by D. R. Rosier
It was also something of a shock, a surprise despite foreknowledge of what was coming. His own mind had fooled him. Not consciously accepted perhaps, because his logical brain would have tossed it out as ridiculous. But deep down inside he had been fooling himself. Yes she needs an heir, so his mind and emotions had concocted some idiocy of it almost being impersonal. Something she would be forced to do out of duty. But when he saw those looks between them it struck home that she would be in love with the person she chose. Maybe it wouldn’t be Gabe, but it would happen.
She would one day look at another, love filling her heart as she locked her stunning blue eyes on someone else, the same way she looked at him.
And why shouldn’t she, she deserves it after all, a hell of a lot more than he deserved what he has.
How could he possibly fight the way he felt with the others there, that made him angry too. They were primal emotions, animal and brutal, ones he would prefer to keep to himself. Even between humans where it was normal to feel jealousy, it was normal to hide it out of shame.
It was almost as if humans instinctually were ashamed of that emotion and hid it, even though the emotion itself was driven by instinct.
Emotions he felt were shameful but that he needed to dwell on enough to get past them. He couldn’t get past it, if he couldn’t think about it. So he went off on his own. He could not deal with both at the same time.
He started drinking but changed his mind. That was no way to deal with it. In fact, it made him more contemptuous of himself. He avoided everyone that day. He went out jogging again around the palace and enjoyed the gardens and fresh air. He considered taking a walk in the city then cringed at the thought of all those strangers reading his current mind set. Ariella kept his mind protected but he had to stay in a somewhat close proximity. He kept himself busy when he couldn’t jog anymore, by whittling, which was something he hadn’t done in months. As his mind churned throughout the day he tried to force it to behave the way he truly wanted it to. By the end of the day he had a good representation of Ariella done in wood. The ship, not the woman or Dravii.
When it came time to sleep he didn’t have the heart to join his mates in the main bedchamber. He found his way to the rooms assigned to him personally for the first time since he had been there. He fell asleep on the strange bed instead of with the empress and his other mates. He snorted at the irony of that thought as sleep took him, despite his spinning mind his body was wiped out from all the running he did.
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He came awake with a moan and looked down. There was an exotic looking redhead with emerald green eyes looking up at him. He could see past her beautiful face to her large double D breasts resting on his thighs, her hard nipples teasing his skin. Her mouth felt like heaven as it wrapped around his sensitive tip and he felt her slowly feed him into her mouth.
He looked to the right and saw the same face, hair, and eyes as the second woman got into the bed and kissed him. He kissed her back hungrily, his lust growing fast at the stimulation to his body. He whispered in her ear, “Hi Sylvia, love the new look.”
He saw her pout at him, they couldn’t figure out how he knew which was which. Always without fail. They couldn’t read the how of it in him at all either, as he wasn’t sure how he did it himself. He just knew. His grandmother had been slightly psychic, perhaps it was some deeply buried sense he couldn’t consciously use or understand.
He stopped thinking all together as his bulbous head popped into Anise’s throat, she hummed and swallowed. The tight wet warmth of her throat wrapped him in ecstatic pleasure. He moaned deeply into Sylvia’s mouth, the additional stimulation of the vibrations Anise was causing drove him wild. He couldn’t help arching his back and thrusting up into her mouth, pushing his throbbing manhood deeper into her accepting throat.
Sylvia purred in his ear, “Would you like to lick my hot tight pussy?”
He just nodded at her, mouth watering.
He watched as she straddled his head with her amazingly sexy body. He licked his lips in anticipation as she lowered down onto his face. He tasted her lightly along her heat, collecting her silken essence on the tip of his tongue. He heard her soft moan and licked slowly along her swollen labia again. He teased her with his now expert tongue, as he brushed his hands up her torso and squeezed her nipples between his thumbs and forefingers, kneading into the fleshy sides of her breasts with his other fingers.
He reached around with one hand abandoning her nipple and brushed her clit with his thumb as he licked a little harder, separating her moist and ready lips and running his tongue between them. He moaned up into Sylvia’s center as he felt Anise suck hard and start to bob up and down on his pole. He concentrated hard through the incredible pleasure and worked Sylvia’s clit as he slowly lost his handle on control. He wanted her to shower his face with her honey before he filled Anise’s throat.
He loved every moan, gasp and pant he drew from Sylvia’s body. He reveled at the pleasure he gave her and her body started trembling on the tip of his tongue. He held her up by her ass cheeks as she lost the ability to hover, squeezing and kneading them hard as he started to dig deep inside her moist heat, desperate to taste her bliss.
Sylvia panted the words out, “Oh Bill. Right there. Lick me!”
He moaned deeply causing vibrations on her clit when she arched her back and ground hard onto his face and tongue. He sucked in her clit hard to extend her orgasm then let himself go. His balls tightened and his cock swelled on Anise’s tongue and he lost himself to bliss as he filled her mouth with his seed while he felt his face coated in Sylvia’s tasty nectar.
When he came down he felt a twinge of guilt and shame.
He was jealous and angry at simple glances between Tiffani and Gabe, and here he was lying with two other women. Women he admitted he was in love with. Much more than the sex, Anise and Sylvia were amazing beings he couldn’t imagine not having in his life.
It wasn’t that he thought he was doing anything wrong with Anise and Sylvia. It was the hypocrisy of it that set off those emotions in him.
Anise swallowed his cum and crawled up his body as Sylvia moved off his face.
Anise said softly, “None of that now my love. You will work through the emotions you can’t control. You are a good man and worthy of our love, and we know exactly how you feel about us. There is no reason to feel shame for your instincts, as long as you know they are wrong and you fight it that is. We know you wanted to be alone tonight too, but we disagree, we thought you needed to know it is okay.
“Our only judgment of you is our love, the rest will work out.”
He sighed and nodded. It wasn’t that easy of course, but he knew they weren’t judging him for his feelings at all, which made a difference, he felt more comfortable.
Anise said wickedly with a sultry look, “Now for the more important things, I need you to stuff my pussy with that beautifully long and thick cock of yours.”
Sylvia nodded and purred out, “That’s right. You still have five more holes to fill before we let you sleep. Until then you belong to us.”
He could see the wicked gleam in her eye and knew he was in for a very busy, but very pleasant night with Anise and Sylvia…
Chapter 5
Tiffani was hurt. She had caught his jealous thoughts and the anger. She knew he wasn’t angry at her, or at least, most of it was internal toward himself. Still, it made her feel guilty, and she knew that was stupid, she didn’t do anything wrong. But wrong or not it was her that caused his irrational feelings to come out. She sighed. She missed him too, she cried when he hadn’t come to bed last night.
She was used to his scent and the flavor of his mind surrounding her as she slept, it was a comfort and seemed wrong when he wasn’t there. She hoped he won whatever battle he fought within himself soon, or it would just get worse. She didn’t know if she could bear to lose him so refused to even consider the option that he would lose the fight with his animal nature.
/> She knew Bill was a good man, he couldn’t help that millions of years of evolution and instinct was hard to overcome, but she had faith in him and the love they shared.
Plus, she hadn’t been with him since he left on the ship, and she was aching for it. She was regretting now spending that first night going through the archives. She should have been welcoming him home properly. She sighed. It was important though, what she had done.
She was tempted yesterday when Gabe showed interest in a deeper relationship after the meeting, but she was too conflicted at the time to really think about it or pursue it. She knew it would come up again, or at least she hoped it would. In her mind, in her society, her interest in Gabe was completely separate from her love and devotion to Bill.
In her mind, one had nothing to do with the other. But she also realized that Bill’s fight with himself would complicate that clear fact. The humans have only had about four thousand years of civilization, that’s not much balanced against the millions of years of evolution. But they were changing, slowly. She just hoped she wasn’t fooling herself, believing there was a chance.
She took a quick shower, washing off lasts nights’ fun with Ariella, Tiffani and Gwen. They had cheered her up thoroughly when Bill didn’t show up.
Very thoroughly.
She smiled and got down to work and faced the issues of the day. It was right before lunch when some disturbing reports came in. She called a meeting, all of her mates plus Gabe. She was torn about if she should invite Gabe, he looked at things differently, through the eyes of a successful merchant. She knew he may have useful insights so she went ahead and included him.
Plus, despite the complication it might cause, she really wanted to see him again too in addition to her hiding lover. Actually the fact that she considered not inviting him because of Bill bothered her a lot.
She sighed when they all got there, but otherwise ignored the fact Bill wouldn’t look her way. She could read he was down on himself, didn’t feel worthy of her if he couldn’t control his emotions… And, he was afraid he would feel angry at her. But at least he was here…
She realized that probably meant she wouldn’t be getting his cock until he got a handle on things. That was, annoying… She shook it off and got the meeting started.
She said all business, “Okay, I just got these reports,” she brought up five different systems on the large screen in the room. “These systems all immediately adopted the anti-slavery laws. We have never had, until now, any indication of resistance from them. In fact they were almost eager to drop the shameful practice.”
She composed her thoughts and continued, “Now I am getting information that slavery was reinstated on these planets, mostly backed up with Demonae forces. Forces that were also on our side until very recently. It seems plain to me the energy beings are behind this. Unfortunately we have no idea how to kill them or stop them. Outside of Ariella grabbing one and throwing it in deep space until it dies. I imagine it would take a few million years to get them all that way though.”
Larissa growled, “The betraying Demonae have no honor, let’s go kill them.”
She slowly nodded but said, “To be fair these were on our side, I suspect their leaders are not in charge of themselves any longer. But yes, they should be resisting orders for insurrection, although if I understand correctly disobeying any order is a death sentence in the Demonae army.”
Ariella sighed, “I suppose we could go after them, free who we can and I can kill the ones I run across. I just wish we had a clue how to defeat them.”
Gwen said, “Bill was right the other day about that, we have hope and we know it can be done. We can only hope we will figure it out before it is too late. I have a feeling Ariella will be a big part of it, otherwise why kill all her people?”
Tiffani thought that sounded right, although it was possible they were just the keeper of the secret and not involved with the solution in any other way. She didn’t want to assume.
Tiffani said, “Same group as last time, I will forward you the Intel on any new developments as they happen. Sound good?”
Everyone agreed so they got started.
Chapter 6
It was almost with relief that Bill left with Ariella, Gwen and Larissa. He needed the time away from her. Every time he saw Gabe and Tiffani look at each other all his progress got buried in the negative feelings evoked. Then of course he felt guilty, he shouldn’t be happy at the separation any more than he should be jealous in the first place. Although he did have mixed feelings there, he already missed her greatly. He hadn’t even gotten to make love to her since they left the first time.
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It took a day to get to the first system which only had three vessels around the planet. They moved in and disabled them quickly, not even bothering to make a plan, allowing the rest of their fleet to perform boarding operations.
Ariella said, “There are no invading spirits on those ships.”
They set their sights on the ground situation. There were just ten Demonae down there, much like the last planet they freed they were all concentrated around a camp of Elvii. They would go there soon. He had something to finish first. He looked down at Ariella and she winked up at him, her nose buried against his abdomen. He watched as her head didn’t move at all as she stimulated his length with vibrations, tongue, lips, suction and her swallowing throat. To him her mouth was pure magic.
He was again struck by her beauty as he had been many times before. Her soft green eyes were filled with mischief and love as she pleasured him with her mouth. He could see her long luxurious raven black hair teasingly brushing the bottom of her back and the top of her ass cheeks. He could feel her both soft but firm DD breasts, mashed against his thighs.
She finished him off with indescribable pleasure as her mouth, tongue, and throat, combined with her suction and spit to do amazing things to his cock. It didn’t take much longer and he arched his back and fed her his seed while staring into her eyes, watching her suck out and swallow his load greedily.
In the beginning it seemed strange when she would do this during a battle, now it felt natural. He caressed her face and got dressed, filled with loving thoughts of his Ariella. Directed to both her avatar and the ship itself.
At first, even though he knew the ship was alive intellectually, it would have felt weird to him directing his love at a ship. Even though he knew the love he sent to the avatar was the same being. But she had a much bigger impact on him viscerally when he saw her in her natural form on Angillia. Now it felt totally natural to be in love with a spaceship.
They teleported down a short time later and easily took out the small number of Demonae. They didn’t find any of the creatures, perhaps it was one higher up on the food chain. Just setting things in motion and watching it go so to speak. It was a disturbing thought to Bill. If they could do that and not stay around then… Their task to track them down was impossible.
How could they fight an enemy that could do that over and over again? Take over a leader, set troops against the government and flee to the next leader. And multiply that by how many there were. He was guessing but there were probably millions of them, once they all got out into the Empire it seemed a daunting task indeed.
More of the same happened over and over. First they cleaned out the six sites from Tiffani’s first report. They were out there for weeks and getting tired. They won every battle decisively, but knew they were still losing the war. He knew Ariella was only one. The only elder Dravii they had, and no matter the power she possessed, one just wasn’t enough. In the last three weeks they had cleaned out fourteen sites of insurrection. The problem is the original six reports had turned into fifteen, then into twenty two.
Right now, despite all the wins, there were over six times the amounts of planets to free now than when they started. The numbers of insurrectionists were growing much faster than they could respond. Bill sighed, not sure what to do about it. There had to be a better way.
No one had any ideas though. It was just frustrating, knowing there was a solution, but where to start looking? It was a big universe out there after all.
But what else could they do but continue to fight?
He smiled as Gwen walked over and straddled him as they started the next battle, drawing him into a deep kiss. At least there were some things to look forward to…
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Tiffani was sitting up in bed feeling pensive. She missed the others. She hadn’t seen Bill, Gwen, Larissa or Ariella in weeks. She had also grown close the Gabe over that time. While she was ready for the next step, and knew it was right and good to do so, she kept imagining seeing disgust and hatred on Bill’s face every time she considered saying yes.
The instincts Bill had were foreign to her, but she had read that possibility from his mind. Either way, it was slowing things down a bit, and raising her levels of frustration.
It would break her heart to pieces if Bill ever looked at her that way, yet, she couldn’t help how she felt about Gabe. As far as her instincts and the way she was raised said it was perfectly fine and normal.
Something had to break soon though. Along with her growing feelings, the sexual tension between her and Gabe was approaching the boiling point. She would grow moist, and her nipples would swell, whenever Gabe walked into the same room she was in. She had actually started to shield her mind from him, he wouldn’t understand her reluctance to move forward if he felt that deep need within her. She wasn’t sure she understood it either.
She saw two beautiful Angilli women she didn’t know walk in her bedchamber naked. Alarmed for a moment she reached out with her mind. She smiled as she realized it was Anise and Sylvia, they had changed into Angilli for her and she blushed. They were very attractive to look at, plus, the added bonus that she already loved them.
Anise said softly, almost apologetically, “Oh honey, you feel that way because you want to protect Bill, but you can’t. You need to let him work it out on his own while you live life the way you need to. You cannot spare him his pain, even if you continue to resist your feelings for Gabe. You doing that will hurt him too, because he will feel guilty about you going against your nature to satisfy a part of himself that he truly despises. He also hates the thought of causing you any pain.”
