She pushed up once again, this time all the way to her knees so she was before me, her face at the same height as mine. She stroked my hair, my cheek, studied me so closely I felt like I was under Rachel’s microscope. “I promise to ask why from now on. Why do I have to follow a specific rule? Why are certain protocols in place?”
“I shall be sure to tell you the reasons.”
“I shall promise never to step foot in water outside of a bathing tube ever again,” Trax added.
I sensed Mikki’s disappointment, and my response was immediate. “You shall learn to swim along with the rest of us. I have a feeling Mikki will make an excellent teacher.”
Trax groaned, making Mikki laugh, but I felt her joy at my words. The ocean truly was a part of her, something she would need to visit to feel whole. Perhaps, once Helion cleared Valuri of the Hive threat, we could return. If not, there were hundreds of other worlds. Surely one of them could provide for her needs.
Things weren’t resolved between us. I wasn’t naive enough to think that. It had barely been a day. We had the rest of our lives to work through any issue that might arise. There would be plenty of issues with a wild, free spirit like Mikki. Yet we shared a new understanding since our trip to Valuri. Things had changed, for the better.
Mikki had made me see that life was more than protocols and structure. Life was messy. It was wild. No matter how much routine I put in place, bad things happened. Good things, too.
Like our match. She was the most unexpected, unplanned thing of all.
The most important.
She slid a hand down the center of her body, cupped her pussy. “You’re not done with your medical exam.”
Heat flared between us. “I thought you said that it, um, didn’t turn you on?” I tried to remember the Earth wording she’d used. I’d never once been aroused by a medical exam. Ever. Even when I was testing the arousal of someone else, or someone else’s mate, for example. That pleasure had not been mine for the taking. I hadn’t wanted it. It hadn’t belonged to me. Mikki’s desires, her sexual needs were mine to fulfill, no matter what they were. This playfulness was intriguing… and arousing.
“I’m turned on. Can’t you feel me through your magical collar?”
Oh fuck, yes, I could feel how needy she was. It made me hot, too.
I gripped the base of my cock, stroked from root to tip, smearing the pre-cum with my thumb. “You want to be probed, mate? I’ve got a probe for you.”
Her gaze fell to my cock, and she bit her lip, her hand still between her thighs.
“Yes, please.”
Trax took hold of her wrist and brought her fingers to his mouth, licked them clean of her arousal. She moaned. He groaned. I growled.
Mikki was mine, and I wasn’t letting her go.
* * *
Mikki
Oh.My. God. Did he have a probe.
At first I’d truly wanted him to wand me or whatever it was called to allow him peace of mind that I hadn’t been hurt on Valuri. I was tired, sure, but I hadn’t hurt myself in any way. I knew I was well, but I wanted Surnen to believe it. Things shifted quickly though. Seeing them naked, stripped bare not just of clothing but of their darkest secrets, too, was arousing. It made them even more attractive.
It wasn’t just the physical that pulled me to them, although the feel of Surnen’s cock as it filled me deep, as it stretched me open, was hot as fuck. It was them. Their fierceness. Their pride. Their honor.
Trax had climbed onto a log and dropped to the bottom of a Valurian sea to save me. He’d risked his life when he’d never once been in water before. It would have been certain death for him if his helmet hadn’t stopped the power of the Hive vacuum long enough for us to get to the surface.
He’d been prepared to die. For me.
After learning about what had happened to his family, I couldn’t believe Surnen had given in and let me go to another planet. Then things went to shit and yeah, he’d freaked. I didn’t blame him. I understood him now. Even, like he said, after such a short time.
“Mate,” he murmured, kissing the curve of my ear. He held himself off me with his forearms, but thrust into me with a fervor and intensity brought on by danger.
We were alive. We were together, and he was proving it, one stroke of his huge cock at a time.
“You feel so good,” I said, trying to catch my breath. I loved the collars in moments like this. Knew how Surnen felt, that he found pleasure in my body. My less than B-cups. In my petite frame. In my sassy attitude. He was getting lost in me.
So I let go. Grabbed his ass with my hands and held on. Took everything he gave to me.