Feeling better about her situation, Cassidy hurried down the wider shaft. She opened the first box she came to and discovered small cooling containers inside. Wishing she had more light to see by, she fumbled one open and sniffed. Something hinted softly of berries, and she cautiously licked the frozen surface of whatever she’d found.
She moaned her delight. Gelato, no doubt straight from Italy. The frozen treat was heavenly, and Cassidy lost no time in devouring the entire pint-sized container.
The worst of her hunger sated, she explored and nibbled her way to a full stomach. Brenda’s stash consisted of mostly sweets and salty snacks, but Cassidy didn’t mind. She had no way to heat or cook food. At least she wouldn’t starve trying to wait the Kalquorians out. She also found a case of fruit-flavored sparkling water, so the most important issue of hydration was covered.
As Cassidy chewed on a piece of sugar-coated Turkish delight, another woman’s scream ricocheted through the ventilation system. She cringed at the awful sound. What was happening to the others?
Until now, Cassidy had kept hidden deep in the main shaft after the dangerous Lidon’s near capture of her. She’d been too frightened to investigate what had become of the other women.
Were the Kalquorians torturing the aspirants and sisters right now? Worse still, were the women being raped by the deviant aliens?
Fear of the invaders, the need to do something to help the captive women, and morbid curiosity warred for control over Cassidy. Another desperate cry echoed through the shaft, deciding her. She had to find out if she could help the others escape. At the very least, should she be lucky enough to escape the Kalquorians’ invasion, it was her duty to report everything that had happened on Europa to the authorities.
Thinking about the authorities made Cassidy wonder for the millionth time what had become of her grandfather. Her stomach churned uneasily as she speculated over his fate. Of course she didn’t want him hurt. In his own way, Patrick Hamilton had seen to Cassidy’s welfare. He had cared enough to do that, at least. But at the same time, he’d marooned her on Europa. He would have married her off to an old, old man, an equally unpleasant form of incarceration. It had apparently never occurred to the general that perhaps Cassidy had her own wants and cares. Even if it had, she wasn’t sure that any of that would have mattered to him. He ruled everyone with an iron fist, troops and family alike. When they didn’t bow to his orders, bad things happened. Things like her father’s death, a few years after marrying a woman Patrick Hamilton had not approved of. When Cassidy’s widowed mother Jackie Hamilton refused to marry Colonel Tucker as Grandfather had wanted, she had struggled to make ends meet on her flight attendant’s salary. Sometimes they ended up with the power turned off in their tiny apartment. The general had not offered one single penny to help them out, though he often contacted them to see how they were doing. Over and over again, he’d attempted to make Jackie reconsider his friend the colonel as a suitable spouse.
Then the final blow had been dealt; Jackie’s trial and imprisonment, which led to her death from torture and being overworked. Cassidy, with no one else to turn to, had been given no choice but to rely on her severe grandfather for support. He could have sent her to the best schools, paved the way to the scientific career she’d yearned for. Instead, he’d sent her to Europa, where she knew more than the sisters who taught basic reading and math to the youngest girls.
The old hate and fear heated in Cassidy’s chest. Perhaps Patrick Hamilton was upright and true in his beliefs. Perhaps he was as close to Godly as anyone Cassidy had ever met. She still despised him.
You imprisoned me, old man. Now you’re getting a taste of it. Eye for an eye and all that.
Cassidy knew her thoughts were far from respectful. Maybe God should strike her down for being ungrateful to her grandfather, but she simply couldn’t summon her better nature to the fore. It was her mother whose sin had destroyed everything, but the general could have been kinder. Cassidy had her faults, but she was not a wanton slut like Jackie had been. Just because she couldn’t resist looking at dirty pictures and occasionally touching herself, she was not an evil person. Cassidy had deserved better than what she’d been given.
Thinking ugly thoughts, the young woman resumed her journey to the infirmary. As she’d considered her relationship with her grandfather, more intermittent screams had drifted through the conduits. Cassidy needed to know what was happening to the others.
As she passed another aspirant’s cell, the sounds of moans and weeping froze her. Someone was in there. From the sounds, it was an Earther woman.
Cassidy knew the noise came from Tina’s cell. Tina was her age, a quiet redheaded beauty liked by everyone. The other aspirant’s voice rose in desperate supplication, her tone pleading. A deeper voice answered her in a soothing tenor.
Her heart pounding, Cassidy entered the shaft that led to the cell. Tina’s words became more distinct as she crept closer.
“Don’t, please don’t. It’s a sin.”
Soft sounds followed. Another, low-voiced murmur.
“I can’t. They’ll execute me for this!”
The other voice faded in and out, the speaker keeping to barely above a whisper. “No one … safe, my Matara … give yourself … your desire.”
“For the love of Jesus, Mohammed, and Moses, I beg you. If they come for us—”
“You said … to leave Earth and … taken to safety.”
“You can’t guarantee that!”
Her ears ringing with Tina’s sobs, Cassidy eased her way close enough to peer into the cell. A scent reminiscent of cinnamon teased her nostrils. She wrinkled her nose in confusion. Now that she thought about it, hadn’t she smelled something similar coming from her own cell just minutes before?
Her eyes widened as the room below came into view. Tina’s bed had been moved to the middle of the floor, and the young woman lay naked on it. Her milky body shimmered in contrast to those of her captors, making her seem ethereal. She was a nude angel shining in the midst of shadows.
Kneeling on either side of the bed were two nude Kalquorians, each one holding Tina’s wrists pinned next to her head on her thin pillow. Muscled arms wrapped around her thighs, holding her open for a third naked alien who crouched between her legs. Their skin was startlingly dark next to Tina’s, who was as pale as Cassidy except for the scattering of freckles on her shoulders and nose.
One Kalquorian, his narrow face eager, slowly licked the side of Tina’s neck. The sinuous action cleaned small rivulets of blood coming from two small puncture wounds. The alien on the other side, his expression tender, stroked the aspirant’s small round breasts, tracing the pink areolas with a fingertip. He bent to tease the hardened nipples with his tongue.
The third, his mustache and goatee lending his face a dangerous air, fondled her devil flesh. Tina’s pubic hair was as shockingly red as the hair on her head. Moisture glistened on the parted rose-colored lips of her sex. Her hips rose to greet the man’s touch even as she whimpered, “Please, please God, forgive me.” Her breath came in harsh gasps.
The Kalquorian’s finger entered Tina, and she jerked with a cry. “No forgiveness is required,” he said, his voice soothing. “This is what your beautiful body was made for.”
His finger slipped in and out, slick with her juices. Tina�
�s moans filled the cell, and Cassidy’s sex clenched at the sight. For one wild moment, she wished she could trade places with her friend, especially when the Kalquorian added a second thick finger to the sweet assault.
“No,” Tina groaned, even as her body betrayed her. The Kalquorian playing with her breasts sucked one mound deep into his mouth. Her head lolled on the pillow, her eyes unfocused. The third Kalquorian captured her mouth with his.
“Yes Matara,” the main Kalquorian said, pulling his fingers free of her wet core. He grabbed his two sex organs, pressing the tips to her orifices. Cassidy’s eyes widened and her breath caught. He was going to put both in her.
The man’s hips rocked, and the bullet-shaped penises pierced Tina’s womanhood and anus. The turgid flesh disappeared into her little by little, the man taking his time as he defiled the helpless Earther. When the Kalquorian kissing her pulled back, Tina’s mouth curled in a euphoric smile. She sighed, and the sound was pure bliss.
Only once did her obvious pleasure fade. Momentary pain brought a low wail from her lips, and the aliens murmured apologies. The two holding her prisoner soothed her with caresses and kisses. The man impaling her with his iron flesh whispered, “It is all right now, my beauty. The pain of the first time is brief and will not trouble you again.”
Tina’s grimace faded, and rapture again took her over. She accepted the aliens’ kisses eagerly. Her moans took on a joyful tone as the Kalquorian moved in and out of her. Their flesh made wet sounds that prodded Cassidy’s womb to flex with desire.
Cassidy watched it all, saw Tina’s body tense just before her wild cries announced an ecstasy she could only wonder at. The Kalquorian corrupting her tensed as she bucked wildly beneath him, his muscles bunched and veins standing out an instant before he roared his own release, rutting hard against her slight body. When they quieted, he traded places with one of the other Kalquorians.
It happened all over again. The alien entered Tina, his initial movements slow and careful, gradually building to a frenzy as passion overtook him. Tina moaned and gasped, her elated expression telling Cassidy she welcomed the sin. She screamed anew as her immoral flesh betrayed her once more, her cries a bright counterpoint to the Kalquorian’s howls of completion.
Then the third man took his turn despoiling the girl, with the same results. Nothing Cassidy had seen in The Kama Sutra had hinted at this tempestuous riot of flesh penetrating flesh, the wildness, the fury of the sex act. She was left stunned and aching, aroused and frightened all at once.
As the group calmed from their wicked play, Tina’s morality returned. She sobbed and resisted as two of the men gathered her in their arms while the third, the last who had taken his pleasure with her, rummaged in a hard-shelled pack. He brought out a pouch, much like the military emergency food rations Cassidy had seen Earther troops carry. He tore it open and waved it in front of Tina’s face.
He said, “You will eat now.”
She shook her head, struggling against her captors. Through her tears she cried, “I won’t. Let me go.”
The man who’d stolen her virginity nodded to his companion, holding Tina’s head still to his chest. The second man brushed her red hair from her neck. His head reared back, and Cassidy shuddered to see long, thin fangs appear behind his square teeth. He darted forward, and sank the fangs in Tina’s neck near the first set of puncture wounds.
Tina’s high-pitched wail brought tears to Cassidy’s eyes. The girl sounded lost in the abyss of Hell.
There’s nothing I can do. Damn it, I can’t help her! God, how could you do this to us?
After a few moments, the Kalquorian released his bite. Narrow streams of blood ran down Tina’s throat, and he licked the fresh punctures clean, as he had the first set.
Tina relaxed in the arms of her captors, and when the Kalquorian offered her the food pouch again, she accepted with a contented smile, letting him feed her.
“You are a good girl. You did very well, Tina,” the alien praised. “After you have eaten we will begin again, and it will feel even better than before.”
Cassidy’s senses were in overdrive, threatening to corrupt her just as thoroughly as Tina had been. Overwhelmed by aching desire, she settled in the vent shaft to watch for a bit longer.
Chapter 4
Tranis walked into the convent’s infirmary. The sight of nearly two dozen naked Earther women bound to the beds and suspended in the air by hover cuffs stopped him short. Seeing the helpless female bodies of every size and shape took his breath away. He knew even more were being kept in another building, awaiting their turn at re-education. His formsuit betrayed his sudden excitement, excitement shared by the other dozen Kalquorians in the room. The spicy scent of their arousal hung heavy in the air.
With the exception of Lidon and Degorsk conferring in the middle of the room, the rest of the men engaged in various forms of pleasuring the groaning women. In some cases, mouths and hands worked to arouse the Earthers. In others, turgid Kalquorian flesh slipped in and out of trembling wet sexes. The expressions of the women receiving such attention were euphoric. Their throats trickled traces of blood from the telltale punctures of the Kalquorian bites that sent an intoxicating venom into their bodies.
Looking at the other women, those not bitten, took Tranis’ enjoyment of the scene away. Those undrugged females seemed afraid and horrified in turns as they watched their fellow convent inhabitants succumb to lustful interludes with their captors. It made the Dramok’s stomach turn over to see their faces. All the reports he’d read told Tranis that the Earther government and Church had poisoned the Earther female minds against natural biological pleasures. That some even abhorred it. He’d not been able to fully understand how such a thing could happen, but it was obvious the findings had been correct.
It even made Tranis feel guilty that the women were being taught to enjoy mating. Was the Empire’s psychiatric board correct in its assessment that they should be coerced into such activities? True, the women who were under the influence seemed quite enthralled with lovemaking right now, but how would they feel once the intoxicant wore off? Would they continue to look upon sex with longing and pleasure, or would they return to viewing it as a stain on their souls?
Tranis swallowed. He had not considered just how enormous the matter of claiming women for Kalquor was, not until this moment. Not until he saw the fear in the faces of those he’d captured.
However, the captain had the utmost trust in Degorsk to do what was right, both for Kalquor and for the Earther women. To shore up his wavering confidence, Tranis took a few moments to watch two Nobeks attending to one of the women.
She hung in the air, hover cuffs stretching her chocolate brown limbs in an X-shape. One of the men was on his knees and licked her secret flesh with long, sinuous strokes. The second Nobek spanked her trembling ass with an open palm. The sharp cracks punctuated her eager moans as she writhed helpless in her bonds. “Yes,” she said with every stroke of the tongue, every strike of a hand. “Yes, yes, yes.”
Tranis watched until her breath caught and her body tensed. Her cries of completion were sweet and high. Tranis almost groaned to hear it, the beautiful song of a woman pleased. Nothing else in the universe could compare.
His ears still ringing with the delightful sound, Tranis joined his clanmates. They too sported erections, the bulges at their crotches pushin
g at the exposed stretchy fabric of their armored formsuits.
“You’ve wasted no time starting the Mataras’ re-education,” Tranis said to Degorsk.
He looked once more at the few women not being seduced. Most of those were strapped immobile to the beds. A couple wore expressions of arousal, but most lay with their eyes screwed tightly shut, tears creeping from beneath their lids. Again, Tranis was assailed with doubt as guilt stabbed deep within his gut.
Why didn’t these women see the pleasure that the service of his men gave the others? One only had to look at those blissful expressions and hear the cries to know sensual delights were nothing to fear. How deep did the terror go? Could it be reversed?
Degorsk’s answer interrupted Tranis’ thoughts. “I saw no point in delaying the lessons in being pleasured. The transport that is coming for them is still some distance away.”
The usually merry Imdiko sounded uncomfortable. “What’s wrong?” Tranis asked softly, though he could guess.
Degorsk sighed. “Unless they’re bitten, the women seem to view sex as something horrible to contemplate.”
“We knew that going into this.”
“Yes, but I didn’t know it was this fucking bad. They beg us not to touch them even as their bodies respond to petting. They swear we are damning them. They don’t seem to understand that all we want to do is serve their needs.” The medic shook his head. “I don’t know how to convince them that they’ll find happy lives with clans who will place them at the center of their existences. I heal broken bodies, not broken minds.”
“You do your best with what the board has told you to do,” Lidon said. “Follow their recommendations. They’ve had some experience with the first Earther Mataras. You’ve had none.”
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