, I’ll lose my ride. I don’t want to be there alone.”
“You won’t be alone. You’ll be there with me.”
“But why do you want to return there?”
“It’s home,” he said.
“Maybe for you, but not for me. My father is dead and Markes is gone. There’s nothing left for me there.”
He locked his gaze with hers. “I’ll be there and I want you there with me. Now are you going to willingly accompany me or must I take you by force?”
The promise she saw in his dark gaze filled her with joy. Although t
here was a chance she read more into his eyes than he intended, but she doubted it. The Goddess had finally chosen to smile upon her.
“I have no intentions of going anywhere with you,” she said, climbed off the bed, and rushed into the sonic shower.
“So be it.” He followed, caught her, and swept her off her feet and into his arms. He stalked from the room with her cradled naked in his arms.
She pressed her face against his body and closed her eyes, content to allow him to arrange anything that needed attention. She drifted to sleep and didn’t wake until she felt herself lying on a bed.
Opening her eyes, she found herself lying on a bed—their bed in his bedchamber upon his cruiser.
He quickly undressed and joined her on the bed. Rolling her onto her back, he rose above her, sliding between her thighs.
Feeling his heavy cock against her body, she moistened her lips while she pressed her hands against his shoulders. “You said we needed to talk.”
He lifted his hips from hers, reached between their bodies, and pressed his cock against her entrance. “Why waste time talking when I’m hungry to have you give me what only you can?”
She kept the pressure on his shoulders. “And when you’ve had enough of mating with me? Will I find myself stuck here alone and defenseless?”
“When is a woman with your ability to control the male populace ever really defenseless?”
“I didn’t do it willingly!”
“Then you’ll have no problem giving it up?”
“I’ve already given it up! And even if I hadn’t, I’ll soon be in no position to do it.”
He stiffened. “Your belly is swelling?”
She nodded.
“With whose seed?”
She bit her lip. Dare she admit the truth?
“With whose seed?”
She moistened her lips. “I’m a courtesan, not a sexual empath. I know my belly is swelling but I’m not sure with whose seed.”
“Whose seed?” he demanded.
She sucked in a breath. “Yours…and his…I think.”
“Mine and Renas?”
She nodded slowly, trying to gauge his reaction. “I don’t know for sure and I’m ashamed to admit that I’m afraid of being alone.”
“I’m a shifter,” he reminded her, his voice softening.
“I know that.”
“Then you should know that we mate for life,” he said and pushed his hips forward.
She shuddered with pleasure as his thick cock slid quickly inside her pussy. “For life? What…what are you saying?”
“I’m saying you are mine—for life.”
His? For life? “What about the babies I’m carrying?”
“We’ll worry about the implications later. Right now, I want my pussy.”
“Then take it. It’s yours and it has been from the moment we met.”
“Damn right it is,” he told her.
“Brand me as yours,” she whispered. Slipping her hands down his back, she drew his big body down until his chest crushed against her breasts.
“This is my pussy. I may or may not occasionally allow Renas a quick fuck, but no one else.”
“I like the sound of just the two of us and maybe Renas.”
“Maybe. Maybe not,” he told her in a brusque voice. “The decision to allow it or not will be mine alone,” he warned her.
“Yours alone,” she echoed and shivered as he began that delicious fucking motion with his big cock that quickly drove all rational thought from her mind.
She raked her palms down his back to his ass, forcing his cock deeper into her pussy. They both shuddered and groaned. When his mouth crashed down onto hers, they began to fuck each other as only a lusty shifter and a retired courtesan in love could.
She had lost her father and then Markes. But now she had a big, handsome shifter who wanted to mate with her for life. Happily, as her father’s daughter, she was up to the challenge.
* * *
Four weeks later, Delsin, Renas, and Parmia sat on the balcony of a guest suite in one of the houses within the Adarian clan compound. Earlier that evening they’d shared a meal with Daylon and his bond mate, Tanari, Kayden, Daria, and Daylon’s cousin Xander and his woman, Cassia.
Meeting Tanari had helped allay Parmia’s remaining fears about settling down with him in the Blue Desert. While he and Daylon discussed his place within the pack, Parmia and Tanari had spent their time touching each other’s bellies and cooing over how handsome their offspring would be.
Just as the others left, Parmia had received a message from Markes indicating his training was nearly over and expressing a wish to see her again before he decided which assignment to accept.
Although he had no fond feelings for the side arm, Delsin had been pleased for Parmia, who he knew loved and missed him. He’d forced a smile to his face and insisted he would be happy to have the damned creature come for a brief visit.
Parmia had wept with joy and rushed across the room to shower him with kisses so warm and passionate, they’d gone to their bedchamber. After she gave him a scorching cock and balls suck, he’d fucked her until her cries of pleasure echoed through the house. Within minutes, Renas had appeared in the door. The moment, Delsin withdrew his cock from her, Renas climbed on the bed and devoured her pussy.
Renas was so greedy for her juices, he didn’t seem to care that he was also consuming Delsin’s seed.
After a quick sonic shower, during which they’d fucked her again, they had dressed and left the bedchamber.
Now, seated on the balcony enjoying the late evening desert with her and Renas, who had separate accommodations within the compound, he felt content but impatient to hold his cub in his arms.
He glanced across the table at Renas, who sat staring at Parmia with a look of delight on his face.
An examination by a shifter doctor had confirmed that both he and Renas had managed to swell Parmia’s belly. That meant Renas would rightly expect to regularly mate with her—at least until such time as he took a bond mate of his own. Unlike his brother, Kayden, Renas didn’t appear to feel an obligation to mate with a Centaurides Mare.
As Parmia’s swelling progressed, she’d want to mate with them both with increasing frequencies. Delsin smiled. Apparently, he was more shifter than he’d thought. Instead of angering him, the knowledge excited him. While he felt certain he’d be more than content to spend the rest of his life in a monogamous relationship with her, he didn’t mind occasionally sharing her with Renas—as Daylon appeared to share Tanari with Xander and Kayden, who had swelled her belly with his seed.
Renas suddenly rose.
The two men locked gazes before Delsin glanced down and noted the bulge along his friend’s thigh. Renas arched a brow, a question in his eyes.
Delsin inclined his head slightly.
Breathing an audible sigh of relief, Renas walked around the table and lifted Parmia to her feet, sliding a hand under her tunic to palm her. “I need some more pussy,” he said.
She glanced at him. “Delsin?”
Pleased at the way she deferred to him, Delsin shrugged. “Do you want to?”
She hesitated.
“It’s his right,” he reminded her. “And I’m okay with it—as long as you are.”
“I burn only for you, Del, but I do enjoy having him rut in me,” she whispered.
Noting the remnants of shame in her voice, he shook his head. “We’re all three sensual creatures, Parmia. There’s no shame in your enjoying mating with him.”
“I do.”
Given her natural instincts and the size of Renas’ weapon, he’d have been surprised if she didn’t. “Then do,” he told her.
“And you? Will you join us, Del?”
He suspected Renas might want her to himself and was prepared to allow that on the odd occasion.
To his surprise, Renas spoke up. “Join us.”
“I will—shortly. Right now I just want to sit and enjoy the beauty of the night.
”
Renas nodded and turned back to Parmia.
Delsin watched in silence as his friend slowly disrobed her, peeling off the sexy red and black thong and bra that barely concealed her charms. As always, his heart raced with emotion and his cock hardened as he gazed at her beautiful, naked body. The unmistakable fullness of her belly, swelling with his cub, aroused him.
Judging by the way, Renas knelt to kiss and caress it, he felt the same way. While still kneeling, he parted her thighs and pressed his tongue against her clit several times before sliding it up into her pussy.
She moaned and pressed his head closer.
Watching him eat her pussy, Delsin was hard pressed not to unsheathe his cock and pleasure himself.
Within minutes, she cried out and gushed into his mouth.
Renas licked her juices with a greedy delight before rising.
Delsin’s nostrils flared and he inhaled slowly, savoring the delicious aroma her pussy emitted when she was aroused.
Renas quickly disrobed and stood before her with his shaft protruding in front of his body.
Parmia licked her lips and reached out a hand to stroke his huge phallus.
Renas groaned and swept her up into his arms. “Join us when you’re ready,” he said to Delsin before stalking inside with her cradled in his arms.
Within moments, Delsin heard them both groan with pleasure. Tilting his head, he could make out the distinct sound of Renas’cock sliding into her body.
As he sat listening to them mate with no traces of jealousy, he embraced the peaceful acceptance that only came with coming home after a long absence. Home. He was home and in the company of the clansmen who had joyfully welcomed his return.
It was good to be home, he thought as he rose. Quickly undressing, he walked into the house and into the bedroom he’d shared with Parmia for the last four weeks.
Renas and Parmia lay on their sides. Renas’ big dick was sliding in and out of her ass—leaving her pussy free. Perfect. Smiling, Delsin stalked across the room and joined them on the bed.
When Parmia opened her eyes and smiled at him, he positioned his cock at her flooded entrance and shot his hips forward.
“Oh, yes, my love. Yes. Join us and make this perfect,” she moaned, slipping her arms around him and offering him her lips.
