Taken by Tryon Scavenger

by Alyx X

  Finally I gave in, and I took a sharp breath as I let it wash over me, wave after wave as Lyx pounded into me while he found his own release. Still riding my own orgasm, I watched his face twist into a mask of sheer pleasure. His hands gripped my ass, squeezing to the point of pain, but I didn’t mind. I had brought him this pleasure. My mate.

  As he came down from it, his chest heaved and he pressed kisses to my hairline. He then wrapped his arms around my waist, his cock still hard inside me. His tail slipped from me and he wrapped that around my waist too. The hold gentle and loose. I patted the tail gently, feeling the firm muscle under the soft skin. It flexed at my touch.

  “Sorry.” He chuckled. “It’s still sensitive.”

  “So, you can’t go again?” I flashed him a smile of challenge and he tweaked my nipple.

  “Oh, I didn’t say that. Besides, we’ve got plenty of time now.”

  As his cock jerked inside me, I glanced out of the window, taking in the emptiness of space surrounding us, taking in the brown orb beneath us. Home.

  I kissed his lips, sweet and soft as he rocked his hips in small movements, fanning the flames of my desire all over again.

  We were going home.

  23

  Lyx

  I waved clearance for the ship to land, watching as it came in low, then settled in a puff of dust and sand from the desert floor. We’d achieved so much in just over half a year. Piper arrived home with so many ideas for her tribe that her father had retired to a long-deserved seat on the Elders’ council. Although these days, they listened more often than advised.

  I walked onto the new landing strip we’d created at the tribe’s fort and waited for the door to my ship to open. We’d transformed it into the flagship of our fleet.

  Members of the tribe filed out, smiles on their faces, and they all greeted me as they walked by, their new flight clothes and uniforms marking the tribe’s new direction in life. They were no longer confined to the desert. They looked to the stars.

  “This is something the Elders never could have foreseen.” Piper’s father spoke at my side.

  “I never saw it, either.” I’d been all alone with no help and my one last desperate attempt at survival had created an entire new life I couldn’t ever have dreamed of.

  “Ah, but fate knew something was in store for you. Otherwise, why my Piper?”

  Why indeed? Why would I have chosen that one feisty human when there would have been easier females for Satyan’s purposes? The answer hummed along my bond with Piper. She’d never been intended for Satyan. Not really. She’d always been mine, and now, with the blessing of her father and people, she always would be.

  “You’re creating a future for my people,” Piper’s father said. “And it seems Piper was always right about the need for change. I’m happy she isn’t doing it alone.” He rested a hand on my shoulder, and I touched his fingers in return, silently thanking him for his acceptance.

  I’d worried about Piper’s return to Earth. After all, I was the alien who had taken her. But I’d been met with welcome rather than malice once Piper explained everything. The tribe surprisingly also showed me gratitude because I’d returned her rather than keeping her for myself.

  My heart was full. I had Piper, and I had people. Not my people, as I’d once dreamed of, but a people full of heart and determination. It was almost better.

  When I thought the last person had stepped off the ship, I climbed aboard and breathed in the still-familiar smell of my home for so many years. It was a happy place again now, always full of voices and people and teamwork. We had a common purpose.

  I walked to the bridge, and Piper turned from her spot in the captain’s chair as I slid the door open.

  A wide smile claimed her mouth immediately. “Did you see my landing?”

  “Best one yet,” I confirmed.

  A couple of people were still on the bridge, closing down new sensors and trackers we’d installed, but Piper dismissed them both with a smile.

  “Look at you, my soulstar,” I murmured as I leaned down for a kiss. “Totally in control.”

  She shoved my shoulder as her eyes sparkled. “Don’t call me that in front of our people.”

  The way she said ‘our people’ lifted my heart, but I also lifted an eyebrow at her words. “Why not?”

  “It makes me look weak.” She returned her attention to shutting my ship’s controls down.

  “I disagree. It lets everyone know how important you are to me, and also how important you are to them. Would you be happier with ‘desert warrior’?” She snorted and I grinned as I drew a chair up next to her. “How was the trip?”

  She shrugged. “Oh, you know the Gurgs. Always want something for nothing.”

  “That they do,” I murmured. “But if it wasn’t for one of them, we wouldn’t be together now.”

  “I would have found you somehow.” She sounded so sure, and I grinned.

  “Yes, you probably would have.”

  Piper rested her head against my shoulder and stifled a yawn.

  “Come on, let’s take you inside. This was a long run. You need a warm bath and a comfortable bed.” Instead, I tucked her closer against me rather than making any sort of move to get up. I wanted to bask in this moment.

  “Mmmm.” She hummed satisfaction at the thought as her hand crept into the back of my pants. “Will my Tryonian be in that bed?”

  “If you want him there.” I fought to keep my voice steady as she danced her fingertips across the base of my tail.

  “Always.” But her voice was getting sleepier and she shifted against me like she was looking for the dip in my shoulder to use as a pillow.

  I let her. I loved her to be this close. It gave me a moment to count my blessings, of which there were many. Outside the window, Piper’s people hurried around the fort, always busy or with a purpose—even if that purpose was downtime and the pursuit of relaxation. We’d reinforced all of the defenses at the fort and made it into a permanent home—no more traveling, and we traded off-world now, using our fleet of three ships to exchange goods.

  We were becoming our own rebel faction, really, and we had plans to grow and expand. To claim the Earth as our own for as long as it would have us. The era was dawning for a new civilization, and that civilization would be ours.

  The metal Piper had once told me held no value for anything seemed to be of singular value to Gurgs, although I had no idea why. We traded it with them for technology to detect seams of richer metals beneath the desert.

  We’d set up solar panels to catch the sun’s endless rays, and we had networks of pipe for heating water for bathing. We learned something new every day, and we had plans to expand and take back the closest city. Piper said we could do it, and I didn’t doubt her.

  So far, we were getting away with our rebellion against everything the Terran Program had tainted. It seemed the people of the Glass City truly only thought of themselves, and most of them were either preoccupied with preserving their privileged way of life or getting off-planet to an unknown future.

  No one had bothered about the last Tryonian living his own life of privilege with his human mate right here on their dying planet.

  Piper had given me so much, and I’d tried to return every gesture or loving phrase to her tenfold.

  She whimpered a little in her sleep and I bumped my shoulder gently against her head. “Piper, wake up. Let’s get you into the fort. I can do the final checks and set the ship to stealth.”

  We operated mostly under the nose of the Terran Program, but we tried not to be stupid about it. We hid our most valuable assets in case we ever needed to evacuate or escape. I glanced at the sun. That day would come, but hopefully not too soon.

  My hand dropped to Piper’s rounded belly, and I rested it there. “Hello, baby,” I murmured, intending my words to only be heard by the smallest ears in the room. “Have I ever told you how clever your mommy is?” I waited like I was listening for a reply. “No? Well, let me
fix that. She runs a whole tribe of people, and they all love her.” I lowered my voice. “But not as much as we love her.” I twined my fingers with Piper’s, both of us cradling the life inside her. “She’s powerful in all ways, and she never backs down. She’s smart, too, so don’t you ever try anything because she’ll know what you’ve got planned even before you’ve planned it.” I smiled as I spoke, wondering how I’d gotten so lucky. “We’re building you a life out here. You watch. The next thing on her radar seems to be crops and sourcing a greater variety of food.”

  I had almost no idea what she planned to do, but we’d recently discovered a huge network of tunnels and additional rooms beneath the fort, and Piper had spoken about utilizing those. Of course, she never made a plan these days without having a backup plan as well, so she was networking and reaching out to various alien races on their own hot planets to see what they grew.

  She was unstoppable, which was fine with me, because I never planned to stop her. Together, we’d live long lives, and she was stuck with me for that whole duration.

  I’d gone from having no one to having Piper and a whole group of humans who’d accepted me. Soon I’d have a baby too, hopefully one with a tail, but if it turned out to be smooth right down to its little buttcrack, I’d get over it.

  I leaned over and pressed a kiss to Piper’s belly as her skin tightened and the life inside pushed back against my light touch. It was time to take Piper inside for a decent meal and some rest. I couldn’t sit in my old ship thinking how lucky I was all night. I glanced out of the window again at the growing dusk, and the stars that had started to appear in the sky, reminding me of where I’d come from.

  Then I looked down at my mate and the fatigue drawing lines and shadows that only sleep could erase on her face. She probably had another busy day planned tomorrow. Truly, nothing stopped her.

  Nothing was going to stop either of us.

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