Dhiro took Ella’s hand, leading her away from his brothers. She didn’t fight him, but the moment he entered the make-do bedroom, she jerked her hand out of his grasp as if he’d scolded her.
“Damn it, Ella, I will never hurt you.”
“But you don’t think I’m capable of giving you children.” She glared at him, and he loved her fire. In fact, the moment he’d seen her, a surge of arousal had rushed right through him, and that hadn’t happened to him before.
When it came to Ella, he was always feeling the starting of pleasure, which was one of many reasons why he knew she was his ideal mate. He was already prepared to take her, to love her, to have her. Nothing had changed in that regard.
What was new was his erect cock. How needy he suddenly felt, but Ella looked ready to strangle him.
“Baby, I need you,” he said.
“What?”
He leaned back, loosening his slacks and easing out his length. Fuck, he was so hard. He inhaled the air as he looked at his woman, his mate. She looked so beautiful, almost glowing. “Please, come here.”
“I’m still mad at you, and I’m not going to do that while your brothers are on this ship. They could hear.”
“I don’t care about them. I care about you. Please, come here.”
She rolled her eyes, but within seconds, he had his hands on her body, removed her clothes, and moved her so that she straddled his waist.
He lined the tip of his cock against her entrance, staring into her beautiful eyes. He felt her sink down on his length. The tight heat of her cunt swallowed him whole, and he closed his eyes, basking in each sensation that drove him more closer to the edge than the first.
Dhiro held on to her hips and began to rock against her, going deeper than before.
Ella’s sweet moans filled the ship, but he didn’t care if his brothers heard or not, all he knew was that he had to have her. Nothing had ever happened to him like this. This loss of control. The need. It consumed him, and as he thrust up inside her and she took his cock so well, he came hard, filling her body, and not for a second did he want to leave the heat surrounding him.
He had no idea where it came from and never wanted it to end.
****
They crashed-landed on Earth—again.
Well, a first time for Ella, Bronn, and Kaalen. A second time for her mate.
Dhiro had been acting strangely the past couple of days. For the journey, they’d been confined to the ship, of course there was no chance to take a nice little stroll. Dhiro’s … needs were different. The way he wanted her. It was like he couldn’t help himself. As if his feelings were out of his control. He was completely out of character, but she didn’t mind at all. The first time she’d been embarrassed as his brothers were very much within hearing distance, but they hadn’t made any comment or treated her differently.
Trenu Zel men were different from human men.
“Do you know where we are?” Bronn asked, looking around.
It wasn’t the desert, so that was a plus. The spaceship had also landed in some thick forest, which meant they weren’t detected, at least she hoped. Unless there was some special force within the government looking around for alien activity.
“I don’t know where we are, but I think it’s time we kind of, you know, moved forward, perhaps.”
Her stomach chose that moment to growl. She was hungry. A craving for pancakes, scrambled eggs, and maple syrup had assailed her. She needed to eat something.
“Are you guys ready?” she asked.
Dhiro moved closer to her, grabbing her neck and hauling her against him. His lips took full possession of hers, and she let out a moan as his tongue traced across her lips before plunging inside.
One of his brothers cleared their throats, and she quickly pulled away.
Dhiro merely smiled.
“So, do you want to tell us how we’re going to blend in on this planet?” Bronn asked. “I do not fancy being a science experiment.”
“Just talk normally. Don’t voice your feelings or do anything kind of deadpan,” Ella said. “We’re hikers.”
“What?” Kaalen asked.
“We’re in the forest, and wherever we come out, they are going to ask questions. We took a month-long vacation, and we’ve been traveling, enjoying the natural sights, hiking, that kind of thing.” She forced a smile to her lips, but her nerves were all over the place.
Being back on Earth, she had thought she would be thankful, happy almost. Far from it. She was terrified in case someone came to them.
Dhiro was her family. Bronn and Kaalen were his brothers and that made them family to her. The primitiveness and violence of her own race didn’t exactly go unnoticed. It was very much part of her society. When Dhiro had been telling her about his society, the rules they abided by, she had asked about what happened in such cases as rape.
He didn’t understand the word.
When he asked for a full explanation, she’d told him what it meant on her planet, well, he’d been completely and totally disgusted. Trenu Zel never experienced that. He had no living memory of a male or female experiencing it.
It had been an enlightening conversation.
They walked for several hours, or what felt like it, when they stumbled across a lake.
Dhiro moved closer, finding them some fresh water.
When they found a town, she hoped they had a pharmacy. She was starting to think Dhiro’s change of reaction was down to her being pregnant. Not only that, she’d missed her so-called moon cycle, and she never missed. Even with all the stress factors in her life, she’d been as regular as clockwork.
Apart from now.
“Bronn, can I ask you something … personal about your own species?” she asked.
“Go ahead.”
“Er…” Her face felt so hot. It had to have gone a shade of red. “I’m aware that you are always attuned to a woman’s arousal, am I correct?”
“Yes.”
“I was just curious, if one of your women were to get pregnant, would her mate have a different reaction?” she asked.
Bronn rubbed at his chin as he seemed to think about it. “I’m not entirely sure. I was too young when the fertility became an issue. Ask Dhiro. He would know. He was just old enough to have witnessed couples.”
“Right, of course.”
She wasn’t going to ask Dhiro. After everything he’d gone through, she wouldn’t allow him to feel any hope that might not be correct. His reaction to her could simply be down to where they were. Her planet.
But he did it back on the ship.
There was no false hope.
Dhiro came toward her with a canister and held it to her lips. She drank a small amount of the lake water, shocked by how clean it was.
“We have a filter.”
Trenuians always thought of everything.
Dhiro took her hand, and they were walking once again. The sun had traveled across the sky, showing them the time had passed. Ella’s hunger had gotten stronger, and her stomach continued to make those horrible growling noises. Fortunately, no one else had made a mention of them. There was no way they couldn’t hear them.
After what felt like a starving eternity, they came to a stop as the sound of people talking filled the air. Dhiro held her hand as they used the cover of a couple of large trees.