Galactic Treasure (Quads of Galafrax)

by Angela Castle

  “Wife?”

  “Human word for legally bonded mates, only on Earth we usually get only one husband.”

  “Hus-bond, strange words.”

  “Nuh, uh, no changing the subject. Please, Niz, talk to me, tell me what happened.”

  The water sloshed over the side as she turned in the tub. Tipping her head back to meet his gaze, she pleaded with her eyes.

  He lifted his hand and stroked the side of her face. She closed her eyes, nuzzling into his touch.

  He drew in a deep breath, letting it out on a gusty sigh. She knew he’d given in.

  “I was always the youngest, and being so meant I had few responsibilities and usually had the most fun as the youngest of my quad brothers. As all young quads do, we went into the army. Four years of training before they deemed us ready to go into battle. Demos soldiers, when not protecting our own interests, can be employed by other races as peace keepers or brought in to swiftly end other conflicts, in the interest of universal peace.”

  He drew in a breath and sat down on the edge of the tub, a distant look in his eyes.

  “Cocky, young and after serving with my brothers in several campaigns, I used to think we were pretty much invincible. I always played the joker. It’s not uncommon for youngest brothers to group together and play the fool, seek their own pleasures.”

  His tone turned bitter. “We were assigned as ground troops to the battle of Chanalloinan Prime. The war had already been going on longer than expected, with more casualties than estimated. So they called us in to put an end to the fighting.

  “My brothers and I were four of an eight man squadron that was on the first wave of attack. The enemy had plasma loppers. Small devices that you shoot into the middle of troops, when they explode, it strips any living organism of life. The aerial ships were supposed to take out the front line of the enemy that were shooting loppers, so the ground troops could come in and engage in hand to hand combat and bring the enemy down.

  “We all assumed it was safe. I was making jokes as we set down, my older brothers told me off, but I scoffed at them. I challenged them that I could make it across the open ground to the base before them. Tev of course took me up on the challenge, Vor, my eldest brother, yelled at me not to be foolish and wait for confirmation from the air ships, that the area was clear. In my arrogance, I ignored him. What we didn’t know is the enemy ships had engaged ours, and they hadn’t taken out the loppers.

  “Charging off the ship with the other troops, Tev and I surged ahead. We didn’t see the loppers until it was too late. My older brother tripped me up and the other dived onto Tev, who was fortunate to hit the ground with the side of his head, knocking him out cold. But I twisted in time to see the plasma lopper explode, missing me, but the blast hit my two older brothers. I was helpless but to watch as their flesh was stripped from their bodies, hear their screams as they were turned to nothing but atoms.

  "It was worse than a laser knife cutting me in half, feeling the life of my brothers leave them, our connection sliced in half, leaving us less than half of what we once were. It was utterly debilitating.”

  Without thought, Ruby rose naked from the tub, putting her arms around him. Her heart broke for everything he and his brother had been through.

  “With all my heart, I am so sorry for what you suffered, but it was not your fault.”

  “My foolishness caused my brothers' deaths. You will never know what it is like to lay there utterlyincapacitated, unable to do anything as my body and my mind screamed in agony at the loss. The med ship came and picked us up, on the same ship, were Bir and Zay.” His hands slid up her upper arms.

  “It was Bir who saved us. I will always remember him sitting over me. Zay sat injured on his left, and he gripped my arm and shoulder. It was strange. We sensed each other’s pain. It was our loss and grief that pulled us together. ‘We need each other, through loss, fire and pain we will bond’, he'd said. It was not long after that we four formed our new bond and became the Fire Bond Brothers. But it was more, because deep inside I had changed.

  "Never again would I be foolish or out of control. I became obsessed with the need to be in control of myself, and everything around me. Without it I don’t feel whole anymore.” He tipped her chin back, his gaze swirling with intense emotion. “If you accept me, this is what I am. I want more than anything to give you pleasure, but need to do it my way. I need to control everything I do to you. To a Demos female, that is unacceptable. They have to be in charge.”

  She snorted. “Do I look like a Demos female to you?”

  “No, you are nothing like them, soft, beautiful and so special. It is why I don’t trust myself. I fear losing myself in you.”

  “Oh, sweet Niz, I don’t think that is a bad thing at all.” She stood up, pressing her wet body against him.

  “Let me tell you what I think about your control issue. I trust you with my heart, body and soul. So, whatever you need, I want to give it to you. If you want to exert your dominance over me, then, that’s what I want too. Your brothers have already been very forward with what they want. And I like it, it turns me on. Many human women love their men to be in charge when it comes to sex, but I won’t have you bossing me around all the time.”

  A smile spread across his face. One hand slid down and cupped her wet arse, squeezing.

  “Are you sure? I don’t want to hurt you.”

  “I am very sure; I love you, Niz. Take me, use me, control me, here and now, I am yours.”

  “Oh, Ruby, my beautiful one.” His hand speared up into her damp locks. She let her body go lax, surrendering to him, as her body heated and ached to be touched. His lips hovered an inch from hers. She inhaled the spicy scent of his breath. Shattering her senes of reason, oh yes, she did want this.

  “Are you sure, my beauty? For once I start, I will not stop.”

  She smiled. “Good, because if you stop, I’ll call your brothers. They can deal with you instead.”

  He chuckled. The first time she’d ever heard a notch of laughter from him, making her heart flip flop in delight. She was the luckiest woman in all the galaxies, to find four hunky, sexy alien men. She sighed, now utterly resigned to her fate of belonging to the Fire Bond Brothers, but more importantly they belonged to her.

  “You have brought light back into my life, my beauty. Your trust means more to me than you can ever know.”

  Before she could respond, his hand tightened in her hair and he took her lips in a heated kiss. She moaned into his mouth, as his tongue speared past her lips, dominating every part of her.

  When he pulled back, she whimpered at the loss, but she smiled in delight when he stripped off his black uniform. She licked her lips as her gaze dropped to his large erection, pointing in her direction as he climbed over the rim of the tub.

  Seating himself on the shelf, he pulled her into his arms, and her legs parted to straddle him. The hardness of his cock stabbed into the softness of her belly.

  She giggled, and he looked at her, baffled. She slid her hand along his sculptured body, loving the way his muscles tightened beneath her touch.

  “What amuses you?”

  “I think you and your brothers should register these as lethal weapons.” She stroked him, and he groaned as her hand slid up and down his length.

  He growled low in her ear. “Have a care, my beauty, I am struggling for control here.”

  “I know you want to stay in control, but sometimes letting go can be good for you too.”

  His arm banded around her back, he lowered his head, nuzzling into the curve of her neck. He sucked at her skin, before leaving a trail of hot wet kisses and nips up to her ear. He took her lobe into his mouth, and sucked.

  Her lower stomach quivered in response. She moaned as his tongue swirled and dipped into her ear. Her toes curled, and her clit pulsed with the deep need he stirred within her. All her men had the ability to turn her into a quivering mess.

  His other hand came up, cupping and squeezin
g her breast.

  “The beauty of your body is beyond compare,” he breathed into her ear.

  Oh god, she wanted him, badly. “Please, Niz, I want you, need you.”

  His hands slid between their bodies, his fingers easily finding her swollen nub, pinching it between two thick fingers. She jerked as the pain/pleasure sensation streaked through her. He settled into a stroking rhythm, and she rocked against him, wanting, needing more.

  “I need you too, my love, tell me if it is too much. By the ice plains, I will try to stop.”

  Her moan grew louder, her head flopping down on to his chest, panting, growling, oh, so close to coming. His hand slipped lower and his finger pushed into her. The heel of his palm now rubbed on her clit as he finger fucked her.

  “Put your hands behind your back.” The deep growled order made her snap her head back, and her lust drunken brain took a moment for her to understand. He stilled his hand, and she whimpered, but complied.

  “Good girl, lock hands on your elbows.”

  When she did, he curled his hand around her arms, and pinned her in place, making her back arch over his strong arm.

  He pushed two fingers deep into her. “So hot and wet, Ruby, is this for me?”

  “Yes, oh yes, Niz, for you.”

  Easily finding her G-spot he rubbed against it, and her head rolled from side to side, as her body trembled nearing the peak.

  “Who do you belong to, Ruby?”

  “You, Niz. You and your brothers. Please,” she begged breathlessly.

  “You will never leave us?”

  “Never, I love you, all of you, please, Niz.”

  He rubbed her harder with his palm grinding against her clit. She had no hope as it pushed her right over the edge. He held her fast, laving her right nipple and biting down as she came, screaming.

  She barely felt him lift her, guiding her over his thick hard cock. She still quaked from her explosive climax, as he pulled her down, thrusting up to fill her, forcing her quivering walls to take him.

  The sensation sent another climax ripping though her, dimming her vision. Hazily she knew he was far from finished with her. With his grip almost painfully tight, he pulled her up before slamming her down again. Water sloshed over the side of the tub. Niz settled into a hard, fast rhythm. All she could do was take every ounce of pleasure Niz gave her. He gripped the back of her neck, claiming her lips, his tongue pushing in, in time with his thrusting cock.

  God, could it get any better? She was going to die from being over sexed, but hell, what a way to go.

  She felt the pressure building again. He released her mouth, tilting her back to tease her breasts, tugging each nipple in turn between his teeth.

  As his hips moved faster in desperation, he growled low in her ear. “Again, beauty, give me your pleasure.”

  The need to obey was the last catalyst. Already hoarse from screaming, she squeezed her eyes shut as her body shuddered with a flood of ecstasy once again.

  Niz’s muscles tensed, and she barely heard his roar, his seed shooting deep into her womb. He pulled her forward, her now limp body resting against his chest as they both struggled to draw air into their lungs. Niz released her arms—they fell limply to her sides. His hand gently traced the curve of her spine.

  “If that’s … you … being in … control…” she panted. “I’m going to … always be … one happy … woman.”

  Niz gave a soft, breathless chuckle. “My beauty, we’ve only just begun.”

  Chapter Twelve

  The smile on Niz’s face was worth more than anything they had bought her in the past few days on Dankuara. The whole planet was one huge shopping mall. There was nothing legal or illegal you couldn’t buy there. Although Ruby had been sold on a space station not a planet, the number of Jorval traders eyeing her made her nervous. With her men, three of them, the fourth staying behind to take care of the ship, she felt safe as they guarded her zealously, while she picked out clothes, sandals for her feet, combs for her hair and sweet smelling lotions to rub on her skin and bathe in.

  Zay seemed to have a perverted sense. When she tried to get undergarments, he always picked skimpy, tight and sheer clothing. While Niz would grumble and say she shouldn’t be wearing any at all. Tev had the best taste in colours and how certain garments fitted for the most flattering effect on her body shape. Bir, when he chose to join them, had no opinion at all, only insisting she take anything she desired.

  Ruby got the distinct impression he was trying to buy her favour or forgiveness. She sighed, as the other brothers had come around to her way of thinking, but Bir proved a hard nut to crack. She could only try to show her affection. She loved them all, and it all seemed so natural and normal for the four of them to be... Well, you wouldn’t call them a couple, but a family.

  A day later, with tired feet, she was nestled in Tev’s lap while they sat around the mess room having dinner.

  “So we’re going to your home world now?” She took a bite of a long green sausage thing called Ossio, and loving spicy food, she relished the tasty treat. She washed down with some Yolick milk, when the spice threatened to be a tad too much.

  “We have to go to the High Council to make our mating official, and have our anti-sterile shots, so we can grow our young with you.”

  It hadn’t occurred to her, until now, the thought of getting pregnant and having a family with her men. “You’re all sterile?”

  “Oh no, little red, in adolescence each man is given a shot to prevent him from impregnating a female. Any female may choose a set of quads to pleasure her at anytime. It keeps things less complicated.”

  “Male contraception, wow, you know on Earth only women usually have to take a pill or get a shot, while the men only ever where a condom.”

  “Con-dom? By the ice plains what is that?”

  She smiled at Zay’s curiosity, while her strong silent Niz raised a single, questioning eyebrow.

  “It’s like a rubber sheathing which goes over a cock to keep the male's seed contained.”

  All three men screwed up their faces in disgust.

  “A layer over one’s cock would take the pleasure out of our rods.” She felt Tev shudder.

  “Ridiculous notion to cover a rod with such a contraption. How do Earth males put up with it?”

  Niz just shook his head.

  “It’s not too bad, I guess. I know most human men have, well, smaller rods than you guys.”

  Still, she managed to blush as her gaze diverted down to her men’s crotches. Tev’s rod was already hard and poking into the curve of her arse. She giggled when they all seemed to puff out their chests in male pride at being called ‘big’.

  The door hissed open, and Bir marched in, coming to a halt seeing them all sitting together. She met his gaze, which blazed with a mixture of hunger and guilt.

  Damn it, she wanted to slap the twit to make him see reason.

  He hadn’t even touched her properly, since they rescued her over a week ago.

  She twisted in Tev’s lap, making him groan, but he let her go. The metal floor of the ship was cool, and vibrated as the engines hummed. She walked straight up to Bir, taking his hand.

  “You must be starving after a long shift on the bridge on your own. Come and sit down, I’ll get you some food.”

  She tugged on his hand. He glanced down at her, his golden eyes filled with confusion, but he followed passively along. It was a good thing too, as there was no way she’d ever be able to shove her men’s bulky hides around without them being willing.

  “Sit, sit,” she ordered, in the bossiest voice she could muster. He sat in the vacant chair, bringing his head down to her height.

  “Ruby, you don’t have to—”

  “Oh, don’t you start with that, we need to serve you, care for you, crap. Have you ever thought I may want to serve and care for you?”

  “I don’t understand, why?” From his wide-eyed confused face, he honestly didn’t get it.

  She p
inched the bridge of her nose and drew in a steady, calm breath before again meeting his gaze head on.

  “Tell me, how do you feel when you look after me?”

  “I…” He glanced around at his brothers. Thankfully, most of them remained impassive to what she was doing, and only Niz had a slight smile.

  She cupped Bir’s face, drawing his focus back to her.

  “It makes me feel needed, to do my duty to you.”

  “So is that all I am, a duty?”

  He shook his head, anger sparking in his eyes. Ruby struggled to keep the smile from her face.

  “No, I care for you, I…”

  “Do you love me, Bir?”

  “Yes, more than anything in the universe.”

  “So, you want to serve me, look after me and love me?”

  “Yes, of course, you should never have to question my loyalty, my dearest sheraz.”

  And she thought women had deep insecurities. Men were just as bad, but they just hid it behind a wall of self-imposed guilt and scowls.

  “Your feelings are the same ones I have for you and your brothers. I love you, all of you, so it makes me feel needed, loved and useful to serve and care for you as you do me. Love means accepting someone for who they are and even what they have or have not done. You have to understand, Bir, I never blamed you for what happened and I never will. For all this guilt you carry in here.” She placed her hand over his strong beating heart, loving the pounding rhythm she could feel beneath her touch.

  “It hurts me as much as it does you. Please, Bir, let it go, love me as you are meant to.”

  He sat as if frozen in ice, his face giving no expression or clue to his thoughts as he simply stared at her, sending a flicker of fear and doubt through her mind. Maybe she’d said the wrong thing. She’d only poured out what she felt in her heart.

  She swallowed and moved to back away. His hand shot out to grip her upper arm in a tight hold.

  “Ruby … I, oh fuck the Ice Plains, I love you too much.”