At some point in the night, he nestled himself beneath me and drew me into the cradle of his lap in the center of the nest. His long, strong fingers stroke my hair like I’m fragile. I’m definitely not as tough as him, and part of me is glad he respects that.
The door swishes open. Aurelius averts his eyes. “I apologize for intruding. Is that a nest?”
“Yeah,” Elix replies. “Do you not make one for your females?”
Aurelius’s face darkens. “No. But we haven’t lived on a planet in centuries. I just thought with as high-tech as you are—”
“We still gave our females the traditional comforts, honors, and protections they deserve. Mating is primal. Should we not honor our primal ways?”
Aurelius stills for a moment. “I hadn’t considered that. I wonder if that could be why our offspring numbers have dwindled in recent decades.”
Then he shakes his head and waves a hand dismissively. “Anyway, the ABR team wishes to know if you would participate in laser tag this morning. It is a team game. And apparently, there is a need for one more player. Rosy has agreed to let you two be a team.”
“I should not be on TV,” Elix states. “There are cameras everywhere.”
“Then either man up or I will,” Aurelius says. “And that rarely works because of this.” He wiggles his fingers, displayingstatic sparks. “These silly spark dampeners never work, but they make others feel safer.”
“You’re not playing. No one gets close to my mate but me.”
“I don’t care to go.” I offer, liking the defensive side of Elix. “Laser tag sounds fun, but I’m having quite a bit already.”
Elix’s cock swells, pressing into my ass. He looks down at me and smirks. “We are busy.”
Aurelius sighs. “I know you don’t know because you’ve been in here all night, but there are a lot of rumors circulating that you two might be the ones causing all this mayhem.
“Play the game and show everyone your good sides or run the risk of people believing all these disappearances and the SoulStealers are because of you.”
“But they’re not,” I say.
“We know that.” Aurelius runs a hand through his jet-black hair. “But they only know what they come up with in their minds to explain what they don’t have evidence for. We all look for patterns. When we can’t find them, we try to make them from pieces. You two need to play.”
Elix sighs. “How much time?”
“An hour.”
“You can’t be serious,” I whine, soaking in the feeling of his skin against mine. “I don’t want to.”
Elix sweeps his fingers over my cheek. “Do you remember what I said about protecting you? Sometimes, we have to leave the nest.”
I wrinkle my nose. “Fine. But I’m going to be thinking about this right here with you until we are back.”
A smile cracks on his face. “I don’t have a problem with that.”
Aurelius closes the door. “I’ll let them know you’ll join them.”
I reluctantly climb out of the soft pile of blankets and grimace at the stiffness in my body. “I need a shower.”
Elix is out of the nest in one move. He picks me up and carries me into his bathroom. Switching on the hot water, he picks me up by the hips and crushes me against the wall. Then he turns the water on us and says, with water running down his radiant face, “One more time before we go?”
Elix is insatiable.
I kiss him and dive my tongue deep into his mouth, stroking the velvet of his as he guides his engorged cock into me with force.
The strain of taking him again makes me weak. I’ve lost track of the times we’ve mated in the last twenty-four hours. When he said he healed fast, he wasn’t fucking kidding.
He thrusts into me fast and hard, thumbing my clit and making quick work of my climax.
He rasps as I tense around him in shuddering waves of bliss, and his hot nectar floods into me.
