Page 21 of The Dalgur’s Pet

But she couldn’t give in. How could she? They wanted to rebuild her womb, force their disgusting broods into her.

She couldn’t give in.

If she did what they wanted, perhaps they’d listen to her. And if it helped calm her mind in the interim, well, she couldn’t deny that she wanted it, needed it.

There was a whoosh of air, and Giselle’s eyes shot to the door.

Just Vrix, or so she thought, with a smile on his face and another tray in his hands.

How long had it been since she last ate or drank? Her mouth was parched again, thick from the honeyed cum she’d swallowed the last time she was with the two of them. It was impossible to tell how long she’d been on the ship with the sporadic sedation-induced naps.

Vrix ambled over and set the tray on the bed as he had done before, eyeing her carefully.

“How do you feel, sweet one?”

For a brute, he could be surprisingly polite, and she took a big gulp of water before answering.

“I’m fine.”

He nodded, letting her eat the neogel in silence, washing down the tasteless gelatin with swigs of water. When she was finished, he pushed the tray aside, pulling her into his tight grasp.

“Are you going to take me back to the cockpit?” she asked, the thought both titillating and frightening at the same time.

Vrix chuckled as he released her, lying comfortably on the bed and pulling her into a cuddle.

“No, not right now. Thase is preparing for arrival on Umuna, a small planetoid. We must refuel before we continue on to Occaro X7. We’ve made more trips to Earth than we originally expected.”

He brushed her hair with clawed fingers, a sensation that had become a soothing balm as much as she wished it wasn’t.

He would be easier to convince, certainly.

She couldn’t give up.

Giselle tried to think of something to say, curling up in the crook of his neck, which made him hum with apparent pleasure.

“Oh, Giselle, we’re so happy to have you here. You’ve been our best pet yet, so responsive, so submissive. The others… they wanted to deny how they felt, wanted to deny the pleasure we gave them. They refused to behave, so we had to punish them. Sometimes, we got carried away. I…” Vrix trailed off, stopping the stroking of her hair. “I’m not happy with what happened to them, but there is nothing to be done at this point. We didn’t know how fragile humans were, but now we do.

“We have been isolated for so long, just me and Thase. Of course, the other humans brought pleasure, but it was fleeting. But you have survived. You have been so good and I will not let you go.”

I will not let you go.

Words that somehow disturbed her and pleased her at the same time.

They possessed her, owned her, a thought that sent an erotic shiver through her body. So different from the way Anthony had discarded her like she was nothing more than trash. What would giving in mean? Being their pet permanently? Letting them drown her in pleasure?

A jolt shook the ship, shocking Giselle from her thoughts as she gripped onto Vrix.

He chuckled, his strong arms supporting her as the shuttle buffeted for a few seconds before stilling once more.

“What was that?” she asked, brows furrowed.

“We have arrived.”

Umuna was a jungle world, the small bare patch where they’d landed surrounded on all sides by a thick canopy of emerald green.

Vrix had escorted her through the halls of the Starlet until they had arrived at an airlock with a tiny window, Thase waiting with a scowl.

“We will visit the planet while they refuel the ship,” he said, eyes wandering over her bare body.