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For Vorian.
Because he’d chosen me. It only seemed fair I picked him back, right? And I couldn’t leave him here with Crux. More importantly, I couldn’t leave my... baby? It wasn’t even a baby yet. Just the idea of one.
But yeah, I couldn’t leave what might someday be my baby alone with Crux. Not when I had an inkling he was going to try and pull shenanigans.
Once all the other humans were gone, Crux eased up on security. Since I’d decided to stay of my own volition, there was no sense in keeping me locked away. It didn’t hurt that he was using me like a carrot on a stick to manipulate Vorian.
Or hell, maybe he’d forgotten me. He’d gotten plenty of my genetic material already and I was no further use to anybody until he needed more. What was one skinny human to a big blue geneticist, the “father of all Thorzan”?
In the days that followed, Vorian kept his distance, nothing more than longing looks passing between us. It was for my safety, I thought. Or heck, maybe he was hung up on what Crux had asked him to do.
After all, Crux had promised him me—promised as many humans as he wanted—in exchange for Vorian killing Kaelum.
I knew Vorian was capable of violence, but all it took was one look at the rigid set of his shoulders to see this was bothering him. And hell, I got it. I barely knew Kaelum, but he’d saved us all from the attack on Crux’s ship before we got to Thorzan, and he’d saved my friends again, from Crux.
So one night, after a little more than a week—I thought, anyway, the days seemed about the length of days on Earth, maybe a little longer—I sneaked out of my cell and to the exterior door of the lab.
Through the little window, I could see Vorian standing outside on the walkway between the lab and his father’s residence, keeping watch over the jungle below.
Crux didn’t sleep in the lab. There was another place nearby where he lived—a home of sorts. I thought it was where Vorian stayed too, but he didn’t seem comfortable there, like he couldn’t relax anywhere. Maybe Thorzi just didn’t need much sleep.
The door was locked so I couldn’t get out, but when I knocked on the window, Vorian’s head popped up. He stared my way, blinking his big alien eyes over at me, and moments later, he came over and opened the door.
“Are you well?” he asked temperately, but there was no way I could miss the deep well of concern there. Sure, he wasn’t following my every step. But the moment I knocked for him, there he was, worried, leaning toward me on the balls of his feet, unmistakable even in his subtlety.
“Hey, yeah. I’m good. I just... do you want to come inside?”
He tipped his head to the left, but with only the briefest glance across the path toward Crux’s dwelling, he nodded. The door zipped shut behind him, and I led the way back to my small cell on the end.
“Are you in need of anything, Beau?”
I bit my lip. “There sure are a lot of ways to answer a question like that.” I infused my voice with a teasing lilt and fluttered my lashes up at him, but my stiff alien didn’t seem to get the point until I’d shut the cell door behind us and leaned into his space, pushing up on my toes to seek out his lips.
“I missed you,” I whispered when he didn’t respond right away. And finally, he let me drag him down with a hand on the back of his neck, there to plunder his mouth with my tongue.
He was quiet as ever, but his kiss was ravenous. I whimpered, and he turned us both to push me against the wall by the door.
When I gasped for breath, Vorian put his big hands on my waist, ready to turn me around for easy access to my ass. A flash of longing zipped up my spine. It was all I could think about—that I could have this. All it would take was a shove at the hem of my dress, a twist around, and Vorian would be there behind me, his tapered cock working me open wide while I lost myself in his arms held on the very tips of my toes by the force of his thrusting.
I wanted that. I wanted him. And it’d been long enough that I was trembling with need.
It took all my self-control to remember I didn’t want him this once. Not just for comfort. I wanted the whole of him. Everything. Forever.
He was big and strong and kind, and he wasmine.
And that meant I couldn’t leave our fates in the hands of Crux. I couldn’t leave my family up to him.
With a huff, I planted my feet, and while Vorian could’ve manhandled me any way he wanted, when I stiffened, he let go.
“Just you,” I whispered, fumbling with the laces of his trousers. I eased him out and dragged my hand down Vorian’s ridged shaft, spreading slick from the tip so my hand moved easily.
He scowled. “Why?”
It struck me then, that Vorian hadn’t ever had somebody do something nice for him just for the sake of making him feel good. Including me. Now.
Fuck, I couldn’t just use him. Not even if I thought it was what he wanted.
I drew in a long, raspy breath and dropped my head back against the wall of my cell, making enough space that I could see his hard, confused expression.
